Why have LaStone Therapy instead of traditional massage?

LaStone is:

- A massage and a deep tissue healing treatment
- A massage and a detoxification treatment
- A massage and immune system function booster
- A massage and an energy treatment
- A massage and a sanctuary for the soul

LaStone therapy changes you on a physical, emotional and spiritual level. LaStone balances. If you are sluggish, it invigorates, if you are unhealthy, it helps your body to become healthy or at least puts it in a position to fight illness more efficiently. If your immune system is weak, it will be boosted, and if you are feeling down, the therapy will bring you back up.

The therapy makes you feel amazing, and it takes you through feelings you didn’t know you could experience. A true LaStone therapy treatment is a challenge to the body, a rest for the mind and a journey for the spirit. Much of a LaStone treatment can be explained scientifically, but much of it is left to the individual and the universe.

What is new and totally unique is the delivery of the LaStone treatment. LaStone combines massage, thermotherapy, energy work and healing work, and it is all delivered through the very ‘alive’ gifts of mother earth – the stones.

LaStone is the ultimate dichotomy, the furthest of extremes : hot and cold, basalt and marble, sun and moon, male and female, yin and yang, black and white, relaxing and invigorating, sedating and euphoric, active and passive, vasodilating and vasoconstricting, Mother earth and Father sky.

LaStone therapy is the ultimate treatment. It is often known as the ‘Last One therapy’, or the last word in therapy because it is so many things. It can be any therapy that you know but delivered by way of a stone – a hot and/or cold stone.
It can be aromatherapy, deep tissue massage, remedial massage, reflexology, healing, shiatsu massage, acupressure, Chinese medicine, facials, manicures, pedicures, relaxation therapy and any other therapy. The stones know no boundaries, only the imagination of the therapist.

LaStone is a multifaceted technique designed to benefit client and therapist at once. The therapeutic potential of this treatment goes beyond ordinary massage. The physiological benefits of alternating heat and cold to the body have been successfully and medically proven. This unique form of massage utilises 54 hot stones and 29 frozen stones. Deep relaxation is only one of the benefits.

LaStone capitalises on these traditional practices with a current approach. Basalt and marble stones are the medium, and hot and cold temperatures are the message. These ‘vascular’ gymnastics of the circulatory system assist the body in self-healing. LaStone therapy administers this treatment with unerring elegance.

LaStone produces alternating sedative and energising responses. Clients love the potent recharge they receive from the treatment. LaStone therapy goes beyond the physical experience of massage, and enters deeper dimensions of relaxation, health and well being, creating a positive approach to ‘Body-Mind-Spirit’ philosophy.

The treatment.

To start the treatment, you will receive energy work to enable you to receive the treatment at its best. The combination of the energy work and the chemical response within the body during a LaStone treatment demonstrates the flexibility and the balance of the treatment. It is at once deep and remedial, as well as healing, releasing and refreshing.

LaStone works the whole of you on every level for the entire duration of the treatment.
During the treatment the therapist will place stones for you to lie on. Each stone is placed to stimulate or sedate the central nervous system, to work on the muscles, to increase the blood supply and to comfort you. The therapist will place stones on you and will hold stones throughout the treatment in their hands, working them deep into the muscles, it is as if they have miraculously transformed the stones into warm and firm, turbo-charged massage tools. The placing of the stones is not random, each stone and its temperature is specifically chosen for the work the stone is required to do. Some stones are worked and removed, and some are worked and tucked in for a prolonged effect.