You've just stepped onto the dock after a fantastic day on the water. Your back and shoulders ache from casting and reeling in girthy trophy northern pike and lake trout all day. But your fatigue and even the soreness start to melt away as soon as you look up and see smoke billowing from the stove as it heats the stones and oils awaiting you in the Stone Haven Spa. Welcome to paradise on the 60th parallel; the luxury in your Canadian fly in fishing trip.
Stone Haven Spa sits at the center of the Scott Lake Lodge island, with a newly remodeled facility offering privacy and tranquility to accommodate your professional spa treatment. Therapeutic massage is an age-old healing art, which can alleviate physical, mental and emotional ailments. The practice dates to the Chinese in 3000 BC. Read on for a description of just some of the spa treatments offered at Stone Haven.
Hot Stones Therapy
Stone therapy is a one of a kind experience with nature, offering a sense of awareness and sacredness that we too often overlook. The deep therapeutic healing and unique movement of the hot stones brings us closer to our true essence. The comfort & warmth of nourishing oils will melt away daily stresses. Hot stone massage is a specialty massage that uses smooth, heated stones. They are often basalt, a black volcanic rock that absorbs and retains heat well.
What Happens During a Hot Stone Massage?
Before you arrive, the massage therapist sanitizes the stones and heats them in 120 and 150 degree water. The therapist uses traditional strokes of Swedish massage while holding a heated stone. As the stone cools, the therapist replaces it with another. The therapist might also leave heated stones in specific points along your spine, or in the palms of your hand, or even between your toes to improve the flow of energy in your body. Those experiencing a hot stone massage will notice a healing improvement of the following symptoms:
- muscular aches
- pains
- sprains and strains
- poor circulation
- Rheumatic and arthritic conditions
- Fibromyalgia
- MS
- back pain
- stress
- anxiety and tension
- insomnia
- depression
Paraffin Treatment
Paraffin is a heat treatment that offers fast acting, penetrating heat therapy. The warm paraffin is proven to be effective to soothe pain and stiffness of arthritis, inflammation, joint stiffness, muscle spasms, dry/cracked skin and more. It is very effective after a long day of fishing. Paraffin may be used on hands, elbows, feet and knees.
Therapeutic Deep Tissue Body Massage
Stronger pressure is used with this elaborate massage along with elbows and forearms to achieve a truly effective deep tissue massage. It is designed to address deeper layers of muscle tissue which have become tense, causing chronic pain and injury. It can be used to treat arthritis, tendonitis, sports injuries, muscle tears and tissue trauma. The emphasis is on deeper strokes moving the blood towards the heart. It assists in cleansing the body of toxins by improving blood and lymphatic circulation.
Wellbeing Relaxation Massage
A smooth, flowing style that promotes general relaxation, improves circulation and range of movement, and relieves muscular tension. This is a relaxing and nurturing massage style, based on the strokes invented by the father of modern massage, Swedish gymnast and fencing master Per Henrik Ling. This massage is a lighter style that promotes relaxation, using a firm and flowing pressure. Swedish massage forms the basis of most western massage. Tension, anxiety and life's stresses melt away with this massage. This is the massage most likely to send you to sleep
Relaxing Scalp Massage
An acupressure scalp massage aids in the reduction of stress and mental fatigue by improving circulation therefore helps increase blood and oxygen supply to the scalp. Treatment includes massage to the neck, shoulders, face and scalp.