What Is A Professional Massage?

Massage is using parts of your body to stimulate, manipulate and cause therapeutic inflammation to the muscles and tissues of another person’s body. Massage is used to relieve pain, relax, and to help calm emotional stress and the baggage we carry around all day long. There are many different kinds of massage (modalities); some I am sure you have heard of like Swedish, Shiatsu, Aromatherapy and Hot Stone. There are hundreds of different modalities designed to affect change to the soft tissues, connective tissues and muscles of the body. Common body parts used by a therapist throughout a massage include fingers and hands, forearms and elbows. There are many types of tools that can be used as well. In other modalities such as Thai massage, feet and knees are also commonly used.

The types of massage we demonstrate on Rub HER The Right Way will mostly be for the purpose of sensual relaxation; appealing to the senses and relaxing to the mind and body.

Humans crave intimacy with one another. Intimacy in the forms of emotional, spiritual, intellectual and physical. All physical intimacy is not sexual, however a relaxational massage performed in certain ways can lead to sexual intimacy during and after a massage.

What A Massage Can Do

The benefits of massage are numerous. Therapeutic massage has been shown to be beneficial to both the mental and physical aspects of our bodies.

Physical Benefits

Massage has been shown to increase the body’s production of white blood cells and in turn, increase the effectiveness of the immune system. Studies have also shown the stress hormone, cortisol was reduced during massage. The result is beneficial for both musculature and the nervous system.

Cortisol is responsible for maintaining the correct levels of sugar in your blood, reducing inflammation and regulating metabolism. Continuous high levels of cortisol in the body can cause the belly fat which can cause the onset of Type 2 diabetes. Too much cortisol can cause sleep loss, anxiety and even depression.

Massage can also reduce the pain and tension in your muscles. When your muscles are massaged it aids the body in getting rid of toxins by directing them out of your muscles and to your liver.

Mental Benefits

What To Expect During A Full Body Massage

It’s Your Massage. You Are In Charge

The therapist gets to decide whether they want to begin the massage with you on your back or on your stomach and in which order they will massage your body within the time allotted. But you are in charge of what parts of your body will be massaged during your scheduled time.

A professional licensed therapist will explain to your how they wish to begin your treatment, their preference for how they would like you to disrobe and the order in which you will be massaged. This is what I say to my clients…

“Client’s name, my name is Carl and I will be your therapist today. You will be given a full body massage which is 50 minutes long. I will leave the room so you can undress. I prefer my clients to be completely nude but please feel free to disrobe down to you comfort level. After you have undressed please climb under the top drape and lie on your back, covering yourself just below the neck. During the massage you will be completely covered and only the body parts I am working on will be exposed from under the drape. Your genitals and gluteal cleft will remain covered at all times.

I will leave the room so you can disrobe. When I reenter the room I will first massage your scalp, then your face, neck, shoulders. arms and hands. After that I will massage your chest, abdomen, hips and legs. I will skip your feet until you are laying on your stomach. When I have you turn over, you will turn away from me and still be completely protected from my eyes. While on your stomach I will again massage your neck and then your back. After your back I will massage your glutes, your legs and I will finish with your feet — both feet at the same time when I can. Your massage will be very relaxing so your foot massage will be more rigorous so as to wake you up a little.

There is a stool underneath the table in case you need it to climb onto the table. Is there any part of your body you would like me to avoid? You can either let me know you are ready or wait for me to knock on the door to see if you are ready”.

For females I would also add that the area surrounding the breasts will be massaged but breast tissue will not be massaged in a ‘normal’ Swedish massage. The full hour body massage leaves 5 minutes in the beginning for prep and 5 minutes for getting dressed again. If you would like to be minimally draped, Pennsylvania law requires you to sign a consent form and I require you to verbally tell me so. The same goes for breast massage, which Pennsylvania also allows.

What Is A Sensual Relaxation Massage?

Rub HER The Right Way will show you several types of massage — mostly Swedish, as we journey through massaging the body.

What Is Oxytocin

Massage causes the body to release oxytocin. Oxytocin has also been called the love hormone and the cuddle hormone because it is released during moments of intimacy, such as cuddling, kissing or even playing with a pet.

Oxytocin is not only released by the person being massaged but because touch is such an important part of being human, the person giving the massage also gets the release of oxytocin.