Raindrop massage is a 75-minute massage session that involves the use of pure and natural essential oils. The massage involves raising the oil to about 6 inches above the spine and dropping the oil along the spine like raindrops. This is where the technique got its name from.
Raindrop massage like all other massage techniques involves the use of essentials oils which are extracted from organic materials like grasses, fruit, bark of a tree, seeds, leaves, herbs, flowers and several other types of plants.
Some of the essential oils used for raindrop massage therapy are valor oil, oregano oil because it strengthens the immune system, thyme oil, basil oil because it aids proper relaxation and enhances sound sleep, wintergreen oil because it cures muscle pain, marjoram oil because it reduces general body discomfort, cypress oil because it purifies and cleanses the body, peppermint oil because it revitalizes and reinvigorates the body, aroma size oil, V-6 and Ortho ease carrier oils.
What Makes It Unique
Raindrop massage is relatively more beneficial than several other deep tissue massages. What makes it unique is that each massage session makes the spine grow about half an inch longer. No other kind of massage does this.
Benefits
- A unique benefit of raindrop massage is that the ongoing effect of a single massage session can last a week or longer.
- It is believed that the essential oils used in the therapy have analgesic ingredients which chronic back pain and some other body pains are reduced and eventually cured. So, raindrop massage has the ability to reduce pain.
- Essential oils when massaged into the body help sooth and calm the nervous system, reducing tension. This happens when the oil penetrates through the cell and finds its way into some tissues and the bloodstream.
- With the help of some essential oils, the therapy helps to relax overworked, sore, stressed and spastic muscles. This is where essential oils like cypress, basil and marjoram can be of a lot of help. This massage also helps to prevent and cure inflammation.
- It also helps to strengthen and improve the immune system of the body. It facilitates proper blood circulation and also detoxifies the body. The truth is that all the health benefits of essential oils are infinite. More benefits are still being discovered day by day. What makes them better than all kinds of drugs is their lack of side effects. There is no amount of essential oils that is too much to be massaged into the body.
Considering all the benefits outlined above, it is obvious that raindrop massage is as beneficial as other deep tissue style massages.