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I have been getting and giving massage since my teens, am certified in Swedish-Esalen, and am a total bodywork junkie. If I won the lottery it would be on my schedule daily different modalities in rotation!
You can request bolsters like they use to massage pregnant women - you lie on your non surgical side and your surgical leg is at or just under hip level so nearly parallel to the table, comfortably flexed as you want. My therapist did excellent hip, pelvis, and sacral releases nowhere near the knee that helped so much!
The one warning about Swedish-Esalen: it's the most basic certification, at least in California, and spas often hire new grads. You don't want a new grad. You want someone who ideally has at least five years experience, and if they are certified in cranio-sacral or trigger point that's a plus. Most deep tissue folks will go as light as you want (I love deep work, but have to caution them to Go In Slowly or I guard!) and they can have a better understanding of internal structures so I would ask how experienced those folks are.
You can request bolsters like they use to massage pregnant women - you lie on your non surgical side and your surgical leg is at or just under hip level so nearly parallel to the table, comfortably flexed as you want. My therapist did excellent hip, pelvis, and sacral releases nowhere near the knee that helped so much!
The one warning about Swedish-Esalen: it's the most basic certification, at least in California, and spas often hire new grads. You don't want a new grad. You want someone who ideally has at least five years experience, and if they are certified in cranio-sacral or trigger point that's a plus. Most deep tissue folks will go as light as you want (I love deep work, but have to caution them to Go In Slowly or I guard!) and they can have a better understanding of internal structures so I would ask how experienced those folks are.