Many years ago, in the Big Smoke, I decided to take a course that was offered by the local school board during the off hours in the evening. My roommates were taking courses too, so I signed up for one that I thought would help me meet people; read get a girl friend, (get laid). I signed up for Shiatsu massage.
I have always been a caring sort, I always want to help people and I always wanted people to feel better. As a kid driving to Ottawa, I used to give my mother neck massages while she drove, because she said she liked it. So I have wanted to give massages for a longtime. At university I gave massages to some people in residence, I wanted them to feel good and yes, I wanted to get laid. It never worked of course. I learned women were happy to use me and wanted me as a friend as long as that was all it was.
So I started my first step in what I hoped would be a possible vocation or something, mostly getting laid. It sounds incredibly single minded, and it is in a way, but I also wanted the women to be happy. I saw it as one more tool to keeping a girl friend . . .. Whip out a shiatsu massage when they are feeling down and give her one more reason to be with me. It was many years before shiatsu massage helped get me laid.
When I started it and learned about it and then when I practiced on my friends, I adopted a professional attitude. There is a lot of intimate touching in massage and I decided that I would be professional every time I did it, so much for getting laid.
The key to shiatsu massage is to be sensitive to the patient. Really that is the only thing that is important. You use you fingers and press into the muscle at a ninety degree angle to the muscle, no rubbing. Rubbing will cause bruises as you must use a lot of pressure when you put pressure on the patient. And the key is the muscles not the bones and the pressure is consistent to the needs of the person if it hurts them you ease up on the pressure and you increase the pressure in other areas. You start from the top and move down in lines parallel to the spine for the back and the first two lines are beside the spine, the next line next to it.
Shiatsu is done fully clothed, unless you are being intimate of course. After the back, you move to the butt, and then down to the back of the legs. The reason why it is purely professional with patients is the back goes down to the tip of the coccyx bone and I consider that an intimate location. Doing the leg, the thigh, the inseam is done, right up to the joining spot, I consider that an intimate location. Down the legs to the ankle, the feet top and bottom. Neck and shoulders, that includes that face and ears. Shoulders leads to arms and hands. Emphasis on the lower back and the back of the knees. Lower back is where a lot of people have stress and the back of the knees is also a stress point.
When you do the arms you move the shoulders about in a circle. And when you finish the back you brush the back with your hands in a sweep. When the arms are finished another sweep down the arms. When doing the head always be gentle after all it is the head.
Flip the patient over, i.e. tell them to turn over. The front of the legs is done and the stomach and abdomen. I don't do this with men because some men are "positioned" differently and massaging one friend's penis is enough for me!
The upper chest is not massaged. Feet and hands are often missed and depending on the person, I will spend a lot of time on depending on the person. People like area massaged a lot, particularly people on their feet a lot.
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