The ultimate indulgent massage ...

delivered to you through the very ‘alive’ gifts of Mother Earth

LaStone Therapy uses both heated black basalt lava stones and cooled white marble stones to provide you with a genuinely grounding and thoroughly relaxing deep-tissue cleansing treatment. This treatment can be isolated to specific areas of injury or full body to experience the total mind, body and spiritual benefits.

The stones used for treatments  are specifically chosen for their therapeutic properties such as basalt (for heating) which has been polished and shaped flat and smooth by rivers and oceans,  and marble (for cooling)  which stays cold and absorbs body heat.  LaStone therapists believe that the  natural stones that they use contain the earth’s healing energy and due to their varying weight, size and temperature, have the added benefit of enabling easy relaxation of the muscles, allowing the therapist to apply deeper pressure, if desired, with little manual effort.

The incorporation of combined hot and cold stones enables your body to be healed, whilst at the same time allowing you to enter a sublime level of relaxation which may never have been experienced before with any other deep tissue work. Some people consider traditional deep tissue work to be too uncomfortable - but with the LaStone Therapy this is simply not the case ...... the deep effects of an authentic LaStone Therapy are gentle and can be pleasantly felt throughout the body for many days after a treatment.

It is ideal for men or women who feel anxious or stressed and need clarity of thought or those who want to unknot muscles that have tightened through exercise or work and it is a fabulous way to give comfort to those suffering from back pain, poor circulation, osteoarthritis, insomnia and depression. The physiological benefits of alternating between hot and cold to the body have long been scientifically and medically proven and while the hot stones help improve circulation and calm the nervous system to aid deep relaxation, the cold stones increase the lymph flow of waste materials around the body causing a detoxifying effect. This, along with the sedative effect that the LaStone Therapy has on the mind, means the whole body and mind becomes rebalanced, energised and calm.

The massage therapist often begins by applying oil to the body which allows the hot stones to glide smoothly along the muscles and helps warm them up. While you’re sitting, the therapist places two rows of warm stones on the treatment table in alignment with both sides of your spine before covering them with a soft towel to protect you from the heat. You will then be assisted to lie back down on the stones. The therapist will then place stones of varying weights on your body’s key energy channels, including the seven main chakras. Smaller sized pebbles are then placed between your toes with flat stones in your palms while the therapist then uses both hot and cool stones as an extension of her hand while massaging your body. 

The therapist will not treat those with infectious skin disease, rash or open wounds, immediately after surgery, radiation or chemotherapy - unless recommended by your doctor. It is also not advisable for people prone to blood clots as there’s a risk of blood clots being dislodged. If you have heart disease or are pregnant, check with your doctor first. LaStone Therapy should not be carried out directly over bruises, inflamed, unhealed wounds, tumors, abdominal hernia or areas of recent fracture.