Holistic massage
Revitalise body and mind with time-honoured massage techniques.
Treatments
Massage is one of the oldest healing therapies. The earliest records date back to China – 3000BC. They called their technique “amma” and used specific movements and pressure points on the body to improve and restore health and promote relaxation.
Massage was widely used by the Greeks – 500BC. Hippocrates, Plato and Socrates all recommended rubbing “to bind a joint that is loose and to loosen a joint that is too rigid”. Galen a Roman physician to the Emperor prescribed massage for injured Gladiators to prepare them for battle.
He wrote “massage eliminates the waste products of nutrition and the poisons of fatigue”. It is said that Julius Caesar was treated daily with “pinching” all over the body to relieve neuralgia and headaches.
Per Henrik Ling 1776-1839, a Swedish professor developed the technique known as Swedish Massage and established the Ling Institute in Stockholm to teach and promote massage for healing.
How massage can help you
Some of the physical benefits of massage are:
- Reduced muscle tension
- Improved circulation
- Stimulation of the lymphatic system
- Reduction of stress hormones
- Relaxation
- Increased range of joint movement
- Improved skin tone
- Improved recovery of soft tissue injuries
- Heightened mental alertness
- Reduced anxiety and depression
- Improved sleep patterns
Your body is amazing, working hard to keep you in balance… sometimes this balance is disturbed. I can help you restore your body’s equilibrium by using classical therapeutic techniques. Whether you have a specific problem, need to de-stress or just fancy being pampered I can provide an individual treatment programme just for you.
- Full body – 1hr
- Back, neck and shoulders – 30 mins
- Back – 30 mins
- Back, neck and shoulders – 45 mins