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Why The Marble? ... And How it Completes the Basalt.

The most therapeutic application of stones in a massage or spa treatment is in their heated and chilled forms. To offer 'hot stone only massage' is only half the picture. Like the Yin without the Yang, the use of hand-crafted, polished, white marble stones to deliver cooling temperatures is a natural balance to the dark, ocean tumbled basalt used to warm and sedate the body.

Cold, used alone on the body, is a powerful decongestant, pushing fluid and wastes out of overworked, chronically tense, or inflamed tissues. Cold can interrupt the pain-spasm-pain cycle. In cooperation with heated stones, chilled marble stones create a dramatic movement of fluids within the body. This is healing due to the cleansing and nourishing effect of vascular gymnastics (alternate constriction/dilation of blood vessels). Cold offers a challenge to the body, so it is tonifying, or strengthening, to several bodily systems, especially the immune system.

Chilled marble stones are not as powerful as ice, which has a property called the latent heat of fusion. This chemical property accounts for the power of water to expand when frozen, as well as the burning power of steam. Water, frozen and evaporated, is extreme in its' effects on the body. This is beneficial in the right measure, as evidenced by steam baths and cryotherapy. In massage, cold marble stones have the advantage over ice, in that stones do not desensitize the skin, as ice can, so soft tissue manipulations and mobilizations will not be taken beyond the client's tolerance.

At room temperature marble is eleven degrees Fahrenheit, cooler than any other stone in nature. This begins an answer to "Why Marble?".
Stone Therapy is more than just another relaxing experience because it provides a number of therapeutic benefits such as an increase of blood circulation, an increase of the body's metabolism, a decrease of tension, and a decrease of tissue stiffness when using a hot application with the stones. When using a cold application with the stones, Stone Therapy causes an increase of muscle tone, an increase of the body's stimulation, a decrease of pain, and a decrease of inflammation or swelling.