This exquisite massage was a huge success when I
first introduced it.
At the
time, I was handing out printed descriptions of this massage to people in
workplaces. The title caught on right away. People told me they were thinking
of vacation time…of lying on a beach and feeling a warm breeze blow across
their back…or lazily swimming across a pool with wavelets of water sliding over
their backs.
Women took the print outs
home for their husbands to read and to try out on them. The men I met said that
the massage sounded so good they were going to have their wives do it on them.
I think everyone must have had a turn because the next time I saw them, I was
met with nothing but huge smiles and a big thumbs up.
Before I start, here are
some suggestions about massage in general –
1. Relax – you have nothing to prove. And the person who is receiving the
massage also has nothing to prove. With massage, there is no good, better,
best. Relax – and be yourself!
2. Always begin with a very light touch. This helps you to establish a
connection with the person you are massaging, helps you to familiarize yourself
a little with the person beneath your hands. Massaging someone is a lot
like reading a story about her or his life. There could be tensions in the
muscles beneath your fingers that have existed since childhood. There could be
a balance between the joints and muscles that tell you what kind of day the
person has had. Your hands are a bridge between two lives, yours and the
recipient’s. Massage means opening up to the person you’re massaging; it means
“listening” to another’s story!
3. First, lightly spread warmth into the muscles, then, if you do discover
areas of tension, massage around these areas. This creates openings into which
the tension can be gently dispersed. Then only should you gently massage away
the tension.
Let’s begin –
1. The person you’re massaging lies down with her or his back to you.
3. At the top of the shoulders, slide your hands in a curve out to both
sides. Here the two waves spread across beach. Next, slide the hands down both
sides of the torso. Here the waves are returning out to sea!
4. At the lower part of the torso, let your hands ease gently inward until
they return to their place of origin at the sides of the spine. Here the waves
are regrouping in the sea, ready to slide back up onto the beach.
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