A massage with music in the background, a pleasant environment, a silent practitioner are the ingredients for a wonderful relaxing experience. It has been shown that massage can lower your blood pressure. Experience the luxury of a soothing massage in a relaxing environment.

Massage oil:
Do not take too greasy massage oil and make sure that any smell is not overwhelming.

Clothing±
The easiest and most comfortable clothing is wearing noting for you and your partner. If nudity is not required treatment can best be loose fitting, preferably cotton, clothing.

The practitioner:
If you care practitioner course for a clean body, clean hands and fresh breath. Keep your hands warm. Rub them tightly together for a while. Also make sure you have short cropped nails.

Not talking
Do not talk too much. If you both focus your attention on what happens, you enjoy a lot more intense or intrusive treatment. Of course it is nice to get some feedback.

The home practitioner:
Take a folding table size 195 x 65 cm, make sure it is stable. Reinforce the table on weak points and make sure that the blade can not slip.

Warm towels.:
It feels great when you use hot towels to cover the body of the person you massaged. In winter hang them on the radiator.

The massage room:
Provide a clean and tidy room with adequate ventilation and a comfortable temperature.

Relieve muscle pain:
Massage to improve circulation in the painful muscles: the pain and stiffness decreases.

Bolster massage:
Fresh energy and better able to think within half a minute: In China they massage certain acupuncture points in the energy pathways to stimulate the body. You feel fitter and immediately you can concentrate better. Chinese children to school before class begins massaging their heads. This creates a quiet and better learning performance

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Scalp Massage is particularly effective. Each exercise takes about 5 seconds and then you repeat 3 times.

• Pressure with your thumbs under the skull. Pressure against the bone to bottom and slowly from ear to ear.
• Gently squeeze your eyebrows from the inside out.
• Pressure with the thumbs on the hairline from your neck to your sleep.
• Move the thumb to the forehead at the hairline as well.
• Pressure with the thumbs along the bottom edge of the eye sockets.
• 5 seconds Press your index fingers to the bone behind the outer corner.
• Hook to close your fingertips under your cheekbone

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Feet carry your body weight and are also another "locked" in shoes.
Give your feet a soothing foot massage every week. Because your feet are very sensitive to any place of your sole corresponds to a specific organ or function in your body, feel the massage throughout your body. Rub with your thumb with foot cream firmly under the feet. Start at the heel and turn small circles from the inside out. You will soon discover that not only your feet but your whole body relaxes.

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Massage you can also apply to yourself. It is great for relaxing after a shower or bath to massage yourself with a nice body lotion or a nice massage oil.

Although you can reach your entire body, you will probably feel even better after a self-massage. You finally take some time for yourself, which is already very good and you learn very well what you like.

You can use the following areas in very good massage: Your head, neck and part of your shoulders. Your chest, belly and limbs.

• Head adn neck
• Turn your head from side to side and back in a semicircle, inhale when the head goes forward and exhale as the head goes to the side.
• Knock with your fists and loose wrists gently around the vagina, do it clockwise.
• Massage the forehead with the tips of your fingers. Do this from the center to the temples with circular movements.
• "Squeeze" the neck between the fingers and palm of a hand and pull right to the neck, changing hands.
• Pressure with the tips of your thumbs along the back edge underneath your skull

• Shoulder / Arms / Hands:
• Suit with a top of the main hand and pull the head sideways toward your shoulder. Leave the other arm back down. Do this also to the other side.
• knock with your fist and a cuff shoulder, back and top, knead the shoulder muscle. Then the other shoulder.
• knock loose fist with the poor. Get on the inside of the arm from the shoulder to the wrist and on the outside back. Then switch arms. This exercise can be done a number of times.
• Rub your hands warm, with the fingertips to the back of the hand between the metacarpal bones pressing and massaging the fingers one by one with the thumb and forefinger massaging the fingers a little twist and stretch down firmly to attract.

• Chest / belly:
• Breathe deeply and during exhaling knock fists with loose on upper chest. Be heard: AAAAAAAAhHHHHH. Do this a few times.
• knock with slight fists on your belly clockwise.

• Back / Buttocks:
• Go into a wide spread position, put your hands in the hips and describe a circle with the hips as large as possible. Takes into upper body as straight as possible. Inhale when you move backwards and forwards.
• Go into a small straddle stand, bend forward and deep beklop firm buttocks and lower back. Do not do this on the spine!

• Legs / Feet:
• beat the outside of the legs downward to the ankles and then through the inside back up again.
• Sit on the floor with your legs straight. Grab a foot and ankle turning left and right.
• Now knock the sole with a hand while the other hand hold the back of the foot, then massage the entire foot sole with the thumbs of both hands and pull gently on your toes. Do this also your other foot.

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You tend to only require a massage if there are specific physical complaints. For preventive care and the welfare of the body it is better to be massaged regularly. Besides relieving stress and muscles, tissues, bones, and energy pathways throughout the body, massage increases self-awareness in your body.

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Conscious breathing is one of the important factors during a massage. Aware of the rhythm of your breathing helps in increasing the sensitivity for picking up the subtle messages our body gives us. The breath acts as a mechanism to remove energy blockages and helps you relax.

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The effects of prolonged sitting and sedentary lifestyle are the shortening of our muscles, so the body gets tense and rigid. With stretching exercises our muscles get supple and well length. We will have less muscle pain and / or damage to the muscles if getting a workout. Also, the muscles recover faster.

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During the massage it is possible to feel intense emotions. You can suddenly vulnerable, anxious or feel angry. Several emotional responses are possible such as the need to suddenly laugh or cry.

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• If you're not good by the flu, bad cold or if you otherwise are ill.
• Inflammation of muscles and / or skin should not be massaged.
• During the first three months of pregnancy. After that a massage of back and legs is nice, enlightening and relaxing.

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