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Therapeutic stones have an amazing
healing energy and have been used for massage therapy
around the world for hundreds of years.
Hot Stone Massage is one of the fastest
growing massage techniques in today's spas throughout
this country and across international waters. This form
of bodywork involves the use of heated stones applied to
the body in various ways to bring about relief to stiff
and sore muscles, resulting in alleviation of chronic
and acute problems that many of us deal with on a daily
basis.
The type of basalt (for hot stones) that
is used in hot stone therapy is modified igneous rock
that is formed by volcanic and sedimentary action.
Basalt is the most abundant of the volcanic rocks,
especially plentiful in those regions that have
undergone volcanic disturbance within geologically
recent times. Most present-day volcanoes erupt basaltic
material. This black to sometimes greenish stone is very
dense and forms fine crystalline masses. The black
basalt stones stay hotter longer than any of the other
colors Mother Earth has to offer. The density of the
stones is 2.5 times the weight per volume of water. The
hardness is 7 on the Mohs' Scale of 1-10, a diamond
being a ten. The basalt that I use has been eroded by
steam or water activity. The stones then washed along a
river bottom and were given their smooth potato-like
shape and size.
This therapy is very
effective in creating harmony and a positive energy flow
thus promoting a sense of balance energy and peace.
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