😌 Ultimate Headache Relief Massage 💆‍♀️ | Scalp, Neck & Jaw Tension Release 🌿Advance Massage Therapy

[Music] [Music] today I'm going to be doing a massage for the lovely sopia we're going to be doing massage to help relieve headaches let's go ahead and get started if you don't have time to watch this video right now go ahead and just save to your watch later and watch whenever you get a chance so one of the best things that you can do when you're beginning a massage like this for headaches is just to relax the nerves and a simple way to do that is you can if you're working on someone that has long hair just playing with the hair can stimulate the nerves in a really healthy way and it can be really soothing it can be really good to pull the hair as well to stimulate the nerves and the soft tissue and I'm not going to do this for a long time but I might start to pull just slightly just to stimulate those nerves a little bit [Music] more so when somebody has really bad headaches there's usually inflammation in the neck and you don't want to cause more swelling so just starting really Gent gly is always a good way to go and I'm just going to place my hands sometimes these moments of Stillness can be really soothing and I'm just going to start with some simple scalp massage this is one of the best things you can do to just calm everything down and get the blood flowing a little better doing little [Music] circles if you're someone that wants to do massage just for fun or for friends this is a great way to start it's pretty fail proof anything you do is going to feel really good on the scalp and at this point I'll usually kind of just check um my client's face a little bit um just to make sure that they're not over clenching in their jaw area and if I notice a lot of tension they're all kind of you know plan that into the massage working on that masser in the [Music] jaw and I really like to hug the ears and you can even just subtly place your fingers on that jaw to see if there's swelling if there's tension and that is one of the main things that contributes to headaches is that clenching of the jaw and just focusing on these [Music] [Music] temples just doing little micro circles if I'm picking up on just a lot of um stress a lot of tension I'll usually linger around this area for a while and if you feel kind of stumped like if you are picking up on a lot of swelling in the neck if you kind of start deeper into the massage sometimes a more gentle approach is better so just really spending a lot of time along this hairline on that frontalis muscle that superficial muscle that can get really really tense when somebody's clenching their jaw or just dealing with the day-to-day stressors of [Music] Life using really light pressure here doesn't really feel as good as just a nice firm pressure but gentle really stimulating that soft tissue and the [Music] nerves and I'm going to go ahead and start to shift the Sophia's head that can work on this right side if I were to do this with floating arms and hands I would get tired out really quickly just taking advantage of the support of the table and honestly you don't have to know exactly what you're working on if you're doing these um circular frictions along the scalp it's all going to feel really really good [Music] um Obviously good to know what you're what you're working [Music] on working my way towards this oxital Ridge and just keeping my eye out for any swelling making some good progress in these sub ocials like getting a true release in here usually helps more than anything with actually relieving headaches but you can't rush it and you can't force it [Music] [Music] either just doing little micro circles and just making sure that my arm supported you can usually see see if they're swelling without putting your hands on the neck especially along that SCM sometimes I won't even touch the neck if it's really swollen just kind of stay in the areas where I know I'm safe to work on and if I'm finding higher areas of tension I might just start to do longer [Music] holds and really encouraging my client to relax their jaw feel that space in their mouth as I work on this [Music] area and I do like to just gently work on that occipitalis just that superficial muscle stimulating all that soft tissue working on this muscle and all this tissue along the head can really be very soothing [Music] and if you feel like that sem is tight and kind of a contributing factor but it's swollen you can always work on the attachment site right here and you can kind of indirectly help that muscle to just release a little [Music] bit if somebody has a ton of swelling they obviously have a lot going on so at this point would begin to talk about like you know process and you can't fix everything in one massage and just kind of preparing someone for the level of care that they might need to actually address the problem better and I'm just going to backtrack do some scalp massage on this right [Music] side and I do like to just kind of pause before moving to the opposite side [Music] [Music] [Music] and just making sure that Sophia's head is supported the whole time so she doesn't have to hold her neck in place focusing on that mastoid process behind the ear can be really helpful for soothing headaches just slowly working my way towards that ilc Crest and when somebody has um more severe headaches there's usually a pretty big difference between the right and left side which is kind of strange but it's really important to make sure that you're using your time really well and being strategic and how you approach a massage because usually you know people are paying really good money and they want relief you want them to be happy when they leave [Music] doing these little circles along the base of the neck focusing on these sub oxital [Music] muscles getting some really nice release in here [Music] [Music] sometimes it can be really challenging working with clients who kind of have that outdated idea that like no pain no gain um but that is just not true a lot of the time [Music] some level of discomfort is to be expected but it doesn't have to be like you know really painful I like to work on those suboccipitals before landing above the hairline on that Oxalis this is probably like my favorite kind of massage to do I just love to be able to do this for people be really soothing [Music] [Music] and also just reminding yourself that you can't fix somebody's issue in one massage usually it's like a process and just ending with something really soothing I might even play with Sophia's hair for a minute just always ending with something really gentle and soothing whatever it is and that is all for today thank you for joining me today if you enjoyed today's video you should check out our patreon where you'll find some really great exclusive content as well I look forward to seeing you there