Well Breast Massage

Receiving breast massage and learning to massage our own breasts is a nourishing, enjoyable way to tend to our bodies, and can be a positive replacement for “self-breast exam”. Breast exam is fear-based in nature, designed and promoted to search for abnormalities in breast tissue. Often this is the only therapeutic, non-sexual touch that we ever receive for our breasts. Breast massage from the perspective of wellness supports the overall health of breast tissue and serves as preventative care. When we regularly massage our breasts from a place of loving attention for our bodies, we become intimately familiar with our breasts. In the event that something unusual forms in our tissues, we are much more attuned to those changes through the relationship of touch that we have already established with our breasts.

Since breast tissue does not have muscles to move them, breast massage is a nurturing way of promoting circulation and drainage of lymph in breast tissues, thereby ridding the breast tissue of accumulated toxins which causes painful cysts and eventually disease.  Although generally taught as a self-help technique, many women would rather receive regular Breast Massage from a licensed massage therapist than perform the massage themselves.

Why Well Breast Massage Is Beneficial To Your Health

• support healthy musculature and structural mobility of the whole chest
• stimulate free flow of lymph and blood to keep breast tissue vibrant and healthy
• resolve discomfort
• facilitate healing from surgeries
• tone the skin and fascial structure of breast tissue
• alleviate and prevent achy, tender and fibrocystic breasts
• support the breasts during and after periods of breastfeeding
• soften scar tissue from medical procedures, scar tissue compromises lymph flow
• reclaim your breasts as your own after traumatic or abusive experiences
• integrate your breasts with the rest of your body
• supports healthy touch and encourages women to send the message of health and wellness into their bodies
• foster an emotional connection to the heart
• nourish connection to sensuality and sexuality
• Support natural breast tissue changes with aging

About your session:

During breast massage, your breasts are undraped for massage directly over breast tissue and are covered while working on the rest of the chest. The nipples and area around the nipples are not massaged. I ask your consent before undraping your breasts or beginning any direct contact with your breast tissue.

Some people appreciate receiving breast massage as part of their regular or occasional bodywork treatments, and some people are most interested in learning to do the massage themselves.