Cupping Massage

Service Description

Cupping therapy is considered one of the best deep-tissue therapies available. We’ve been providing this service for the past several years, long before it became popular in the 2016 Olympics. (We also do the Rock Taping!) Cupping is thought to affect tissues up to four inches deep from the external skin. This form of bodywork has been adapted from Chinese Medicine using glass or silicone cups to create a suction, or negative pressure, causing the skin and superficial muscle layer to be lightly drawn into the cup. The cups can be gently moved across the skin (often referred to as gliding or dynamic cupping). Cupping is much like the inverse of massage – rather than applying pressure to muscles, it uses gentle negative pressure to pull them upward. For most clients, this is a particularly relaxing and relieving sensation. Cupping is used to soften tight muscles and tone attachments, loosen adhesions and lift connective tissue, bring hydration and blood flow to body tissues, move deep inflammation to the skin surface for release, and drain excess fluids and toxins by opening lymphatic pathways. Cupping is used for a myriad of soft tissue problems, not limited to, back and neck pain, tight muscles, anxiety, fatigue, migraines, and even cellulite. (For weight loss and cellulite treatments, a structured series of treatments are required.) Cupping also helps open up the chest and benefit the lungs and can even benefit menstrual problems and digestive problems, too. The results are time tested and amazing. Because negative pressure or suction therapy brings circulation and toxins to the surface of the skin, a discoloration of the skin called a “cup kiss” or “doo-hickey” can occur. This is totally harmless. You may associate the appearance with bruising, but bruising occurs when there is an injury. There is no injury with cup kisses.  If this appears during the treatment, it just indicates the releasing of intense stagnation of body fluids and toxins in the area. This technique is used safely in children, adults and elderly individuals.  1 hr $80      1.5 hr $110      2 hr $140