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Okay,
a little more on the legs. I'm lining the leg up.
A lot of times when people are down, their knees are a little different and sometimes it's
uncomfortable for them.
You do wanna try to get the hip joint
as forward as possible so that it's all in alignment.
Over the toe, knee over the toe.
Okay we're gonna just go over the leg and
do some work with the leg. This is Athena Jezik.
today we're just more or less going over the full routines of things.
I keep forgetting that I have a camera behind me so...
Okay in massage you start down,
of course at the distal end.
In lymphatic work you start proximally. So
this will be for the mucle work. That's
to get the circulation. Blood circulation works better when you start
distally.
I'm going through each little toe, working the toes here.
Under the arch of the foot, in the soft part of the foot. I'm not doing foot
reflexology. I'm just working into the muscles, although I do know where some of
the points are.
I do pay attention to them from time to time. I'm not a foot reflexologist.
I haven't put the time into it to be considered
proficient at it so I will not
pretend like I know what to do
with foot reflexology.
Something I notice that is pretty prevalent in this field of work
is a lot of people maybe take just a few hours of a course and then
on their business card it will say that they do that kind of work. That's
a little bit misleading
and I know for myself I can't misrepresent myself in such a way,
so anybody out there who is doing this work, it's best to
be more
aligned with what it is that you do
and what you do well. Don't worry about having a lot of things on the list
because
it's better to do a few modalities well and get good results than it is to
have a litany of things that you do and not really have anything get
any kind of meaningful
results.
Now the calf, getting under the calf here.
This is an important thing. This muscle is oftentimes very tight.
Particularly with people who bike or walk,
play sports.
Now remember this area of the knee
you don't want to go into.
The side of the knee is okay. There's muscle attachments.
There's a lot of
things going on in the back side of the knee. It's best not to go into that much work.
I usually stay away from it. And about here is where you
can feel that it's
it's a little softer. It's a little different. It doesn't have a
feeling
of muscle. It's other stuff. There's veins, there's lymph nodes.
Here's a little bruise. This isn't too concerning of a bruise.
It looks liek a bump on the table.
And then going up the leg.
Up the side of the leg is always really good. The
iliotibial tract
is a little
tougher material
made to support.
It's nice to have this long line
well worked. And you're gonna find when you go up and down this that a lot of times it's
very ripply.
So I work it this way and then I get into the muscle.
The hamstring area
up into the hip
and then
I do some cross-fiber across down the
iliotibial tract.
And long the
attachments
which is into the hip
area na dpicking up the inner thigh and working
the inner thigh area.
Okay.
The second leg. Applying the oil. This is a
repeated
routine.
Like I say, if you are in this business it is good to get a real good basic routine and
just keep doing it over and over.
What I have found that
a lot of massage people, I would say most of them
that I've gone to over the years,
don't always do the same thing on both sides
'cause they haven't gotten a routine
well-established.
And of course for me I'm probably a little bit more
able to pick that sort of thing up.
But it is a good idea. It just helps you to get into a flow that you
just know what you're doing and it becomes very automatic and then by doing that you don't have to think so
hard about what you did and didn't do. You begin to
understand how to go into that muscle and work it a little differently after you
get your hands on so many people
you'll be able to feel when things aren't quite
the way the should be with their tension or if there's
winding or if there's
something going on with fluids.
You'll be able to begin to
pick out these anomalies that are happening and learn different techniques
to
undoing
that situation.
For me I found that
if I didn't have a routine that I have gotten so ingrained in my hands
that it was automatic. I wasn't able to focus on other things because I was too busy
thinking about
what I'm doing
or what I missed or what did I do over on the other side.
That's just another little hint if you're in the business to enhance the
work so that
people can always come in and get a good thorough
muscle massage
and they'll know that they'll be covered.
Each muscle will get it's
fair share of time.
I think the one downside about that is after you get your hands very well-trained
they work faster
and they're still equally as thourough.
So the challenge has always been for me to just slow down because
you can't make time
go faster.
So I found that after I got real proficient I can work these things
especially on a body where I've been working it for a while where there's
not a lot of
issue at hand, I
get through very thoroughly and
completely in a shorter amount of time.
I'd find that I had about half the time left and one leg left, so it was a challenge
for me to slow the work down.
You could do more repeating or just pay attention at deeper levels or add
in some things that are
that I don't normally do
in a massage, like some tissue unwinding or
a little lymph work around the knee or checking the cuboid bone or
different things like that. So the massage becomes much more complete in deeper
levels of the work,
which I'm
planning to put together something,
an adjunct to what I'm doing here
to get some of these more detailed things out to you
in a way that you can apply it.
There is so much to
share about this work.
This is just very superficially
where we start,
but if you're interested in going much further with it, there is a lot of fun
ahead of you.
Okay.
I think I even heard a little bit of a snore.
There we go. The legs.