Take some well-deserved time to nurture yourself and your baby and celebrate the wonderful changes in your body. Pregnancy massage can safely, comfortably and effectively relieve the physical stress of pregnancy, stimulating circulation and reducing postural discomfort and back pain, or may simply be a period of stillness and relaxation during this special time in your life and connecting in with your baby.

Essential Oil Blends will lubricate and feed the skin and also help with the elasticity of the tissues and so help prevent stretch marks and improve circulation. The blend created at Anahata should be used at home every day in conjunction with the treatment, on breasts, abdomen, thighs, buttocks etc. We recommend a Pregnancy Massage treatment at least once a month in the early stages of pregnancy and more often as the pregnancy develops.

Research is proving that prenatal massage therapy can be very effective instrumental ingredient in women’s prenatal care. Studies indicate that massage therapy performed during pregnancy can reduce anxiety, decrease symptoms of depression, relieve muscle aches and joint pains, and improve labour outcomes and newborn health.

Benefits of Pregnancy Massage during pregnancy include reduced stress, promote much needed rest and relaxation, facilitate transitions through emotional support and physical nurturing, reduce oedema and blood pressure, relieve varicose veins, reduce muscle spasms and leg cramps, increase blood and lymph circulation resulting in more energy and less fatigue, facilitate hormonal, respiratory, gastrointestinal, urinary, and other physiological processes during pregnancy, stabilize hormonal levels making the side effects of pregnancy less severe, reduce musculoskeletal strain and pain, contribute to developing flexibility and the kinaesthetic awareness necessary to actively participate in the birth process, help prepare for an easier delivery, foster nurturing maternal touch, enhance postnatal recovery of muscle tissues and structural realignment of the spine and pelvis.

The six week  postpartum period is a recovery time when your body returns to normal. Adequate rest, proper nutrition, plenty of fluids, support, and massage help you to readjust and heal quickly. One of the most important and universally accepted recovery procedures immediately after birth in the tribal world was massage. A full body Post Natal Massage offers relief from the aches and pains of muscle soreness, wards off fatigue, and promotes rapid healing. Other benefits of Post Natal Massage in the postpartum period include facilitating postpartum emotional, physiological, and family adjustments, reduced musculoskeletal and organic pain, promotes structural realignment of the spine and pelvis, and reorganisation of movement, rehabilitation of abdominal skin, muscles and organs, promotes recovery from caesarean birth, including healing of the incision, relieves muscle strain caused by childcare activities.

Aromatherapy Massage stimulates the flow of blood and lymph, thereby initiating a cleansing process in the body. All movements are done in a nurturing, rhythmical and repetitive manner allowing the body to relax deeply, thereby allowing healing to take place on all levels. Some of the techniques employed in Aromatherapy Massage include acupressure points, soft tissue manipulation, Lymphatic Drainage, Energy balance/polarity therapy, reflexology, and working on the Central Nervous System, the Autonomic and Muscular Systems. This technique helps relax the nervous and muscular systems and with the help of essential oils, relieves the pain caused by stress and strains on the body.

At Anahata Therapies we use Organic Essential Oils which are chosen specifically for each individual and their unique requirements. Essential Oils have a therapeutic effect on all levels of the mind, body and spirit.

LDT is a gentle manual treatment which improves the activity of lymph vessels by mild mechanical stretches on the wall of the lymph collectors. LDT re-routes the lymph flow around blocked areas into more centrally located lymph vessels or gently clears congestion of the lymph vessels and nodes that eventually drain into the venous system. Pressure is light and contact is superficial as contact is with the skin and not the muscle.

Some of the benefits of LDT include reduced lymphoedemas, reduction in pain, induced restful sleep, increased relaxation, reduction of high blood pressure, stimulation of the immune system, increased bowels and bladder movements, regulation of menstruation due to possible hormonal balance, reduction of acne due to de-tox, decrease in pain for conditions involving joint inflammation such as MS and arthritis, assists recovery after colds, flu, bronchitis and asthma, improves sinus conditions.

Some of the indications for LDT include stimulation of the lymphatic system, Lymphoedemas – primary & secondary, Oedema during pregnancy, fluid retention, scar tissue, post surgical (Mastectomy or cosmetic), after glandular fever, sports injuries, some neurological disorders such as MS, migraine, headaches and trigeminal neuralgia, arthritis & rheumatism, constipation & digestive disorders, sinusitis & hay fever, Hormonal imbalances (teenagers, menstrual conditions, menopause), recurring infections such as colds, flu, ear or chest, for general health and wellbeing,  and Lipoedema.

LDT is the perfect accompaniment to a Detoxification treatment as it allows the release and elimination of toxins from the lymph vessels and out of the body through the bladder.

LDT of the face (30 min) is also an excellent treatment for sinus congestion, hayfever and headaches combined with ear candling.

Is regarded as a paramedical massage treatment to assist in healing parts of the body which have been injured or immobile due to age, illness, trauma, posture, over use, stress, injury, or lack of exercise. Remedial massage techniques are applied slower and generally with more pressure than Swedish Massage. The therapist targets deeper muscle groups after first warming the soft tissues. Remedial massage provides a healing treatment that can be gentle or strong, deep or superficial. Remedial Massage holistically treats the whole body and traces the discomfort as far as possible back to the original cause, healing both the cause of the disorder as well as the symptoms. Its objectives are to restore structural balance in the muscle groups throughout the body, and decompress arthritic or painful joints.  It is an extremely beneficial form of massage.

Enjoy any of the Massage Therapies with another in the same room at a reduced rate of 10%.