I recently bumped into a friend who is one of those women who always seems to look great, despite juggling a hectic work and home life. Although she was having a tough week, her eyes sparkled and her skin  looked radiant. I enviously asked her for her beauty secret and was delighted to hear her say it was due to massage. After years of trying various supplements and treatments and not noticing any benefits, she was introduced to Nuad Bo-Rarn Thai Massage while on holiday. The experience left her feeling, in her words, ‘ready to take on the world’, so on her return to London she found a local therapist whom she now  visits weekly, to help continue her feeling of vacation well-being long after putting away the beach towels.

Massages are always a delicious break from reality, a blissful hour or so away from the stresses and strains of everyday life. Such treatments can often leave you feeling relaxed and sleepy but some massages such as Thai, leave you energised enough to literally spring clean the house from top to bottom as well as relieving long suffered backache and tension headaches. Regular sessions will help combat water retention by draining toxins via the body’s lymph glands. Time is a precious commodity for all of us, so taking a regular hour and a half out is an indulgence and needs to be spent carefully. That time could be a gym workout or shopping spree depending on your needs of the moment. So knowing that the treatment claims to simultaneously exercise and deeply relax the body leaving you raring to go – and all for lying down – I felt it was time to do some research, the results of which culminated in my taking a one to one intensive traditional Thai Massage diploma. Thai Massage is carried out in loose clothing and upon a soft mat on the floor, the low position allowing the therapist to use her own body weight rather than muscular force to apply pressure for therapeutic effect. The massage concentrates primarily on unblocking and channelling the body’s energy lines, or sen. Often called the lazy man’s yoga, Thai massage combines acupressure, yoga, exercising and reflexology to make it unique. It shares its roots with ancient Indian Ayurvedic practice and traditional Chinese medicine. Regular treatments can support wellness, strengthen the internal organs, relieve pain, improve neurological functioning, help maintain a full-functioning life, and treat and assist in relieving and reversing degenerative conditions associated with the ageing process.

And what about the skin? Well because stress attacks the nervous system there is no escaping the havoc it can wreak on the skin even if we follow a healthy diet, exercise and use good skin products externally. A combination of massage – whether it be Thai, Hot Stones, Deep Tissue, Aromatherapy or Balinese – with all of the above will go a long, long way to bringing back that luminous healthy glow
we all aspire to. In order to allow you to anchor that wonderful feeling and draw on it days after your massage, we at Loved would like to give you a gift. We have our very own therapist, Ann Baxter, who, following your treatment, will take you through a series of visualisation, sensory and relaxation techniques, as a totally complimentary service – thereby giving you the ultimate mind body and soul ‘Loved’ experience.

The results are incredible, try it – you’ll be amazed!!

Love,
Helen

Helen Lewis
Director of Loved
0161 400 0001
www.lovedbeauty.com