Chair Massage Las Vegas Tips

By Lila Bryant

It is important to make sure that the body gets to fully relax every once in a while. Due to the pressure exerted on the bodily muscles on a day to day basis, scheduling a rub down at the local parlor may be a great idea. When looking to enjoy a chair massage Las Vegas individuals may want to make sure that they have with them either a pillow neck or a portable head rest in order for them to be more comfortable.

The recipient often gets to decide whether he wants to remain dressed or not. Either way, he must make sure that his hair is not in the way. This is more so for people who happen to have very long hair strands.

The body rub down can begin with the shoulders. For many working class people, the shoulders are usually filled up with lots of tension. This comes about due to hunching in front of a computer all day long. The masseuse should begin at the base of each neck and then knead and squeeze the shoulders gently.

Each side should be well taken care of. This will require that he works his way towards the arms and then backwards again. This motion must be repeated two or three times.

Necks are another important part of the human body. For the neck, a masseuse will need to use his thumbs. The thumbs should be moved in a circular motion along the spine sides. Where a recipient requests for it, more pressure can be added to make the rub down more fulfilling.

At times, the recipient may benefit from the application of additional pressure during kneading. Any pressure being applied must however be well regulated. Areas such as the neck and the spine are very sensitive. Too much pressure may see the body part experience some injuries that may take a long time to heal.

Percussion is a technique that should be applied when dealing with the back. The back is made up of a large area of muscles. When handling this area, begin from the recipients shoulders before proceeding to the back. You can regularly tap on the muscles at the back.

Every time a new technique is about to be applied, the masseuse should use very light amounts of pressure. It is always important to make sure that you begin slowly. By so doing, you allow the recipient to adjust to the new techniques with ease. It also makes it easier to work all the muscles.

This type of rub down has various benefits to the body. Among the top benefits that a person gets to enjoy is reduced anxiety. Any emotional stress that was being experienced is also slowly taken away. While taking away the emotional stress, it also helps deal with any physical pressure that may be experienced.

Scheduling this type of massage will also help you improve on your sleeping patterns. This is because the rub down will help the body come up with better postures. This is mainly because of the fact that it helps increase flexibility in all the body parts.

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Friday Q A Back Stretches and Inversions for Chair Yoga

This week, we have a follow-up question to our Friday Q&A on chair yoga (see Friday Q&A: Chair Yoga) from one of our readers who actually teaches a chair yoga class

Q: I teach a chair yoga class which cannot go to the floor for healthy aging. How can I do a safe inversion or back stretch that does not stress the osteopenic back?

A: If you teach chair yoga, many students are older or infirm and not able to transfer from standing or sitting in a chair to the floor, where you might have them do any number of reclining poses that could stretch the back or approach an inversion, like Legs Up the Wall pose (Viparita Karani). 

If by “back stretch” you mean a forward bending action of the spine, like in Standing Forward Bend (Uttanasana), in light of possible osteopenic or osteoporotic spine, you need to be careful with most forward folding positions (see What is Ostepenia and How Can Yoga Help?).  It is not hard to do a seated version, however, if that is what you are looking for. One of my favorites that is fairly shallow and would not create too much force on the vertebrae of the spine would involve placing a second chair in front of the first, facing it away from you. Then ask your students to tip as much as possible from the hips and place their crossed forearms on the top seat back of the chair in front of them. This is similar to seated forward fold we showed for our Office Yoga series (see Featured Pose: Chair Forward Bend).

If, however, by “back stretch” you are referring to a back-bending action, then there is a bit less concern of hurting the spines of students with OP.  In seated Cat/Cow pose, the Cow variation is a nice, easy backbend shape that most could do in the chair. (See Featured Pose: Chair Cat Pose.)

Or, have the students stand behind the chair, use the top back rung for their hands for balance purposes and do a gentle standing backbend from Mountain pose (Tadasana).

As for inversions, this may be a bit tougher. You could have them put their chairs against the wall, and if they still have good hip mobility of rolling the pelvis over the femur bones, you could do a Downward-Facing Dog version with the hands on the seat of the chair, walking the hips and feet back into this higher version of regular Downward-Facing Dog, but with a slight downward slant from hips to hands. Make sure they bend their knees as they walk forward towards the chair at the end of the pose, and rise up slowly monitoring for any lightheadedness or dizziness. (See Featured Pose: Downward-Facing Dog (Chair Version)).

And you could show the class how to do Legs Up the Wall pose on the ground, demonstrating it for them, and suggesting they try this at home in their beds, swinging the legs up the headboard side of the bed if the bed is up against a wall. I’d have them only stay for 2 minutes or so at first, as you will not be there to monitor them. Of course give them all the usual precautions regarding inversions and high blood pressure and glaucoma, as the older your crowd, these conditions are more common. I hope these suggestions give you things to consider. And armed with the information from our posts on OP, you can be creative in your approach to working with your chair yoga classes.

—Baxter

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