By Jill O'Donoghue from Killarney Toning and Beauty Studio

A hot stone massage is one of the most relaxing treatments you can get for yourself.

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With a heated couch, relaxing music and candles lit, your therapist will apply the heated stones covered in oil to gently but firmly glide over the muscles. It's pure bliss.

While using the stones it allows the therapist to go deeper into the muscles, relieving aches and pain while encouraging better blood circulation and lymphatic drainage allowing the toxins to leave the body faster so you can feel better. The stones help to repair damaged soft tissue and improve your energy levels, skin tone and texture loss.

The heated stones help to instantly release tension in your back and shoulders so those muscles can be worked on more effectivily. This really helps to achieve deep relaxation and peace of mind.

The stones are a smooth flat basalt, a type of volcanic rock that retain heat. They come in different sizes for different areas of the body. A hot stone massage will also increase blood flow in an affected area, reduce muscle spasms and increase flexibility. Like all massages, it really helps to reduce stress and anxiety, and any time you remove toxins from the body it helps to induce relaxation. Also, you will be more alert, active and positive after a proper deep night's sleep.

Hot stone massage is great for anyone with rheumatoid arthritis and clients have mentioned it improves their grip strength, that they have less pain and a greater range of motion.

A good massage has so many great benefits with one of its most amazing ones is that it can give your immune system a boost.

Regular massage also helps to regulate water retention and blood pressure.

I highly recommend a hot stone massage, especially if you haven't tried it yet. Please call Jill to book in, or for more information, on 064 6632966.