Information About LaStone Therapy?

What is LaStone Therapy and how does it work?
What is a LaStone Therapy Session Like?
What Health Conditions Does LaStone Therapy Treat?

What is LaStone Therapy and how does it work?

LaStone Therapy, the original hot and cold stone massage

The stone is the medium and the temperature is the message.

Stones have been around since the beginning of time, so they have stories to tell us. Don't we all feel refreshed after a day on the beach - hot stones and cool water. Stones have been used in ceremonies and treatments by various cultures throughout the world. In America, the Sioux tribe used stones to mark a boys transition through manhood by lying on rocks, with stones placed between his toes. In Russia people line the bottom of their bath with hot stones and lie on them. The Chinese were using heated stones during the Shang Dynasty to relieve sore muscles. Japanese monks use stones to keep their stomachs warm after a meal. Closer to home we surely remember our grandmothers using stone irons (or am I showing my age). Stones come from Mother Earth and that is what a LaStone Treatment is about creating balance between the body and Mother Earth and Father Sky.

It uses stones for work on the body and also for placement under and on the body during the treatment.

LaStone Therapy delivers the principles of geothermotherapy - alternating the application of heated and chilled stones - to the body.

It reflects and aims to create balance and harmony on all levels.
It uses deep, penetrating massage techniques and highly effective energy work.
It effects chemical, physical and spiritual healing within the mind, body and spirit.
It uses warm and chilled stones.
The temperature does the work; the stones deliver the message.
It values the gifts from the earth and the sky.
It is in perfect balance - Yin and Yang.

LaStone observes that the stones were here before us and will be here long after we have turned to dirt and dust. LaStone observes many Native American values and rituals.

LaStone Therapy uses very specific elements and techniques, e.g. five element theory, energy flow, honouring breath, spinal layout, opening spiral, energy connection, proper stone placement closing spiral, spinal spirals.

What is a LaStone Therapy Session Like?

During a treatment you will lie on a massage couch, undressed but covered with a towel. Your therapist will then ask you to sit up and he/she will place stones on the massage couch alongside your spine, adjusting them carefully so that all your spinal muscles will be touched. These stones are then covered and you are asked to lie back down. Your LaStone Treatment has just commenced. Stones are then wrapped and placed in your hands. A pillow is placed under your knees to support your lower back. Energy work commences, to allow you to open your energetic field for your treatment. Stones are then placed along the main chakras on the front of the body. Then the massage commences. Using oil, and hot and cool stones your legs, arms, shoulders, neck and face are carefully massaged. This can be either light or deep, depending on your needs, but all done with care and attention for your body and of course with stones. Small stones are placed between your toes, (we sometimes forget our little toes).

Your therapist will remove the chakra stones from the front of your body and completes the energy work for the front of the body thus grounding you. You will then be asked to sit up and the stones you were lying on will be removed. You then turn over and another stone is on the massage couch covered for your tummy. You are again covered with a towel and a pillow is placed under your ankles for support. Energy work then commences to connect your limbs and to place chakra stones on your back over the towel. Your legs and back are then massage with oil and stones. Now your back can be worked deeper as it has been lying on the stones initially and all your muscles are nice and loose so specific work can be undertaken, if necessary.

When all the massage is finished your therapist will use a selenite/fluorite crystal to ground you. Your hands and feet are cleansed (so no sticky paws), then several things may occur to bring your treatment to an end, e.g. Native American White Sage can be burned in an abalone shell and wafted around your body with a beautiful feather fan to clear the energy around you; Tibetan bowls can be placed along your spine and chimed; Stones can be sung. All this is done with you lying on the couch covered with the towel and the sheet you are lying on to give comfort and allow you to come back to your own space. Your therapist will bring you some water to drink and organise you to return to your day.

During a treatment your therapist will use basalt stones, all carefully hand picked by people who are in tune with nature - something is always given back to Mother Earth for her unselfishness of allowing us to use her stones. The basalt stones are paired off so as the massage strokes feel balanced. The basalt stones are heated in water and used to relieve muscle aches etc but also it has energetic qualities. To quote Jane Scrivner 'Basalt is said to provide you with the strength to continue through difficult times and can produce solidarity. It can help to diffuse anger and with providing understanding and guidance in situations that we need to recover from. It will help you through change while providing a stable 'rock' in life.'

Marble stones are also used in a treatment. These are kept in iced water. Marble is a stone that has been used for protection over the centuries so in a LaStone treatment the same applies on both physical and emotional levels. Physically marble will stimulate your metabolism and it encourages healing. Emotionally marble helps to clear out.

What Health Conditions Does LaStone Therapy Treat?

This is the beauty of a LaStone Therapy Treatment, as we work with temperature we can give a treatment to almost every person. A qualified therapist can devise a treatment plan for you on the day and as your condition varies your treatment will also vary. When designing a treatment plan for that day your therapist will make sure it is one that will challenge your body, mind and soul but not over due!

The goal is to get you to see the gentle benefits of receiving on going treatments in order to tonify and strengthen your body to become healthier and better able to move through your days.

Once the body is totally relaxed and cocooned with temperature and stones healing can occur. This all depends on the three variables we work with

TIME - TEMPERATURE - TECHNIQUE

LaStone Therapy works for the following:

Anaemia
Arthritis
Asthma
Back problems
Bladder problems
Blood pressure (high & low)
Bronchitis
Circulation
Constipation
Diabetes
Digestion
Fatigue
Fibromyalgia
Headaches
Heart problems
Kidney problems
Lung problems
Muscle inflammation
Menopause
Migraine
Sciatica
Sinus problems
Sleep disorders
Spasms
Sprains
Strains
And more