Receive the Most Benefits from Your Massage The best massages often include preparation. These expert tips help you receive the greatest benefits during and after your massage treatment. 1. Just Show Up The most important thing to do to get ready for a treatment is to just show up. Don’t allow anything to override this [...]
What to Know When Choosing a Massage When you're looking at a spa menu or choosing how to spend your time on the massage table, it can be helpful to understand more about some of the different popular massage techniques and modalities. Here is our guide with the info: Swedish Massage This technique includes long [...]
Expert Tips on Successful Massage: Making Therapeutic Choices Massage is one of the remedies available to us for many of the challenges of the modern world. Even in a single session, we can experience appreciable reductions in stress hormones, improvement in immune system function, and better overall resilience. Successful massage therapy helps us cope. And [...]
by Lisa Avebury In 1989, I had been in Los Angeles less than a year. I was fresh out of college, knew only one person, and felt ungrounded. On a particularly lonely day, an old friend showed up -- one who, in this lifetime; chose to wear a dog suit. When his eyes connected with [...]