h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*floating in, lighting a lot of candles*

*dims the lights*

*puts on some music - Mozart's 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' - on low volume*

*disrobes and settles on the massage table, face down, with a Egyptian cotton sheet draped over her body*

*tries to unclench the muscles in her back and neck*

*jumps*


Didn't see you online, FG!


*rubs hands together to make sure they are warm - nothing worse than a pair of cold hands on a stiff neck/shoulder/back*

*allows FG's back to get acquainted with her hands by stroking FG's back with flat palms in big, soft circles*

*left palm, right palm, clockwise, anti-clockwise*

*gradually makes the strokes firmer*

*takes a firm but careful grip around FG's right shoulder with her left hand, while right palm, still moving in circles (clockwise) concentrates on the upper right part of FG's back*

*strokes grow firmer yet, warming up the muscles for what is to come*

*releases grip, walks over to other side of table, reverses*

*firm grip around FG's left shoulder with right hand, left palm stroking in small and firm circles*

*oozes down over the sides of the massage table and into a puddle on the floor*

IRL just reading that I'm getting relaxed!

Sorry, massages to that to me everytime...

Having done it in RL helps me describing it - although I don't know all the correct massage terms in English...


*pours a few drops of lavender-scenting massage oil into one hand and rubs her palms together while FG climbs back up on the table*

Hmmmm... that usually doesn't happen to my clients until I get to my scalp massage...

*continues*

*both hands close together, very short firm palm strokes, one hand going up, the other down, and vice versa*

*rubbing her way from neck to lower back with palms on either side of FG's spine, careful to avoid rubbing /on/ the spine*

*rubs her way back up to neck*

*rubs her way down the spine*

*up the spine*

*down the spine*

*curls and uncurls toes and sighs with happiness*

*promptly falls asleep again*

*firm grip around FG's right shoulder with left hand*

*right hand pressing the heal of her hand into muscle on the right side just next to FG's spine*

*push into, press out, release*

*moves hand slightly down*

*push into, press out, release*

*slowly works her way down the right side of FG's spine*

*puts some extra effort into the lower part of FG's back, knowing that stiffness and/or pain in upper part of back might well stem from tensions in lower part, especially since the rector spinae muscle is one of the human body's biggest muscles without which people would walk around bent over double*

*walks over to the other side of the table*

*repeats in reverse*

*push into, press out, release*

*push into, press out, release*

*gently nudges FG*

The next part will be a bit rougher - you must tell me if I press too hard - it's *not* supposed to hurt - although I admit there is such a thing as 'sweet pain' when it comes to stiff muscles becoming untied...

*her hands take a firm grip on either side of FG's neck, with fingers on the front side of FG's shoulders*

*thumbs on the back side*

*bends elbows to use them as a lever to increase the pressure by pumping them up and down rather than using her wrists*

*presses her bent thumbs into the muscle area around the little 'hump' just below the neck that so many women seem to suffer from*

*releases*

*moves thumbs slightly, presses a little harder*

*releases*

*moves thumbs, presses yet a bit harder*

*releases*

*presses really hard*

*releases*

*works her way all around the hump, whether it's imagined or real*

The thumb thing is a 'groaner' when it comes to me - I always beg for harder, because I'm usually quite tense around the 'hump' - but at the same time I can't help groaning out loud...

*winces at the pain, since she's really a big baby when it comes to discomfort*

*then, as her muscles slowly unwind, signs with contentment*


Yes, there's a "hump". And I hate it.

*switches to petrissage; very small circular moves by fingertips pressing into muscle*

*left hand grips FG's right shoulder*

*right hand's fingertips work their way in a circle around FG's right shoulder blade, careful not to press directly /on/ the shoulder blade*

*switches to other side, repeats in reverse*

*pauses, clenching and unclenching her hands to relax them*

*changes to 'wring the rag'*

*starts with FG's left shoulder*

*both hands grip firmly around muscles between neck and shoulder*

*one hand pushes forward, other hand pulls back*

*one hand pulls back, other hand pushes forward*

*repeats, with slightly increased force each time*

*after every push/pull holds still for a minute or two before reversing*

*is able to push/pull the muscle a little bit further with each time*

*switches to FG's right shoulder and repeats*

*wishes she had the ability, if her legs weren't rubbery right now, to get up and change the nice Mozart to something more exotic, like Nusrat Fatah Ali Khan's "Night Song"*

uurrrrrrr ummmmmmmmmm ahhhhhhhhhh

Just pretend I'm doing each exercise a bit longer - I'm soon off to bed and would like to finish this first!


*next: the grip*

*thumb on one side of FG's neck, other fingers on other side*

*starting at the base of the neck*

*grips, pulls back, releases*

*moves hand slightly upwards*

*grips, pulls back, releases*

*repeats upwards, grip growing narrower*

*as she reaches the top of FG's neck she massages the points on either side of neck just below the back edge of FG's skull*

*repeats the exercise working her way back down to base of neck*

*works her way up*

*works her way down*


This one always makes me feel like purring - it's very soft and soothing and gentle...