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====== Getting ready for Massage ====== | ====== Getting ready for Massage ====== | ||
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===== Set and Setting ===== | ===== Set and Setting ===== | ||
- | Create a nice space and time for massage, where you won't risk being interrupted. Make sure neither of you will have to rush anywhere | + | Find the appropriate |
- | Switch off your whatever, | + | |
- | You may like to do a small warm-up of your body and hands before | + | |
- | As important as your physical surroundings, | + | {{:tumblr_mhjcstd0kf1rsfvxno1_500.jpg? |
- | Both of you should take a moment to notice how you are feeling before the massage. You too, the Giver. Are you having a good day ? Are you nervous ? Tired ? A little upset about something, but pretending not to be ? Acknowledging your own emotions before you receive or start giving a massage will help you find the right, comfortable place to be with yourself and the other. It will help you respect your limits and boundaries, and importantly, | ||
- | ===== Precautions and Contra-Indications | + | ===== Precautions and ContraIndications |
- | Massages affect | + | Before |
+ | Ask your friend a few very basic questions, starting from more general questions like “HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?”, “Do you feel any pain?” to then move to more specific ones, focussing in on the hand and arm. Regarding possible illnesses, be as little intrusive as possible. Inviting your friend to read the list of contraindications | ||
+ | Also, use your common sense: What do you see? Are there any bruises, cuts, signs of a rash on their hands and arms? Does the skin look fragile? Are there any signs that might point to your friend having a fever? | ||
+ | You might have to avoid a particular spot on your friend' | ||
+ | In any case, do not improvise yourself a therapist, and always make sure the dialogue is open between you two, so that your friend will feel comfortable providing your with feedback as you proceed. | ||
+ | Always keep feeling, and adjust your movements | ||
- | * Recent surgery | + | * [[Massage precautions & contra indications sign]] |
- | * High/low blood pressure, Cardiovascular conditions, Circulatory problems | + | * [[Detailed massage precautions |
- | * Cancer | + | |
- | * Infectious disease | + | |
- | * Osteoporosis, | + | |
- | * Inflammatory conditions, | + | |
- | * Skin diseases, | + | |
- | * Diabetes, | + | |
- | * Certain allergies, | + | |
- | * Pregnancy (especially less than 3 months), | + | |
- | * Psycho-pathologies | + | |
- | Best cancel massage altogether if your friend is: | + | See also: |
- | * With a fever, contagious | + | |
- | * Intoxicated (alcohol or other psychoactive substances), | + | |
- | * In an altered or extreme state of consciousness | + | |
- | (more details | + | * [[A few words on ethical conduct |
+ | ===== Define intentions: What do you wish for with this massage ? ===== | ||
- | Ask your friend a few basic questions about their general health, starting with HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY ? Do you feel any pain ? Regarding possible illnesses, try not to be too intrusive. Inviting them to read the list of contra-indications can be a good alternative, | + | {{: |
- | Also, use your senses | + | Ask your friend what they wish to get out of this massage. Invite them to express their wish (it could be to ease pain, relax, stop worrying, feel loved, etc). Defining an intention together, even a simple one (actually, the simpler the better), sets the massage on a good path, and helps you bond and build trust. It can also be an opportunity for your friend to express something important, an emotion, a state of mind, in the comfort of your presence. Whatever comes, welcome it. You don't need to have an opinion, nor do you have to have something reassuring to say. Having |
- | Observe | + | And you, do you know what you want to achieve with this massage? Again, |
+ | ===== Making a basic massage plan ===== | ||
- | Some conditions will require that you adapt your pressure (no strong pressure for example in case of osteoporosis), | + | {{: |
- | Later as you start touching, keep feeling and adjust in real time to the “information” you pick up, so the massage will be adapted to your friend' | + | Observing |
- | + | Is your friend's face flushed or pale ? Are they hot, cold ? What's hot and what's not in their body ? What's open and loose or tight and closed ? Where ? The jaws ? The knees ? Where does some sort of power seem to need some sort of release, and where does some sort of little joy seems to need encouragement ? Is your friend agitated ? Talkative ? Is their voice exasperatingly high, or strangely low ? There would be many observations possible | |
- | ===== Define intention(s): What do you wish for with this massage ? ===== | + | |
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- | Invite | + | |
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- | Focus more on receiving your friend' | + | |
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- | Defining an intention together, even a very simple one (the simpler actually | + | |
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- | ===== Making | + | |
- | Observing your friends aspect and feel a bit further (by looking, asking, touching) will give you clues as to the general directions with which to work in order to best convey (and achieve) your intentions. Is your friend' | + | In the end, a good massage is a mystery mix of knowledge-skill, intuition, and improvisation, all coming together in love. |
- | In the end, a good massage is a mystery mix of skill, intuition, and improvisation, | + | {{: |
getting_ready_for_massage.txt · Last modified: 2015/12/22 16:03 by emily