Aromatherapy & Essential Oils: Adjuvant Massage
Before working on a body area, coat it with oil. Slide your hands regularly on the contours of the body. It also nourishes the skin. At first, people tend to overestimate the amount of oil needed. Just really a light film to coat the skin of your partner if you oil too, you can not make good contact with it. A single application of oil should be at most parts of the body. But for large surfaces, or areas covered with hair, you may need to apply an oil supplement. Because most oil is quickly absorbed through the skin, it is best separately coating each region of the body as and when your work by penetrating oil into the skin by pressure slipped.
Oil and Containers
No need to buy massage oils trade. You can also use vegetable oils like sunflower oil, safflower oil or coconut oil. The almond oil is nice, but expensive. Olive oil is somewhat viscous. You can also take mineral oil, although they are less readily absorbed through the skin.
If you take a regular oil, you can flavor it with a few drops of perfume or lemon juice. In aromatherapy, it must penetrate into the skin of essential oils containing the essences of plants to specific therapeutic fine. The sandalwood, jasmine.
The orange blossom and tangerine have a calming effect and “tonic” on the nervous system, the sage is good for muscle problems. Keep your oil in a bottle with a cork stopper or a plastic spout. The latter is more convenient and oil is less likely to topple during a meeting. Or even a bowl or saucer will do, but be careful not to offend.
Preparations
This is the earliest moments of a massage as you create the climate of the entire session, so is it worth being prepared. If possible, heat your oil in advance, putting the bottle in hot water or to a radiator. Try to keep the oil in a safe place where you will not worry about the reverse.
Before applying, make sure you concentrate, then briefly lay your hands on the body of your partner for a first light touch. Then pour about half a teaspoon of oil in your palm. away from your partner to avoid inadvertently receive some drops.
Initiate and break contact
The softness with which you boot and break contact with your partner is of paramount importance. After your oiled hands, lower them slowly on the part of the body massage you as if they were suspended from parachutes. Just as you can feel the heat, or energy, which surrounds the body before coming into contact with his skin, so your partner can feel the presence of your hands over his body.
Make sure you have: ns are relaxed by contacting the body, and they come off gently when you make the switch to oil or other body part.
Some massage schools advised to always keep one hand in contact with the receiver at work, but if you detach your hand gently this is not necessary.
In the ground work, it is better to break contact by moving from one body part to another, because it is difficult to change positions smoothly.
