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Need an excuse to get hands-on with your Valentine? The Valentine’s Couples Thai Yoga Massage Workshop at the Yoga Mat is just what the massage therapist ordered! Thai yoga massage is also known as “lazy-man’s massage” because the massage recipient is completely limp while the practitioner moves his or her body into different yoga postures, notes organizer April Boys. “In a lot of massage, the practitioner is just using hands and thumbs,” she explains. “But in Thai yoga massage, you can use your feet, your elbows, your arms, your whole body weight to apply pressure. It’s kind of a combination of acupressure, gentle rocking back and forth, and light twisting.” >This type of massage works for people at all experience levels, Boys notes. “It’s very relaxing,” she adds. “I’ll be structuring it so that you learn an hour-long massage, and you can print it out, take it home and keep practicing. It’ll be broken down for each person to learn at a very slow pace.”
But you should be able to master it by Valentine’s Day!
The workshop starts at 2 p.m. today at the Yoga Mat, 3060 Larimer Street. Admission is $15; visit ontheyogamat.wordpress.com to register.
Sat., Feb. 8, 2-3:30 p.m., 2014
