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Seasons change and moods can change as the days grow shorter and the sweltering heat of South Florida makes way to cooler nights.. Cooler weather makes for the perfect time to incorporate hot stone massage into your overall health and wellness regimen. This favorite massage technique can help combat the negative effects that less sun and cooler evening nights by warming your mind and body from the inside out.
The Purpose of Hot, Smooth Stones
This popular massage technique enhances a regular deep tissue or Swedish massage session by incorporating hot smooth stones on specific trigger points throughout your body. The leading purpose of using these stones in your massage therapy session is to open up your body’s energy channels thereby significantly reducing muscle tension and improving relaxation throughout your mind and body.
Warm Muscles Make Way for a Healthy Body
Hot stone massage in particular is best for easing muscle tension without deep pressure, thereby being an excellent treatment for deep muscle strains and tight muscle knots associated with stress and/or injury. This massage therapy technique has been around for hundreds of years and is routinely used for increasing your body’s circulation by allowing the body to pump more oxygen and nutrients into tissues and vital organs.
Warn Attitudes Make Way for Happy Times
As the holiday season rolls in and hectic schedules become the norm, hot stone massage can help create a meditative relaxing effect that balances the health and well being of your mind and body. Revive and rejuvenate your mental and physical well-being during the winter months with a hot Stone massage therapy session.
There is an ever-growing body of research that confirms the positive effects of massage on the cardiovascular, lymphatic, integumentary (including fascia), musculoskeletal, endocrine, nervous and digestive systems. Hot stone massage is specifically recommended for individuals suffering from fibromyalgia because the penetrating effects of the heated stones allows the therapist to deliver massage without the need for excessive pressure.
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