Swedish Massage- example sequences
Abdominal – client is supine
- Effleurage with one (palmar) hand from umbilicus in circular motion, widening and increasing pressure
- Friction with knuckles in circular movement rotating from wrist from caecum, up ascending colon to hepatic flexure, across transverse colon to splenic flexure and down descending colon to sigmoid flexure
- Lateral effleurage with heels of hands and palmar surfaces from umbilicus round to meet at client’s back
- Petrissage
- Tapotment
- Effleurage
