The Ultimate 1 hour Massage Compilation (feat: Nicole, Tessa & Abby) Upper Body & Lower Body

Welcome to Manifesting Wellness with Nicole. Thank you so much for being here today, for taking time out of your day to create a space for yourself, to find some peace, some guidance, and to show yourself a little self-love. We're going to continue our conversation about stress. Stress less. For this video, I will be performing a chest, neck, and shoulder massage on Danny. Go ahead and find just a quiet, comfortable space where you can sit back and relax and enjoy this video. As you get more comfortable, begin to allow yourself to relax and just enjoy the massage and peace and relaxation. It's so easy to fall into feelings of stress. So it's important that you just take this time for yourself. Just sit back and enjoy this massage. It's so easy to get caught up in feelings of stress. So it's important to take time just to let go. And we hope that these videos can help you do that. And we have so much more content just like this massage video. If you'd like to see more, we would love to have you check out our Patreon page. Over 200 videos that are just massage. So if this helps you relax, I encourage you to head over there after this video and we will be sharing a little sneak peek of what kind of content you can see over there. But for the meantime, just continue to get comfortable. Find your breath. And in previous videos, we've talked about ways that you can relieve feelings of stress. We've talked about how to recognize where your stress is coming from. And we've learned that stress is just an emotion. It's a feeling within your body as a response to a thought and to the meaning behind that thought. To the meaning that we give to any given situation. Our bodies are full of energy and emotions are energy in motion. So when you maintain your energy and the vibrations of your energy, you can maintain your emotions. When you're having feelings of joy, excitement, peace, love, these are high vibrational feelings. And these are all associated with the vibration of love. When you feel anxiety, stress, overwhelm, these are low vibrational feelings associated with the vibration of fear. So when you're feeling an emotion, take a moment to acknowledge it and determine if this emotion is in a high vibrational state or a low vibrational state. And our goal is to shift into a high vibe state so we can attract more things to feel good about. So when you are feeling stressed and feeling low vibe, many times that will manifest and attract more things to feel stressed about. And we've discussed ways that you can change the meaning that you are giving to a situation that is causing you stress. And this will help you to feel more calm and more in control of your emotions and more high vibe. So we've learned that stress is an emotion based on a thought and a meaning that we are giving to a situation. And we've learned that we can begin to shift how we are feeling about the situation by removing the emotional significance from it. So changing the meaning that you are giving something can help shift your vibrations and help you shift into a place of love. But when it comes to the situation or maybe a deadline, whatever it is that has you feeling these feelings of stress, most likely something needs to be done to take care of it. We can analyze and decide that it's not even worth worrying about and let it go. But sometimes we need to take action and take responsibility for whatever is going on that needs to be taken care of. So we've previously learned how to analyze your situation and making a list of the things you are potentially stressed about, determining whether these things are actually worth stressing about. And if you find that they are, determining whether or not you can do something about it. If you can't, if it's out of your control, then we let it go and release it. But if you can do something about it, then we take it a step further and look at what emotional significance you're giving this situation or this event. How you can remove that emotional significance or even shift it into something with a positive meaning. Something that better serves you, maybe even something that excites you. We've also looked at the situation and figured out why this thing is happening. Maybe it's a message from the universe, maybe whatever it is, is in need of some maintenance. Or maybe it's time for an upgrade. And now that we've made it through these steps, let's take a look at that thing that is stressing you out and figure out what action can you take to resolve it. What do you need to do to take care of the situation? Let's just take a moment to check in with our breathing, check in with how you're feeling. Make sure you're still comfortable, make sure you're feeling calm and relaxed. Something I encourage you to do after you're done watching this video is to take a look at your situation and make a list. Make a list of what needs to be done to take care of whatever it is that you're dealing with. Maybe it's an unexpected bill, maybe it's an uncomfortable situation with a friend, maybe it's a repair that your car needs. What needs to be done to take care of it? And I want you to highlight the things that you yourself can do. What actions can you take and what actions can you take today, right now? If you are anything like me, you may tend to procrastinate and we all know that usually doesn't help the situation. So I encourage you to look at what you can do and take action right away. Now there may be some things that you can't do on your own or they feel like it's just too much or it's too much of a challenge. You're not sure how to go about getting this thing done. I'd like you to remember that you are supported, there are people who care about you and there are people who provide services to help you. So what can you ask for help with or what can you outsource? What can you pay someone else to do for you to make sure that this thing gets handled, that it gets taken care of? So you no longer have to let it weigh on your mind because it feels good when we get things accomplished. Breathe a sigh of relief that it's done. Take a deep breath in and release. Now if you really want to take it to the next level and begin to take charge of your emotions, your emotional states and how you shift into a higher vibration on a regular basis. Take this thing that was once stressing you out and think of ways that you can make this an exciting goal or if you like to be challenged and make a game out of it. Make it an exciting challenge. Start to visualize what it will feel like once this thing is accomplished. Get excited about the process of getting it done. Then start to align with the version of yourself who is living that stress-free life and who gets things taken care of without being paralyzed by their emotions. And you can do this simply by visualizing what it would feel like. Really tap into those emotions of how you want to feel. Get excited. Get inspired. Take that inspired and aligned action toward your goals. Thank you so much for watching. I hope you feel so inspired and excited to go out there, take some action and take back your life. Have an awesome day. Hello, welcome. Today I'm going to be working on the lovely Michelle and we're going to be doing a glute and full back massage. And let's go ahead and get started. So when I am working on someone that has a lot of tension in an area of their back, I really like to start with glutes. And I'm going to go ahead and do some compressive work in here. So I really like to start with glute medius and I'm going to go ahead and just go right on in with my elbow. So I worked on Michelle many times and I know she's someone who's pretty comfortable with deep tissue. So I'm going to go ahead and just kind of start working my way into that muscle. I would never go in with my elbow too if I'm not familiar with my client and their body because you don't really have like any sensitivity in your elbow. Not the same way that you do, you know, with a soft fist or your finger pads. So just intuitively, it's a lot harder to work with your elbow if you don't know what's going on. So I'm going to go ahead and do a little bit of shaking. This is really good for the hips, the hip joints as well. And it's a really nice distraction technique. I'm going to be doing deeper work and I definitely am today. I think that the worst deep tissue massages I've had though are when the therapist doesn't do any soft tissue work and they just go in like way too hard too fast. So there's a finesse that like you need to use if you're going to do deeper work effectively and in a way that's truly healing. You can definitely cause more damage with deep tissue if you don't do it correctly. If you're new to massage and you're not totally comfortable with glute work yet, I'd say just keep it really simple. And I think like mastering the glute medius and like getting really familiar with that muscle is a great place to start. I just, I find that the glute max and the piriformis is a little bit trickier to work on personally. I feel like the medius is just a little more straightforward. Not to mention it's so connected to what's going on in the hips and the low back especially. I'm at a point now where I can start going a little bit deeper if Michelle is wanting that. Just a little bit deeper. And you know there's little things too like if it can start to feel like overwhelming as a therapist if you're new to massage. So if you're like someone that just needs to focus on being still when you're doing that compressive work to do it well, I'd say do that. You don't have to do anything extra like that rocking. Sometimes this feels easier physically for me than just a static hold as well. With this compressive work I'm working in towards the spine. And just in general when you're doing deep tissue you want to be working into the muscle. I'm just taking my time here with this glute medius. And I really like to begin if somebody wants glute mixed in with back work I really like to start with the glutes. Because it kind of like just hopefully encourages the back muscles to let go a little bit and be easier to work on. And I'm just going to go in with some nice compressions. Just kind of warming everything up a little bit. Not doing anything too fancy or not doing anything that I have to concentrate on too intensely yet. I'm just always starting broadly and then kind of working more locally. And it's nice just kind of weaving in little moves throughout the massage where it doesn't feel choppy. That's one thing that I really struggled with when I was starting my practice was I just felt kind of like my flow would get disrupted with certain moves. Little things you can do and weave it all together a little more. So I'm going to not lose contact with Michelle. I'm just going to kind of walk my way over and we do this glute work. This left side. Just remember that like you haven't worked on this side yet. So don't go in with the same amount of pressure that you ended with on the other side. It can be kind of hard to gauge that sometimes but starting fresh on this left side. And just little things. So if it's actually a lot easier if you can like rest your hand in your forearm on your client's back a little bit. This is going to be a lot harder. If I'm trying to just keep my arm lifted. And personally, I just I really like to incorporate the rocking for the joints and just for different reasons. You do need to be really careful. Sometimes this around the sacrum can have some really bony spots if you're working on a smaller female. So when you're doing this compressor work, you just need to be sure that you're not pressing on bone. That doesn't feel very good. And again, I'm working in towards the spine. I'm not just pressing down. We're pressing in. If I only have time to work on one glute muscle, it's going to be the glute medius. Some compressions in this pectoral area. And really just not not doing anything fancy here. Just warming up the soft tissue a little bit. And this is also a way to kind of give Michelle an idea of what we're going to be doing. So there's not a whole lot of surprises. And just a nice little little stretch for the low back, especially. I don't have one client who doesn't like this stretch. It really feels really, really good. And I'm going to grab my oil. I'm working with a moderate amount of oil today. I want like a nice glide. Sometimes I'll want to do drier work depending on what I'm going to be doing. So applying the oil is definitely part of the massage. I'm not just trying to separate the two because it just feels better. Nice and slow to start. Just getting the heel on my hands. And whenever you're doing glute and back work, it's really nice if you can end that stroke down by the hips. But you need to make sure that your client's comfortable with it. Especially if you're working on someone that's draped, you don't typically want your hands to go underneath the sheet. But when you use short strokes, it can be a lot less satisfying. When you can tie different areas of the body together in one stroke, it just can feel very healing. I like to just wrap my way around the iliac crest a little bit and then move into those hips a little bit in that stroke. And my favorite way to work the erector muscles from this angle in front of the table is with soft fists. It's just a really natural way to get in there. I'll even get into that glute medius a little bit if I can. And before I forget, I want to thank a few of our patrons. I'd like to thank Love & Live, WH, and Gwen S. Thank you guys so much for your support. So at this point, I kind of need to ask myself how much time I have. So your routine is going to vary depending on how you're budgeting your time and what your focus is. So whenever I work on the glute medius, I like to work on this thicker connective tissue around the iliac crest. It's just super healing and it's like a match made in heaven. You can work both of those areas at the same time in the same session. If I wanted to spend more time, I might go in with my elbow and my forearm, but I'm keeping it pretty simple today. I'm going to go ahead and on my stroke up, I'm going to focus on the lats a little bit more. Just making every stroke count. And with a little bit of deep tissue here. So I'm going to go ahead and just walk my way around. Focusing on the erector muscles. This is my favorite way to do work in the mid back. Because I feel so stable. And whenever I'm working so close to the spine, like you have to feel confident, you have to feel stable. And if you feel more comfortable, kind of a nice way if you're just learning massage. If you want to just protect the spine a little bit more. Then you can actually just use one hand as a safeguard. Which takes the, you don't have to think about it. You just focus on working on that muscle. Those three muscles. And the only not great thing about this technique is sometimes if you're working on someone that's really ticklish. I find that if you use a more broad tool, your whole forearm is less ticklish than just your elbow. And even 30 seconds of trigger point work around the scapula can go a long way. Can feel really healing. Always when I'm doing deep tissue work too. When I finish one side, I really need to take a breath and a drink of water. Because it does take a good bit of energy. So just make sure that you're not rushing to the other side. And I'm going to go ahead and walk my way over. And same thing. Focusing on those erector muscles. Working my way into that trap where they get closer to the shoulders. I am not taking as much time on this left side. Just fitting in some of that trigger point work on this left upper trap before I finish. And just a nice broad stroke to finish. Something that feels really nice. And I will say, just when you're getting that glute hip back work done. It's so much more satisfying if you can bring that stroke into above the iliac crest. Just feels more satisfying. And that is all for today. Hey everybody, welcome back to Psyche Truth. My name is Abbey and I'm going to be giving you a massage video today. We'll work the full back, get into the pecs and into the shoulders as well. So let's go ahead and get started. So I'm going to start with a little bit of jostling. Just to see where the tension really lies in her spine. Some areas don't really like to jostle that much. The spine doesn't have a lot of give. While other areas have more movement. You can see the spine really does move. This is all just information. It shows me where she can really handle the pressure. And where I need to be more conscious around my preterite. That might be a little bit more strategic on how we affect this lower back. When it comes to full back massages, I really do like long strokes. Calm the nervous system, get everybody ready. At the time, I'm just picking up information. My first time working on fair, I'm yet to know her body. There's a lot of tension in this back area. So I'm going to take my time here. I'm working the rhomboids a little bit. Sometimes it's hard to realize where we're holding. When we're tight, the brain has a powerful tool. Where it's able to kind of shut out chronic pains. That it doesn't have to listen to. So it can create numbness, it can create loss of feeling. Or just out of sight, out of mind. But in a massage, there's so much information I'm feeding to my client's brain. Every time you touch someone, messages are sent to the brain. Messages come back and help the body react to whatever just occurred. So I'm letting her learn by touching all these areas that may have been on a back burner. Not acknowledged, is it? And I do have a shout out for our patrons today. Tendon, smackalackattack, and Dan Kelly. Thanks so much for your support, you guys. What's interesting here, the whole spine really is one system. And everything that changes one area of the spine or one vertebrae of the spine. Will automatically affect all of the others. It's somewhat impossible not to affect the entire bone and system structure that the spine really is. Because it's so interwoven and connected. It's like a puzzle piece. It's like a really big puzzle. And the vertebrae are the puzzle pieces. And the muscles are the people putting those puzzle pieces into place. So it's a complex structure. When you can't get one puzzle piece into place, the image is not smooth. It's not complete. So when you're working with tension and mobility in the body, it's really a balancing act. We're trying to find out why parts of her spine are more tense and parts of her spine are more loose. Usually, we have to compensate. So the loose, more hyper-mobile parts of her body are coping and becoming more flexible. Hyper-mobilizing to accommodate the hyper-tension and tightness taking place somewhere else. So for fair, we have a lot of tensions. Very tight act in the upper spine. You can even see it's quite flat. But when this part of the spine flattens, it will reflect in the rest of the spine. Because the rest of the spine will have to hyper-curve in order to compensate. Like center never changes, your ability to balance on center and to organize spatially and equally around center, that's what we have to work with. So now as we've worked a little bit of this, there's more integrity here in the lower back. As soon as it doesn't feel as loose and as wiggly, that's when pressure can really come in. Until then, I would advise against the pressure. It can create more lower back pain than help it. People really stereotype flexibility and feel like it's health. However, hyper-mobility, which is a very extreme form of flexibility, is actually quite painful. And it causes compression on joints and nerves. So when you feel lots of flexibility and mobility in joints, take your time. Start looking around and seeing if you can find something that's really tight. That hyper-flexibility and mobility might just be compensating for something that won't move and it really needs to learn how. See, in this position, you can see that even the scalenes and the sternocleidomastoid have everything to do with that flatness in her spine. There's a lot of tension here and shortness. And because the head is pulled forward and stuck on the scalenes and jutting forward, this has to flatten out so it can be more stable. So she doesn't get too much pain in the back of her neck. It's a protection mechanism. I'm simultaneously working the cervical spine while I'm palpating and curiously looking around her lower back. There's not a lot of pressure here, but just enough for me to start understanding landmarks, gauging how the tissue is responding to the work. Can I affect the way the lumbar tissue and feel by affecting the density of her cervical spine? Sometimes it's yes and sometimes it's no. But ultimately, I feel a lot. Locking and locking. So a lot of the times when we have flattened spines in the mid-back or the upper back, this is also caused by shortness in. A lot of the times when we have flatness in the upper back, we are actually dealing with really tight pecs. So the front part of this scenario is working in a way that is pulling this out of its natural curve. Now all of this is for your benefit. Your body wouldn't put you in a structure if it didn't think it was best for you. But we happen to need to negotiate those terms and start to understand what is it in the pecs that are holding on. What is it in the pecs that are holding her? This is a very easy position to be in. So if you need to slow down, get used to it. You'd like to think that it's a fluid movement and there's no breaks in between. And once the session starts, your hands never leave the body. But that's an older paradigm for massage therapy. In my practice, your nervous system is my lead, my guide. And at some point, the nervous system really needs to be shown what's going on. And there does need to be force, especially if there's been injury. But other times, the nervous system needs proprioception, holds. And it needs to be followed. Relationship between her lats and that collarbone. And it's okay with me, your connection. We do love this position to get into the front of the neck. Into these scalenes and sternocleidomastoid. Gravity is really our friend. I work too hard, but I get a lot of feedback. So here we have very tight sternocleidomastoid. And the attachment into the collarbone is really tugging from here and pulling this part of her spine. So I'm trying to let there be a little give. Maybe when she stands up, we can increase that curve of that mid or upper back in this thoracic spine. Natural curve is a massage where we can really fed some of that tension and integrity back down into the sacrum. Just a little traction on your experts. 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