Beyond the Physical

by Ben Kappel
(Fort Collins, CO, USA)

The best massage therapy that I have found to be the most healing involves accessing the mental side to relaxation as well as learning to influence another person to become completely relaxed. Then after you have achieved a strong mental connection with your subject, you will find that any good technique will increase in usefulness as you can now talk with your partner to find the stress spots.

My best technique is by far the Shiatsu massage technique, which involves releasing energy in the body and revives a natural ki. This method uses a firm thumb rolling technique as well as some other more fine point techniques that can only be learned. I hope you all can learn how to achieve the best massage methods. Thanks

Ben