Drink Plenty of Water
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Take a warm bath with Epsom Salts or soak in a natural hot spring.
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Make sure to get plenty of rest.
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Post Massage Care: What to expect and how to deepen and keep the positive benefits longer.
1. Drink lots of high quality water and eat as healthy and light as possible through out the
rest of the day.
2. Even if you feel great, it is best to keep all activities light for the next 6 to 7 hours and
just do gentle stretches and movements.
3. Make sure to get plenty of rest and sleep and maybe take it easy if you feel really tired.
Massage loosens up a lot of stuff on more than just the physical level. Emotions and
memories are often stored in the body. Do not be surprised if seemingly random memories and
and emotions start coming up during or after a massage. Give yourself time and space to
process and rest if this occurs. This is 100% natural and a good sign you have just worked out
something stored in the tissue that was not serving you.
4. If you do experience tightness a few hours after the massage or feel nausea or sick like you are
coming down with a flu, this is a sign many toxins have been loosened up from previously restricted
tissue and need a little help flushing from the body. Drink more water, rest and maybe take a warm
salt bath or do a sauna. It is a good idea to move the body in a gently way such as doing a light walk or
do gentle stretches especially after deep tissue to assist the body in resetting. This is especially true if
the area worked on was one of chronic pain or discomfort. Also, if the discomfort is extreme, definitely
let the massage therapist know immediately, as this is sign the work was too deep and this should
never happen.
5. Do come back in for follow up care, often required, for more chronic issues. For really deep
in-grained and long standing issues, it may take up to 3 or 4 sessions to really loosen
things up and make a lasting change. Remember it took time to get the issue in the tissues so it may
take a little time to walk that issue out. To continue the positive shifts it is best to schedule a follow up
session no later than two weeks after the first session and ideally the follow up session is a few days to
a week apart. Otherwise the body has time to reset into old patterns.
6. Once you have received massage and are feeling better, be mindful of what you do
throughout the following days that may contribute to the old feeling of tension again.
Massage is a retraining of the body and it's muscles to work in harmony together in the body.
Massage works best in a collaborative effort with the client. The time following a massage is an
opportunity to pay extra attention to the little day to day things, like how we hold a phone or sit in a chair,
that maybe are the real cause of our pain issues. These 'little' things add up over time and repeated use.
And these 'little' things maybe easy to avoid. Take these opportunities and messages from the body to
find new ways of being that do not continue the physical discomfort pattern. In the long term you will be
healthier, and will spend less money and also feel better :-) .
1. Drink lots of high quality water and eat as healthy and light as possible through out the
rest of the day.
2. Even if you feel great, it is best to keep all activities light for the next 6 to 7 hours and
just do gentle stretches and movements.
3. Make sure to get plenty of rest and sleep and maybe take it easy if you feel really tired.
Massage loosens up a lot of stuff on more than just the physical level. Emotions and
memories are often stored in the body. Do not be surprised if seemingly random memories and
and emotions start coming up during or after a massage. Give yourself time and space to
process and rest if this occurs. This is 100% natural and a good sign you have just worked out
something stored in the tissue that was not serving you.
4. If you do experience tightness a few hours after the massage or feel nausea or sick like you are
coming down with a flu, this is a sign many toxins have been loosened up from previously restricted
tissue and need a little help flushing from the body. Drink more water, rest and maybe take a warm
salt bath or do a sauna. It is a good idea to move the body in a gently way such as doing a light walk or
do gentle stretches especially after deep tissue to assist the body in resetting. This is especially true if
the area worked on was one of chronic pain or discomfort. Also, if the discomfort is extreme, definitely
let the massage therapist know immediately, as this is sign the work was too deep and this should
never happen.
5. Do come back in for follow up care, often required, for more chronic issues. For really deep
in-grained and long standing issues, it may take up to 3 or 4 sessions to really loosen
things up and make a lasting change. Remember it took time to get the issue in the tissues so it may
take a little time to walk that issue out. To continue the positive shifts it is best to schedule a follow up
session no later than two weeks after the first session and ideally the follow up session is a few days to
a week apart. Otherwise the body has time to reset into old patterns.
6. Once you have received massage and are feeling better, be mindful of what you do
throughout the following days that may contribute to the old feeling of tension again.
Massage is a retraining of the body and it's muscles to work in harmony together in the body.
Massage works best in a collaborative effort with the client. The time following a massage is an
opportunity to pay extra attention to the little day to day things, like how we hold a phone or sit in a chair,
that maybe are the real cause of our pain issues. These 'little' things add up over time and repeated use.
And these 'little' things maybe easy to avoid. Take these opportunities and messages from the body to
find new ways of being that do not continue the physical discomfort pattern. In the long term you will be
healthier, and will spend less money and also feel better :-) .
