How to Do Hip Area Shiatsu Massage

Video Transcript

"Now I'm using my thumbs along the same area, along the spine. Thumbs can be a little bit more acute, a little more sensitive to whatever might be off in Sarah's ch'i. Right here I found a little pressure point. It almost...What is that? I can feel it. You can feel it. Right here, around the rhomboid area. What I'll do is I'll make little circular motions here. It almost feels like a little bit of a jelly, or something that's not quite smooth. So you want to rub it out. I use all my fingers for this. Make sure that your using your body properly in here. Breathe. Let it go. When you sense that she's letting it go a little bit, you can exert a little bit more pressure. It's almost a trust thing going on. It's okay, it's okay. You don't need it anymore, you don't need it. All the stuff, all these little knots and tensions in our bodies are kind of like things there to protect us. Emotional situations that we prefer to store in our body rather than express in the moment because society or whatever relationship we are dealing with at work or in life, it just felt like "I didn't want to react to that situation", you're bothered by standing in line too long or something silly. But because of that emotion that we didn't express, it's got to manifest itself somewhere, and unfortunately it's in our back or in our body somewhere. Breathe. Okay, I think that took care of it. I'll just go down and everything feels a lot better. When we come back, I'll work on the hips."