How to Give a Good Chair Massage

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Gretchen Rivas with Relax to the Max Massage Therapy and today we are going to talk about how to give a really good chair massage. Now I am thinking most people don't have massage chairs like I have at their office or at their home so we are going to do this at a regular chair or you might find most people just sitting at their computer or just sitting at their office wishing somebody would come by and rub their neck and shoulders. So just go ahead and drop your head a little bit right there. So when you are working on somebody like that you can work through clothes, you don't have to have any special oils or anything like that and just come through and kind of work a little bit on the back and when you are doing that you can use your loose fists right here and just press in to the muscles in the back area and rub through the neck like this a little bit and rub especially along the occipital area right here at the base of the skull. It feels really good and what I like to do is do a little lift where you just kind of use the forehead and the base of the skull and lift up and that kind of leaves a lot of tension in peoples' necks and helps them. You can do a little squeeze in the trap area and down the arms it feels good. Stretch them back a little bit and open up that pec area and rub this right here on people, that usually helps. Just kind of work that and squeeze it a little bit and rub some and they never want you to stop because that is how it feels, good and that is how you give a really good chair massage."