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Personal Pilates, Deep Meditation classes, Sports Massage, Nutritional advice and Riki treatments are all available at HOTEL365 - These treatments must be pre-booked - please telephone to check availability and discuss your needs PILATES:
- "The attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a
sound mind, fully capable of naturally performing our many daily tasks
with spontaneous zest and pleasure." MASSAGE:-
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Massage (derived from the French massage "friction of kneading," possibly from Arabic massa "to touch, feel, handle" or from Latin massa "mass, dough" is a treatment and practice of manipulation of the soft body tissues with physical, functional, i.e. mechanical, medical/therapeutic, and in some cases emotional purposes and goals.
Massage involves acting and manipulating the patient's body with pressure (structured, unstructured, stationary, and/or moving), tension, motion, or vibration done manually or with mechanical aids. Target tissues may include muscles, tendons, ligaments, skin, joints, or other connective tissue, as well as, lymphatic vessels, and/or organs of the gastrointestinal system. Massage can be applied with the hands, fingers, elbows, forearm, and feet, as far as there are over 80 different types of massage. The most cited reasons for introducing massage was patient demand and clinical effectiveness. Theories behind what massage might do include blocking pain signals to the brain (gate control theory), activating the parasympathetic nervous system, stimulating the release of endorphins and serotonin, preventing fibrosis or scar tissue, increasing the flow of lymph, and improving sleep.

