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 move in a different way, and remember - there are no limits to what you can try at home. I am including techniques with titles like these to free your mind,(*matrix link)and because I know that these ones work well.

Good stuff now, great stuff later.!

As with everything else I am writing here, I am working on getting you (1) workable knowledge now, but with the intent of making you (2) VERY skilled later. I’m you mister Miyagi. And I am not unlike Michelangelo carving David out of a block of marble, slowly chipping away at every part of you that isn’t a massage therapist.

You will eventually be able to do advanced work, such as learning how to *fix carpal tunnel syndrome. This technique coming up actually is something I’d have someone suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome recieve from their partner to prepare for the work I would do professionally. So, do this every night, along with technique #6 and #10, for a while before you read about how to fix *Carpal tunnel syndrome.

Enough of this - So how does this work?

For this one, Ill start with the video first. Watch it, and then I will explain it to you.

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By doing this, you can apply pressure from a different angle. Were you professionally trained, I’d put it “Bilaterally from outside angles of the person recieving, applying the pressure towards the centerline…”(not that that makes any sense).

Your hands end up in the area outside the recipients shoulderblades, and on their ribs. Before I explain how to do what you just saw and the muscles involved, I want you to feel for a certain area on your body, so you know what I am talking about.

Do the exercises I tell you to do.

Try this: Lift one arm up to a 90 degree angle. Then, take the THUMB of your opposite hand, pointing upwards, and place it deep inside of your armpit. Now, relax your arm down again. Wrap your fingers around your back muscles in that area, and begin to knead the area between your thumb and fingers.

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If you move downward slightly, you might be picking up more muscle. Move upwards enough, and you will end up at the ‘*tendon’ which connects your ‘*Latisimus Dorsi’ to the ‘*Humerus’(your arm). Besides massaging on top of the shoulderblade(which needs no demonstration), this is the area I want to massage with this technique. It is VERY tender at first, mostly because you virtually never get touched there. So dont worry.

How to begin this technique:

This is how to get into the position: Start by [in your chair] opening your legs wide. put your hands in front of you in a prayer position(just for now - I don’t need any commitment as such from you for this). Then, lean forward some, and release your hands, resting your elbows by the knees and on your inner thighs. Now, you can rest your hands on the recipients back as the video showed, and use the heel of your hands as contact points, again permitting your thumbs to rest. To apply pressure, tighten your thighs. You can also assist with your *pectorals(your chest)

How to perform this technique:

There is a lot you can do here. Apply broad pressure with your hand, either statically, or in circular rubbing motions. The recipient will like this, as you are working on an area you have not been working on yet, and a slow circular motion is always relaxing.

Or you can ignore all of that set up time, and grip the muscles in that area with your thumbs on the back and your fingers reaching around to the front, massaging. If you can go deep, which I doubt for the first few weeks, you can rub the muscle like you would rub money, between your thumbs on the back of the body and the index and middle fingers on the front.

What was this technique about?

Were this the only entry you have read, one would wonder why there was all of that set up time, and then barely have any explanation on how you perform the technique.

In this entry, I introduced a new muscle to work on, and a new way of leveraging your body. It is VERY relevant later on to understand how to leverage your body, and not even professional massage therapists do it right. If you come to learn these things from me, you will know them BETTER than many professionals I have met some time from now.

But this is WAY down the road. I just showed you some other parts of the body to work on, and a new way to massage your recipient. You don’t need to follow any instructions you are getting here, at this point. Just learn from the instruction provided.

Previous lesson: The thumbs-stretch technique. Next lesson: Both hands on one side of the body.

Introduction to the TV massage series:

Technique # 1: Using your Thumbs and four fingers as a unit.
Technique # 2: Heel of hands and four fingers as a unit.
Technique # 3: Four fingers pushing downward.
Technique # 4: Using your knuckles.
Technique # 5: Using bony parts of your hand.

Introduction to the intermediate techniques.

Technique # 6: One hand on front of body.
Technique # 7: The thumbs-stretch technique.
Technique # 8: Leveraging your body.
Technique # 9: Both hands on one side of body.
Technique # 10: The cocktail party trick.

Introduction to the advanced techniques.

Technique # 11: Leveraging your body.
Technique # 12: Massaging the neck. Mmmm…
Technique # 13: Aligning the body of the recipient.
Technique # 14: The Navarronian death grip.
Technique # 15: Scalp Massage.