What Is Hot Stone Massage?What Is Hot Stone Massage?
Hot stone massage is a type of massage developed using techniques found from Native American history. The Native Americans would use the relaxing hot stone massage heated by fire to treat aching muscles and help them heal, as was often the case with these highly active people. Mary Nelson developed the first massage treatment to use hot stones which are called LaStone Therapy. Since this was created many other masseurs and spas have created their versions of the treatment such as stone therapy, wild water stone therapy, and other such names.
How it works
When receiving a hot stone massage, the masseur will use heat
ed smooth stones to heat up certain muscles in the body. While these stones heat up the body, the masseur will use others as extensions of their hands, rubbing them all over a person’s body in different massage strokes to achieve complete relaxation.
The advantage of using hot stones is that muscles are warmer and therefore more relaxed, meaning they can be worked to a higher degree without the need to press so hard during massage. Through hot stone massage, a masseur can achieve the same effects as deep therapy massage if they do the massage strokes correctly.
Who does hot stone massage?
Hot stone massage is very difficult to master, and many people find that when they go for one, they come out no better than they were before. To reach the right level of skill to perform a good hot stone massage a masseur needs to have been working for many years.
Over these years a masseur will d
evelop a sense for what their customers can tolerate regarding temperature, and also learn how to effectively massage after using stones to gently heat muscles. Some people have complained about going for a hot stone massage and being treated like an ironing board. This is not the effect that you should be feeling, and if a masseur begins to make you feel this way they need to be told, otherwise a massage could be wasted, and you could, in fact, end up coming out feeling worse than when you went in.
Stone massage is a type of body massage developed from techniques used by the Native Americans. The fact that it has been used for so long shows that it’s an effective type of massage that clearly achieves a greater level of healing and relaxation in the muscles. Otherwise, people would have moved onto a different form of massage that achieves better results.…