Want to make your clients feel more at ease during this turbulent time?
Want to make yourself feel more at ease, too?
Want to add something special to your work?
Then you should start working the rib cage.
In this course I am going to show you simple but effective massage strokes for one of the most underappreciated and ignored parts of the body—the ribs.
I have been a massage therapist since 2004, and a teacher for almost that long. The longer I work, the more crucial I believe the rib cage is—both for a wide variety of musculoskeletal problems, and for our overall comfort in our bodies. But the longer I teach, the more I see how most of us therapists avoid the ribs. This is a neglected part of the body. It shouldn’t be.
In this course I am going to show you how to work on the fascia and the muscles that wrap around and between the ribs (remember those external and internal intercostals from anatomy class!?). And just as important, I’m going to show you how to incorporate this work into whatever kind of massage you are already doing. This four-CE course is loaded with video demonstrations of techniques you can adapt into your work right away.
You’ll learn techniques in prone and in supine. Techniques that you can do with oil and without. Through the sheet or directly on the skin. For thirty seconds, as part of a full-body session, or for thirty minutes as a detailed session just on the ribs. Your options are numerous.
And your clients will thank you.
You are eager to help ease your clients’ complaints, right? Think about how many of those complaints are about the upper body – back, shoulders, neck. Think about what all of those structures sit on top of: the rib cage. The rib cage protects and supports every breath we take, and provides the foundation that makes possible every movement of our upper body.
We can hammer away all we want on the rhomboids and the upper traps. And we can use all of our fancy tricks on levator scapulae and the scalenes. But until we enable the rib cage to move more freely, we are not going to make any real and lasting progress on those chronic areas of tension—all of which lie on top of and around the rib cage.
Working on the rib cage also helps our clients to breathe more easily—especially important in these stressful times. The techniques you will learn enable a slower, easier, more effortless breath. And when we are able to lengthen our exhale, we encourage our parasympathetic nervous system—which makes us more calm, and more at ease. (And an added bonus, as you’ll see, you’ll also start to breathe more easily as a result of this work!) Isn’t calm and ease what we all want from a massage?
Come join me. Because everyone feels better with a more pliable rib cage.