Benefits
Massage offers a wide range of benefits for both body and mind.
- Relief from Muscle Tension and Pain: Massage can help alleviate chronic tension pain patterns and can help muscles recover from injury and soreness more efficiently. Massage can also aid in the management of chronic conditions and pain.
- Improved Circulation: reduced blood flow to an area can be the major trigger for pain, massage enhances blood flow which nourishes tissues and aids the movement of metabolic toxins
- Enhanced Flexibility and Range of Motion: movement helps maintain functioning joints, range of motion techniques in massage can help synovial fluid stay moving and reduce aches and pain with arthritis
- Boosts Immune system: by reducing muscle tension massage can help the flow of the lymph system, which can help the body's immune defenses by reducing stagnation and promoting flow
- Better Sleep and Stress Reduction: massage helps the body shift from an active state to the rest and digest state. This encourages the body to rest deeper, lower cortisol levels, and aid the release of endorphins
- Mental Clarity: During a massage session you are invited to just be, and have space held for you. With nothing for you to attend to your mind can find its way to rest and re-establish its familiarity with this restful calm state. This reinforces a "muscle memory" of sorts for the mind. Having more moments of dedicated relaxation helps us be able to carry that state of being as we move through our lives.
Cupping is a traditional therapeutic technique that involves placing cups ( plastic, silicone, or glass) on the skin and applying a vacuum to create suction. This practice is part of traditional healing systems including, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Ayurveda and Middle Eastern practices.
Cupping can be beneficial in that it can:
Relieve muscle tension pain and adhesions
Improve circulation
Reduce Inflammation
Can be a great choice for those who find too much skin-on-skin contact distressing
Cups can be stationary and left in place for up to 20 -30 minutes, or they can be moved along the body. Cuping generally does leave temporary circular marks on the skin that fade over time.