Holistic Massage uses hands-on skills and holistic viewpoints to provide individuals with bodywork based on intuitive touch, compassion, and balance.
A wide range of massage techniques may be used, including the core set of essential strokes plus those derived from unique forms such as Balinese, Hawaiian Lomi Lomi, Shiatsu, Thai, Ayurveda and Reflexology.
As a holistic treatment, sessions often go much deeper than traditional massage sessions by addressing all aspects of the individual: lifestyle, mental state, emotional well-being, and spirituality.
This incorporates understanding the body’s energy centers known as the chakras, breathing techniques, meditation, and visualization.
The outcome can be an integral part of a client's journey towards total wellness.
This means that what happens in your mind also affects your body. No organ system stands apart from your thoughts.
When tapping into intuitive healing, it’s important to take notice of how your body is responding.
While a positive attitude can stimulate growth, a negative mindset can impede it.
When you are stressed, anxious, or upset, your body reacts in a way that might tell you that something isn’t right.
Dry Cupping therapy is one of the oldest and most effective methods of releasing toxins from body tissue and organs.
It is a practice in which the therapist puts special cups on the skin to create suction. This causes the tissue beneath the cup to be drawn up and swell, causing an increase in blood flow to the affected area. Enhanced blood flow under the cups draws impurities and toxins away from the nearby tissues and organs towards the surface for elimination.
Indications:
Cupping therapy is indicated for healthy patients (anti-ageing treatment, rejuvenation purpose) and those suffering from ailments. Localized ailments that benefit from cupping therapy include headache, upper body & lower back pain, neck pain, and knee pain.
Systemic illnesses that have seen benefits with cupping therapy include hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes mellitus, mental disorders, heart disease, hypertension, and infections.
It can be used to treat skin diseases, respiratory, musculoskeletal, digestive, reproductive, and allergic conditions,
Absolute Contraindications:
Excessive dry or cracked skin
Open wounds or ulcers
Fractured bone Dislocated joint
Bleeding disorders
Severe anemia
Muscle dystrophy
Children under the age of 18 years old
Abcess
Excessive swelling
Pacemaker
Pregnancy has many limitations
Benefits:
Cupping helps to reduce pain and inflammation.
Improves blood flow.
They are used for relaxation, well-being and deep tissue massage.
It is a safe, non-invasive and inexpensive treatment.
Rejuvenation of body organs.
It facilitates the healing process and strengthens the immune system.
Reduce Anxiety and depression
Effects Skin: Improved metabolism in skin tissue, better functioning of sebaceous and sweat glands, improved healing and improved skin resistance.
Muscles: Stimulates blood flow and lymphatic drainage.
Joints: Increased blood flow and secretion of synovial fluid.
Digestive system: Increased peristalsis and secretion of digestive fluids, better digestion and excretion.
Blood: Improved blood circulation, improved functioning of RBC and WBC.
Nervous System: Stimulates sensory nerves of the skin, Improves ANS.
The side effects will typically occur during your treatment or immediately after. Lightheadedness or dizziness, sweating or nausea may be experienced.
After treatment, the skin around the cup's rim may become irritated and marked in a circular pattern. There may be a risk of Infection after undergoing cupping therapy, and it can be avoided if the practitioner follows the proper methods for cleaning the skin before and after the session.
Fatigue, soreness, redness or coloration of affected areas.
Localized treatment for chronic shoulder, clavicle, and arm pain from old injuries.
A hot stone massage may be a perfect option if you're exposed to a lot of stress. Muscular pain develops due to various factors ranging from stress, insomnia, anxiety, circulatory problems, or even joint problems. Many therapies have been developed to solve these problems, such as a hot stone massage.
This treatment combines standard therapeutic massage with the application of stones on the skin at different elevated temperatures. This can help vital flow energy and alleviate physical and emotional disorders.
The official name of this method is geothermal therapy, which focuses on the application of stones to the body. The stones are heated up beforehand and placed on the skin to relieve muscle tension, repair damaged soft tissue, or even improve energy.
It’s important to note that the stones used for this therapy are unique. They’re usually made of basalt, a type of volcanic rock with a flat and smooth shape. Beforehand, the massage therapist heats them to around 130 degrees Fahrenheit.
Then, the therapist applies the stones to specific areas of the body, such as the spine, chest, stomach, face, palms, and feet.
Concerning the technique, it will depend on the professional who’s doing the work. Some tend to hold the stones in their hands and then place them on people. They can also combine hot stone massage with Swedish massage, vibrations, or circular movements.
This practice has become popular thanks to its relaxing effects on the body and its properties in terms of energy renewal.
This is the most popular benefit of hot stone massage. Heat’s the perfect ally to relieve muscle pain and tension in the body.
This is because it allows for increased blood flow in the affected area, which helps reduce muscle spasms. It also reduces any inflammation that may occur in the muscles.
Stress and anxiety are a problem that more and more people suffer as a result of their busy lifestyles. This causes the worries or inconveniences of everyday life to turn into small charges of negative energy.
However, among the multiple treatments that exist for this, techniques with hot stones are effective in attacking and reducing stress levels. Thanks to this massage, energy flows, and harmony are achieved between body, mind, and spirit.
When a person develops a joint disease, it triggers another set of widespread pains that are very uncomfortable. That’s why massage is one of the first solutions to be considered when limitations are identified, such as difficulty moving.
Massages performed with hot stones are usually the best option, as this therapy is ideal for relaxing the muscles and reducing inflammation.
Various factors, such as stress, anxiety, and even pain in the body, often lead to other conditions linked to sleeping difficulties. In this regard, it’s important to stress the need for adequate rest to work optimally during the day.
Hot stone massages help promote the body's general relaxation, making more profound and better sleep quality possible.
Finally, we can’t overlook the benefits of these treatments for the skin. The improvement in blood circulation and the elimination of toxins contribute to much smoother and healthier-looking skin.
This means that it revitalizes, oxygenates, and illuminates dermatological tissue.
Despite the properties that hot stone massages have for the body, there is a series of advice you should consider. Avoid placing hot stones on damaged skin or swollen areas of the body.
If you have significant bruises, scrapes, cuts, or even minor burns, these massages must be avoided until the injuries are fully healed. Inform your massage therapist of any injuries and explain your health issues.
Reflexology is the application of pressure to areas on the feet (or the hands). Reflexology is generally relaxing and may help alleviate stress.
The theory behind reflexology is that areas of the foot correspond to organs and systems of the body. Therefore, pressure applied to the foot is believed to bring relaxation and healing to the corresponding area of the body.
Reflexologists use foot charts to guide them as they apply pressure to specific areas.
Several studies indicate that reflexology may reduce pain and psychological symptoms, such as stress and anxiety, and enhance relaxation and sleep.
Given that reflexology is also low risk, it can be a reasonable option if you're seeking relaxation and stress relief.
What is Jikiden Reiki?
In a nutshell, Jikiden Reiki is authentic Japanese Usui Reiki, as practised and taught in the late 1920s and 30s in Japan, with no western influence or adaption to the original teachings of the time.
What is Reiki, and how is it performed?
Reiki is an energy healing technique involving a Reiki practitioner using gentle hands-on movements to guide the flow of healthy energy (known in Reiki as “life force energy”) through the body to reduce stress and promote healing. Hands-on Reiki works for both physical and psychological health by reactivating the natural healing ability that people already possess.
Reiki is also working on eliminating toxins from the body, which may make you feel a bit worse for a short time after the session. This means this shift of stagnant energy was deeply needed and a couple more sessions are recommended to continue the cleansing process.
Jikiden Reiki as complementary therapy used with current medical treatments.
Please note that you must have a strong desire and openness for this holistic treatment for this therapy to be effective.
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