May brings wonderful things, like spring, warmer weather and longer days, but one of the best parts about May is celebrating the important mom in your life – perhaps your mother, wife and/or grandmother.
Whether they work or stay at home with the kids, moms don’t have a lot of time for themselves. Mothers are constantly worrying about their children, and often have very little time to relax and recharge. One way to show the special mom in your life you care about her well being this year is to give her a massage for Mother’s Day.
Here are a few ways massage therapy can be beneficial to moms:
- Relieves stress- Clinical studies have shown that a single one and a half hour session can significantly lower heart rate, cortisol levels and insulin levels, all of which help reduce stress.
- Encourages relaxation- Pent-up levels of the “stress hormone” cortisol can lead to sleeplessness and headaches, but massage has been shown to decrease cortisol in the body, allowing the body to enter a relaxing rest-and-recovery mode. Massage also triggers a host of brain chemistry responses that can result in lasting feelings of relaxation, lowered stress and improved mood.
- Improves posture– Many moms’ posture suffers from carrying their children. Massage can help posture by relaxing and loosening muscles made sore by bad posture, allowing your body to position itself in its natural-and-pain-free-posture.
- Lowers blood pressure– Long-term studies have shown that a consistent massage program can decrease diastolic and systolic blood pressure. Low blood pressure can contribute to lowering the odds of having a heart attack, kidney failure or a stroke.
- Improves flexibility– By working on muscles, connective tissues, tendons, ligaments and joints, regular massage can improve your flexibility and range of motion, keeping your joints more fluid and making them less injury prone.
Make sure the special mom in your life knows how much you appreciate everything she does by giving her some time for herself. Massage Envy Spa makes this easy for you with its special Mother’s Day promotion. To celebrate Mother’s Day, Massage Envy Spa is offering specials with the purchase of $50, $75 and $147 gift cards. When you purchase a $50 gift card, you will receive a certificate for a free enhanced therapy, when you purchase a $75 gift card, you will receive a complimentary half-hour upgrade and with the purchase of a $147 gift card, you will receive a free one-hour massage session. This promotion is available through May 12. FBN
For additional information or to schedule an appointment with an esthetician or massage therapist, visit massageenvy.com, call 928-526-ENVY (3689), or visit one of Arizona’s 35 Massage Envy locations. The Flagstaff location is at 1235 S. Plaza Way in the University Plaza Shopping Center off Milton Road next to Ross and Safeway. A Prescott clinic located at the corner of Montezuma and Sheldon opens May 6.
Mark Love is co-owner of Massage Envy Spa Flagstaff. For more information on the benefits of massage, go to MassageEnvy.com or Facebook.com/MEFlag.