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This is Athena Jezik and continuing with our floor work we'll
show you how to do
a little bit of work from the head for the face.
you'll have your
person positioned in a way... there's bolsters. I don't know if that shows, but there's
bolsters under her knees.
And I don't know if you can see this, but there's
a
misalignment of the neck
that's going on. This is what cranial work would help to correct.
So anyway you want to get them nice and
comfortable.
Arms down, and just a small amount of oil, not really much at all. Just
enough so that we don't pull the skin.
I'm gonna start from the chin and work upward.
As far as the positioning goes here, I'm sitting in kind of
a scissor position
rather than cross-legged because there's a little more motion, but this isn't a
comfortable position for a lot of people to sit in.
You want to try to remember to keep your back as straight as possible supporting with your
abdomen.
Work under the chin.
Under the chin we're just gonna do basic massage here.
Checking for
any muscle tension,
anything that might be going on that way.
And stretching the neck.
So when you're on the floor you're gonna have to use your body a little bit more.
You have to get leverage from things in order to get good pull and stretches.
If you need to you can get pillows to sit on
to prop yourself up. Always take care of yourself if you are working on somebody.
A little bit more here.
Be sure that if you're loading your fingers up with oil that you don't have it over your face when you do that
in case you spill.
And just working across the forehead.
Eyebrows,
holding everything upward
You work the skin upward in face massage
as much as possible.
You can go around the ears.
If you wanna get into the neck, since on the back you can't
work the neck really well,
the positioning for your
body is best to have kind of a wide, on your knees
and then you can get the leverage that you need and
you can do neck
unwindings and also pull the traction and you
can see my
fingers underneath pulling that traction
on the muscle as you are
lifting up and slowly letting your fingers go into the belly of that muscle
while you're
coming up.
Along the trapezius there's
probably some of the levator scapulae muscle you're getting
and getting close to the vertebrae
so you can get the neck in this part
since laying down isn't good. With the head turned sideways you're not going to get a very
good
neck position on that one.
This is a little cranial vault
hold and
occipital release.
You can hold the head and
see where it wants to go.
Follow some of the action
rather than leading it.
Get behind and follow it.
Let the neck take it where it wants to.
What you wanna do is feel for
what's happening.
You feel tension, if it's easy to do, if you feel catches, if it wants to stop
all of that kind of thing is what I'll be explaining
in future videos
that will be posted over at acranio.
So you can
do that and then you can
do a little bit in the scalp.
Just getting comfortable however you are sitting.
Do pay attention to the position of your back.
It's good to have strong abdominal muscles, strong core muscles if you're going to be moving around like
this.
It's kind of a lot of work to be on the floor.
It is much harder
but once you get your body into a position, it's not so bad.
Across the eyes.
And sweep up the neck one more time.
Here we are!
Neck work and face work from the floor.
Thank you! This is Athena Jezik.