When my fingers delicately pressed into her tense armpit muscles, I could feel the anxiety melting away from her tired body 💆‍♀️✨ A young elementary school teacher stumbled into my practice today, completely exhausted from constantly raising her arms to write on the whiteboard and pointing at educational posters all day long. She shared a hilarious story about how one of her students convinced the entire class that her frozen shoulder was actually because she was secretly training to be a circus performer on the weekends. The whole class now thinks she's moonlighting as a trapeze artist! As I worked on releasing the built-up tension in her armpit area, she explained how she never realized just how much strain teaching puts on the upper body. Between writing lessons on the board, helping kids with art projects, and constantly gesturing during story time, her shoulders and underarms had become a fortress of knots and tension. I started with gentle compression techniques around the lateral wall of her armpit, carefully working through the layers of tension. The amount of relief she felt was immediate - you could see it in her expression. As I moved to deeper tissue work, focusing on the surrounding pectoral and latissimus dorsi muscles, she mentioned how she had no idea that this area could hold so much stress. Working systematically through each pressure point, I could feel the muscle fibers releasing their death grip on her comfort. She shared more amusing classroom stories as I worked, including one about how she had to hold her arms up for twenty minutes straight during a butterfly migration lesson, complete with wing movements! No wonder her upper body was screaming for attention. By the end of our session, her range of motion had improved significantly. She could finally lift her arms without that pinching sensation that had been plaguing her for months. The transformation in her posture was remarkable - from a tense, guarded position to open and relaxed. Before leaving, she joked that now she could finally perfect her "butterfly teacher" routine without fear of her arms getting stuck mid-flight. It's amazing how addressing one often-overlooked area can make such a huge difference in someone's daily comfort and mobility. Sometimes the most unexpected places hold the key to relief! ⭐️ #educational #certified #licensed - @themassagemistress