Types of Massage

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Deep Tissue Massage

Deep tissue massage is a massage technique that’s mainly used to treat musculoskeletal issues, such as strains and sports injuries. It involves applying sustained pressure using slow, deep strokes to target the inner layers of your muscles and connective tissues. This helps to break up scar tissue that forms following an injury and reduce tension in muscle and tissue.

Swedish Massage

Swedish massage involves soft, long, kneading strokes, as well as light, rhythmic, tapping strokes, on the topmost layers of muscles. This is also combined with the movement of the joints. By relieving muscle tension, Swedish therapy can be both relaxing and energizing. And it may even help after an injury.

Reflexology (Foot) Massage

In reflexology, pressure is applied to specific reflex points on the foot. These points correspond to organs and areas of the body. The treatment is said to induce a healing response, even
alleviating some ailments. Reflexology is one of the most popular types of massage. Beyond the feel-good effects of the treatment, the practice and purpose go deeper than the skin
and muscles.

Couple Massage

Share the experience of a massage with a loved one or friend. Both of you will receive a massage at the same time in the same room. A curtain is provided to give privacy to each individual to
change privately. Each person will have their own professional massage therapist with professional draping.

Prenatal Massage

Prenatal Massage can reduce anxiety, decrease symptoms of depression, relieve muscle aches and joint pains, and improve labor outcomes and newborn health. Massage therapy addresses different needs through varying techniques.

Prenatal Massage aims to relax muscle tension and improve lymphatic and blood circulation through mild pressure applied to the muscle groups of the body.

Other potential benefits of prenatal massage:

• Reduced back pain
• Reduced joint pain
• Improved circulation
• Reduced edema
• Reduced muscle tension and headaches
• Reduced stress and anxiety
• Improved oxygenation of soft tissues and muscles
• Better sleep

Classic Facial 

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Thai Massage

Thai massage uses gentle pressure and stretching techniques to relax the whole body. This is an ancient healing practice that originated in India. It dates back to around 2,500–7,000 years ago.

Thai massage is a form of therapeutic massage that typically falls in the category of complementary and alternative medicine.

It is a deeply relaxing, tension-relieving practice of mindful movement that helps increase an individual’s range of motion and encourages flexibility through its unique blend of assisted stretching, yoga, breathwork, and massage.

Benefits of Thai massage

• Improved circulation
• Improved mobility
• Improved immune system
• Eases chronic lower back pain
• Lowered anxiety
• Stress reduction
• Headache relief
• Improved energy levels

Chinese Cupping & Massage

Cupping is a vacuum-type massage technique performed with handheld cups. Placing suction cups on the body creates a partial vacuum to reduce tension on the skin and tissues underneath.

By creating suction and vacuum pressure, it can soften tight muscles and tone, loosen adhesions and lift up restrictive connective tissues. The specific technique brings hydration and blood flow to the body’s tissues. It can be used to move deep inflammation to the skin surface for release and drain excess fluid and toxins by opening lymphatic pathways.

Cupping benefits are the following:

• Release scar tissue and fascial adhesions
• Reduce painful trigger points
• Improve circulation, blood, and lymph circulation
• Relieve pain
• Promote mobility and range of motion
• Improves mature scars
• Decrease toxins

Shiatsu Massage

Shiatsu is a massage technique that involves the application of the practitioner’s feet, rather than the hands or arms, to a patient’s body.

During a Shiatsu massage, therapists use their bare feet to deliver deep compression, long gliding strokes, and/or assisted stretching. Shiatsu therapists have full control over how your body is treated, and the massage is tailored to your needs just as a deep tissue or Swedish massage would be.

Benefits of Shiatsu Massage

• Reduces Chronic Pain
• Improves Flexibility
• Deepest Deep Tissue Massage Possible
• No Residual Soreness
• Reduces Stress
• Effects Last Longer

Tui-na Massage

Tuina or tui-na (pronounced twee-nah) massage originated in ancient China and is believed to be the oldest system of bodywork. It’s one of the four main branches of traditional Chinese medicine, along with acupuncture, qi gong, and Chinese herbal medicine.

Practitioners use their finger, hand, elbow, knee, or foot to apply pressure to a specific body location. This complementary and alternative Chinese medicine modality makes use of rhythmic compression techniques along different energy channels of the body to establish a harmonious flow of qi throughout the body and bring it back to balance. By applying pressure to meridians, acupoints, and groups of muscles and nerves, tui na removes blockages and works deeply with the positive energy of the body.

Benefits of Tuina Massage

• Boosts blood circulation
• Reduces neck pain
• Relieves low back pain
• Treats depression
• Treats osteoarthritis
• Ease carpal tunnel syndrome
• Treats musculoskeletal disorders

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