How to Massage Your Neck and Shoulder Properly

Everyone loves to have a massage, after all it will aid in releasing the tension stored into your mind and the stress that had been disturbing your body. Indeed, just a 10-minute or 30-minute massage session can help you get fit to cope up with the stressful week ahead. No wonder there have been a lot of massage parlors offering different massage experience that could suit everyone’s needs. However, there are some people who want to focus more on certain areas of the body in order to get that relaxing feeling anyone wants to have. Learning how to massage can be a good thing for everyone.

The two most famous parts of the body that needs massage are the shoulder and neck. It will definitely help you especially when you had been working all day long with a lot of stressors as well. It will help you relieve from stress and pain and gives you full charge of energy that you want to have in order to sustain throughout the tiring day. You might be thinking on how to massage your shoulder and neck properly without causing further pain. Below are the ways on how will you do the massage for your neck and shoulder in order to relieve you from tension and stress:

• When you massage your partner’s shoulder and neck, they must be lying on their backs. You may take out the cover of the chest part by folding downwards the blanket or towel.
• You can now put on oil into the shoulders, neck and chest.
• You may now begin the effleurage method by putting your two hands into the upper part of the chest, with the fingers facing each other. Then, you may now pull slowly your hands around the shoulders as well as under them, then make sure to bring on your hands to be able to meet on the skull’s back. You may repeat this of about four to five times.
• You may not knuckle gently the shoulders and chest. Make sure to make your hands turned into fists that are on a relaxed mode, move that knuckles into a circular motion.
• You may now turn the head of your partner gently into one side, start stroking the top part of the shoulder as well as the sides of the neck using your first three fingers. You can repeat this thrice. It is indeed good enough if you really know how to massage properly.
• You can repeat the above mentioned method but with a fingers in a circle form. You can also repeat this three times.
• You may now move your partner’s head on the other side and repeat those movements. When you are done, you can now put the head back into the center.
• Slide your hands into a downward motion into the back of your partner. Put a bit pressure into each groove you will have down to the spine.
• Stretch out the neck part, make sure that when your partner is relaxed, you can take all the head’s weight but if they are tense, you can do it more slowly and easily as it will cause harm if you will have it in a harsh way.

With these simple steps, you will now have the better idea in making sure you are well-equipped with the basics of how to massage both shoulder and neck.