This truly unique style of massage, has been gaining popularity throughout the world after being re-discovered in the United States in 1993.

The story is that a massage therapist, named Mary Nelson, who was suffering from repetitive use injuries in the shoulders and wrists, was having a sauna with her niece and was “called” to the stones. Mary picked up some of the hot stones and started massaging her niece with them – it felt great (for her niece as well as herself) and thus Stone Therapy’s reawakening occurred.

The three main cultures which have heavily influenced stone therapy are the Chinese, the Native Americans and the Hawaiians as there are recorded uses of all of them using hot stones as therapeutic tools. Hot Stone Massage is one of the most relaxing forms of massage a person can receive and because of its popularity, has once again traveled quickly around the globe.