Massage can help you maintain physical, mental, and emotional well being when you make it part of your regular wellness routine. The term holistic takes into account the whole person: body, mind, and spirit. Each part interacts and depends on the other to create the whole person.

How massage can affect each part of the whole person:
The Body – reduces or diminishes pain, enhances immune function, reduces stress, increases circulation, improves sleep patterns.
The Mind – improves focus and concentration, enhances alertness.
The Spirit – improves mood, reduces anxiety and depression, and helps you become more aware or present, able to live in the moment.

Aromatherapy is used as part of our holistic massage therapy due to its healing benefits. Aromatherapy is the art and science of using essential oils, or plant essences, to enhance the well being of body, mind, and spirit. Essential oils have medicinal and aromatic qualities that help the body heal.

During an aromatherapy massage, you inhale the essential oils and your skin absorbs them. The oils send messages to the limbic system, which is the part of your brain that controls emotions and influences the nervous system and hormones. Therefore, an aromatherapy massage helps to relax muscles, improves the immune response, allows the body to release toxins and is wonderful for health issues such as stress, insomnia, headache, premenstrual syndrome, digestive disorders and chronic pain.

Holistic massage is powerful therapy because it allows the body to recover from tension, fatigue, pain or injury. It is preventative therapy that is so valuable in keeping you healthy.