Massage is where the skin and muscles are pulled, pushed and generally rubbed. This helps get blood flow to help healing. In essence massage movements relate to the body’s systems: circulatory and lymphatic.

Improving Circulation

Massage opens up blood vessels, improving circulation and relieving congestion, restoring full range of motion to your body, increasing flexibility and decreasing pain and discomfort.

Overcoming Fatigue

Massage helps with increasing the blood supply and nutrition to muscles, overcoming harmful fatigue resulting from strenuous exercise or injury. It improves muscle tone and helps prevent or delay muscular atrophy resulting from inactivity. Massage improves circulation, which increases blood flow, bringing fresh oxygen to body tissues. This can assist the elimination of waste products, speed healing after injury and enhance recovery from disease.

Massage – an antidote to stress

Massage is recognised an antidote to stress. Massage can help release the toxins and assist in the natural healing process. Additionally, this will assist in the removal of aches, pains and stress, leaving you relaxed and energised. Massage is a benefit to all people whether it is for discomfort or the prevention and maintenance for optimum health. Through the holistic view of massage the entire body is treated not just the part that is causing discomfort therefore increasing the body’s wellbeing and improves mind-body awareness.

Massage to enhance healing

Massage can have specific effects on the different the body. It helps by keeping the organ tissues healthy and enhances healing to improve the function of the systems as a whole given that the body systems interact in myriad ways. There is an overlapping function taking place within the different body systems while a massage is being received.

The benefits of massage

The benefits of massage can stimulate, increase, improve, develop, regenerate, and relax these organ systems. The effects of massage can also bring about changes mind, and emotions for example:

• Reduces mental stress and promotes better sleep
• Induces mental relaxation
• Fosters peace of mind
• Decreased anxiety
• Improves energy levels
• Reduces fatigue
• Provides a relaxed state of mental alertness
• Improves concentration
• Enhances capacity for calm thinking and creativity
• Improves ability to monitor stress and respond appropriately
• Enables a person to make peace between their ambitions and limitations
• Satisfies the natural need to be touched by a caring hand

Release of Tension

Massage’s ability to promote the release of tension through relaxation makes it a natural, enjoyable and inexpensive way to begin a health maintenance program.

Improved wellbeing

Massage can help stress related complaints such as headaches, backaches, neck pain, eyestrain, poor concentration, anxiety, depression, irritability, anger, high blood pressure, heart disease, ulcers, as well as physical and emotional exhaustion. It can be a powerful tool in aiding emotional wellbeing.

Massage with Rita

Full body massage: back, neck, shoulders, legs, arms, head and face – £45, 1 ¼ hours

Full body massage: without head and face massage – £40, 1 hour

Back, neck and shoulders: with head and face massage – £35, – 40 minutes

Back, neck and shoulders: without head and face massage – £25, – 30 minutes

Head shoulders and face massage: £20, 20 minutes

Contact Rita to book your massage