Taking care of your feet is mandatory as they are considered to be the essential part of the body that carries your entire weight. There are many ways to which you can keep your feet healthy and glowing.
A foot massage can help in providing a more significant relaxation after the busy and tight working lifestyle. Taking a feet massage just before going to bed will bring you a lot of benefits.
You can find a lot of pressure points on your feet, each of them is related to different parts of your body organs and massaging over the particular pressure point will have the impact over the specific organ of the body.
Shiatsu Foot Massage
When considering Shiatsu Foot Massager, the therapist uses their knuckles, thumbs, palms along with the finger pressure to get rid of the tension in particular area of the body. In some cases, they make use of their feet and knees to massage the meridian points and thus stimulate and improves the system efficiently functioning.
Shiatsu Foot Massage Techniques
Proceed below to check out some of the techniques of shiatsu foot massages.
Stroking
Your feet will be able to feel the heat by this stroking technique, the massage tends to induce your feet blood vessels and brings the gentle heat for the relaxation.
Ankle Rotation
A technique which involves massaging your feet in both clockwise and anticlockwise direction so that you can feel the heat from the ankle joint and get relaxed.
Swiveling
The technique of applying pressure to the ball of your feet so that you can relax based on the strength used.
Kneading
The technique of using the knuckles at the second joint for feel the relaxed feel and applying pressure induces overall heat.
How to perform these techniques?
Here are the steps how a therapist will perform a Shiatsu Foot Massage.
- Lie down on a mattress or massage table to take the shiatsu foot massage.
- The therapist will start rubbing your feet to warm up and loosen them.
- Therapist starts kneading process by closing their fingers and then massages the feet soles; they keep on pressing your feet knuckles from the heel to toes.
- Few therapists makes use of their knees to massage the feet soles.
- The therapist will make use of the finger or thumbs to apply pressure along the toes to the back of your feet so that your sides of the feet get relaxed.
- To feel the relaxation in the toes, the therapist will make use of the fingers, slide between the toes to pull, squeeze and rotate them.
- Barefoot Shiatsu, which means the therapist, will make use of their bare feet to massage your feet, in this case, the person need to lie down the floor on a mattress.
Benefits of Shiatsu Foot Massage
The advantages gained by the shiatsu foot massager are many, here are some of them.
- Regular taking of shiatsu foot massage will help you in reducing the feet pain and provide a more profound relaxation to your foot.
- Influential in reducing headaches and migraines.
- Lessens the stress and eye strains caused due to multiple focusing.
- Promotes proper kidney functioning, excretory and bladder system and eases stomach pain rapidly.
- Improves proper postures and relieves any pain in your spine.
- You will have a more significant relief from sciatic pain.
- Clears body toxins by stimulating your lymphatic system.
Shiatsu foot massage has scientifically proved that the benefits of the massage is soothing and are advised for the persons who suffer from more health issues. Stay away from stress, anxiety and other problems that give you health problems by taking at least three to four session of Shiatsu foot massage per month for considerable changes.
Author’s Bio
Mohammed is a leading massage therapist who runs a group of spas in the United States. He writes on various topics in his blog massagerland.com.
