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Whether you’re a man or a woman, if you’re looking to relax and improve your health at the same time, you will enjoy a raindrop therapy massage. It’s unlike anything you’ll ever experience in your life.
Raindrop therapy is a treatment where there are alternating series of essential oils, heat, and massage that alter your body chemistry to soothe your mind. Some of the oils are meant to stimulate certain nerve centers of your body, while others are meant to bring peace into your body. The heat moves things around and gets things going. When done properly, you’ll feel great at the end. If done improperly, you could feel burning sensations that can be overwhelming.
First, you’re asked a series of questions to determine if you might have any allergies that would run counter to any of the items that will be used. Then the therapist leaves the room so you can disrobe and get up on the table. Your upper body will be exposed eventually, but the fewer clothes you feel comfortable without the better the overall treatment will go.
You’ll start out with heat of some kind, just to loosen things up. Then it’s time for the oils. I don’t remember the order of the oils, but I do know that the therapist tells you when each oil is being applied and what it’s for. What I do remember is that two oils were applied first, massaged in, and then more oils were applied. I learned later that the oils applied were thyme, oregano, peppermint, wintergreen, basil, cypress, and something called V-6 mixing oil. Some therapists will use birch instead of wintergreen, but it’s not deemed safe for everybody and it’s hard to get.
After that, hot towels were applied and I was left that way for about ten minutes. However, the therapist came in every few minutes to ask how I was handling the heat. It did get pretty hot, but never to the point where I found it unbearable, though I did get to the point where it was itching. I was allowed to stay on my stomach, although some therapists will have their clients roll over so their backs are pushing into the towels.
After some time, the therapist came in and removed the towels. Now came more oils, all of which had been used before, but now it was more of a massage of different areas of my body. The oils were peppermint, basil, wintergreen and cypress. There was something else added to the mix also, called aroma siez, an oil that’s supposed to ease cramping and muscle pain. I have to admit that it felt good, and smelled wonderful.
The entire treatment took just over an hour, and I felt pampered throughout the whole thing. I can’t even verify that I might not have fallen asleep for a couple of minutes. I was able to handle the heat, and that’s the most important part because if you can endure that, the oils have a better chance of getting into your body and doing their thing. I felt wonderful for the rest of the day.
As a guy, it’s something I might never have consented to in the past, but now that I’ve had one, I can’t wait to have it done again.
See more:
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Dr. Michael J. Murphy has been serving the East Valley communities of Mesa, Gilbert, and Chandler at 2 locations since relocating from Wisconsin in the spring of 2006. Dr. Murphy graduated Magna Cum Laude from the prestigious Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport Iowa and practiced for over 20 years in the Madison area.