Hot Stone massage involves the application of smooth, water-heated basalt stones of varying sizes to key acupressure points on the body accompanied by a deep massage, creating sensations of comfort and warmth while melting away knots, tension and stress. The direct heat relaxes muscles, allowing manipulation of a greater intensity than with regular massage. It harbours deep relaxation, allowing the release of the stresses held within the body, promoting harmony, balance and peace.
In cases of muscular injury and inflammation, frozen, cooling marble stones may be used. Their compliment to the hot stones heightens the role of the circulatory system to help the body detoxify and heal. The warmer stones expand the blood vessels, pushing blood and unwanted waste materials through the body, having a sedative effect on the nervous system. The cold stones cause the blood vessels to constrict, stimulating the nervous system and drawing blood and waste products to be eliminated. This ensures that every cell in the body receives more oxygen and nutrients while at the same time waste material is removed more effectively through the corresponding increase in lymph flow. The deeply relaxing, penetrating heat from the basalt stones, alternating with the toning and refreshing coolness of the marble stones is the use of temperature extremes that has long been scientifically and medically proven to be of benefit to the body.
