Stone Jade
Jade...the stone of Heaven. Jade is the name used to describe either of Jadeite or Nephrite. Both jadestones take a high polish. Both have been carved into jewelry, ornaments, small sculptures and tools from the earliest recorded times.

Nephrite is a tremolitic amphibole with the formula calcium iron magnesium silicate.

Jadeite is a mineral belonging to the pyroxene group and is a sodium aluminum silicate.

Jade is sometimes called "the dream stone" for its ability to help one access the non-physical spirit realms. It is a protective stone, and acts as a ward against negative energies. Jade facilitates peace and harmony between the mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional aspects of your life. This stone can help you attain your goals, installing resourcefulness, and allowing you to see past your limitations and manifest your ideas in the physical world. Jade encourages confidence, self-reliance and self-sufficiency. It is considered to be a lucky stone. Jade is said to promote courage, justice, compassion, humility, generosity, wealth, and longevity. Its use can lead to a richer, more fulfilling life.

Stone Therapy

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.

Stone Therapy & Basalt Massage Stones

Heated stone massage treatments use stones made of Basalt material. Basalt has been found to have the best heat retention capabilities therefore, the best for therapeutic purpose. Although Basalt is found in volcanic regions, our massage stones are made of Hawaiian Basalt River Rock and are not Lava Stones. Lava Stones are very rough and porous. Our stones are very smooth and dense. They can hold heat for a very long time and do not have to be reheated during a session.

When clean and unoiled, the natural color of All Basalt is gray to black with some having a strong greenish hue. Hawaiian Basalt is rich in Olivine, the mineral giving some of the stones their green color. The inherent minerals fused into the basalt help radiate their natural healing energy. All stones will become JET BLACK with just a little massage oil or cream.
Our stones are naturally very smooth and need very little oil for gliding movements. They are also very dense which lets them hold heat longer than normal river rocks. They are very strong and difficult to damage. Unlike other massage supplies, they will not have to be replaced or restocked. We carefully hand-select each and every beautiful stone. Only smoothly shaped and smoothly textured stones are harvested. There are no jagged edges and all stones have a useful shape.