LaStone Therapy (Hot Stone Massage)
LaStone® Massage is the original hot and cold stone therapy.
This therapy utilizes basalt and marble stones. The basalt stones conduct the heat and the marble stones release inflammation. La Stone Hot Stone Therapy is a massage and a detoxification treatment, an immune system function booster, a reflexology treatment and a deep tissue healing treatment.
Benefits of Hot and Cold Stone Massage
- Improved sense of well-being
- A release of endorphins, the body’s natural painkillers
- Improved arthritic conditions
- A release of stored stress and tension
- Improved circulation
- A decrease in aches and pain in the joints.
- In some cases, hot stone therapy may also have positive effects on people suffering from depression, insomnia and anxiety.
LaStone® Therapy offers to the body worker relief for their tired, over worked hands and wrists, a break from exhausting hours of massage or deep tissue work. For the Energy worker LaStone® offers assistance in bringing balance to the Body-Mind-Soul with the use of Mother Earth’s Stone People. LaStone® is a multifaceted technique designed to benefit the client and therapist at once. The therapeutic potential of this treatment goes beyond measure. The physiological benefits of alternating hot and cold to the body have long been scientifically and medically proven. The stones are the medium and the hot and cold temperatures are the message. This “vascular gymnastics” of the circulatory system assists the body in self-healing. LaStone® Therapy administers this principle with unerring elegance; producing sedative and reenergizing responses to the body. This form of bodywork involves the use of heated and cooled stones; Geo-Thermo-Therapy (SM), applied to the body in various ways to bring about relief to stiff and sore muscles; resulting in alleviation of chronic and acute problems that many of us deal with on a daily basis.