Feeling frazzled? Having trouble sleeping? Got a few extra aches, pains, and twinges that need ironing out? Our relaxation massage is about releasing tension, calming nerves, and helping you recentre, rebalance and ground.
Book a session if you're after a gentler style of hands on therapy or if you suffer from: anxiety or depression, chronic muscular pain, or if you're sensitive to deep touch.
Price: $98
Melt away tension and sooth tired muscles. Hot stone massage can relieve pain and tension in your muscles due to the combination of massage therapy and heat. Heat is often recommended as a way to treat aching muscles. Applying heat to an area of the body helps increase blood flow to that spot, which improves healing.
Price: $98
Foot reflexology is a complementary therapeutic technique, that works by pressure stimulation of precise reflex points on the feet. According to the principle that there is a faithful depiction of the whole body on the feet, these reflex areas correspond to the multiple parts of the body.
Find out some of its benefits:
* Stimulates the production of endorphin and serotonin, analgesics naturally produced by the body
* Increases the sense of well-being, calms down and relaxes, helping to control stress, anxiety, and depression.
* Detoxifies and revitalises the body. Improves blood circulation.
* Helps in the treatment of Parkinson's, asthma, migraine, back pains, visceral dysfunctions, arthritis, muscle pain, menopause, premenstrual tension, insomnia, poor digestion, constipation, thyroid, among others.
Price: $98
Facial massage helps promote healthy skin while relaxing your facial muscles. It has a relaxing and rejuvenating effect, helping you look and feel better.
Benefits of facial massage include anti-aging effects; rejuvenation and glowing skin; relieving sinus pressure, discomfort, and congestion; relieving symptoms of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) such as headache, earache, or lockjaw, and reducing acne.
Price: $135
Lymphatic drainage massage is a form of gentle massage that encourages the drainage of lymph nodes and the movement of lymph fluids around the body. It can help relieve symptoms of lymphedema.
The fluid in the lymphatic system helps remove waste and toxins from body tissues. Some health conditions can cause lymph fluid to build up.
Lymphatic drainage massages may benefit people with lymphedema, fibromyalgia, or other conditions.
Price: $135
Pre-surgical lymphatic drainage massage works to prepare the body for the treatment that’s coming.
The main importance of lymphatic drainage preoperatively refers to reducing swelling and fluid retention, allowing the natural elimination of substances that are not necessary. As a result, the body becomes clean and lighter, making the procedure more effective.
At the same time, it is effective to causing physical relaxation, improving blood circulation, increasing the dilation of the vessels, a big amount of blood and nutrients reaches all tissues of the body, allowing these areas to become healthier.
The number of sessions need before a surgical procedure can vary according to each patient.
Please note that PRE-SURGICAL LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE shall be done after doctor authorization.
Price: $135
Pumping movements of lymphatic drainage will be responsible for directing liquids to the ganglia, where they are eliminated from the body. It helps to improve the patient's recovery, eliminating excess fluid and edema, and seroma (inflammatory reaction that expels a reddish-yellow liquid), fibrosis (formation of nodules in the skin) and fluid retention.
Some procedures, such as abdominoplasty and liposuction, require additional techniques to maximize results, the quality of the lymphatic drainage massage can be responsible for up to 30% of the results in liposuction surgery. Post- surgical lymphatic drainage is also recommended for breast, and facial surgeries.
Please note that POST-SURGICAL LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE shall be done after doctor authorization, only.
Please go to FAQS to find further information about POST-SURGICAL LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE
Price: $135
Please check bellow some of Benefits:
*May helps to reduce the perception of pain, whether chronic or acute, providing temporary relief.
* Relief of muscle tension, improved posture and body awareness.
* Increased joint mobility, this factor improves range of motion and reduces stiffness.
Symptoms that therapeutic massage can help alleviate:
Muscle aches; Back pain; Low back pain; Rheumatic pains; Edema; Muscle spasms; Migraines; Nervous Tension; Tendinitis; Cramps, and more.
Please go to FAQS to find further information about therapeutic massage.
Price: $135
Pregnancy massage have a significant role in preparing the future mother, is one of the most used manual techniques for relieving pain and discomfort related to this period.
In addition to providing numerous benefits, such as improving blood circulation, and lymphatic system; it brings well-being and relaxation to those who receive it.
Check some of those benefits:
*Reducing back pain; relieving leg and joins fatigue; reducing shoulder pain; improving pelvic mobility; promoting rest; Increased skin hydration, prevention of stretch marks as it helps to maintain skin elasticity; Improved self-esteem; decreased stress and anxiety, as it acts directly on the nervous system improving sleep and digestion.
Massages are only allowed by obstetricians after the first trimester of pregnancy.
Please go to FAQS to find further information about therapeutic massage.
Price: $135
After giving birth, a woman's body goes through several changes, and it is essential to offer it the support it needs for a healthy recovery, physically and emotionally.
Motherhood can be emotionally challenging. Massage offers a moment of relaxation and selfcare, helping to relieve stress and anxiety as a emotional support way.
Check others benefit:
*Improved Skin Elasticity; Back Pain Relief, shoulders and pelvic area, relaxing tense muscles and improving circulation; may help the body eliminate toxins.
In the case of a caesarean, it is recommended to wait at least two weeks or until the scar is well healed, or in some cases wait for medical advice. If the birth was natural and without complications, usually massage can begin as soon as the mother feels comfortable.
Price: $135
Elderly Massage techniques used for seniors include a lighter and gentler treatment.
There is evidence that regular massages may have an effect on memory. Repetitive touch can help elderly, especially those suffering from neurodegenerative diseases, retain some body memory, which in turn can trigger the recall of other memories, also can help improve mental health, as well as anxiety and depression, due massage may help reduces the unhealthy accumulation of cortisol, releasing endorphins, hormones and neurotransmitters that are beneficial for the functioning of the nervous system.
Even the gentlest massage has proven effects on the nervous system and blood circulation, two of the body's most vulnerable systems that feel the effects of aging.
Check others positive effects of weekly massage sessions:
* It helps relieve joint pain and muscle pain; Soothes pain due to osteoarthritis; Improve sleep quality; May helps alleviate some of the expressions of agitation in cases of Alzheimer's disease; Increases blood flow to the limbs; Improving the Immune system, blood circulation, and more.
Price: $135
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