My new toys, or in other words...Massage Cupping

So along with the brain wave music that I have been studying and using with clients, I recently purchased massage cupping supplies to add a wonderful addition to my massage options and a wonderful new method to relieve your pain .  These devices, seen below

are loads of fun, and work better than I could have ever imagined.  Like traditional Chinese cupping these devices are made to help remove toxins from the body, along with working muscle, tendon, and the loosening the famous fascia. (fascia is a very thin layer of fibrous tissue that helps hold pretty much everything in our body in place)  Unlike traditional Chinese Cupping though, these cups are made from a mix of rubber and silicone and are very soft on the body, traditional Chinese cups are made of glass. 

When traditional Chinese cupping is done, the therapists tend never to move the cups on the body, they are heated and placed on the area of the body that needs work.  The heat creates negative pressure, sucking the skin and fascia into the cup and  hold the pressure as long as the therapist wants.  One of the draw backs to the traditional method was that, since the cups were glass, if you did want to move the cups around the body you had to release the pressure and place it again in the new area.  With these new cups, since they are made of rubber and silicone, they are soft and supple and can bend and mold to the body itself so with a little oil, suddenly you can slide the soft cups anywhere you want, and they continue to hold the pressure.

If you have ever experienced skin rolling from a massage therapist, this movement of the cups creates somewhat of a comparable feeling.  It helps move blood, it lifts and loosens all areas of tightness including around joints, which feels SOOOO good.  anyone interested in feeling great, give me a call and try out the new age of cupping!