• Use body weight instead of force
  
• Use as much of arm as possible
  
• Do everything three times (unless noted otherwise)
  
• Do Back, then Front
  
• Do Left, then Right
  
• Cultivate grace: if it looks beautiful, it probably feels beautiful
  

Back

1. "Superstroke" like motion: three circles around heart, three around ribs, one around glutes (come back with forearms along sides), three brushes out over shoulders, one going down arms and up glutes as before.
   
2. Form T with both hands at sacrum, travel up over spine (vertebrae between index and middle finger), vibrating as you go.
   
3. Quick "flush" up side (up, shoulder to neck). On third go out to arm, wriggle wrist, and break popsicle.
   
4. Hand to face cradle
   
5. Elbow to armpit
   
6. Elbow to ribs
   
7. Elbow to glutes. On third pivot to head of table
   
8. Glutes to ribs
   
9. Glutes to armpit. On third sandwich arm and stretch.
   
10. Arm to table, and repeat for other side, starting with "flush"
    

Back of Leg

• Undrape leg, go to opposite side of table
  
• Place foot off side of table. Compress Glutes: place, lean, and drop with heel of hand in three places (sacrum, middle, external)
  
• Fist compression into thigh/calf, working down and up. Fists at angles
  
• Pull up inside of leg, go around, pull up outside of leg
  
• Wrap around trochanter three times
  
• Split hands, effleurage with one to shoulder, the other down to foot. Put two hands on sacrum and cover foot.
  
• Go to same side of table
  
• Effleurage full leg with open palm and forearms
  
• Pick up foot, drain calf (up tibia, down gastroc, and visa versa)
  
• With knee bent, flex foot and drain Achilles
  
• Effleurage foot to knee
  
• Effleurage foot to glute (one hand up hams, one up ITB), after third compress ischial tuberosity with one hand and area above trochanter with the other
  
• Effleurage from foot up to top of fingers, back down arm, pivot when going up at ribs, pivot at knee when going down.
  
• Forearm effleurage plantar surface of foot (hand up, leg up - hand down, leg down)
  
• Foot compression/rock
  

Front of body

• Starting at ankle, full arm effleurage leg all the way up. Inside arm around iliac crest (over, then under).
  
• Support leg with your knee/thigh
  
• Warm foot
  
• Fingers around malleoli, alternating, with foot moving back and forth
  
• Palm drains up anterior tibialis while other hand presses hard on quads
  
• Thumb (wrist straight) along tibia, fingers (flat) looped on other side of tibia. Fan open at knee.
  
• Petrissage the knee with both hands - one on each side (to just below patella)
  
• Pick up leg by skin just below knee and wiggle
  
• Bend knee (client's heel to client's buttocks) and sit on foot
  
• Fingers grab quads. Lean in and out rhythmically as you glide down leg.
  
• Effleurage medial and lateral thigh with palms of hands moving at same time up and down. Should rock leg.
  
• Pick up leg and stretch (frog leg). Lean on knee.
  
• Stretch leg, straight, to side of table. Push at heel, support at knee.
  
• Rotate hip, letting heel touch table each time, hand under heel. When knee inside just let leg slide drop. Immediately vibrate quad to foot.
  
• Seat hip: hand on foot, push straight up to acetabulum
  

Arm

• Forearm drains, thumbs together, one set on each side
  
• Thumb friction of palm
  
• Arm over face, go around head of humerus.
  
• Bend your knees, lift arm at elbow, hook arm at elbow, stretch over client's head
  
• Undrape leg, while leaving arm's side undraped too
  
• Starting at ankle, full arm effleurage leg all the way up. Inside arm around iliac crest (over, then under).
  
• Repeat above step, but just lower leg
  
• Repeat above step, but full leg
  
• One stroke up all the way and stretch arm
  

Stomach

• Hands on upper sternum, slide down to stomach and open to sides
  
• Flat thumbs around ribcage to iliac crest
  
• Petrissage stomach
  
• Reach to back, pull from spine to navel
  
• Thumbs in navel, pull in 4 cardinal directions
  
• "Energy Massage" - palm circles above body, becoming wider as palms ascend
  

Neck/Face

• Hands on upper sternum (crossed)
  
• Finger friction out in 3 intercostals. Outline inferior clavicle, pivot over shoulders, come up neck.
  
• Linear hand friction - upper sternum to ear - turn neck a little to get each side
  
• Knuckles ("duck bill") from acromion process to ear
  
• Thumb behind ear to brachial plexus, press, out over shoulder
  
• Lift head with one hand, do "hourglass" friction with the other (fingers, thumb on opposite sides of cervical vertebrae, start at C4 or so, expand up to occiput, contract to start position again, expand down to rhomboids, repeat)
  
• Fingers hold head up at occiput. Slide fingers in slowly and let head slide down to table.
  
• Side neck stretch
  
• Cheeks
  
• Chin
  
• Eyebrows
  
• Scalp friction, in groups of three
  
• "Star" hand to client's face (hold hand up in air first)