Californian massage is a holistic approach that focuses as much relaxation as the awakening of a psycho-consciousness. This massage uses long, slow and fluid movements that allow a deep physical and mental relaxation.
Starting with gentle stroking, enveloping and relaxing, laborers are linked and improved to ease tensions deeper. This can raise and release hidden emotions, embodied in the bodily memory. Over the massed person surrenders to the experience, the more it appears that the Californian massage called touching the heart.
Californian massage appeared in the early 1970s, at the time of the emergence of therapy groups which had precedence over development of human potential, the expression of feelings and mind-body connection. The Institute Esalen1 a growth center located in Big Sur in California, then brought together many researchers who contributed greatly to this current of thought. Various forms of therapy and several physical techniques are born.
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