Massage - Russian style

Massage

The purpose of massage is to relax the body and mind. This can be with more physical vigorous massage or by lightly tapping points on the body. I will go into greater detail in a later post, but for now hear are some interesting ideas -

-Put a tennis ball underneath your back, while laying on the floor and roll it around your back or move it to a point where there is pain and tension and breath and relax become aware of that point and learn to relax it.

- You can also do this with you leaning against a wall and the tennis ball being held up by your back.

- You lay a Stick on floor, you then lay down on top of stick any way to target tension in specific muscle groups, when the stick is on a painful area stay in that position and breath and try to relax that point.

- Ways to have stick: underneath spine, lower back, lay on stick sideways to target side shoulder muscle and tricep muscle. Stick under chest or abdominals, put stick underneath front thigh muscle or side thigh muscle and slowly work from the top of the muscle to the bottom.

After tension is mostly dissipated you can also lay on the stick so that the stick is under a flat plane of muscle and then move your body up or down so that the stick rolls from top to bottom or vice versa.

- Rolling on stick , across stick any way, long sideways roll , front, back, sideways

- Falling onto a stick anyway

- These two drills can also be done with multiple sticks

This type of massage can be very painful, it is important to push yourself. If you feel the pain is too much just concentrate on breathing and trying to relax the tense area.

have fun
Tom