Have you been looking for a healthy way to spend time with your significant other? Your busy schedules usually keep you from exercising together and with the fast pace of the day there’s not always time to plan a healthy meal. So what can you do together that takes you away from the same routine? How about a Couples Massage?

Imagine you and your loved one enjoying a Couples Massage at the same time, in the same room. You can choose to talk during the session, or merely gaze at each other across the room ... the choice is yours. Many prefer silence during their massage treatment, but a Couples Massage can be enjoyed by silence or the experience can be heightened by sharing your feelings during the process.

Couples Massage provides a way to strengthen relationships by enjoying something together, with no one else around.

How can Couples Massage help you both stay healthy? Massage helps you improve your health due to the many healthy benefits of massage including: improved circulation, greater flexibility, better sleep, feelings of wellness, stress reduction, and reduced muscular pain.

Now that you know that Couples Massage can help you improve your health, you might want to know what types of massage are available to you during a Couples Massage. The best known massage therapy techniques for Couples Massage are:

1. Relaxation Swedish Massage - this is the most common massage treatment. Relaxation Massage is known for its long gliding strokes, kneading strokes, friction strokes, and percussion as well as joint movements that feel great while improving range of motion. It's most often thought of as a "spa" type of massage but it's much more than that. Relaxation Massage is great for reducing stress, improving circulation, improving range of motion of your joints, and helping you actually feel better in your own skin. Relaxation Massage can range from light pressure to a heavier pressure depending on your comfort level.

2. Deep Tissue Massage - one of the best known and most often requested massage treatments. This massage is used to root out chronic tension in the deeper musculature and connective tissues that contributes to pain and loss of range of motion in joints.

3. Hot Stone Therapy - this is probably the most relaxing and luxurious massage used in Couples Massage. Heated stones are added to the massage and are used by the Massage Specialist to perform a mini heat treatment as well as gliding strokes that seem to melt away stress and tension.

4. Pregnancy Massage - many women are touting the benefits of a Pregnancy Massage to cure what ails them; sharing this massage with your mate is another way to enhance your journey through pregnancy.

5. Sports Massage - just like it sounds, Sports Massage is geared toward athletes at every level from professional to the "weekend warrior" and those who strive for a higher level of fitness. Rather than a specific form of massage, Sports Massage is generally a combination of massage techniques tailored to the athlete's needs. The Sports Massage might be applied to one area to relieve pain or might be more general in nature to assure overall performance. Sports Massage is great for athletic couples.

6. Remedial Massage - this is a well known technique for relieving muscular pain throughout the body, as well as "referred" pain that originates from a place other than where it's felt. This technique uses very targeted massage techniques, positioning, and stretching to release myofascial trigger points in muscles as well as restrictions in tendons, muscular attachments, and sometimes fascia surrounding the muscle.

As you can see, a Couples Massage has something for everyone. Including it into your regular health regimen not only heals your body from the stress and tension of everyday life, but brings you closer to a loved one by sharing this intimate experience. Of course there are many more massage treatments available during Couples Massage that are relaxing, stress reducing, and that relieve chronic tension and pain. You actually don't have to know what type of massage to ask for, you just need to know what you want to achieve. Do you just want to relax? Reduce muscle soreness? Relieve pain? Improve posture? Our fully qualified Massage Specialists can recommend the most suitable treatment for you during your massage together.

If you would like to book a Couples Massage with one of our qualified Massage Specialists, please call 1300 OUR MASSAGE (1300 687 627).