Upper Back Massage Sitting Chair Technique, How To Shoulders, Neck & Back | Psychetruth Athena ASMR

Life Wisdom. Psychetruth. Massage. This is Athena Jezik and we're going to do a demonstration of the neck and shoulders and a little bit into the arms today in a seated position for those of you who don't have a table. This area is an area of that takes so much of the stress so it's important to be able to work it. It's important to be able to help each other out with this too. So when you're sitting in this get a chair without too high of a back. One that's fairly comfortable and then these.. there's about three or so pillows on here. There's a couple of round pillows. You just want to stack it up so that they feel comfortable enough that when they're leaning forward they can relax and for the head position you want to make it so that the chin is resting into here and not so much on the neck because that will get uncomfortable. So just make sure that everything is comfortable that way so that they don't have to feel like they have to hold in any.. in any way. It is all to be relaxed. So I'm going to show you a little bit difference. There's uh... a lot of these we do over but there's so much that you can do and so many different ways to put it together it's nice to get a lot of ideas and i'm gonna add some oil to this on the back and come around this way and just cover the back. You can see her rocking a little bit that's fine because it shows that she's relaxing into it. Okay, I'm gonna start it this time up at the head. We're gonna work the neck. And just start running down So there's that same type of thing on the floor. What you're gonna find is there's just things that work for certain muscle groups and it's basically doing them over and over with you in a different position and the person working in a different position... You okay? So we're stretching this neck down.. Is that where it's most comfortable right there? So she's positioned herself a little bit differently on these pillows to make it comfortable and all that is fine. Sitting in a seated chair like this is not the most ideal but you can make it work and you can make it work well. And here I'm just brushing down this... thumb ironing down this trapezius muscle. Now one of the things you're gonna notice when they are sitting in a chair with their arms dropped down is it's like a pull coming through here because the gravity is taking things downward. So you're gonna feel a little bit different types of tension through here not all of it is necessarily tension from stress. Some of it could just be the positional tension of the little bit of a pull and from the arms... probably dealing with that. Now I wanna show you how to get into shoulders because this is really you know... our lifestyles we sit so much and we hunch over computers and drive and take a lot of stress out of the body that way. So here it's just a back-and-forth between the scapula and the spine. It were on the trapezius muscle, but underneath there is rhomboids and we're going more in the direction of rhomboids A little bit more cross fiber on the trapezius and then back over here just kind of running up. Okay now from this back position you can get down and running right up the trapezius into that shoulder blade. I'm gonna do both sides and then I'll do the shoulder blades and then I'm gonna show you a little bit more in the arms. Now here at the top, if you want you can pull it back. Now here's where you're gonna feel, in a seated position, much more tension. But it's not necessarily going to be muscular tension its tension from the position of the arms. You'll notice there will still be a sense of a lot of pliability. It's still gonna feel very pliable. The muscle is gonna feel very soft and easily moved. Even though there's that bit of tension on it, but the gravity and the position of the arms. So, notice that difference it'll be good to notice that stuff and that way you'll be able to define and figure out what's really going on. So if you feel muscle tension it doesn't always mean it's the muscle having tension. It's sometimes just the position and the pull. So always look for something where the muscle is more pliable and movable then you know that you have a muscle that's still relaxed. That might help some of you to begin to interpret what the body is saying. There's a lot of subtle differences in how these things feel and so it's important to get some distinction on what it is so you don't work into it unnecessarily or overwork it or omit it or whatever. Okay now the scapula, as we were saying, is... here's the end of the scapula here rides up here and is coming around this way. So if you want to lift the scapula up on this, we're gonna take this arm and I'm just gonna lock myself underneath here and lift it and swing it back a little bit this way and be able to tuck my fingers underneath here, there we go. There is under the scapula. Now sometimes this is an uncomfortable position for people so be careful. If you're going under the scapula try not to have too long fingernails and you can feel when you're under here. You can actually feel the muscle that's on the back side of the scapula. The subscapularis. And then working through and you can see some redness where we worked. That's just from stimulating some of the blood flow. And back up. And you can also do some work with the shoulder, rotating it up and back, kind of a rotation back and forward. You can move it back and forward. And this is kind of an upward and rounding momentum. Upward and rounding and let the arm come down. And when you do that just carry their arms down. Don't drop them. And then we'll do this on the other side. Here's the scapula right here. There's the bone. It comes up and around. Kind of hard to distinguish there. And then we take the arm. Same thing. Carry it up and all this we are doing on the other side so you have to kind of get ambidextrous here. And then you pull yourself under. This scapula is a little bit tighter for some reason. There we go. We're right underneath. We can work up, up on that. Underneath and up. This is a little odd angle for me. I could probably get under it a little better but it would be in the camera's way so we'll just... there's a broad hand going up. You can try it like that then again you wanna pull up just enough pressure it's going to get the job done and not too much to cause any harm Okay and then we can rotate the shoulder you're holding. Pulling it back and forward and back and forward. And back and forward. You're taking that whole range of motion there and then coming back up to the neck. when it all together. All up we go. Down to the center and then pushing upward along the spine there. And then you can also do something nice to the arms. is just give a little traction stretch on the shoulder. It's traction, it's just a pull. Just a little traction. And it's really a pull where you're pulling more of the facial structures. More than the bone itself. The bone is moving but you're actually pulling so it's more of a traction of the soft tissue than the facial structure, even the skin. Maybe think of stretching the skin and then there we go. And carry that back down and if you'd like, I don't usually use tapotement very often but sometimes a little tepotement... I like it with a wide finger ... and I don't hit too hard. I don't know sometimes tepotement feels good. I hardly use tepotement ever. For me, I know because I don't like it myself being done on me so what I don't like, I don't usually do. Somebody might like it. Sometimes I'll get a request for it. If very light, this is very stimulating. You can also do it like with finger-tips. And just waking up these neck muscles and these shoulder muscles and just giving a little tender loving care since they hold your head up most of the day. Okay there we go. A different way of working the back from the chair you might have in your home. Thank you very much!