
Inhabiting the body
Massage is an invitation to listen to it again, to decipher its language in order to understand again those signals it continuously sends us.
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Massage is an invitation to listen to it again, to decipher its language in order to understand again those signals it continuously sends us.

In the first article, we talked about the main approach of Californian Massage: optimizing sensory awareness. Today we are going to focus on one of the essential aspects for this to be possible: the origin of the movement.

The key differential starting point, which will distinguish how it is performed and how it is perceived, is the holistic vision with which we work, which is why this technique is defined as a type of “body work” rather than a “massage”.

The skin is the most extensive organ of our body, it helps regulate our organism with the external environment and gives us the most sensitive of our senses, touch, forming a very precise communication system with our environment.

The presence in the contact, the attention in the breathing and the different rhythms that are part of the massage are some of the fundamental points in the transmission of this calmness.

Through a bodywork that has touch as its main element, Gestalt psychology created a new way of exploring the person that helps to expand the consciousness of self: it is the Californian Esalen Massage.

We want to start talking about the skin since it is the largest organ of the human being and, besides being the most external, it is the organ on which we massage therapists work.

The hara is the energetic point of balance in our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual life. The word literally means “cultivation of life” or “vital center”.