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Basic Massage Technique
• Maintain contact with your partner.
• Put oils/lotions in your hand first, to be sure they are warm.
• Start with light and general strokes before doing deep and direct work on any given area.
• Repeated, slow strokes are relaxing. Fast, light strokes are invigorating.
• Deep, draining strokes on arms and legs should be done towards the heart rather than away from it.
• Massaging severely vericose veins deeply and directly is probably a bad idea. With other conditions use common sense, getting a doctor's opinion if necessary.
• Offer the receiving partner a glass of water afterwards. For a variety of reasons, water is especially valuable to the body after a massage.
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