Light - Passive - Swedish Massage

My Light/Passive/Swedish Massage focuses on Friction involving the bodies' surface tension ONLY.

This is NOT a Deep Tissue/muscular palpation.

I typically use one (1) to two (2) ounces of refined (little if any scent) Coconut Oil per session.  Creams, and/or lotions can be applied upon request.  Allowing for a smooth and gentle skin massage.  Decreasing the rug-burn or myofascial pulling affect of fiction.  Thus allowing the sessions to concentrate on just the surface tension.  The outermost layers.  Our largest organ.  

Using different types of friction to stimulate the skin and upper fascia.  This stimulation triggers the body to tell the arteries to investigate and report back to the parasympathetic system.  Drawing your red nourishing blood to the surface.  The blood at the surface will cause a warming sensation to the skin.  Once the blood reaches the surface the blood had to pass-through/around those injured, tight, stiff, immobile, muscles.  Thus feeds everything it passes along the way.  Taking with it more when it leaves.  Helping with our bodies homeostasis.  Since I am not pushing on the body or into the muscles (that is Deep Tissue), directly passing over any objects like bones are not painful. The pressure is intended to be a gentle glide or simple light contact.  Soothing the senses.  Only gentle FRICTION.  There is no need to worry about pressure even If you have paper thin skin.  When the body's system can receive and does not have to told to be on alert it can relax.  When our body can relax it can Heal itself.  

I utilize long-flowing (effleurage) strokes.  Fast repeated short-circular/straight strokes (friction) are utilized in warming those reluctant areas.  Most have told me it feels rhythmatic and entrancing.  Finger tappings (tapotments) are used to stimulate the skins surface.  Vibrations, gently moving the skin, send relaxing impulses through the body, followed by light lifting (petrissage) strokes.  All movements are intended with passive massage in mind.  All may not be used in every area of the body.  When the body is truly relaxed, petrissage (gently lifting the skin) is effortless.  If your skin is proned to be taught.  The attempt to perform petrissage feels, I am told, more like a tapotment or butterfly tapping the skin.  Once our body allow relaxation to engulf us.  The simplest and lightest of gliding across the skin moves all of the muscles and connective tissue.  Acting like the body of water it is.  It moves as all one wave.  A flow.  It is truly an experience.  Being patient, practice, and breathing are essential to achieve the fullest benefits of each session.  

During any session "Conscious-breathing" should be all you do.  Slow nostril breathing.  Please concentrate on your inhales and exhales.  

There is NO such thing as a "FIRM Swedish".  In my mind it as if we are asking for a glass of "dry water".  Sure the words can be put together.  It makes no sense why you would use them in that order.  Babble is all I hear.  Swedish has become the blanket word for massage.  Intuitive Massage where Swedish is incorporated into the session.  Still not a True Swedish Massage.  Swedish is the word most people have learned to use.  Where as Deep Tissue is really what people mean to say.  If you are palpating even the most superficial muscle (trapezius, gastrocutaneous...) by definition you are in deep tissue.  

This is NOT a Deep Tissue Massage.