#relaxation script

How are you today? Tired? You’ve been trying hard haven’t you? Ohh, those muscles look rather tense. Do you need some help? 

Tell you what. You sit down here, let yourself stop working, and let me give you a nice massage. Where would you like me to massage? Your shoulders? Okay, let’s begin.

Okay then, I’ll just start by gently rubbing your shoulders. Up and down, left to right. Can you feel my fingers gently pressing in there? Yeah, that’s right, just let your shoulders drop, and let me just gently press into your muscles, and let your stress ebb away. Now that we’ve got you starting to relax, I’m going to start working in a bit deeper, okay? I’m going to put my hands on your shoulders, with my thumbs between your shoulder blades. At the front my fingers are rubbing in. You can feel them, can’t you? Working the muscles at the front of your shoulders, pushing in and working out all the tension that’s there.

You can feel my thumbs at your back now, can’t you? Just pressing into all your tense muscles here. Nice, firm but not too firm, rubbing in. Your muscles feel warm, and start to relax.  Oh, is that a knot in your muscle I feel? Oh dear. Let’s focus on that, shall we? I push down here, putting some of my weight down. It’s more forceful than before, but not painful, and you can feel your muscle relaxing and untying itself. Can you try and relax that bit a bit more? Yes, that bit just there, where I can feel the tension. Where you can feel my hands pressing down.

Good. You feel it melting, the knot disappearing. Would you like me to cover the neck as well? Don’t worry, I’ll be very careful. You hear me moving to one side. We are doing this one side at a time. You have muscle on either side of the neck to help it move, right at the base. You can feel it yourself, on the other side. Just above where you stop feeling the hard bone of the shoulder below your relaxing muscles. You feel my thumbs pressing down, straight down, for half a minute. Then you feel my hands move, only a tiny bit across, and I press down again. Each time I press you can feel the muscle melting, relaxing, softening. I move again, and press. You relax, melt, soften. I move and press again. Relaxing, melting, softening. Again. Relax. Melt. Soften. One side of your shoulders is completely relaxed now. Take a deep breath. Okay? Hold for a moment....and now breath out, nice and slowly. I step to the side, and you continue your breathing, nice and slowly. Again, my thumbs press into your shoulder. You can feel them pressing down, and now again. Relaxing, melting, softening. 

Again. Relaxing, melting, softening.

Again. Relaxing, melting, softening.

Okay then. Let’s get you relaxed.

Just lie back now. Find a nice comfy position, however you like it.

Are your legs in a good position?

Are your arms supported?

Make sure your back is nice and steady.

Excellent. Then we can begin.