A common exercise I have people do in my workshops, is to quantify how much they enjoy recieving massage, using the numbers 1-10. Assigning numerical values to what we like is a good way to understand a lot of decisions we are faced with in life.
When weighing decisions, such as to moving to a different […]

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Judging from the title alone, this technique is rather counterintuitive. Most things you learn here are merely concepts, that you might never have thought to try at home.
Leverage your body.
In this technique, we want to massage the muscles that attatch on the shoulderblades, and in the area between the shoulderblades and the arms. We will […]

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Water. My brother Dave Navarro always jokes that our mother made this great drink for us as kids. It was two parts H and one part O. Well Dave, that’s technically wrong, as an Oxygen molecule is some sixteen times larger than a Hydrogen molecule.*water - SO technically it should be eight parts O and […]

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My favorite technique:
The major theme of what you have learned so far has been to “preserve your thumbs”. If you look at it from the “weakest link breaks the chain” angle in regards to when your massage ends, that is the most important thing to do.
Ergonomics is about not wearing yourself out by using improper […]

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If you have tried technique # 14 already, you are probably not in the mood for more pain. Which is why the last technique is a bonus, of sorts, aimed at feeling good.
This technique doesnt require too much interaction.
All the recipient needs to do here, is to remove any hairpieces that might be in your […]

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Not for the feint of heart, there are a lot of [painful] things you can do to a muscle that is good for it, but include hurt that most people are not willing to subscribe to. *Rolfing versus Swedish massage is a good example.
Yes, this technique hurts, but is a great way to open up […]

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I love explaining this one to people. It’s as usual, “non-commonsensical” as I have so many times begun describing a technique.
But again, if it were common sense, I wouldn’t need to show it to you, as by now you have some serious talents going.
Everyone, including professionals, massage the neck poorly in the seated position. This […]

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This technique, and the *technique # 11, are great techniques that do belong in this lineup. They are distictively different from the others, in the way that the lessons learned with them are here to hint at things you will learn in months from this website. For the full body massages, and how to diagnose a […]

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This one is easy to explain, as opposed to some of the previous ones. Believe me, it is a daunting task to try to explain all of these things online.
Using your body as a prop.
While sitting elevated over the recipient, lift one of their arms, and place your leg under the arm, with your knee 6-8 inches […]

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I hope you have learned a lot so far. But [again] it’s not about learning, it’s about doing.
The Intermediate techniques are techniques that are ‘not intuitive’, that you wouldn’t come up with through random experimentation. Believe me, there are a lot more things for you to come up with on your own, than these five […]

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