Comprehensive Breast - Chest Therapy

"The complicated issues women often face with their breasts, from over-sexualized belief systems and femininity, coupled with the range of emotions women face following breast surgeries like biopsies, lumpectomies and mastectomies, call for the need to address this vital organ in a healthy and comfortable way."

What the Leading Experts are Saying about Therapeutic Breast Massage

The practice of breast massage aligns with the centuries-old healing wisdom tradition of Ayurveda, which teaches that in order to maintain a state of balance, the whole person must be addressed.

In many healing practices, the breast area is often overlooked. Comprehensive Breast - Chest Massage Therapy addresses this gap in treatment to meet the needs of all women—healthy women, women who have been diagnosed with or are survivors of breast cancer, women who have fibrocystic breasts and women who are recovering from breast augmentation or reduction or cardiac abnormalities.

The confinement of the breasts causes a stagnation of fluids within the tissues which provides the opportunity for unwanted growths and even cancer to develop. Breasts are often compressed with sports bras, constrained by underwire, or enhanced with padding. This can restrict the flow of lymph, a clear liquid derived from blood that contains disease-fighting cells called lymphocytes. Lymphatic fluid can only move three ways: through manual manipulation, movement and breath. Bras constrict the breasts, which can make it harder for the fluid to move around properly, and therefore cause congestion. According to Debra Curties, RMT, a renowned expert in breast massage, the lymphatic system “is considered the most important factor in breast tissue drainage. It is widely speculated that chronic impairment of lymph drainage may be implicated in many breast health problems, including cancer.”

Breast massage is known to:

Increase circulation of blood and lymph
Reduce congestion in breast tissue
Provide relief from mastalgia (breast pain)
Improve posture
Restore range of motion in the upper body
Flush toxins through the lymphatic system
Increase the flow of prana (life energy)

From an Ayurvedic perspective, breast massage has a lot to do with relieving tension. Since breasts are primarily made up of fatty tissue, they can become stagnant without therapeutic touch.

Breast massage includes muscle release techniques to open up the shoulders and chest. In those who have had breast surgeries such as augmentation or reduction, this can restore range of motion that has been often severely restricted. This is also extremely beneficial for anyone who regularly sits at a desk, drives a vehicle or works at a computer.

Since the beginning of time, Breasts have symbolically represented the notion of love, fertility, sex, pleasure, and even more symbolic, our primal need for motherly love, nourishment, support, care, and security.

Beyond the physical effects that breast massage therapy has on the body are the endless benefits to the mind and spirit when women become more comfortable and connected to their breasts. Understanding and feeling connected to the body and its movement allows women to own their femininity and take control of their health.

Jennifer Johnson, spa director of the Chopra Center writes "Over years of work, we found that many women work through complicated issues with their breasts, confusion from over-sexualizing, and shame carried through various belief systems, and also that women very rarely touch their breasts," says Johnson. "We also saw women confronting complicated emotions after recovery from breast surgeries—everything from biopsies, lumpectomies mastectomies, reconstruction, and augmentations."

By instituting breast massage treatment as a regular health practice, we can prioritize preventative breast care and encourage a healthy and open connection to one’s breasts—free of shame, innuendo or societal taboos.

In a way, caring for your breasts, is caring for your soul.

Comprehensive Breast Massage Therapy is not for everyone. Breast massage is not advisable in certain circumstances, especially during treatments that make breast tissues more delicate, such as tissue expansion or radiation. It is also contraindicated in anyone with an active cancer, any case of infection or for direct contact on any undiagnosed lump or over surgical incisions or wounds that are still healing.

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A word regarding the beautiful belly.

Did you know that women are more likely to say yes to receiving therapeutic breast work over abdominal massage? Our culture has over-sexualized our breasts, and shamed the hell out of our belly's. It's time, as women, we reclaim our beautiful bodies. We must dig in deep to rewrite the stories that are trapped in our tissues and integrate them towards embodied wisdom; returning back to our true nature of Self Love and Wild Acceptance!

The abdominal area is often the place where stuck emotions, trauma, and repressed feelings are stored.

It contains the largest concentration of organs in the body. It houses the liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, stomach, intestines, and reproductive organs. It goes without saying that those organs affect not just the belly area but the entire body. All those organs can be reached through abdominal massage.

An abdominal massage releases energy flow. Energy flow is blocked when there’s an accumulation of stress, worries and negative emotions. It can impair physical and emotional conditions. An abdominal massage is a therapeutic approach which recycles and transforms negative energies obstructing internal organs. It energizes, strengthens, and detoxifies the body.

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Benefits to Abdominal Massage

Relieve constipation, improve digestive function, reduce bloating, alleviate menstrual pain, aid in weight loss, encourage relaxation, tone and strengthen the abdominal muscles, release physical and emotional tension, release muscle spasms, increase blood flow to the abdomen and benefit abdominal organs. The connection between vagal stimulation and helping shift the body into a parasympathetic state helps support the use of abdominal massage for relaxation and sleep promotion.

Contraindications for Abdominal Massage

Clients with certain gastrointestinal tract disorders or inflammatory intestinal conditions, such as Crohn’s disease, celiac disease and ulcerative colitis, should not receive abdominal massage during flare-ups. Some high-risk pregnancies such as placenta previa and unstable ovarian cysts and severe endometriosis are also contraindicated...