Swedish massage is enjoyable, relaxing and rejuvenating.

Bella’s relaxation massage is a flowing massage style aimed to bring you to a deep state of relaxation. Bella works intuitively to give your body and mind what it needs, and listens to what you want so you have a beautiful experience that leaves you feeling blissful. This is not a generic massage that you find in shopping centres. Bella is properly trained and has a lot of experience and works with full presence. Beautiful healing music is playing throughout your session and the massage table is very comfortable.

Bella uses natural oil infused with beautiful essential oils with some blends already created and will choose the one for you based on what you need most: balancing women’s hormones, relaxation, grounding or uplifting.

Swedish Massage with Bella Aurora Starr

Bella uses Swedish massage techniques in most of the massage styles offered as these are gliding, flowing and kneading massage techniques that induce deep relaxation in the body and help to calm the mind.

Having a relaxing massage is restorative on many levels as relaxing the nervous system is what leads to the reduction of pain and reducing stress hormones. Research has shown that massage can activate blissful feeling hormones such as endorphins, oxytocin, serotonin and dopamine.

Relaxation Massage is perfect for melting your stress away and reducing tension in your whole body and can help relax minor to moderate tension in the muscles, and help prevent headaches and migraines. 

How Does Massage Therapy Actually Work?

Mechanoreceptors are sensory neurons that respond to mechanical stimuli such as touch and pressure, and are located within joint capsular tissues, ligaments, tendons, muscle, fascia and skin. Skilfully stimulating these mechanoreceptors using different pressures and techniques sends messages to the central nervous system (the spinal cord and then to the brain). The central nervous system then sends a signal back to the muscles to change their tonus. This is how massage therapy works.

Massage therapists aren’t kneading out “knots” (this is terminology quite often used but doesn’t accurately explain what we do) - we are causing a response in the nervous system so that the muscle fibres relax. My hands have become very sensitive over the years - I can easily detect when your muscles are responding to a technique I’m using. My clients often comment that I work on all the right spots and that their tension is gone after treatment.

Key Benefits of Swedish Massage

• It feels really good, and clients report a feeling of peace and well being.

• Relaxes tense muscles.

• Induces deep relaxation for the whole body - causing the parasympathetic nervous system to activate.

• Improves blood and lymph circulation (temporarily).

• May cause the release of good feeling hormones.

• May help chronic pain, reduce headaches and migraines, reduce high blood pressure, improve insomnia, and be beneficial for anxiety disorders and depression.

• Relaxation massage can benefit those who are going through a tough time, such as grief or mental health issues.