What is hot stones massage?  Where did it come from and is it just a relaxing massage? To answer this let us start at the beginning where did hot stones massage come from. Both verbal and written history confirms that the Chinese used heated stones more than 2,000 years ago as a means of improving the function of internal organs. Stones were also used for healing work in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Egypt and India. These traditions included laying stones in patterns on the body, carrying or wearing stones for health and protection, using stones for the diagnosis and treatment of disease, as well as for ceremonial purposes, such as sweat lodges and medicine wheels. Over time we stopped using stones for any kind of medicine work until it came back into the modern west in 1993 when heated stone techniques became popular. Since then it has become widespread around the globe once more. The full-body, hot-stone massage is frequently combined with other modern massage techniques such as Swedish massage and deep tissue massage.

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