All right, who is ready for a massage?
It's a new year, and so many of us
have kicked off the new year with the
commitment to health and Wellness.
That's right. And massage therapy
has a host of health benefits.
So here to share more is the
team at Elements massage,
located in West Post,
formerly Pentagon Row in Arlington.
We have studio manager Cindy Kensky,
studio owner George Armendarez and
Stephen Giles, a licensed massage
therapist and his very willing wife.
Our our go to here George want
to start with you massage or
elements massage what is it?
What do you guys all about
great thanks for for asking Kristen
Element started over 20 years
ago and was founded by a massage
therapist specifically with the
goal of doing therapeutic massage.
Today there's over 250 studios nationwide,
wow. And we opened ours in July of
2021 just as the pandemic restrictions
were starting to lift, right, wow.
So timing turned out to be good as
people were starting to get back into
their health and Wellness programs and
we're much more attracted to one-on-one
services versus group activities.
So that personalization I mentioned
that the founder was so,
so intent on is part of what we
call the elements way and that
along with our client matching,
carefully matching the client
with the therapist to make sure
that all their needs are met is
what we call our secret sauce.
And that's kind of what
differentiates us from the other.
So important to find them something perfect.
Massage therapist, Cindy for
people at the start of the year,
Health and Wellness is top of the mind.
How does a massage fit into that?
Massage has four different
things that it can really do,
which is the elements way.
It can be rejuvenation,
it can be relaxing.
We do therapeutic relief
and we tailor each session
to what the guest needs.
Typically here, yeah,
here everything
right now, Steven, you got some how?
What's the best way to for a massage?
Like if you're doing it and then do you
have anything that we can do to ourselves.
Well it all depends on what the
Pacific issue is and you don't have to
really have a specific health issue.
But there are many different
aspects to benefit from massage,
with the stretching, with prenatal,
with lymphatic drainage,
just overall relaxation.
And so there are a few things that you
can do on your own or where you at home,
you know some stretches and I can show you,
right let's please do.
So if you're at home and say
you don't have a massage chair,
you can just get a regular chair with
a high back and you can take a pillow
and flip over so you can lean over.
And if you have another recipient,
they can always just.
Move in the muscles right in the back.
You're doing the neck right in the
back of the neck, right in the traps.
And then also if you would sit up OK,
you can also stretch the neck
out and stretch out this way.
And then sometimes you might have some
issues going on with your shoulders.
So just take your arm and just
stretch it back like this.
So what we can do in like the doorway?
Exactly. So if you take your
hand and put it on the doorway,
you can always just stretch.
Stretch this morning and then.
Also, you can just do some rotations.
OK. And then lastly,
to get that rhomboids and your back,
if you take your hand straight out
like this and just push it over,
you feel that good stretched
out in that back room,
but you feel that,
oh, yeah, make sure you're
not on the elbow, right.
Exactly. You want to push right,
right in the forearm, OK.
And let your guiding hand push
back while this hand is relaxed
and just push it back real good.
You feel a good stretch. So
that's most of the people that come in.
Is it up here where we're mostly? Nine
times out of 10, the most
targeted areas is the upper back,
which is the trapezius and then
the lower back, which is the Q&L.
Yeah, so these even just with the arms
and just the neck stretches for ourselves,
a city at our desks at work.
Exactly. It's, it's very beneficial
that those who sit at your
desk for long periods of time,
at least every 45 minutes to an hour,
it's good to just get up,
walk around stretch because the
longer you sit the more you
are end up tightening up the
performance muscle and that also.
And derived and start
a. So we times just like driving to
right and that's that's the issue
that also flames that sciatica nerve.
So that's what you don't want.
Once you hit that point then it's you know,
we got to fight through that
to get you back to normalcy.
And Cindy, just a reminder,
this isn't just, I mean massage
does feel great and makes you relax,
but these health benefits
are just so important,
something we should really think about.
Absolutely, absolutely.
We encourage each of our guests to
join our Wellness plan that keeps
them focused while saving them.
Some money also wanted to let everybody
know thank Valentine's Day is coming up.
I don't know why is it like Valentine's
Day is coming up and we do have a
one hour massage for $20.00 off.
And also if you mentioned
that you saw us here,
we're going to do a free
Himalayan salt soon enhancement.
All you have to do is check them
out in West Post in Arlington or you
can also go to elementsmassage.com.
Thank you all for the.