How do you give really good massage?

Question

What part of the body is best?

How to make someone feel really relaxed?

Where are the pressure points?

How to re-leave tension?

Answer 1

Touch is so powerful that it can soothe the mind almost as much as the body. The bonus of being able to massage your partner, family or friends at home is that you can treat many of the things for which doctors can only prescribe pills. These include depression, irritability, tension, tiredness, insomnia, stress and bad moods.

Another bonus of doing it in the privacy of your own home is that many people who are too shy or too uncomfortable to have a massage with a stranger, find that they can lie back, relax and enjoy it when it is done by a friend. Not only that, but people of all ages can benefit - babies will fall asleep during the massage, and grandparents will be fitter for life after the massage. It is easy to learn massage at home. You might not have been taught at school, but the good news is that, unlike mathematics or French, it is easier to pick up at a later stage in life. This is because the first rule of massage is feel rather than think - and as long as it feels good, you are doing it right.

How To Massage

This site has been designed so that you quickly master all the basic tips, tricks and techniques for different massages. Learn the simple hand movements, read the rules of when not to massage, study the routine for the chosen ailment and, from then on, improvise. The main thing is that you must enjoy massage. If you try to balance the book in one hand and turn the pages with oily fingers it will not be much fun. Instead, prop the book up, open on the right page, to remind you of the steps as you go along. Do not be frightened to use the basic strokes, but add your own special touches. Even if you follow one of the routines exactly, repeat the strokes that seem to give the most pleasure - you will soon learn which these are because your 'patient' will grunt, sigh, moan or fall asleep! ...... http://www.massageforailments.com/the-mi...

Answer 2

Download the ebooks below, use bittorrent program. When massaging, use Almond Oil or Cocconut Oil {great for dandruff}.There are good short-course/part-time massage courses you can learn at your local college or Leisure Centre by massage professionals.

http://www.mininova.org/tor/1541376

http://www.mininova.org/tor/1402229

As a rule of thumb massage towards the heart.

Hope this helps

Answer 3

1) Inbetween the shoulder blades, the neck,  Trapz,  Rotator cuff thats roughly at the back aspect of the armpit,  Up under the shoulder blade if you can get in there,

2) Breath control have them take 10 deep breaths,  if they tense up you found a sore spot it hurts or they are unerved by what your doing.

3)  much of where trigger points can be derived from 1&2

4) kneeding thumb preasure,  I find that vibratory preasure realeaves allot of tension use your first two fingers on the knot/ sore spot shake them back and forth while pressing into the knot

Impact preasure works good too same two fingers use them to tap with the tips gently or hard as prefered

Answer 4

1. The person giving massages should be state licensed and Nationally certified  --- 2. once you have #1 established then other questions will be answered in the training you receive from school in process of obtaining your license for massage therapy---  3. I am a Licened Massage Therapist -- have state license and am nationally certified -- DO NOT ALLOW ANY ONE TO MASSAGE OR GIVE MASSAGES WITHOUT THESE TWO ITEMS -- IT IS ILLEGAL and you could hurt someone if you don't know what you are doing

Answer 5

The Most effective areas are the Neck, Forehead, Feet and the Chest

Use herbal oils to massage gently at these points

Take a deep breath and release it very slowly and continue this for at least 30 times during a day

Answer 6

I never gave a massage before but, I heard that ones with happy endings are best.