Areas Archives: Hips

Hips #3

A Wedge-pair configuration is shown. The Wedge-pair is being used to increase pressure by raising the 750 past the natural curve of the hip and making it easier for the user to engage the Point.

Lie to gently lower your hip onto your TolaPoint.
Relax your hips. Let the weight of your torso generate pressure as required.
For more pressure, use your trunk or legs to push your hip onto your Point.

How to

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Hips #2

Hips

Hips, with looped Strap

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Hips #2

A single Wedge configuration is shown. The Wedge is being used to angle the 750 toward the user. A Point angled ‘in’ is ‘closer’ to the user and responds immediately to shifts in body weight.

Side-lie to gently lower your hip onto your TolaPoint. Relax your hip and let the weight of your torso create pressure as required.
For more pressure, use your opposite foot and shoulder to roll your body weight over your Point.

How to

How to create a kneading pressure

How to loop a TolaStrap over your shoulder

How to anchor an open TolaStrap using a closed door

How to increase the depth of your massage

Related techniques

Hips #3

Hips

Hips, with looped Strap

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A single Point is all you need to complete this technique, but one or more Wedge can be used to raise and angle your Point into your hip.

Hips

A Wedge-pair configuration is shown. The Wedges are being used to: increase the pressure (by allowing the Point to reach into the groove of the hip); make the Point easier to handle, and to direct the pressure toward the belly of the tensor fascia latae.

Step past your TolaPoint with your opposite leg to gently trap your Point between your hip and an upright surface, for example a door jamb.
Relax your hips. Lean toward your Point and let your body weight create the pressure required.
For more pressure, push toward your Point with the leg on your unaffected side.

How to

How to create a kneading pressure

How to loop a TolaStrap over your shoulder

How to anchor an open TolaStrap using a closed door

How to increase the depth of your massage

Related techniques

Hips #3

Hips #2

Hips, with looped Strap

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Hips, with looped Strap

A 750 mounted on a looped Strap is shown. With the Strap, you can address your your hips hands-free in a standing posture and use your legs, or manipulate the Strap, to increase pressure.

Loop your Strap around your waist and then a suitable anchor point. Avoid stepping into a closed, anchored Strap.
Take up the slack in the loop. Turn side-on to the anchor to position your TolaPoint over your lateral hip. With your legs apart, lean gently away from the anchor to engage your Point.
Relax your hips. Lean away from the anchor and let your body weight create the required pressure.
For more pressure, push away from the anchor with your legs, or squeeze the loop of the Strap closed with your hand.
To exit, first release your Strap from it's anchor point and open it. Avoid stepping out of a close, anchored Strap.