How to Start a Head Massage

Series Summary

Massage is the treatment and practice of manipulation of the soft body tissues with physical, functional, mechanical, and medical purposes and goals. Massage involves manipulating the patient's body with pressure, tension, motion, or vibration done with the hands or mechanical aids. Targeted tissues include muscles, tendons, ligaments, skin, joints, as well as lymphatic vessels and internal organs. Massage can be applied with the hands, fingers, elbows, forearm, and feet.

Whether your friends or clients are stressed out, have a headache, tight neck muscles, or are just in the mood to be relaxed, a head massage may be just what they're looking for. In this free video series, our expert will show you how to give a head massage, so you can provide this service to others! You'll learn how to give a head massage from top to bottom, from the nose to the jaw, and from the neck to the crown. You'll also learn specific head massage techniques, such as the zig zag method, the hair pulling method, and the circular technique. Ease the most specific head stresses of your loved ones with head massage techniques, and soon they'll be singing your praises.

Video Transcript

"I'm going to be talking about massaging the head. The encompasses the face, the side, the front, the top, the back, everywhere. Even the chin and a little bit underneath the jaw. To say hello to the head, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to place my hands in the butterfly position and I'm going to say hello very gently. I'm going to be working on the face, so I'm going to be using my thumbs, the inside of my thumbs, very gently. I'm pressing on the forehead, going towards the temple. When I get to the temple, I give it a little rotation. I'm going to the middle forehead and I'm pressing down lightly. I'm not pressing in too hard. Going towards the temple and giving it a rotation. I'm going just above the eyebrows, pressing them very lightly and moving out towards the temples again."