Scalp Technique of The Swedish Massage

Video Transcript

" Welcome back! I’m Tunisia Woods here on behalf of Hello Beautiful Mobile Massage Therapy Group, for Expert Village. Now, I want to show you how to actually perform some massage techniques on your client. I’m going to start with the scalp. Now, with the scalp and face you do not want to use oil, just because skin and hair naturally have oil, so there’s not really a need to put more oil onto the client. We want to first start by just touching the client and having them take a deep breath. As I said before, try to take a deep breath with your client so you all can be in tune. You just want to start by massaging the head. You wouldn’t believe it but this really is very beneficial just to get all those stress and strains of life away. My clients really love it. The second is the face massage. Now, with the face massage it’s different parts. When you start with the forehead, you want to use your thumbs and kind of just come across the forehead. Now you can tell your client to take another deep breath, but that’s up to you and your client. Then you just want to roll your fingertips across the temples just to get that added stress relief. You know sometimes we have tension headaches or just headaches, sinus headaches. This helps with a lot of that. Then you want to take your thumbs. Be careful because we’re going to go along the eye socket and kind of press down. This also will clear sinuses sometimes. Press down. Then we want to come to the top of the eye, and right where the nose it, like right here. We want to just come up and hold it, and then we want to repeat the same actions that we did on the lower eye socket. Then we want to some to the nose and we just want to do a slow stroke with our thumbs, down the cheekbones, along the jaw line and do a couple massages over here. This opens up the hip too. This is good for women who are trying to have a baby. Then you just want to come and pull down across the chin, and then you can just hold your client by the ears and have them take another deep breath. "