Massage

In the expression even of this massage one can for example constantly stop or on the contrary to prolong his meeting according to the idea that this return to the sources belongs to the massed person, the masseur or the masseuse being only the guide which always must follow. No contingency of time, of money must bring it or the expert to cut this voyage. Whoever cannot be captive of its massage. Ethics is its axis.

This French massage is composed of four massages, muscular the " to go to seek the muscle for the relaxer" , the tegumentary one, " to work the skin in its élasticité" , the sensitive one, " stimulation of the nervous terminations of the peau" , and the pilar one which comprises the hairs, the hair and the ongles". (No stretchings).

Swedish massage

The Swedish massage combines firmness and softness, according to the needs. It is carried out as much on the muscular fasteners, as on the tendons and the muscles. The purpose of it is to get a great muscular relaxation and to thus support the increase in the amplitude of movement.

This technique uses shaving, kneading, the friction, as well as percussions at targeted places. This massage is most widespread through the international living rooms of massage.

He is especially recognized for his anti-stress effects.

Shiatsu

See also: Shiatsu

It is about a Japanese alternative of the therapeutic massage based on acquired knowledge of the Acupuncture, but without the needles. During the performance of his duties, the expert carries out pressures on varied points of the body with an aim of releasing blockings of energy. If the dealt with problem is severe, it may be that Shiatsu is a little painful. It should be specified that the expert does not deal with your problem specifically, but well whole of points, which allows the energy contained in the body to circulate freely, being able to help with a faster cure.

This type of massage does not require to be undressed and thus can be practiced in any place and at any time of the day.

Massage cachemirien

Technically, the massage is founded on the yogic knowledge of the body and the subtle experiment of the 108 marmas or energy points, similar to the points of acupuncture, and which are connected by the movements of the masseur. The marmas are energy points or key points, true bridges between the body and the conscience. They are very palpable with the hands. Marma, word Sanskrit, which means secret, hidden is a place of junction or meeting held on the five organic principles: ligaments, vessels, muscles, bone and articulations. These points are the seats of vital energy or Prana.

The massage requires before a a whole presence this is why it belongs to the Yoga.

During two hours, in an complete absence of distraction, from intention and a capacity to turn into to continuous motions and extremely slow the masseur goes to cover the totality of the body of massed. The use of the hot sesame oil is recommended.

The masseur sat as a tailor (cross legs), massed is in the axis, its legs pass on both sides from the bust of the masseur which can thus reach all the parts of the body without moving and without losing the contact. One starts by massing before body, then the two sides successively before massing the back. The masseur by a simple technique makes rock the body of the patient from one position to another.

The massage cachemirien is a way towards the emotional, body and mental harmony, a Yoga with whole share.

Massage-dance interactive

• Massage because it is about contact with the body of the other, by touches, more or less deep, palpate-rolled supports… and especially accompaniment of the gestures of the partner spontaneously started by the music. All the variations are conceivable: slept or upright, with or without oils, naked or equipped…

• Dance because the esthetic aspect remains present in the harmony of the gestures and the pleasure of the movement. As in any dance, it is possible to test by 2,3 or more, while changing partner or not…

• Interactive because the partners play simultaneously the parts of masseur and of massed, expressing each one their needs and answering those at the same time for the other.

Emotional massage

• the accent is put in priority on the exchange between masseur and massed.

• Beyond the body, this massage also touches the emotional one and produces a real change compared to relational blockings and repetitive attitudes.

Energy massage

The objective is to contribute to the wellbeing of the individual by eliminating the tensions which settle in the body following postural bad habits or in a state of permanent stress. The effectiveness of the expert lies in his capacity at being with the listening of its patient. Its fingers relieve the points of tension by percussions, kneadings, frictions… The technique to be used is dictated by the reactions of the patient. The type of massage is called Anmma by Japanese.

Californian massage and Esalen massage

Developed in Big On in California with the beginning of the year 1970, the Californian massage belongs to the family of the psycho-body massages.

It is characterized by long soft and harmonious movements which wrap the body, thus supporting the awakening of the body diagram and the establishment of a new balance. One masses all the body with an oil of massage. Various specific techniques are used: shaving, the friction, kneading.

The benefits many and are varied. The Californian massage is a support with the wellbeing physical, nervous, emotional, mental and spiritual.

Massage amma on chair

Also called " massage on the site" (seat = English chair), " massage assis" , or " massage on chaise" , this massage aims to reduce if not make disappear the stress accumulated in period of work.

The massage on chair was originally developed by David Palmer, American who wished a means easy to mass his customers at Apple Inc. To date, several models of chairs were developed among several suppliers. It can is practiced on some 15 minutes meetings, which makes it available in the public companies, coffees, or sites.

No cream nor oil is necessary to this practice, with the result that the subject which receives the massage does not have to remove its clothing. It is often associated with the Japanese technique of Anmma massage, aui is based on the meridian lines to harmonize energy.

Massage on chair with the hot or cold stones

This technique at summer developed by Pascal Grandlair at his health center, Spa Thermo-Riviera in Quebec which with compound the massage on chair and the volcanic stone addition heat or cold. The use of the stones accentuates the therapeutic effect of the massage. Some care are necessary before using the stones, those cannot beings used on all fabrics or colors. The therapeutist will have to abstain from using the stones on knittings and other delicate fibers. The massage can be done also directly on the skin with oil or a gel with massage.

Sensitive massage of Claude Camilli

See also: sensitive Massage

It is a psycho-body massage of wellbeing which aims at restoring the direction of the globality of the person.

Massage hawaiien

See also: Lomilomi

The massage hawaiien comes from the Hawaii islands to Polynesia. It is a massage of relaxation and wellbeing which is done directly on the skin using a great quantity of oil of massage. One masses all the body to allow energy to find his " équilibre".

The massage hawaïen was practiced initially by the healers hawaïens. The term “Lomi Lomi” means to press, mix, chop. Like the majority of the massages of wellbeing, one of the goals of the massage hawaïen or Lomi Lomi is to make it possible to reach the harmony of the body, the spirit and the heart.

The purpose of the holistic culture of cure hawaiienne is not of " to make guérir" somebody, but to help it to restore balance in its body.

The massage hawaïen or lomi-lomi resembles much the Californian massage, put aside the music hawaïenne diffused during the massage.

Traditional massage Inhabitant of Thailand, Nuad Bo' rarn

This art of the touch which is carried out on a mattress with very the ground, and vêtu of loose and comfortable clothes, incorporates in its practice a traditional combination of massage, acupressure, work on the energy channels (SEN), and of a passive type of stretching. It is besides often current to intend to say in Thailand which Nuad Borarn, it is yoga for the lazy ones.

Korean massage: Korean relieving

Korean relieving is not a massage of either although if one regards massage as manual practice, relieving is with whole share. The characteristic of Korean relieving is quasi-essentiellement to use only one type of operation called vibration . The process proceeds in two phases: one activates where the person is " secouée" , the other passivates where the person " intègre" feelings without there being no external contact. As always in the massages, the most important moment is that of integration.

In fact of vibration, the goal of Korean relieving is to produce an undulation " naturelle" body of the massed person and to preserve this undulation long enough so that the brain creates a persistence of it. Thus during the passive phase, the massed person strongly feels a " ondulation" coming from its brain: it is an exciting phase and very releasing.

Let us imagine that one makes Korean arm (on only one Korean movement to simplify). The person is imperatively lengthened on the ground without pillow and obstacle. It is then a question of firmly catching the arm without tightening it of too, to stretch it somewhat without to draw the person on the ground by making it neither slip nor to twist, and finally, while preserving this small stretching which décoapte all articulations of the arm to the shoulder itself, to shake from top to bottom arm of a relatively low amplitude and at a mean velocity lasting at least 1 minutes 30 seconds. It is the active phase.

Follows the passive phase where one quasi-brusquement stops the Korean vibration of the arm, where one stretches this last during a small second in a way more accentuated a little all while raising it with a height of approximately 15 centimetres of the ground. Then the arm is released so that it strikes the ground. Of course throughout the Korean vibration, the arm is raised ground height corresponding to required work…

These two stages constitute a Korean cycle on only one Korean movement. Generally, at least three identical cycles are necessary so that a Korean movement is really very acting.

The great beauty of relieving Korean comes from what this massage is very deep while being completely painless (except the already existing pains). Moreover, following the example Californian massage, relieving Korean despizes usual limitations which we define in our terms of anatomy: Korean of the arm masses all the arm, the front armlever, the articulation of the elbow, the articulation of the shoulder, the shoulder and all the belt scapular, the thorax, the nape of the neck, the head, the belly, the back, the buttocks, the basin, the legs… the quality of the vibration is in direct relationship with the resulting wave propagation: the whole body undulates!

There too the great difficulty of Korean relieving resides: it is successful only when the undulation, produced on the body by the vibration coming from the arm (for example), is propagated with the whole body! It is to some extent the principle of the beam: the frequency necessary for that depends the lengths and on the masses of each part of the body of the person who receives the vibration.

Too much fast, the vibration will provide too little energy and the latter will concentrate on the fabrics closest to the source of the vibration: in the case of Korean of the arm, the elbow will end up being in suffering. And moreover, the undulation will not be propagated with the whole body. No benefit!

Too much slow, the vibration undoubtedly will produce jolts and thus will injure fabrics close and/or distant while causing an important mental stress to with the shocks induced by the jolts. Other effects are far from being negligible of which the fact that the vibration does not produce any undulation of the body then.

The beauty of the thing comes from what the undulation is easily obtained when the expert himself is with the listening of the body of the person whom it masses as well as clean sound body. For him, it is not any more one Korean undulation of the body of the person whom it masses that it must obtain but it is an undulation of the unit formed of their two bodies.

Manual lymphatic drainage (DLM)

This type of massage helps to eliminate toxins, bacterium and virus because it stimulates the circulation of the " lymphe". It consists of two principal stages: the first which aims at " pomper" the richly vasculariées zones where are located lymphatic nodes (ex: creu poplitée, creu of the armpit, trigonal femoral) then the second phase aims at driving out the lymph by operations of pressures such as the blotter (of the palm to the fingers) or the unfolding ulno-radial of the hands (of auricular with the inch), practiced the distal one towards the proximal. Useful for the people presenting of the oedemas lymphatic, venous to a lesser extent (but handling is slightly different: no pumping and displacement is slow and follows the venous network) or of the people having the " legs lourdes".

Crânio-crowned

By a light handling, the therapeutist feels any dysfunction of the system crânio-crowned in which the brain and the spinal-cord function. This therapy improves operation of the central nervous system, fights the stress and helps with resistance to the diseases.

Continuous total massage of deep conjunctive fabric

• the massage is total, the whole of meetings touches all the body of the patient,
• the massage is continuous, a meeting per day during at several weeks,
• the zones concerned are the fabrics " entre" the elements Squeletto-muscular S and between the latter and the Internal organ S.

Naturist massage

The naturist massage is a new practice in France. The massage is inspired by the Californian one. The characteristic of this massage, is that it is practiced in the spirit of naturism: the masseur is him also naked. But especially the research of the good being and the union with nature are required in movements soft and releasing.

Erotic or sensual massage

Massage X-ray

In Belgium

Disturbed digestion, chronic Pains, energy Blockings, Stress, tiredness, depress, circulatory Problèmes, lymphatic,…

In France

The term is defined at the legislative level to protect French in of October 8th, 1996 (social, NOR affair and Ministry of Labor: TASP9623057D):

“One understands by massage any external operation, carried out on fabrics, with a therapeutic aim or not, in a manual way or via apparatuses other than the apparatuses of electrotherapy, with or without the assistance of products, which comprise a mobilization or a methodical stimulation, mechanical or reflex of these fabrics. ”

Let us underline contradiction between the beginning of the article (where one differentiates the massage from wellbeing and the therapeutic massage) and the legal text which gathers these 2 practices under the same definition. In France, since 1946, only the graduate kinesitherapists have the authorization to mass. So they are the only ones with being able to insure itself against the possible negative consequences of their gesture. A " accident" could thus be compensated ONLY if the gesture at summer practiced by a qualified and ensured person. It is a decision of public health aiming at protecting the people wishing to benefit from the benefits of the massage.

In Canada

According to the Order of Massothérapeutes of Ontario: The practice of the massage supposes an integral therapeutic relation by which the therapeutist helps his patient to restore, preserve and improve his wellbeing. " The exercise of the massothérapie consists in the evaluation of soft fabrics and the articulations of the body, and in the treatment and the prevention of the physical dysfonctions and the pains of soft fabrics and the artilations by means of handling to develop, maintain, restore or increase the physical function, or to relieve the douleur".