White Orchid Therapies
Holistic Treatments
About us
Therapies available in your own home.
Swedish Massage
Aromatherapy
Hot Stone Massage
Reflexology
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I am Fully Qualified Therapist
offering therapies in your own home.
VTCT Trained. Also fully insured with FHT.
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I live in Gendros Swansea and work in the
swansea area.
Aromatherapy Benefits
Some of the health benefits of aromatherapy include its ability to reduce anxiety, ease depression, boost energy levels, speed up the healing process, eliminate headaches, boost cognitive performance, induce sleep, strengthen the immune system, reduce pain, improve digestion, and increase circulation.
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Aromatherapy Essential Oils can be used in a number of ways, not only in massage, but also in creams for the face, bath salt's to soak stress and ailments away. They are idea for your Diffuser.
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Fight cold and flu symptoms.
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Relax your body and soothe sore muscles.
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Heal skin conditions.
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Alleviate pain.
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Balance hormones.
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Improve digestion.
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Reduce cellulite and wrinkles.
Hot Stone Massage Benefits
Combining hot stone protocols with a full body massage provides a very healing and effective experience. The hot stones also expand blood vessels, which encourages blood flow throughout the body. The hot stones have a sedative effect that can relieve chronic pain, reduce stress and promote deep relaxation.
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Hot stone massage is a natural therapy in which warmed stones are positioned on parts of the client's body of to maximize the therapeutic benefit. The stones used are typically river rocks or other very smooth-surfaced stones made of basalt. These stones are heated in sanitizing water before use. The high iron content in basalt helps the stones retain heat during the massage. Hot stone massages are beneficial on both physical and psychological levels. Always check with your doctor before getting a hot stone massage; individuals with certain conditions--including pregnant women and people with high blood pressure--are advised to avoid this type of therapy.
Muscle Relaxation
The heat from the stones helps your muscles relax, allowing the massage therapist to manipulate your deep tissues more effectively. Overly tense muscles can hinder the massage procedure, so if your muscles are extremely tight or stiff, the heated stones may provide the extra relaxation you need for the massage to be beneficial in releasing tension and easing sore muscles.
Pain Relief
While all types of massage can help relieve pain caused by tense muscles, stiff joints or injuries, a hot stone massage may provide greater relief due to the intense nature of the massage. Because the hot stones allow the massage therapist to penetrate deeper, you may find that a hot stone massage leaves you feeling physically better than a Swedish or deep-tissue massage that does not incorporate heat. It is important to let your massage therapist know if you feel that the heat from the stones is too much or that the pressure he is using is too harsh. Pain or discomfort during the massage process can cause more harm than good after the massage is over.
Improved Circulation
Typically, a massage therapist allows the heated stones to rest on trigger points in your body before beginning the actual massage. As the heat from the stones penetrates into your deeper body tissues, your blood vessels open, resulting in improved circulation. Poor circulation can lead to fatigue, which tenses the muscles, and a buildup of fluid and lactic acid in the muscles. Increased circulation delivers more oxygen to the muscles, which can help ease aches and pains.
Mental Benefits
Massage therapy can result in mental benefits as well as physical ones in many people. You may find that the relaxation afforded to you through a hot stone massage helps ease some of your mental stress and tension. A hot stone massage may also help you combat some of the symptoms of anxiety disorders and depression. While massage therapy is not a substitute for traditional medical or psychiatric care, it can be an integral part of your treatment plan.
Swedish Massage Benefits
Benefits
The Physiological Effects of Massage.
Effects on the Skeletal System.
Massage can help increase joint mobility by reducing any thickening of the connective tissue and helping to release restrictions in the fascia.
It helps to free adhesion's, break down scar tissue and decrease inflammation. As a result it can help to restore range of motion to stiff joints.
Massage improves muscle tone and balance, reducing the physical stress placed on bones and joints.
Effects on the Muscular System.
Massage relieves muscular tightness, stiffness, spasms and restrictions in the muscle tissue.
It increases flexibility in the muscles due to muscular relaxation.
It increases blood circulation bringing more oxygen and nutrients into the muscle. This reduces muscle fatigue and soreness.
It promotes rapid removal of toxins and waste products from the muscle.
Effects on the Cardiovascular System
Massage can:
Improve circulation by mechanically assisting the venous flow of blood back to the heart, dilate blood vessels helping them to work more efficiently
produce an enhanced blood flow; delivery of fresh oxygen and nutrients to the tissues is improved and the removal of waste products, toxins and carbon dioxide is hastened via the venous system help temporarily to decrease blood pressure, due to dilation of capillaries, decrease the heart rate due to relaxation, reduce ischaemia (ischaemia is a reduction in the flow of blood to body parts, often marked by pain and tissue dysfunction).
Effects on the Lymphatic System
Massage helps to:
Reduce oedema (excess fluid in the tissue) by increasing lymphatic drainage and the removal of waste from the system
regular massage may help to strengthen the immune system, due to increase in white blood cells.
Effects on the Nervous System.
Massage stimulates sensory receptors: this can either stimulate or soothe nerves depending on the techniques used.
It also stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system, helping promote relaxation and the reduction of stress.
Massage helps to reduce pain by the release of endorphins (endorphins are also known to elevate the mood).
Effects on the Skin.
Massage can bring about:
Improved circulation to the skin, increased nutrition to the cells and encouraging cell regeneration, increased production of sweat from the sweat glands, helping to excrete urea and waste products through the skin vaso-dilation of the surface capillaries helping to improve the skin’s color, improved elasticity of the skin
increased sebum production, helping to improve the skin’s suppleness and resistance to infection.
Effects on the Respiratory System.
Massage deepens respiration and improves lung capacity by relaxing any tightness in the respiratory muscles.
It also slows down the rate of respiration due to the reduced stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
Effects on the Digestive System.
Massage can:
Increase peristalsis in the large intestine, helping to relieve constipation, colic and gas, promote the activity of the parasympathetic nervous system, which stimulates digestion.
Effects on the Urinary System
Massage increases urinary output due to the increased circulation and lymph drainage from the tissues.
The Physiological Effects of Massage.
Massage can help to:
Reduce stress and anxiety by relaxing both mind and body
create a feeling of well-being and enhanced self-esteem, promote positive body awareness and an improved body image through relaxation ease emotional trauma through relaxation.
Reflexology and the benefits
Benefits Of Reflexology
Nerve Function: As our bodies age, our nerve endings become less sensitive in parts of our body, particularly in our extremities. That being said, reflexology has been connected with stimulating more than 7,000 different nervous endings in a single session, thereby increasing their function and reactivity. Opening and cleaning out neural pathways can help improve functionality and flexibility of many areas around the body. Neural pathways are like muscles, so it is good to work them once in a while to keep them sharp!
Energy Levels: By aligning the functioning of various organ and muscle systems, reflexology can increase metabolism and energy creation processes within the body. If you need a boost in energy or are always feeling sluggish, perhaps a reflexology session can help put some pep back in your step!
Circulation: One of the most well-known and verified benefits of reflexology is an improvement in circulation throughout the body, which means that blood and oxygen are being cycled through the body more effectively. This means more oxygen reaches vital organ systems, thereby optimizing their functioning and further increasing the metabolism. This also results in faster healing and re-growth of damaged cells.
Relaxation: As mentioned above, reflexology has been known to open neural pathways, and this sort of free-flowing neural activity results in a more relaxed state in the body, one of reduced stress. For this reason, reflexology can flood your system with relaxation, inducing a state of calm throughout your body and mind. In this same vein, reflexology is commonly used to cure sleep disorders. Insomnia can be a very troubling condition to suffer through, but reflexology helps your body relax and get back to its normal, healthy Circadian rhythms.
Toxin Removal: Reflexology has been shown to improve bladder function and to reduce urinary tract issues. What this means in terms of toxicity is a more efficient system of eliminating toxins and other foreign substances, thereby protecting your body from the various diseases and health conditions that can often arise from a compromised urinary system.
Nervous System Stimulation: The open neural pathways can benefit our central nervous system in a variety of ways. not only will our brain be able to handle the inputs more effectively, thereby speeding up our cognitive powers, but our physical reactions will be faster, our memory will be boosted, and generally, our entire brain will simply work better and faster.
Migraines and Headaches: Reflexology is primarily used by many people as a method of eliminating pain. As an analgesic treatment, reflexology can reduce the severity of migraines and headaches, simply by relieving tension in the muscles that can often result in these conditions. Any headaches induced by stress can also be eliminated, since stress and psychological factors often manifest in the physical symptoms of a migraine. This is actually one of the most popular applications of reflexology.
Speeds Healing: The combination of increased nerve activity and circulation, as well as the more balanced functioning of the metabolism, means that cells re-grow faster and wounds are able to heal faster. Also, the pain-relieving qualities of reflexology mean that patients feel better faster, and are more willing to start physical recovery to get back into life!
Hand Reflexology Benefits
Hand reflexology is ideal for the clients that have mobility problems, work as well as the foot reflexology with all the same benefits.
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Benefits of Hand Reflexology in Reducing Headaches: The tips of the thumb and fingers are the points where you can stimulate the nerves connected to head and temple region. Thus, by gently massaging and kneading the tips of the fingers and thumbs, you can gradually reduce the headache or an oncoming migraine.
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Benefits of Hand Reflexology in Reducing Back Pain: Hand reflexology is known to benefit you in reducing back pain. The sides of your hand around the thumb portion and the back area of your wrist joint are related to you back. So, you can reduce the back pain by gently massaging those areas of thumb and wrist joint.
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Hand Reflexology can be Beneficial in Reducing Shoulder Pain: Shoulder pain can be reduced by hand reflexology. All you need is concentrate the joints of each finger present on the topside of each hand. You need to massage them in clockwise gently from left to right.
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Hand Reflexology Benefits in Reducing Allergies: Hand reflexology is also known to benefit in reducing allergies. You can do it by applying pressure to the fleshy portion of the topside of your hand palm. You can find extra circulation of blood to the nasal passage and the throat area. This will aid in reducing allergies of throat.
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Benefits of Hand Reflexology in Reducing the Neck Pressure: Hand reflexology can also reduce the neck pressure. The region under the tips of the finger, i.e. the segment of each finger l to be massaged gently for reducing neck pressure.
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Hand Reflexology Benefits in Opening up Sinuses: Massaging the lengths of each finger slowly by focusing on the tips; one can help self in improving the blood circulation to his or her head and ear region, thus slowly oxygen flow can be increased in the portion.
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Improved Circulation
Improved circulation is one of the most important health benefits of massage therapy. Stimulating circulation in your hands is important, especially if you suffer from a condition such as Raynaud's phenomenon—a painful condition of your fingers, toes and other areas—which is believed to be caused by a sharp and persistent contraction of a blood vessel, causing a marked reduction in blood flow to your fingers. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, a division of the National Institutes of Health, states that massage is effective at stopping a Raynaud's attack once it starts. Improving circulation in your hand is also important following surgery or after an injury, such as ligament sprains and muscle strains. Improved circulation to your injured tissues helps speed your healing by bringing more nutrients to the area of injury and removing the harmful metabolic byproducts that tend to accumulate in your tissues following trauma.
Improved Range of Motion
Hand massage helps loosen tight hand muscles, reduces scar tissue and adhesion's that cause decreased finger and wrist mobility, and improves your hand's various ranges of motion and flexibility. Trigger finger is one injury that responds particularly well to massage therapy. According to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, a trigger finger occurs when your ability to move the tendon that opens and closes your finger is reduced, causing your finger to lock or catch when you extend it. The cause of trigger finger often is unknown, although it occurs more frequently in women than men, and it most frequently affects people between the ages of 40 and 60 years of age and those suffering from conditions such as diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis. Repetitive-Strain.com states that hand massage—specifically, cross-fiber friction massage immediately followed by active and passive stretches of your finger and ice massage of your affected tendon—is an effective method for treating your trigger finger and improving your finger's range of motion