25/05/2022
🔎 Interesting facts about Hot Stone Massage
👉 The stones come from organic Basalt rock, which is a type of volcanic rock that naturally retains heat.
When the hot stones are placed on the muscles, the muscle fibers relax. Warm muscles ensure that the massage therapist can effectively massage the muscles to gain maximum benefit for the client.
It's also super pleasant and relaxing.
👉 Massage is the oldest form of hands-on-healing known to humans, easily pre-dating written records.
For millennia, people from virtually every culture have used a combination of touch, heat and stones as therapeutic tools.
Almost every culture has either used heat and/or stones to have some sort of healing effect on the body.
Chinese, Native Americans and Hawaiians have played a major role in how Stone Therapy is applied today
(although the Egyptians, Pacific Islanders and many other cultures are also said to have used stones in their healing arts).
👉 The first style of modern-day Stone Therapy was called ‘LaStone Therapy’. It was ‘discovered’ in the United States in 1993.
The story revolves around a massage therapist named Mary Nelson, who was suffering from repetitive use injuries in the shoulders/wrists.
She was having a sauna with her niece who was about to receive a massage, and was ‘called’ to use the stones.
Mary chose some of the smoother stones and used them in the massage. It felt great (for the client as well as the therapist) and thus Stone Therapy as we know it today was born.
💬 "Knowledge is power. Massage is more powerful." - Karolina
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