Maling Road Massage
Bookings and Contact
Maling Road Pharmacy - 9836 4039
Enquiries to Michele - 0432 568 038
malingroadmassage@gmail.com
A Natural Approach to Better Health & Healing
How Massage Works
Increased circulation and relaxation brings a cascade
of physical and emotional benefits
Promotes soft tissue injury healing
- Aids healing in muscle, tendon,ligament and
fascia injuries
- Increased oxygenation and blood circulation helps to
reduce pain throughout
muscles and tissues
- Increases the pliability of
scar tissue making
movement easier and
re-tearing less likely
- Improves posture by developing body awareness - tight muscles relax, shortened muscles gently stretch and lengthen
- Increases the body's flexibility
- Delays joint deterioration and enhances joint health
- Helps restore and increase joint range of motion
- Reduces inflammation and swelling
- Supports the body's ability to heal more rapidly
Enhances sports and physical performance
- Helps prevent strain and overstretching taking muscles and tissues longer to heal
- The body becomes less
prone to re-injury
-Supports regular exercise
- Faster recovery from strenuous workouts, with
less fatigue
- Increased oxygen and circulation speeds elimination
of the body's metabolic waste
Helps to reduce pain
- Relieves neck, scalp, back and shoulder tension
- Helps reduce headache and migraine frequency and intensity
- Reduces pain in surrounding areas that may have tightened,
therefore altering the body's perception of pain
- Helps break the stress cycle associated with regular headaches: such as interrupted sleep, and irritability
- Headaches may also cause sinusitis, neck strain, jaw and neck pain
Promotes feelings of wellbeing
- Stress is easier to handle
when you're feeling relaxed
- Brings feelings of renewed optimism,energy and creativity
- Deeper and more restorative
sleep following a massage
- Reduces the level of stress hormones in the bloodstream
- Increased oxygen to the brain reduces mental fatigue and
improves concentration
Reduces anxiety and promotes the body's relaxation response
- Balances the peripheral
nervous system
- Gives the body a signal
that it is time to stop,
slow-down and begin to recuperate
- Heart rate slows, rapid breathing also slows and regulates
- Calming touch interrupts
the body's stress cycle of
'fight or flight' response
- Increases the ability to cope with life's changes and challenges
Reiki
Reiki - The Gentle Healing Art
(pronounced ("RAY-key")
Reiki is a Japanese word meaning universal life energy.
Also referred to ki in Japan, prana in India and chi in China
Many cultures believe that life energy flows through the body, affecting out entire being.
When the energy flow throughout the body is disrupted, imbalances correlate to physical, mental and emotional illness.
Universal energy flows through the practitioner to you - you may feel tingling, warmth and feelings of profound well-being.
Reiki draws on universal life energy to benefit people of any age and in any state of health.
Aromatherapy
Aromatherapy is the therapeutic use of essential oils which are steam distilled from a wide variety of plants. Aromatherapy is the difference between using genuine essential oils and manufactured artificial scents and fragrance. Their therapeutic qualities have specific and complex components found only in authentic, plant derived oils. Aromatherapy assists to
relieve stress, reduce pain
and increase physical and emotional balance.
eucalyptus - native to Australia - relieves muscle ache due to sports and symptoms of cold and flu. Traditionally used to treat bronchitis, asthma, sinus and throat infections, eucalyptus is also well known for its anti-bacterial qualities.
Cupping
While the specific origin of cupping is unknown,
the use of suction as a therapeutic device has been documented throughout history.
Tools such as hollowed out animal horns and bamboo were used to purge bites, poisons, pustules and skin infections and lesions from the body.
Suction cupping induces a negative pressure,
rather than a forceful compression.
The suction inside the cup facilitates tissue softening, loosens muscle adhesion sand relieves muscle ache.
Cupping flushes capillary beds, drains
stagnated blood of toxins and assists the Lymphatic System to process fluid more effectively.
Benefits
- allows for deep tissue work and release
without the discomfort
of force
- moves stagnation and drains fluids
- reduces inflammation
- stretches muscle and connective tissue
- pulls blood supply into the skin
- cupping feels good - it relaxes the parasympathetic nervous system, allow the body to relax