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Massage.
This is Athena Jezik and we're gonna move from the neck up to
the skull.
We'll get the scalp
and a little bit of the face.
So we're gonna start with
lifting the head up
and placing the hands on
either side of the midline
and just begin curling the fingers under and just massaging
in circular motions. The head,
you can see it's kind of
moving her head around a little bit.
That's from the action of the circle,
with the circular movements that I'm doing.
Then you can also
move the head to the side, rotate it to the side
and this way you'll be able to see a little more how I'm doing this. And it's just
fingers
going in a circular motion and then moving upward
and then
just a little to where you were. You're just going to the top part of where
you were.
And inching your way
up the back of the head.
Now here make sure that you're getting into the skin.
Not a whole lot of pressure but you don't want to just
rub the hair around in a circle.
You wanna make sure that your moving the skin around in a circle.
So you're getting a little bit of feeling down
underneath the skin like there's some movement
happening in the
connective tissues and under the skin
and things are stimulated there. There is lymph underneath the skin.
Lymph vessels of the
skull
and this side the same thing.
Just rotating up.
And then you can lay the head back straight down
and continue
moving upward. I spread my fingers out and
just kind of cover all of it.
When I was doing that first part, that's the part of the head that's
now
on the mat.
So that's what that is about, getting the part that is usually laying on the mat.
But now we are on a part that isn't so
you can spread your fingers and
do circular motion
and you wanna make sure you're still covering all
of the areas. Don't move too much space in between them.
You can see the way that
maybe you can possibly pick it up the way that the
forehead is moving. It's good when the skin moves around.
You don't want tight skin.
The looser the skin the better the fluids are moving underneath
it.
Of course unless it's
sagging but
you don't want real tight skin
on areas; the limbs and
the head. It's better to have this kind of a movement, this fluidity.
I'm gonna get up to the hairline.
And again don't use too much pressure with all of this.
And we can get into a bit of the face. I think there's enough oil on my
fingers to work the face.
Here we're just going to go
up and down,
having much more pressure coming up
than down.
I'm really more sliding my
fingers on top of
the skin going down and then giving a little pressure coming up.
Along the hairline down to the ears.
Now you can take this circular motion around the ears and grab the ears,
those earlobes.
Don't pinch it too hard. Keep it
gentle.
Massage work is really about relaxing.
You want to be able to let the person relax and not be screaming in pain.
There might be modalities or injuries that
we have to get into a little more of the pain body, but
for the most part for relaxation
be respectful on it.
Around the ear in the front.
And you can even take the ears and give it a little
pull.
A gentle little pull
covering the whole ear.
And if you want you can do a little bit of that on the top part of the ear,
not going inside of it.
So there's the ear.
And now you're gonna pull
yourself up this direction.
And now we're going to
come
above the eye. Excuse me, under the eyes. We're going to
just take the thumbs and draw them up.
Starting in the nose area.
Downward and upwards.
It's always nice to work up.
Skin needs to be worked up. There is gravity that
pulls us downward so
when you're working on
especially the face, you wanna take everything upward
as much as possible.
And then on the eyebrow you can just work it outward
and kind of up.
You know the between something that feels complete and
something that isn't
is if you're working like across the forehead and
just let go
that's not gonna feel nearly as complete as if you take it all the way
through
and then bring it up.
So pay attention to that no matter where you're working on the body.
Take it all the way to the end
as best as you can.
You can rotate the nose a little bit.
Right where the nasal
bones are and even come down the nose.
This is actually where the
watershed is for the lymphatic work.
Make little circular motions
and then you can go across the eyebrows.
And if you're very very very gently you can kind of brush across the eyes.
But you wanna be ever so gentle
doing that.
Like you are hardly even rubbing.
Just a very light touch on the eyes.
Almost as if you're not touching. Almost as if there's a little energetic field or magnetic
field between your thumb and
the eyes.
It almost feels like that it's so light. Now here I'm just
coming down along the cheeks,
the zygomatic arch, here where the cheek is and
working upward again. Along the chin, working upward.
Along the face here, you can do circular motions
along the mouth.
And you can kind of just pluck
the skin a little bit
with tiny little plucks like
pulling it out just slightly. It's a
stimulating kind of
maneuver.
And then you
can just pull anything up
into the scalp and again. And then just one more
rotation of the top of the head.
Now what's also nice is if the
person has hair, sometimes people are bald, but
you can also pull the hair just slightly
as you are finishing up and
even wiggle it a little but it's
a very light pull, it's not like you're
gonna drag them across
the ground. It's just a nice light pull.
And it completes it because you're coming to the ends of the hair and
completing
very complete
when the hair is included as well.
But these are all just little things that i've learned over the years to make
it feel a little bit more full and complete
with the massage.
There we have scalp and face.
This is Athena Jezik. Thank you!