Nerve Strokes

Nerve-strokes are very light body manipulation with the intention to generate deep relaxation.

Lightly glide your fingertips all over the back. It has a strong sedating effect. It is used to finalize the massage session or massaging a certain area like the back. The direction of the gliding it is not important as you do not move blood or limph. The use of oil reduces the efectivness of the glide stroking, so you can perform it when the skin has the least amount of oil. If the skin is oily you can do a light effleurage.

Some practitioners use the fingertips tapotement instead of gliding which is a rain like finger move and the only parts that moves are the finger, the rest of you hand stands still. That gives a very delicate stroke. It is mostly used on the Head-Massage.