Hot Stone Massage

The modern hot stone massage became popular in the early 90’s and has been sued in the West ever since. Our Essence Spa Sharjah use this classic style and use basalt lava stones as their tool of choice.

The stones are warmed up in a hot bath, before being placed on key areas of your body. These stones are heated to around 110 to 130 degrees, hot enough to cause a reaction, but not hot enough to cause pain or damage to your skin.

These smooth, often black hot stones are placed on parts of the body that will trigger your body to relax. This will release any tension and tightness in your joints and muscles, and begin the relaxing, healing process which makes hot stone massages so popular.

The rocks used in hot stone massages are formed from the lava flows of volcanoes and are of a smooth and black quality. These rocks are also polished, and due to their colour and density, are incredibly well suited to heat retention. These stones then, make for great sources of heat on the body, and their steady radiating allows no damage to be delivered to the skin tissue.