The Differences in Massage techniques and Choosing the Right One
Since there is a link between the body and mind, massage techniques can help bring about holistic health and vitality to the whole person. Different modalities of massage techniques that are used in most salons and clinics are good for relaxation via releasing muscular tension but in order to go deeper and unearth blockages the client needs to use a cocktail of massage modalities with many different techniques to achieve more permanent results.
Hot Stone Therapy is a massage technique that dates back over 1,000 years to the Roman Empire and is renowned for its inspiring therapeutic and healing benefits.
Its increasing popularity has brought focus to the treatment’s health benefits such as relief from injuries, anxiety, muscle tension, back pain, poor circulation, insomnia, depression or just for a total mind, body and spiritual experience.
LaStone Therapy is a particular method of Hot Stone Therapy chosen by leading beauty salons for its metaphysical and spiritual angle. It’s style of massage was developed in 1993 by Mary Nelson, a massage therapist from Tucson who began to get visions and verbal guidance from her native American spirit guide. She says “With each day’s work, I was intuitively led to use more stones and developed a method of progressively opening up the energy channels (chakras) of the body”.
LaStone therapists believe that the natural stones used contain the earth’s healing energy and due to their varying weight, size and temperature have the added benefit of enabling easy