Healing Therapies for Mind, Body and Spirit

LaStone or hot stone massage therapy, has been rapidly gaining popularity over the last ten years. Hot stone massage therapy combines the benefits of hydrotherapy (water therapy) and thermotherapy (heat therapy) with massage techniques, to create a deeply relaxing and healing treatment. Basalt is usually the stone of choice because it absorbs and retains heat better than other stone. The flat, river stones are warmed in water, in a special heater, to between 125 and 135 degrees. Some of the stones are then place on strategic places on your body, such as your spine, thighs, and between your toes, while others are used for deep tissue massage. 

A mixture of cold stones are often used to add extra benefit.

The stones  become a link to Mother Earth, and that contact with the stones through a hot stone massage, connects us with nature, and can remind us, on one level, of what it was like as a child to relax and play. Hot stone therapy can work on much deeper levels, taking us deep within ourselves, with the potential for healing emotional distress and anger.
Some of the benefits of Hot Stone Therapy:

Deeper Relaxation
Continuous Heat Therapy
Increased Relief to Stressed Muscles
Improved Detoxification
Pains eased
Improved circulation
Tension and stress relief
Improved sleep
Is also effective for some skin disorders, to combat depression and PMT.

Hot stone therapy can help ailments such as:

· Muscular aches, pains, sprains, and strains
· Poor circulation
· Rheumatic and arthritic conditions
· Fibromyalgia
· MS
· Back pain
· Stress, anxiety and tension
· Insomnia
· Depression