Physically, massage benefits include relaxing and toning your muscles; assisting the venous flow of blood; soothing the nervous system; encouraging the lymphatic flow; and stretching the connective tissue of joints

On a mental level, massage not only relieves stress and anxiety, it also helps you to become more conscious of your body as a whole.

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A caring massage creates feelings of well-being, trust and joy. It can also release a great deal of energy hitherto wasted in tension and, by transforming chronic habits of acting and reacting, effect profound changes on both posture and facial expression. The emotional aspect of massage is extremely important.

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On a spiritual level, the benefits of massage are hard to describe, for we are talking of something that is intrinsically indefinable - the essence, the "life force", the whole that is more than the sum of its parts. But it is not uncommon during a massage for both giver and receiver to attain a state of heightened awareness, of "presence in the moment", that is akin to the experience of meditation.