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Thai Massage is often shown as a series of fancy and complex stretches which seem to be best suited for experienced yogis.
However, what really counts in your everyday Thai Massage work as a therapist is not the degree of difficulty of the techniques, or the number of fancy stretches you know. What really counts is your quality of touch and your ability to intuitively connect with your client.
Every massage therapist knows that massage can be hard on your hands. We all had the experience that a large, heavy, stiff client requests some serious therapeutic work.
In some cases it can leave us wondering how we can handle this person’s request without stressing our hands too much. Small therapists might even have to avoid or decline such work.
This is where Thai Massage therapy can be ideal. It is a wonderful modality for deep, intense and highly effective therapy work.
Thai Massage education is not meant to be a collection of massage techniques that are strung together. It is more like an artistic dance that gracefully weaves together many techniques.
In order to accomplish this, you need to know not just the techniques themselves, but the transitions which connect them.
There are many reasons for getting a Thai Massage.
One good reason is to just zone out and go into this trance-like state that is much easier to attain in a good massage session than with any meditation technique.
In a good Thai Massage session, this meditative or ‘zoning out’ effect happens naturally.
Thai Massage therapists, especially in Thailand, use a technique which they call ‘chopping’. It consists of placing the palms of both hands together and then using the edges of the hands to ‘chop’ on various muscles.
Personally, I found this technique neither very effective nor pleasant, and therefore we developed a different version at Thai Healing Massage Academy.
It’s called ‘Percussion for Thai Massage“. After many years of using it, and after getting lots of client feedback, I know that this technique is effective and that massage clients like it. It looks very easy, but it does require some finesse to make it feel really good.
In Thai Massage there are many techniques in the side-lying position. After receiving hundreds of Thai Massage sessions here in Thailand, I always noticed that many therapists neglect to implement a few simple adjustments to make their clients comfortable in this position.
I cannot even remember how often I received a Thai Massage in Thailand, and the therapist told me to lie in a certain position, like prone (face down) or on my side without any regard to my comfort.
The Thai Massage therapists here assume that you can lie face down for an extended period of time with your head turned to the side at a 90-degree angle.