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hi everyone it's jen and today I have been as my thai massage model and she is
a new thai massage therapist in austin and she's going to be making some videos
with psyche truth - so you guys be on the lookout for aliens amazing thai
massage techniques and new videos coming your way really soon
and today i'm going to demonstrate for you guys some nice neck and head and
face massage which are really great techniques for reducing headache tension
or just relieving stress you know a lot of times we don't even think about the
stress that we carry in our face
so some of these simple face and neck massage techniques can be really really
helpful in relaxation and stress reduction so leave me a comment below
let me know how you're feeling these days you're dealing with a lot of stress
do you have a lot of tension in your head and neck and what kinds of things
do you do to relieve that stress
so to get started a lot of times I like to just place my hands right across the
tops of the shoulders
I guess technically this would be the front of her shoulders then just gently
rocking my weight from right to left
just applying a little pressure
so she starts to feel a nice gentle stretch across the front of her chest
so this is great for anyone in your life that spends a lot of time at a computer
at a desk
and her chest and pecs can become very tight
so this is a nice simple easy way to start stretching those muscles out
then I'll just come to stillness and apply a steady even pressure between
both of my hands
this is a nice way to start feeling grounded and connected to your partner
just gives your partner a chance to really settle it and start to relax
yeah
from here I'll give her a nice little traction pole so just scoop my hands
underneath her net
and hook my fingers at the base of her skull and then once i have a nice good
grip on her head
just lean my weight back just applying a pressure as i gently pull back on her
head
this is just a nice steady pressure allowing for all of the muscles and
ligaments along her spine to stretch
so even though it doesn't look like I'm doing very much
you can be sure that the person that you're working on that we and is
definitely feeling a stretch that there's work happening in her body
even though I personally don't have to work very hard to make it happen
as you really tune in with your partner you may notice one side or the other
feels a little bit more tight you'll feel a little more tension or a little
more resistance just tuned into that subtlety and continue to lean back
yeah
so this can be a really powerful and effective stretch something you can hold
for two or three or even five minutes you can really hold distraction for a
nice long time and the benefit is just increased then as you're ready to
release slowly release the pressure from your hands and just let their head
come back to a nice neutral place this is a nice little easy way to start to
warm up and let your partner start feeling really relaxed then i'm going to
gently scoop her head over to one side so I can start to get a little bit more
work along the back and sides of her neck here so just using my thumb
I'll make some gentle small circles
getting into the scalene muscles here all along the side of the neck
yeah
now this can be a really sensitive area if your partner has a lot of tightness
or tension there's often a lot of trigger points in the neck
so it's important to be sensitive and mindful about the amount of pressure
that you're using
if you notice that your partner is kind of crinkling their eyebrows or wincing
with their face it's usually an indication that maybe there's a little
too much pressure that they're uncomfortable in some way
so it's always important to remember anytime you're working on someone's body
that you want to be mindful and sensitive about what your partner is
experiencing
so here i found a tight little not right at the base of aliens neck so just you
know stay in this one spot and i'm using an even smaller circle to really isolate
where that not is and start to just
break up the tissue and allow those muscle fibers to start to relax
so you can use this technique anywhere that you notice any particular point of
tension
coming back up to the base of her skull you can use one long stroke and again
i'll hook my fingers at the base of her skull and lean a little bit to give her
a nice little traction pull on the side of her neck
you can repeat that again just making those little small circles along the
scalenes and if you notice any other points of tension you can isolate any
knots that you find just allowing for those muscle fibers to loosen up and
start to release that tightness and tension
they are a nice little stretch then from here my hand is already in place that I
can just gently roll her head over
nice simple transition here so here on the left side
I'll repeat that same cycle working along the left side of her neck and
again this is a good time to really tune in and notice any differences from one
side to the other
so our bodies are rarely symmetrical we hold tension in different ways from one
side to the other
so we have to let go of the expectation that it's going to feel the same on both
sides because usually there's some differences
so this is a good moment for you to really tune in to your partner and just
notice what you feel
yeah
coming back up to the base of her skull with a nice smooth stroke
and a gentle little stretch
follow that line again
I noticed early and she has a little bit more tightness on this left-hand side so
this is a place where i would spend a little extra time
give her a little extra love in the areas where I notice it's the most tight
yeah
returning her head Center
can move into a little face massage
so a lot of times when we're dealing with stress in our lives we can carry a
lot of tension through our eyebrows and forehead so if you think about like how
much we really crinkle our face up and live our life here you know when you're
frustrated at your boss when you're stressing about money or dealing with
your finances a lot of that tension can get stored in our face
so nice easy way to start to relax that tension away is just by using my thumb's
and alternately just massaging right in that space between the eyebrows
to me this feels like someone is literally just kind of wiping the stress
out of my face it feels really really nice very relaxing and soothing
take this stroke all the way across her forehead across the tops of her eyebrows
stimulating all of those sensitive nerve endings throughout the face
take this stroke all the way to her hairline just apply a gentle pressure
right at her hairline
I'll just continue this all the way out
along the sides of her forehead
yeah
come down towards her temples and just massage little small circles around her
temples and this is another area for people that can be extremely sensitive
so i'm really not using very much pressure here at all and you really
don't need a lot of pressure to have a positive effect
massage your temples in both directions make my way down to her ears
there's a lot of nerve endings at the ears and they're even teachings that say
that all of the systems in our body are reflected in the anatomy of our ears
so by massaging and stimulating points in the ears you can actually have a
total body relaxation effect
so it's nice to just give the ears a little love
so I'm just gently pulling her ears not in a way that's yanking but it's a
similar quality to when I was doing that traction pull on her head right just
gently stretching the tissue which actually helps to access some of the
inner organs of the year
yeah
and as you're completing your massage on the head and phase
I really like to wrap it up with a nice scalp massage
just working my fingers along her scalp as I bring my fingers closer in towards
each other
give a nice little pressure across the top of her head
not really digging in with my fingers but just allowing for that pressure
through my fingertips
- really massage the skin across her scalp
I'm really trying to get some movement in there
yeah
scalp massage and usually very relaxing feel super nice and most people i know
really enjoy Scout massage so this is something you can do for someone again
for a really long time and I don't think they would stop you
and so you know you just really can love on your partner as much as you want as
much time as you have to give them and just massaging the scalp it feels so
good and so relaxing
it brings out are in Turkey cat that loves to be petted massage
so you can just love on your friends is a really nice gift to give to someone
that you care about
just a nice thing to do for someone when they get home from work or after a
stressful event in life
just doing some of these simple techniques can have a big effect and
relaxation and stress reduction these techniques are also really great for
relieving headache tension if you have someone in your life that has a lot of
headaches so i hope you will
favorite this video's you can come back and practice these techniques a lot and
find someone that can practice on you to write we all need to get a little love
from time to time so thank you so much for watching thumbs up
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feedback
and don't forget to keep an eye out for Lillian's thai massage videos coming up
really soon and visit my website
jen hilman . com to learn more about me and my practice
have an awesome day thanks for watching
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