As a fairly new type of massage therapy, Esalen Massage has a small cloud of confusion around it. There are many benefits of an Esalen Massage, easily explained by its origin and reason for practices.
Esalen Massage, named for a Native American tribe that lived in the part of California where the massage style originated, is all about the importance of touch to the human body.
The Benefits Of An Esalen Massage Include:
Personalized treatment: Esalen Massage is a unique massage treatment combining different facets of all sorts of massage styles based on your needs and the experiences of your massage therapist. Instead of getting a typical Swedish massage, or the same style of deep tissue massage that the next guy gets, you’ll have a unique massage suited specifically to your needs. Your therapist will draw on his or her experiences gained by helping others with similar and different needs. With fewer guidelines, Esalen Massage has more freedom to meet your needs instead of straining to follow a list of rules.
Personal touch and human contact: Once the massage begins, no matter what style the massage therapist uses for inspiration, he or she will constantly keep a point of contact with your body. You will not stop feeling your therapist’s hands or arms until the massage ends. This is based on the philosophy that human contact is vital to our health and happiness, and that having contact helps relieve the stresses and anxieties that arise from daily life.
Reading your body: Sometimes, we feel pain in our neck that is actually caused by our spine. Sometimes we don’t even realize that certain muscles are sore and require more attention. Your Esalen Massage therapist, while constantly massaging your body, will read its reactions to determine what areas truly need attention. Or bodies might trick us, but they don’t trick a professional Esalen Massage therapist.
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I am director of the Esalen® Massage School. As noted, this is a registered name, and only those who graduate from the Esalen Massage Certification Course, Esalen Institute, can call themselves Esalen Massage Practitioners. While the Institute is indeed named after the Native American tribe, the massage is named after the Institute, so I find this explanation fascinating. Esalen Institute is the first center of its kind in America, dedicated to inner exploration–meditation, yoga, person awareness work–and Esalen Massage has been around for just shy of 50 years; it is no newcomer. I recommend that all potential massage clients request to see the Esalen Massage Practitioner Certificate before receiving the massage session.
This is not accurate. Esalen® Massage was not named for an Indian Tribe. Nor is it new. Founded at Esalen Institute in 1962, it has been around for over 50 years and offers many trainings. Only those trained at Esalen can call themselves Esalen Practitioners. I do not feel this advertisement reflects the nature nor a certified practitioner in Esalen massage.