Hahana Stone Massage

Hahana Stone Massage is Australia’s leading supplier of Stone Therapy (Hot Stone Massage) products and training. We supply high quality, competitively priced products to the Spa, Beauty and Massage industries.

Hahana means heat or hot in Hawaiian. Hot Stone Massage uses both physical and metaphysical energies and mimics the gentle stream of flowing water.

We stock only the highest quality stones, heaters and accessories. Grey/black basalt (naturally formed/smoothed or hand-carved) has been chosen for our Hot Stones. Our Cold Stones are a white/green marble.

Basalt has been the stone of choice for hot stone massage for its heat retaining qualities. Marble is the ideal stone to use for cold stones as it holds the cold as well as absorbs heat from the body.

Hahana Stone Massage is currently offered in well over 150 Spas, Salons and Massage Clinics through-out Australia, and as far reaching as Ireland, New Zealand, Fiji and Singapore.

History of Stone Massage:

Massage is perhaps the oldest form of hands-on-healing known to humans. For millennia, people from virtually every culture have used a combination of touch, heat (thermotherapy) and stones as therapeutic tools. The three main cultures which have heavily influenced how modern-day Hot Stone Massage/Stone Therapy has evolved are the Chinese, the Native Americans and the Hawaiians (although Egyptian, Ayurvedic and many other traditional healing arts are also said to have used stones and/or heat).

One of the first recorded uses of stones for healing was by Ancient Chinese medical practitioners who regularly used various shaped/sharpened stones (Bian Stones) to treat disease. The use of Moxabustion (buring of the herb mugwort) helped to add heat to these treatments.

Native Americans are well known for their Sweat Lodges, which are similar to modern-day Saunas. The use of heated stones on the lower abdomen to relieve cramps was another common Native American practice.

Most therapists who incorporate hot stones into their massage routine agree that the Hawaiians had a major part to play in how this form of massage is applied today. This is particularly true for Hahana Stone Massage. Customary uses included wrapping hot stones in leaves with certain therapeutic properties (ti leaves) and placing on sore muscles to reduce pain – like using a heat pack or poultice. Hot stones were also placed in shallow pits and covered with these same leaves, with the patient then laying on top of the leaves to allow the healing properties to infuse into the body. The Hawaiians are still one of the most closely linked cultures to modern-day Hot Stone Massage.

A modern-day Hot Stone Massage will usually consist of the therapist placing heated stones (usually basalt) of various shapes/sizes onto the client’s body (for safety, most of the time these ‘placement’ stones won’t be in direct contact with the skin, instead they will be placed onto a towel to buffer the heat). These stones are placed onto different points (chakras, energy points, sore muscles, etc), depending on the style of Hot Stone Massage or Stone Therapy.

Whilst these placement stones are warming and activating specific areas, the therapist will take several other heated stones and begin massaging a different area of the body. The heat from the stones is released deep into the muscles, greatly enhancing the massage. It is said that one stroke with a heated stone is equivalent to ten normal massage strokes! Some therapists will also incorporate cold stones (usually marble) into their treatment which, although not quite as relaxing as the heated stones, do have a part to play for many conditions.

Address	PO Box 689 Coolum Beach QLD 4573
Tel	1300793597
Website	www.hahana.com.au