Today I'm going to bring you an abdominal massage this is actually very good for bloating and for
moving the lymphatic system we have a lot of lymph nodes in our abdominal area so I'm going to show
you in some of the points that you need to be aware of and how to you know how to be gentle also
so you wanna up first palpate gently the cyphoid process which is at the end of the sternum this
is a point right here and that's you're going to form a triangle from the cipher process out to
the iliac crest the anterior Superior Ila Crest so it's a triangle from here to here and across the
colon the large intestine is here's the ascending colon transverse colon and descending colon so for
people that are constipated you want to make sure and work in a circular motion and specifically
down the descending colon so one of the things that you want to do first is warm up your hands
and introduce your hands gently to your client in the in the in the abdomen you might want to
do just some gentle slow waves right here just some moving here to introduce your client to the
abdomen another thing that I wanted to mention is that I have put a pillow underneath her knees and
her legs because you want to make sure to relax the abdominal muscles you've got your rectus
abdominis and internal and external obliques here so you want to make sure that those muscles are
relaxed so that you can get to the to the large intestine and the small intestine so you first
want to do some gentle rocking movement now you if you're ready to apply some oil
you want to do the Sun and the Moon movement or the Sun
goes clockwise then when you're here this hand goes over
so you just go in a circular motion and the Sun goes over the moon here
and you can do this about three or four times just to start getting some circulation going and
some of the digestion they're going through the large intestine and another one that you can do
is along the ribcage rib cage right here
from the sternum down you can do this about two or three times
and remember not to put pressure here on the cyphoid process okay
this is really also another move good movement
here for the diaphragm and the liver and the gallbladder are on this side
and then the spleen and the pancreas are on this side so you want to make sure and just do some
gentle Strokes you can even use your finger pads never fingernails just the finger pads along the
rib cage okay so let's do some more sun and move I'd like to use this as a transitional move the
Sun and and moon movement another one that you can do is from here you can get the external obliques
so are you just doing some nice moves some raking
and of course then I would go to the other side and do some raking from this side okay then you
can also do some ocean waves across the abdomen and when you get to the rib cage make sure you
do them slow once you've warmed up all this you know you can go put your hands I'm going to the
posterior part my hands my fingers are going to be touching and then you can lift up and then you can
also shake if you're tall enough and strong enough to do that you can do that so you go to the middle
part then you lift up kind of shake the abdomen a little bit this is another move that you can do
and then now you're going to start doing some specific work one of the things that you can
do is you're going to hold the tissue here and scrape down especially if they're constipated
you want to come down the descending colon so I'm still pretty high in getting more like that was
more of the stomach but as you start getting down here this is the descending colon of the
large intestine and you might feel some movement if you move gas especially with a constipated
or uh you know some tightness there some little bumps along the way but you can
actually feel them here all down this way so be gentle and you can go across
and you can also go up this way because remember it goes up so you want to go from this side and
go up I like to use two fingers or you can use three fingers as a person has an extended abdomen
and then you can again
go along the ribcage you can go and do some more sun and move techniques
this really suits the abdomen and like I said it really helps with constipation with
bloating with even with cramps you know women that can get cramps if you can just do some
some ocean waves here and the bottom hand is for palpating and the top hand is for pressure
and just get some stuff moving in here if they need some help usually people pass gas or have
to go to the bathroom when you get done with this massage and it also helps with the lymph nodes we
have a lot of lymph nodes one of the things that techniques that you can do is you can
move down to the lymph nodes putting a little bit of pressure down you can do one side at a
time what you're doing is you're draining the lymph nodes sending the the fluid the
from the lymph nodes down to the groin area where we have main ducts right here
from both sides
so we have over six to seven hundred lymph nodes all over the body so we
have a lot of them here in the in the abdominal area so again you can finish
with some sun and move techniques
and some soothing you get the internal and external obliques
and at the end and this can take just five minutes a quick five minute if you want to
incorporate it to your massage actually for a Swedish massage we do incorporate it however
if it's specific where you can spend a little bit of more time doing these techniques but
it really helps like I said with bloating with a lymphatic system and passing gas and helping
relieve some stomach cramps too so until the next time create a great day [Music]
thank you