Tai Chi Massage for the Left Leg

Video Transcript

"Hi, am I am Sufi Bradshaw with Expert Village. I am going to my client's other part of the leg it's extremely important to balance the body out, like in Yin and Yang and Tai Chi everything is about balance, so once one leg is done is very important to do the other part of the leg. What I am going to do is basically what you saw in the last segment is introduce myself to this part of the body, apply some oil in a very circulatory way, get the blood moving. This is called an enfleurage, which is basically to wake the cells up, back and forth, take your time. It is also good to move with your legs as you push with your hands make sure that your legs are following the movement. That way you don't burn yourself out because it's really easy if you've got a bunch of clients, during the day or week or what have you, to burn your muscles out in your own body; and I find it if you use your legs more then you are taking a lot of the stress off of your arms. We are going to move down to the gastronomies, which is the calf muscle here, and I am also going to apply stripping which is what we did on the other leg. I am going to go up around, create a trochanter and I am going to bring it back out the foot. It's very important to complete the entire leg, never stop in the middle; let's start out and pull the energy here. Let's strip the middle of this muscle, grab the calf, pull it all the way. Strip the lateral part, grab the calf, pull it all the way. A lot of it it's repetition, a lot of it is following your instincts. If it feels good in your body, nine chances out of ten it will feel good on a client's body. So right now I am just doing the basic circulatory massage. I am now going to move up to the thigh, apply the same stripping that I applied at the lower leg and pull it out; middle, out. Now I am moving into an effleurage, which is just a little bit deeper but not too much depending on what the client likes. It is very important to check with them, "it's that a good pressure Debby?", "it's great", good pressure so it's very important because we are not feeling what they are feeling so we have to ask, as much communication as possible. I am not going to move into something that I call ringing, which is grabbing each part of the leg or whatever body part you are working on; and basically having the hands cross each other in this fashion so that way, it wakes up the blood; and then again, everything is out the foot or on the top, never stop in the middle. I am going to apply ringing here in the calf muscle, which is the gastronomies muscle, same deal, out the foot. Now I am going to cover this part up and move on to another part of the body."