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Esalen Massage Defined

The sound of the waves provides a soothing background for any massage session at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California. This sound, coupled with the cliffside natural hot springs and the educational community dedicated to exploring the "far reaches of human potentiality", inspires a unique approach to bodywork known worldwide as Esalen® Massage.

The ocean provides a slow-moving rhythm very much akin to the internal rhythms of the body. The receiver rests on the massage table, draped, and the practitioner's hands begin quietly, with presence, attending to breath, allowing the receiver to drop inward. The long, slow, t'ai chi-like strokes awaken awareness, and as the tissues open to the warm of touch, the contact deepens, nudging bound-up muscles, drawing forth expanded movement. A relaxing sigh resounds through the body, and the practitioner responds with integration strokes into related areas. The massage continues, seamlessly, wrapping the torso arms, legs, hands, feet, neck, and spirit into a united whole.

The practitioner brings a knowledge of strokes (many have roots in Swedish Massage), of muscles and bones, of movement, of listening to the body as well as the words. Prior to the session, he/she pays attention to his own physical comfort, and quiets down internal chatter to welcome inner guidance, or intuition. As he massages, the practitioner responds to the signs of relaxation: deepened breath, enhanced circulation, a sigh, perhaps flutters of the eyelids. Each session is unique, tailored by personal requests, comfort level, physical tension and release, the felt sense of intuition.

The effects of this intentional touch, loosely categorized as "wellness/stress management massage", range widely. For some, it brings a renewed sense of health and vigor, others may regain a sense of safety with regard to touch. Often old tension patterns break free and old emotions are released. It signals a return to one's nature, a switch from everyday consciousness into a calmer, more colorful space less inhabited by the constraints of time and place. An out-of-ordinary reality.

The sources of this rich work are endless: it was informed by sensory awareness, Swedish massage, oriental medicine, meditation, gestalt practice. The influence of deeper work borrowed from Ida Rolf's teachings, Moshe Feldenkrais' sense of neural co-ordinates, Milton Trager's passive movement to awaken the mind, yoga stretches, somatic mind-body psychology, and more energetically based polarity massage and cranial-sacral work continue to "grow" the work. Each practitioner translates this into his/her personal art form.

At the heart of the session is a sense of empowering each individual to regain a sense of harmony, reverence, and balance, and to awaken inner resources for healing. It is not unusual to hear, "That was the most amazing massage I've ever received."

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Åh, det verkar gudomligt skönt det där! Lyssna till vågornas brus och naturens avslappnande ljud, samtidigt som man får massage av en lyhörd terapeut som hela tiden är uppmärksam pål klientens reaktioner och behov. Mumma!

Fick en meditationsskiva härom dagen som enbart innehåller ljud från skogsbäckens porlande, havets vågor som rullar mot stranden, djungelns ljud och molnens lugnande färd. Kankse nåt jag kan avända när jag jobbar då!?

Ja det verkar kanon!

Men nog är det lite skrämmande att vi behöver köpa naturens ljud på cd?? Den allra billigaste medicinen som bara finns där för oss alla!

Hej alla intresserade av esalen massage

jag har i sommar gått en månads esalen certification training i skottland, som var helt fantastisk.

jag är sedan tidigare utbildad i bla svensk klassisk massage,

men esalen massagen är det enda jag vill ge numera.

det är en fantastisk form av massage, och jag ger behandlingar i stockholmsområdet

#5 Kul esalenmassage!

Kan du inte skríva ett eget inlägg och berätta lite mer om massageformen? Please..?  fast på svenska då..?