Swedish massage

Swedish massage is the most commonly offered and best-known type of massage. If it’s your first time receiving massage, Swedish massage is the perfect place to start. Designed to improve your circulation, soothe your muscles and make you more relaxed. Swedish massage involves deep pressure applied to meet an individual’s specific needs and preferences and a variety of intensive massage techniques such as kneading, tapping and stroking.

Benefits of Swedish massage:

Easing muscular strain by flushing out toxins
Improving circulation by increasing oxygen flow in the blood
Helping to keep ligaments and tendons supple
Stimulating the nervous system
Reducing emotional and physical stress
Release of endorphins, the body’s natural painkillers
Reduction in muscle spasm, pain and tension

Sports

Sports massage is specifically designed for people who are involved in physical activity. But you don't have to be a professional athlete to have one-it's also used by people who are active and work out often. The focus isn't on relaxation but on preventing and treating injury and enhancing athletic performance.

A combination of techniques are used. The strokes are generally faster than Swedish massage. Facilitated stretching is a common technique. It helps to loosen muscles and increase flexibility.

Holistic

It is considered by many as the most advanced system of massage therapy. In a holistic massage session, a holistic approach is implemented. The individual is treated as a multidimensional human being with body, mind and soul, whilst every part of the body is treated as a shell of a greater organism.

A combination of various massage techniques is implemented, such as Swedish, Lymphatic, Sports, Deep Tissue, Cellulite etc.

The benefits of such a treatment could be innumerous since a holistic massage treatment affects the nervous system directly, while the respiratory and the circulatory systems are improved. The lymphatic circulation is reinforced, the muscular and kinetic glitches are treated and skeletal pains are confronted.

A holistic massage aims at reviving the cells of the human body, thus waking up and activating its self- treating ability.

The beneficial effect on our energy body is direct since the energy centers of our body become receptors of therapeutic stimulants throughout the entire process of the treatment. As a result, a holistic massage is expected to comfort you from anxiety & stress, or even relax you from headaches and megrims.

It is an integrated method of restoration that will lead you to well-being and will relieve you from the tensions of the body and the mind.

Deep Tissue

Deep tissue massage is designed to relieve severe tension in the muscle and the connective tissue or fascia. This type of massage focuses on the muscles located below the surface of the top muscles. Deep tissue massage is often recommended for individuals who experience consistent pain, are involved in heavy physical activity (such as athletes), and patients who have sustained physical injury. It is not uncommon for receivers of deep tissue massage to have their pain replaced with a new muscle ache for a day or two. Deep tissue work varies greatly.

The term “deep tissue” is often misused to identify a massage that is performed with sustained deep pressure. Deep tissue massage is a separate category of massage therapy, used to treat particular muscular-skeletal disorders and complaints and employs a dedicated set of techniques and strokes to achieve a measure of relief. Benefits include regulation of circulatory function, energy levels, stimulation of the lymphatic flow to help eliminate toxins, cellulite reduction, increase muscle tone, immune system stimulation and promote a sense of calm and relaxation.

Cellulite

An anti-cellulite massage is beneficial in many ways. It drastically improves the appearance and health of our skin and it cuts down on the orange peel skin to smooth it out and tone it up. The anti-cellulite massage is a type of body treatment that favours the elimination of toxins and adipose nodules that accumulate in specific areas of the body which are manipulated to increase the blood flow, supply more oxygen to our cells, restore tissue, stimulate the blood circulation and the lymphatic system.

The anti-cellulite massage treatment is ideal for hard, soft and edematous cellulite, which is distinguished by the extent and the level fat cells that accumulate just under the skin.

Ashiatsu - Barefoot

Αshiatsu is an updated, Western version of an ancient form of bodywork: massage using the feet. Its roots can be found in a variety of Eastern healing techniques that stretch back thousands of years. Though gentle, the Ashiatsu massage offers a depth unmatched by any other massage technique.

Ashiatsu massages are done with the client laying face down on the massage table. The therapist stands over the client on the massage table and uses her feet to massage the client. The advantage of Ashiatsu - for both client and practitioner - is that it allows gravity to do the work, leveraging the therapist's body weight to deliver the deepest massage available today.

Ashiatsu offers deep compression, without discomfort. In many ways, the long, flowing strokes of Ashiatsu are similar to a Swedish massage - only deeper than the hands can deliver. Your session will end with a relaxing, traditional massage of the shoulders and feet.

Reiki

We are alive because life force is flowing through us. Life force flows within the physical body though pathways called chakras, meridians and nadis. It also flows around us in a field of energy called the aura. Life force nourishes the organs and cells of the body, supporting them in their vital functions. When this flow of life force is disrupted, it causes diminished function in one or more of the organs and tissues of the physical body.

The life force is responsive to thoughts and feelings. It becomes disrupted when we accept, either consciously or unconsciously, negative thoughts or feelings about ourselves. These negative thoughts and feelings attach themselves to the energy field and cause a disruption in the flow of life force. This diminishes the vital function of the organs and cells of the physical body.

Reiki heals by flowing through the affected parts of the energy field and charging them with positive energy. It raises the vibratory level of the energy field in and around the physical body where the negative thoughts and feelings are attached. This causes the negative energy to break apart and fall away. In so doing, Reiki clears, straightens and heals the energy pathways, thus allowing the life force to flow in a healthy and natural way.