clenched hands, held breath, bracing are all signs the pressure is too hard. Most often this happens during gluteal work for obv reasons.
If the client is flinching or gets goosebumps when i touch an area, that tells me they're uncomfortable with that. If I don't ask you, just be jelly on the table). Try and be dead weight as much as possible.
Grumbly tummy, long slow breaths, the kinds of twitches people sometimes get as they're falling asleep, farting (people try not to fart in sessions, so if they do, they're super relaxed, which means I'm rocking out), floppy limbs (when I go to pick up your leg, don't help me. Some signs that tell me I'm doing something right (besides the obvious tension releases): These aren't things you should actively try to do, because if you're thinking about it that much, it'll probably be less disruptive to your massage for you to just say something like "that's a little hard" or "that's the spot right there."
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If you can't shower before, you know you smell, and they were professional and non-judgmental about it (which they should be), tip them harder.Īs for providing passive feedback, we're trained to notice non-verbal cues and a good therapist should be paying attention for them. Having someone request foot work and then discovering they have stinking, dirty feet really sucks. Shower if you've been working out, if it's been a couple days, or if you want your feet worked on. Less than 15% of the regular price is insulting. In following sessions I ramp up the pressure as their pecs acclimate to being worked on. When I first introduce a client to pec work, I do no more than 5 minutes of light work per side, even if they generally like deep massage.
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Note, this isn't my work's website, but I like this stretch anyway.Īnother thing that would be really helpful is find a massage therapist who knows how to work the pecs and also knows to take it easy at first because they will get very sore the next day very easily. Here's a link to a pair of stretches for pec major and pec minor that I recommend to my clients. Conversely, your ancient ancestors spent quite a lot of time with their arms spread out as they hung around in trees and that's really what your shoulders are better adapted to do.
You likely spend little or no time with your arms spread very wide open, or reaching above and behind you. Your pecs are tight because you probably spend essentially all of your time with both of your hands in a very narrow arc in front of you. This is important because tension in your pecs rounds your shoulders forward, destabilizing your entire upper torso, head, and neck, thereby overloading your spinal erectors, rhomboids, traps, levator scapulae, and the scalenes. These aren't all of me, but they're a not small part of the many layered being that I am.Assuming that you're referring to the absurdly common kind of shoulder ache where the ache is on the top of the shoulder, along the sides or back of the neck, or down between the shoulder blades, I suspect that you (like all but no more than five people I've worked on in my career) have chronic tension in pec major and minor. My hobbies: I'm into quite a few nerdy hobbies such as video games, board games, books, and podcasts. It can be a town over, or halfway across the world. I love human connection, meeting people, knowing them, growing connections, having damn good sex with them due to that too. I'm a sexual guy, and Sex is important to me.Ībility to Travel: Maybe an easy answer but it's important. Without this, I feel like i'm not really living. I need human connection to have a fufilling life. They have a fantastic tender recipie, with huge biscuits, cajun fries, and it's not badly priced either.Ĭlose friends: Easy answer, but important one. My favorite place is in North Carolina, where i'm originally from, at a fast food place called "Bojangles". RentMen: What are 5 things you can’t live without?įried Chicken: Lord, my favorite food even though it's horrible for me.