LaStone Therapy
Dateline: 03/08/98
This is the first of many guest articles written by spa experts and/or spa enthusiasts. This article is about LaStone Therapy, sometimes erroneously known as Hot Stone Therapy - the current "hot" spa treatment in many spas. I find it very interesting and am sure you will, too.
Julie Register
Spa Guide
"Trails of heat are flowing deep within my body, flowing upward from my feet, through my legs, and swirling all over my back, lingering just long enough to melt the tension from each muscle. As the stones give up their heat, I find them resting in the palms of my hands, and I sink into the table, grounded in Mother Earth...I feel a lifting of my spirit as well. I let go of the burdens I have been carrying. I feel light, buoyant, balanced, centered and cradled. I am whole again."
from LaStone Therapy Web
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Mary Hannigan describing the feedback from her clients during LaStone Therapy
LaStone Therapy
by Mary D. Hannigan, LMT
In the summer of 1993, I began to receive visions and verbal guidance from San Jaunette, a Native American Spirit Guide. Through his guidance and my determination to awaken humanity to the Stone Clan People's healing properties, LaStone Therapy was created.
With each day's work, I was intuitively led to use more stones, and developed a method of progressively opening up the energy channels (Chakras) of the body. Today, I use 54 hot stones, 18 frozen stones, and one room temperature stone on every client.
Along with four certified teachers, I offer workshops to massage therapists and bodyworkers who are interested in taking their clients to a new level of relaxation. There are three levels to LaStone Therapy, each of which facilitate muscle relaxation, tissue repair, grounding, balancing, and releasing of blocked memories. Not only will this benefit the client, it is the answer therapists have been looking for. No longer will therapists strain thumbs and wrists while doing deep muscle massage. Using LaStone Therapy (hot and frozen stones) enables thumbs and wrists to heal, while providing deep sedative and therapeutic massage.
Since I've been sharing this form of massage with resorts, spas, and fellow therapists, many of them have chosen to call this type of body work Hot Stone Therapy. I prefer that everyone calls this form of massage, LaStone Therapy instead of something of their own choosing. With the name "Hot Stone", it implies the use of hot stones alone, not allowing the time-tested method of alternating hot and cold therapies to bring about repair and stress reduction.
I have traveled to nine different states and Mexico and taught and certified over 1,200 therapists in the field of LaStone Therapy. To experience LaStone Therapy for yourself, check out one of the following sites that I've taught at and dissolve into a Dream-Time that will take you deep into Mother Earth's cradle.
Capelli Spa in Bloomfield, MI
Château Élan in Brazelton, GA
Equinox in New York, NY*
The Golden Door in San Diego, CA
The Peaks in Telluride, CO
Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Mexico
The Scottsdale Princess in Scottsdale, AZ
Sea Island Spa at The Cloister in GA
Urban Oasis in Chicago, IL
Woodstock Spa in East Norwich, NY
To experience all three levels of LaStone Therapy, there are two locations in the USA. They are:
The Boulders in Carefree, AZ
Indian Oak Resort in Chesterton, IN
Take care and may God's White Light shine on you for all to see.
Peace and Prayers,
Mary D. Hannigan, LMT
phone: 520-747-2958
fax: 520-747-2635
email E-mail: mary@lastonetherapy.com
web site: http://www.Lastonetherapy.com
* Spa Guide Note - Check Questions for the Spa Guide (Question 11) for feedback from a person who tried LaStone Therapy at this spa.
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