27/04/2025
❓How does massage therapy contribute to both physical relaxation and deep emotional or spiritual healing in the body?
💫Physically, massage therapy helps by:
✨Releasing muscle tension: Skilled touch softens tight muscles and fascia, improving circulation and easing pain.
✨Lowering cortisol levels: Cortisol is the “stress hormone.” Massage can reduce it, helping the body shift from “fight or flight” to “rest and digest.”
✨Activating the parasympathetic nervous system: This leads to slowed heart rate, deeper breathing, and an overall sense of calm.
💫Emotionally and spiritually, massage can:
✨Create safe, nurturing touch: Offering grounded, nonjudgmental presence, it allows the client to feel deeply safe — sometimes safer than they’ve felt in a long time — opening doors to emotional release or processing.
✨Access stored emotions: Trauma, grief, or stress often gets “held” in the body. Massage can help those old, stuck feelings rise to the surface where they can be acknowledged and released.
✨Reinforce mind-body awareness: Gentle or intuitive touch helps reconnect a person with sensations and inner states they may have been ignoring or suppressing.
✨Offer a ritualistic or sacred space: At Red Stone, I intentionally create an environment (with breathwork, energy work, aromatherapy, music) that helps people connect to a sense of wholeness, soul, or spirit.
