Diversified Hot Rock Chair Massage is an experience beyond the ordinary. The use of heated basalt rocks is nurturing at points and then intense, stimulating and enriching at other points. The levels of relaxation and comfort are of the quality found in Spa facilities. The physical-mental-emotional revitalization is immediately evident in this new treatment. Which explains why Hot Rock Chair Massage is quickly sweeping the nation and has already made its way to other countries.

At trade shows and exhibitions, clients are lining up and paying in advance to have treatments performed. The pleased looks on client’s faces are a testament to the hot stone treatments and to the training received by the therapists. Each therapist is encouraged to use their creativity while addressing the needs of the client.

For example, clients have received intricate work on their hands, penetrating heat directly to neck and shoulders and detailed work on the lower back. Aromatherapy is easily and powerfully incorporated when placed on a hot stone. When it appears that all the techniques have been seen, the creator and expert of Diversified Hot Rock Chair Massage (Wyman Hall-Walker) displays something more. He begins a session on a client’s upper body. When this is complete, he repositions his client in the chair and finishes the session with hot stone work on the legs and feet, giving the client a total body experience.

Benefits to Clients
The stones and their warming have a positive impact on circulation and respiration during sessions. Promoting greater levels of oxygen in the blood and increased blood circulation to the areas addressed. Massage therapists who prefer to focus on the physical benefits will enjoy the manner in which the heat melts the client’s muscular tension. Therapists are discovering mental benefits for clients that are found in the deep levels of relaxation at which clients quickly arrive. Still other therapists prefer an energetic approach, and they will appreciate how the energy of the stones will work with clients on subtle levels.

Benefits to Therapists
There are multiple benefits to the massage therapist skilled in this training. The therapist personally experiences less stress on their body, allowing them to work with a greater sense of comfort and ease. This will help to lengthen the career of the therapist.

Professionally the therapist has an opportunity to provide a vibrant new experience for clients; an opportunity to attract new clients with this service; an opportunity to introduce Diversified Hot Rock Chair Massage and extend Hot Rock Table Massage to clients pleased with the chair experience.

A Diversified Hot Rock Chair therapist related, “One client was so happy with their Hot Rock Chair Massage, that they kept making these long, contented sighs during the session. At the end, they told me that they also worked as a massage therapist. And insisted on knowing where to sign up for training!”

The Stones
Eighteen stones are used in Diversified Hot Rock Chair Massage. The stones are chosen for specific purposes, properties and characteristics.

The first stone presented in a session is intended to draw the client in, and to build a relationship that will work on multiple levels, and last throughout the session. A second stone is utilized as a means of grounding the client during the session.

A group of twelve separate stones are used on the upper back and neck in various configurations [at different points in the session]. At times the stones are applied to the bare skin where the penetrating heat can be used to its best advantage.

One pair of stones is specially selected to work in tandem during the session. This pair of stones focuses on warming the body and preparing the client for deeper work. The deepest work is often done by the Accupressure Stone, selected for its ability to bring relaxing heat to bear in specific areas.

Diversified Hot Rock Chair Massage is the creation of Wyman Hall-Walker. He has over 20 years of experience in massage, holistic healing and physical medicine. He is the President and Co-founder of Hired HandsTM; the Midwest’s largest on-site massage company.