How to Warm Up for a Tai Chi Massage

Series Summary

After a long day's work, sometimes the best thing to do is go home and bust out the massage oils. Massages are an alternative form of medication that can help relieve tension in your muscles and assuage stress in your body. With many different techniques, massage therapy offers a broad spectrum of treatment to its clients. Tai Chi massage is one of those techniques.

In this free video series, watch as massage therapist Sufi Bradshaw teaches how to give a Tai Chi massage. Learn how to warm up for a massage, how to make the client feel comfortable, how to massage the legs, back , and arms, and how to finish a Tai Chi massage. Start helping your friends relieve stress with the help of this great video series from the experts at Expert Village.

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Sufi Bradshaw, originally from Chicago, Illinois and I am a massage therapist. I went to ISPB School of training the institute of psycho balance and structure where I learned a Tai Chi approach to massage. I am also, a performer entertainer, I also do spoken word as well as mentor kids in Tai Chi. Briefly I am going to show you on what the body takes to warm up in order to give your client and end massage and the best experience as they can get. Now, I am going to show you as a massage therapist how to warm up your body before you work with a client. It's really simple, just the basic couple moves to connect your breath to your body so that you are centered before you then massage someone else. I'll start out with a Tai chi approach which is called the "Wheel Barrel" and it goes like this (demonstrates)this is basically a series of breathes usually in through the nose like so and out through the mouth like so. It's good to slow it down so that you catch the breath like so, it's also not important exactly what kind of moves you do, but that you do "moves" and on each inhale and exhale you are allowing your breath to carry your movement. "