Life Wisdom Psychetruth Massage
This is Athena Jezik and we're going to work on
Mackenzie today. This is the first time worked on her so i'll be able to
discover
different things that are going on.
Since I'm not familiar with this body at all,
I'll just scan it in different areas and see what we have. Let's see.
When you start with someone's body and you haven't worked it before, it's good to
go slowly into it
And get to know it. Let them know how your
touch is.
it's better to just go slow and
work into it.
There's always a bit tension. There's always that a bit of time before
gaining trust and
getting to know what's going on.
There is a lot of tension that she's carrying her upper shoulders
and in the upper back.
This shoulder feels quite frozen down. Tt's not like a frozen shoulder but
there's a lot of uh...
tightness in there.
This shoulder has a little bit more motion but that's still
pretty tight.
Yea, definitely left shoulder has more tension.
Okay.
So, will apply to oil and it's important to put the oil into your hand first
and then put it on the body.
Partly it's because sometimes the oil is a little cold.
and it's not nice to put
cold things on a person's body. Although I have to confess my fingers
are often times REAL cold when I start out a massage. It takes only a few moments
for them to warm up.
But sometimes the people do feel like they've gotten a bit of a
blast of ice cubes because it in the winter time it can be
pretty cold.
So, I try to warm them up
but oftentimes it just such a short
warm-up period that most people are ok with feeling that little bit of coldness.
But you don't want to pour
cold oil on people.
So I'm just going to go through a regular
work on the back like I would do
starting out with anybody and I'll talk to you and tell you what I'm finding.
along here, along the trapezius.
There's some tension right in through the upper part of the
trapezius along the levator scapulae as well. Those are always tense spots.
and then we'll just start by going down the spine.
I don't know how many of you picked that up but as soon as I went in I was already too deep in
because there was a flinching happening down in this area.
So when you see that happen just back out. Back out of the body and
and let it get to know you touch.
You don't want people to be jumping off the table or
squirming around.
You really want them to be able to relax deeply so that the body of surrender
and allow the work
at and healing
to take place.
I'm going to run this down again.
Spreading at the hips.
And one more time.
and we'll see what I run into an I'll stop and
explain things as we go.
Come to the shoulder area. Now this is where there's a little bit more tensions.
So, we'll see how quickly this
works its way out.
And again, this is more pressure than cranial or lymphatic work but it's not
a lot of pressure at all.
I'm still going in, allowing the muscles to pull me in.
letting them to invite me in and I'm not
going hard enough to have where they are
setting themselves up into a stressful situation;
worried about pain or
any kind of quit invasion that might cause injury.
Each body feels so different
and yet so at the same.
Ok, up we go.
And then along the shoulder.
A lot of this work you can see in other
in other videos because
I do a similar routine
all the time because it's a good one.
It's thorough. It moves muscle group to muscle group. You can get
a pretty good
idea what's going on with the body.
Not only just the back but you can often times feel stress lines that might be
going down into the hips or down into the knees.
And again i'll have to say that the seem kind of
strange too
many of you out there
who aren't accustomed to
subtleties
but the body
so much of what we've been taught us that we have to be really brutal with
the body in order to have it heal but it's
not necessarily the case.
And then down to the....
the hip area.
And there we go up one side of the spine
and right in the middle of that muscle
That's the a,
erector spinae muscles. It's a long muscle it has
a different
parts to it.
basically that's the muscle that I'm
working up.
Back down and then I'm going to some
cross fiber along the
vertebrae over the
left hand side.
the back, Mackenzie's back is fairly tight. The muscles are fairly tight.
I think she does a fair amount of work with their back.
It doesn't feel like it's a bad tension. It feels like there is a lot of
tone in the muscle.
But there is more tension there then it
probably needs to have.
So there seems to be some tension here in
shoulders so I'm gonna pull her arm back.
Just let me lift it.
Stay relaxed.
and
don't help me.
That's always hard for people to do. Yeah just let your shoulder rest into my hand.
Just let it relax. Just let me move it.
and let me know if it hurts.
We're just going to take this up and go underneath. There's a nice winging of
the scapulae.
Getting underneath
the scapulae here. This is very good
to have
this kind of flexability
I prefer to lay the arm down.
and lift the shoulder up, in this regard keep it relaxed.
Although there's another way you can do this
and that feels...
There's work in there to do.
So, I'm just ironing the muscle in and seeing what's happening to it here.
Letting some unwinding take place
There is spot that's pretty tight right there.
There are some nice little shift that happened
now some of the um...
and the other techniques that many massage therapist do, will be
bending the arm completely back.
i don't like to do this for one thing,
it's kind of a binding position where you know you get your hands pulled
behind his back
you know to get handcuffed or get
tied and it does bring up some issues on some people who have made been
harmed in that way or frightened
by some kind of binding thing
Plus some people many people don't have the flexibility
in the front part of the
deltoid, in the
anterior deltoid.
And the anterior deltoid in order to be pulled back
sometimes you can make it very uncomfortable on them
so it's better to just work it with the arm
down
and then have your hand be underneath the shoulder.
And the other thing that you want to
pay attention to, especially when you work somebody for the first time, is the
tendency is always that the volunteer muscles are gonna wanna help him
but as soon as they do there's a flexion taking place
or an extension taking place and so you're not going to be able to get into
the muscle as well.
A lot of that is just a reaction because the body in a stress
position and it doesn't really know how to relax.
The more you work on somebody the more your going to find
that relaxing is going to happen and that they are not going to be
directing the work
so that's another thing to watch. So, just be patient with it and work with it
and just rotating the shoulder
a little bit here.
And then I'm going to
set the arm back down and
that softened it up somewhat.
That feels a little bit better.
Sometimes it just takes, you know, a lot of time
to be on one area, to get to work and
relax. Now in that the cameras are on the other side and it's impossible for me to get
to the other side, I'm just going to
do a little bit of stretching. Here's some
rather bumpy areas
on the trapezius here.
and just taking it in so that it...
it can stretch and lengthen. Again, i'm not using a whole lot of
pressure because I'm allowing the
muscles to flattening out
and relax on there own.
if you have too much pressure too quickly they are going to
bow their head back just like a little snake and there going to
coil up and they're gonna tighten up.
So, remember always to go slowly into a muscle
and let it invite you in.
It's almost as though we've been so accustomed to so much
aggression,
that it's
really difficult to back off to be a little more passive with things
but we do have that side to us and it's a very caring side and it's a side that
we as human beings should
try to work a little bit more.
And a good place to start is to start by just respecting ourselves in being gentle
with ourselves
and with others
open up some new thing
within yourself. You'll find that your body will respond different
when you are I are on less of a
kind of a heated mode.
just soften and
be appreciative for what's around
It's always easy to fall into that negative side.
Many people that do bodywork,
at least some of my experiences with it
feels like I was used
to let their
aggressions out
and that isn't a good thing really if you're going to be a bodyworker.
You have to put all of your stuff aside
and remember that you're here
caring for somebody and you want it to be a good experience.
So I'm going to take this one
move up the back with this energy.
See how well that
does.
And that feels like there is
a magnetic pull. That was just a muscle
release that way; that direction.
There is another one that is relaxing down.
It's a very magnetic feeling on my hand. There's another one right under here.
And that feels nice and smooth.
Ok.
There we have it and this back is now feeling softer.
There is some work to do on this shoulder, more work to do in here.
But in that I can't get the right directionality of it
have to work it another time.
I can also check
the flexibility of the
shoulder here
I'm setting it down just right, on the other side so it's kind of hard. Ok let that come down.
Let your should come down.
There you go. I just want to see the
pick up here. Yea. This is another good wing.
You can get underneath the scapulae. There you go.
This one is a little tighter actually on this part of it.
and there is some tension in her shoulder that is holding it down, so
So, we'll put it back and
It's very important to get that person on the table to that point of relaxation.
But that
does take a little better work in a little bit of time
So on your new people,
just remember,
handled with care.
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Thank You. This is Athena Jezik.
Austin, Texas.