Reflexology, Aromatherapy and Indian Head Massage in the Basingstoke and North-Hants area.
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What is Reflexology?
Reflexology uses the feet [or hands] to treat the whole body. It’s a therapeutic and relaxing foot massage, which aims to promote the body’s powers of self-healing by increasing the circulation to all areas of the body. Every part of the body has a corresponding reflex area in the foot and these areas are worked by a form of compression massage, with the intention of restoring the balance and function of the body to normal. It has historical roots in China of 5000 years ago.
What will it do for me?- reduce your stress and induce deep relaxation
- improve your circulation
- help to cleanse your body of toxins and impurities
- balance your whole system, like a car having a tune-up
- revitalise your energy
- it can highlight a problem in your body areas or systems, which appear as energy blockages, which the therapist can then work to free up and rebalance, allowing your body to heal itself naturally
What does Reflexology not do?- It does not diagnose, as such. Doctors do that. It can sometimes take several sessions for feet to yield up their problems, depending on the presenting health of the individual.
What is Therapeutic Massage?
Massage has been around for centuries, with early evidence in China as long ago as 3000BC. India, Egypt, Japan, Greeks and Romans have all added their “spin” on the techniques and treatments, which arrived in modern times in the 16th century. Massage is the manual manipulation of the soft tissues of the body in order to promote health and well-being. It has many benefits, and is a powerful healing tool that enhances physical and emotional health… encouraging the body to heal itself without the use of chemicals.
What will it do for me?- reduce your stress and induce deep relaxation
- work on your tired and aching muscle tissue, releasing knots and tightness
- improve your circulation
- help to cleanse your body of toxins and impurities
- balance your whole system, like a car having a tune-up
- revitalise your energy
What is Aromatherapy Massage?
The use of Essential oils in Aromatherapy massage treatment is like a "double whammy". Oils absorbed into the body, through the skin and the lungs, work on the tissues, systems and emotions of the individual; rebalancing, clearing, uplifting or relaxing. The oils come from various parts of aromatic plants: leaves, flowers, fruit, grass, roots, wood, bark, gum and blossom. The Essential oil, the essence, is what gives the plant its fragrance.
Each oil has its own, sometimes many, therapeutic qualities, and they can be blended together to give unique powers of healing. The massage itself works on the lymphatic system of the body, and is a gentler and more soothing routine.
What will it do for me?- reduce your stress and induce deep relaxation
- work on your tired and aching muscle tissue, releasing knots and tightness
- improve your circulation
- help to cleanse your body of toxins and impurities
- balance your whole system, like a car having a tune-up
- revitalise your energy
- cleanse your body of toxins and impurities
- stimulate your immune system
- promote a general state of well-being
- calm and soothe your mind
- help to reduce nervous tension, anxiety and depression
What is Hot Stone Therapy?
Traditional massage treatments rely on the skill and strength of the therapist’s hands to deliver relief to stressed muscles and joints. Treatments combining such massages with the use of hot stones add another dimension to the healing experience.
The stones are actually volcanic basalt pebbles of varying sizes, tumbled smooth by thousands of years’ exposure to the free-flowing rivers in which they’re found. Gently heated in water, they can either rest on your body to send warmth deep within or be used in the therapist’s hands to soothe and work through muscle tension.
What will it do for me?- Calm your nervous system, so reduce stress and induce deep relaxation
- work on your tired and aching muscle tissue, releasing knots and tightness
- improve your circulation
- help to cleanse your body of toxins and impurities
- revitalise your energy
What kind of Hot Stone Massage can I have?- Hot Stone back, neck and shoulder massage - 45 minutes concentrating on the areas where we hold most tension
- Hot Stone full-body massage - A 90-minute whole-body experience enhanced by the lingering effects of aromatherapy oils
- Hot Stones with Reiki healing - The placing of hot stones on and around the body’s energy centres, combined with a Reiki healing session
Choose either a gentle, relaxing treatment, or one designed to energise and revitalise. Your therapist will discuss your needs with you before treatment begins. Not just a physical therapy, it also enhances mental well-being and helps ease the symptoms of tension, anxiety and depression.
What is Indian Head Massage?
It comes from India, where it’s an important part of family life, even for children, who practise on granny from the age of 6! It’s been around in India for 4000 years or so, and is beginning to appear in the west, in a modified form as part of stress management programmes.
It’s a combination of friction and pressure massage to the upper back, shoulders, neck, upper arms, head and face and is non-invasive. it can be done through clothing, sitting in an office chair, completely clothed. Because it works on the areas most vulnerable to stress and tension, it becomes a complete body de-stressor.
What will it do for me?- reduce your stress and induce deep relaxation
- work on your tired and aching muscle tissue, releasing knots and tightness
- improve your circulation
- help to cleanse your body of toxins and impurities
- balance your whole system, like a car having a tune-up
- revitalise your energy
- promotes hair growth and improves its condition
- helps to relieve mental and physical strain, clearing the mind, promoting clearer thinking and concentration
- helps to relieve tension headaches and eyestrain
- helps to relieve congestion in the head e.g. that associated with tinnitus and sinusitis
- it’s an antidote to stress, anxiety and depression
Service Categories
Aromatherapy, Indian Head Massage, Reflexology, Reiki, Stone Therapy Massage
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