Therapeutic Massage at Ke Kino, Bodywork Demonstration
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Master Massage Therapists and Massage Therapy Instructor, Marni Matyus demonstrates a typical Therapeutic Massage session. This is one type of bodywork that you might experience in our clinic.

Bodywork can take many forms, some clients stay fully clothed, others disrobe completely as is typical for Swedish Massage.

1:20 Many clients have never had an abdominal massage. At Ke Kino, we believe that working in the abdomen is vitally important.

2:20 Creating space for the liver to move more freely.

3:17 - With Bodywork, I am not following any routine, I’m listening to the body and asking his body’s inner wisdom “where do I need to work next”.?

4:30 Unwinding the arm and feeling into releases throughout the body; moving the forearm and the wrist to invite a more efficient muscle release.

6:30 - I am using a variety of techniques, pulling in everything that I am, combining every technique that I have learned from others or developed myself into a seamless treatment. Swedish massage is integrated every time you see an effleurage (gliding) stroke.

7:59 working under the body while the client is face up (prone): In some bodywork sessions, I may work only supine (face up)

8:17 I’m noticing vertebral subluxation, or places where the vertebrae are out of alignment or otherwise not moving optimally. I’m feeling the dense muscle tissue in those segments and using the arms as a lever to encourage the softening of the muscles and the realignment of the vertebrae so that they can move more naturally.

8:45 As a Licensed Massage Therapist in the State of Texas, or anywhere in the United States, Our scope of practice does not allow High Velocity adjustments like a chiropractor would perform (“bone cracking”) I find that I don’t need to use those techniques. I just have to be a little more patient, and a little more creative.

10:40 As I internally rotate the femur at the hip joint, I am feeling a stretching (and eventual release) of fascia all the way around the hip and into the lumbar spine. With external rotation, I am giving a gentle stretch to the muscles around the knee and all the way down into the foot, It is also affecting muscles in the pelvic floor - encouraging lengthening, softening, and better energy flow throughout the entire upper body.

11:35 Effleurage (Swedish Massage) strokes up the outside of the thigh and up around the greater trochanter and into the hip.

[ students in our clinic would not normally work under the sheet or up so high on the hip, but as an experienced therapist, I am comfortable working in the most effective and efficient manner - always making sure that my client is comfortable, warm, and covered appropriately

11:38 - notice the draping - the important bits will always be covered. The more extreme “diaper” draping is not my preference, but it is an important skill to have. Our students are taught the most modest, and also the most complex draping techniques, so that they are very comfortable with that style when needed.

12:34 - Working under the body:

14:08 - As we continue to unwind the neck, I am consciously remaining under the pain threshold. I am moving the body to the place where I just start to feel a restriction in the body. I will follow that line of tight fascia throughout the entire body. It moves, curves, spirals around the body. I find it really fun to watch the whole body unwind while I am working on the neck.

15:30 - Evaluating the cranial motion
19:30 - notice the glute work and draping here. This is more like the kind of glute massage that you might experience in a spa environment. Unlike our students who work the gluteus muscles through the sheet (primarily for modesty), I am looking for the most effective and most comfortable technique for my client. I find that that slow gliding stroke around the greater trochanter (outside of the hip - massaging the glutes on the skin - ) feels really soothing and pain free.

20:30 - Personally, I prefer to receive glute work on the skin. In our student clinic, our students work through the sheet, which is intentional to keep everyone safe and comfortable as our students are practicing and learning.

22:16 Myofascial release around the ribcage..

23:20 - using a massage cup
24:20 - treating a specific vertebral segment with a suction cup.

30:30 its very often that I will coach clients on how to feel. We as a society have become very good at not feeling, as a mode of survival. A lot of my work is helping people to feel their emotions again. And it’s scary, and it’s hard.. And … at the end of that is freedom. Freedom

Freedom from the limiting beliefs
Freedom from trigger responses
Freedom from the physical pain

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Therapeutic Massage at Ke Kino, Bodywork Demonstration