massage

[Joe racing]

I had a massage this week and although i found it sort of relaxing having trained some 10 years ago, i was concentrating on everymove rather than relaxing and enjoying it, she also rocked me on the table, which i hadnt experienced before.....

has it changed that much...?

There wasnt any cupping or kneading either......

 

[beholdtheglory]

Don't forget that every massage therapist works in a different way. My style of massage is very different from how I was initially trained. I rarely use my thumbs, I use the palms of my hands and forearms. I would be so bored if I still massaged in the way I was taught.

I don't do hacking and cupping - I find it too noisy and unecessary. I will sometimes include rocking movements to loosen the body and to see where the clients body might be holding tension.

I too find it hard to switch off duirng a massage too as I'm normally trying to work out what the therapist is doing.

 

[cueroupvimbilleah]

I also find when I go for a massage that I pay lots of attention to what they are doing - I have learnt some great new moves from doing this but it does mean that you don't fully relax during a treatment. If I go to the same therapist, after the first one I tend to relax more as I now what to expect from the massage and I'm more familiar with their style.

I had one massage therapist do some rocking moves at the beginning of a back massage and I have to say I didn't like it much either.

I think things have changed a lot over the last 10 years in massage. Therapists are more worried about RSI so use their thumbs and fingers less now and the injury prevention and no hands techniques are becoming more popular. I also think people want a firmer massage now than a while back - more people have back, nack and shoulder problems what with using computers more and more.

 

[ello!]

I was thinking about this the other day when a client was coming out of a deep trance after an aromatherapy massage. I was so envious - I've never been able to relax during a massage to that extent! Is that the price you pay for being a therapist?

They say massage therapists should have regular massages themselves. I haven't had one for ages - I never seem to enjoy them as much as my own clients do, so that makes every massage a let-down for me. Seems like I'm not the only one.

 

[Frankydoodle]

I think most of us would love to duplicate ourseves as a therapist to receive a massage by ourselves! We probably give what we would love to receive...but unfortunately that is for sure never going to happen (unless the cloning science develops very quickly that is).
But my feeling is that the more we can relax and receive, the better we can give. The problem is that when we are just expecting a particular and specific treatment, stroke, technique, etc.is impossible to enjoy!
But I am guilty, I have the same problem with most practitioners. However, now and again I get a treatment by someone good, and I manage to stop expecting to trust and relax, then its bliss!

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[Meeka]

Spot on!! I never really enjoy massages as much as other people seem too. I often find it's either too firm or not firm enough...

I am glad to see I am not the only one!

 

[ifbwvpse]

I see a sports therapist who does a lot of rocking techniques across my lower back and glutes, i think its fab...... !!!!

 

[SemandXX]

Strikes me a system of mentoring would be ideal ? I mentored someone 8yrs ago, fresh out of sports massage school he had not yet had time to develope his own style so easily adopted mine.
We have gone on to develope many new techniques over the years and the proof of the pudding is in eating it yourself ! every week !

 

[Shaylon G]

I've been lucky enough to buddy with another therapist and we try and swap every month. She lives about twenty miles away but its well worth it. We've been swapping for over two years now and are both able to relax completely. Not only that but we have both been able to swap things we have picked up on other courses.

 

[MAREMU]

I have also done this bodywork and its been well worth it. I love it when the date comes round and i am going to have my treatment. There are things that i would like the other therapist to do and we do swap different moves so i have ended up having the things i love to do to other people done to me, in the massage.

 

[jojo k]

So I always wonder: do the things you enjoy doing feel good when you receive them?

 

[CyberGuy?]

I can only talk from personal experience, but yes, i have enjoyed it when the therapists i swap with have done moves on me that i have shown them. I love any kind of massage though and do miss going to classes and getting massaged every week!