Welcome back, everyone.
If you've been feeling sore in
your neck or back after a long y
of chores or running errands, o,
like Paul eating waffles all da,
you may want to add getting
a massage to your list.
That's that's right. And better,
why not learn some techniques on yourself?
Clark is doing just that.
All right, Clark, where you at?
You got your fingers warmed up.
You know what?
I do a little bit, actually, Pa,
and don't have any tips for relieving
stress after you eat waffles.
But I have something a little bit better.
Quentin, I'm so happy to be hang
out with you today. Likewise. Thanks so much for having us. Y.
So you are a massage therapist.
I am. And we're using a towel.
You can literally find this
in your home somewhere.
It's a hand towel.
And I never thought that I'd be
able to use this to relieve str.
You sure can. So after a long dy
at the computer or driving afte,
we've had that very forward roug
feeling. Yeah, it's so easy.
You're gonna take a towel to alleviate
your upper neck or occipital pa.
So what we're gonna do is
we're gonna take a hand towel.
We're gonna fold it in half.
We're gonna twist it just a few times
so it has some grip to it. Okay.
Then we're gonna take it behind our head.
Here. I'll turn it so you can
see we're gonna take it behind
our head and put it right at the
top of our spine at our occiput.
And then we're going to rest
all the way back.
So we're going to act like we're
hanging in a handbeck right.
Then we're going to take
our right hand and elongate
that side. So we're taking a
nice neck release on the left.
Take a nice deep breath in.
Yeah, exhale. Enjoy that stretc.
And on your exhale,
just bring it right back to cen,
making sure that you're keeping the weight
of your neck in that hammock,
and then same thing other side.
So we're gonna lift the left si,
stretch the right side,
getting that SCM that sternocleidomastoid,
and work in return all the
way back to center. And then,
if you're standing for this exercise,
I'd recommend bending your kneeo
that you can gently realign your
spine and stand all the way up.
OK, why is it important to realn
your spine after something like that?
Always. So anytime
you're working with the spine,
if you've moved away from
your center, you want to make se
that you're stacking your joint,
stacking your spine, and returng
yourself to anatomical neutral before
finding a new plane to move in.
It's very easy to tweak things like the neck.
Speaking of being tweaked a lit,
a little bit in your neck, when I sleep,
sometimes I sleep on my arm the wrong
way or I sleep on my neck the wrong way.
And I have that kink on that
one side where you can't really
twist your head back straight.
Yeah. You have a stretch. I
do, yes. One of my absolute favorites.
So let's take these towels.
Let's toss them. Just a second..
So my good morning stretch right out of bed.
So I've I've taken my time in my bed.
I always want to make sure I get some
movement before I stand up righ?
So when I feel that I want
to take my arms to the side,
a big T absolutely to the spacing each other.
So I'm going to use my right ha.
If you want to use your left ha,
I'm going to take it to
the other side of my head.
I'm going to keep my shoulders n
in this left arm opposite arm l.
I'm going to gently use the weight of
my hand to stretch my head and .
Take a nice deep breath in.
Remember to drop those shoulder.
Yeah. Beautiful. We're gonna hag
out here just for a second. Wow.
Deep stretch. Yeah, I can
already feel it in between
my shoulder and the bottom of my chin.
Are you ready for a little more?
Yeah, we're gonna gently drop this arm,
remembering to breathe.
Yeah, it's nice.
Indeed, it sure does.
And then we're gonna just
when we get to the bottom,
we're gonna lift the palm forwa.
We're gonna raise our fingers to the sky.
Why does just flipping your pal?
Little things are big things,
Little things are big things.
This is wild to me.
When I tell you I just try to take my knuckle
and workout the knot in the side of my neck,
it obviously never works.
I'm actually feeling that
stretch in that area.
And then we're going to turn the
palm all the way to the back.
This is the equivalent of deep tissue, right?
Deep tissue isn't a pressure,
it is getting into deeper muscle groups.
So we're going to now release the bottom arm.
We're going to release
our head and just let it float
for a second and then take a
little stretch to the other sid.
And then like we talked about o,
we're gonna realign our body,
realign A slight bench,
those shoulders.
If someone wants to come check you out,
tell us a little bit about the
Squeeze location. Absolutely.
So we're here in Alamo Heights.
We're at 7978 Broadway in San Antonio.
We have a beautiful 8
sweet shop and my favorite
is just. We are a massage
experience that's very streamli.
Yes. So beautiful. Clinton.
Thank you so, so much you guys.
I need to know back in studio.
I know that we can get so
stressed at the office.
Even waking up feeling that tension when
I tell you I've never felt a stretch.
Get to that deeper part of the muscle.
It's mind blowing.
What do you think?
Yeah, we're doing it right now.
We feel it as well.
That was very helpful and informative.
So thank you so much.
Ohh, we
gotta go get our massage on. Yeah, I know.
But now we can kind of do it to ourselves.