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Massage – Koz Cosgrove

Massage has a long history – the Romans called it ‘rubbing’.   After 17 yrs of practice Koz believes it is the simplest and fullest description of what he does.

He practices Holistic, Deep Tissue and Thai ‘Yoga’ Massage.  Thai massage involves lots of stretching, use of the thumbs, hands, forearms, elbows and feet.  It impressed upon Koz the importance of pressure and how much to apply when and where and being able to read this quickly.  He incorporates these movements into his oil massage.

Koz has worked at Health and Private Clubs, Spas and in many of Londons top Hotels such as the Dorchester, Claridges and the Savoy.    He has worked alongside excellent physiotherapists and osteopaths during this time and found that by working slowly and considerately he is able to learn so much from his  clients bodies through touch.  Over the years his work has continually developed by attending many courses and in 2009 he passed the 12,000 paid massages mark – a real milestone.

People are often unaware of their own stress levels, how this affects their bodies and what massage can  accomplish to rectify this.  Koz says;

“The first priority is to put the client at ease and relax their muscles so that they become confident in my ability.  I can feel tight muscle and differentiate between recent and old injury.  I also can tell when my work is complete and  the muscle has relaxed.  I don’t need to go too hard – clients do not come for a massage to be given more pain!  “No Pain, No Gain” does NOT apply to Massage.”

“I recently met a new client who told me she was ‘OK’.   I effleuraged up and down her back twice which was enough to tell me that she had 3 very sore points, and another which was an older injury.    She was astonished that I was able to tell her where she was in pain and where her old injury was situated.  This ensured that I was able to provide the correct treatment in the right areas.   She left feeling very happy and confident in my ability.”

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