Why choose a longer treatment?

Quite simply, longer treatments allow for longer lasting therapeutic benefits and more time for assessment, leading to greater effectiveness by reaching more problem areas associated with your condition. Longer treatments also give the body more time to fully unwind and release muscle tension.

Key benefits of a 75-minute massage:

• Targeted therapy: Focuses on specific areas of tension or pain utilising multiple techniques. The more time spent on a problem area, the more effect to it!

• Addressing multiple concerns: Allows for more time to work on other issues that may relate to the root cause of pain or injury. There are almost always multiple factors that contribute to a problem area.

• Improved circulation: Delivers more oxygen and nutrients to tissues allowing them to function optimally, promoting faster healing and more removal of waste products from the tissues.

• Improved breathing: More time to focus on releasing tension in the muscles related to breathing which allows for greater lung expansion and improved posture. There are many factors that contribute to a person's wellbeing, and the ability to breathe well and without restriction is often overlooked.

• Increased body awareness: Helps bring self-awareness to the body's alignment, tensions, and patterns of movement. This is a huge part of therapeutic massage in where there is a potentially greater increase in mind/body connection when a longer treatment is experienced.

Longer treatments can also:

• Enhance mental clarity

• Improve sleep quality

• Provide pain relief

• Increase range of motion

One final thought. When receiving massage therapy for the first time, the body may take time to adjust to the treatment as the sensations are new to the body. And even if you have had regular massage before, the therapist's approach will also be new to the body. Every therapist will treat slightly differently, taught with various techniques from different teachers and cultures. They will also treat differently from their own intuition and previous experience. A longer treatment can help with these adjustments, but it is of course up to the client to choose what is best for them and their health journey.