Massage in Clawson

Since 1987, Healing Arts Massage Therapy Center’s nationally certified therapists have banded together to relieve stress and tend to sore muscles. The center’s owner and Master Bodywork Therapist, Celeste Hamilton, calls upon more than 30 years of therapeutic practice to oversee a team of four, each of whom relies on techniques that encompass Swedish, therapeutic, and deep-tissue modalities. Upon request, the therapists can haul their massage chairs to businesses, parties, and understaffed bakeries to share their kneading expertise with clients on-site.

Owner Stephanie Parenti leads a skilled team at her LaVida Massage location, where therapists soothe stressed clients. In the low light of a private room, sore muscles melt beneath flowing Swedish massage strokes or firm deep-tissue techniques. Clients can show appreciation for significant others or diligent stunt doubles by requesting soothing couples massages. Additionally, the spa's aestheticians can address surface-level concerns by administering signature facials and peels.

To reflexologist Lauren Burtell, your feet are more than what got you in the door. They act as hubs of the nervous system, linking energy meridians and pathways throughout the body. By manipulating pressure points on the feet, she can work to quell migraines, insomnia, and sinusitis while bolstering overall energy levels and the mental acuity needed to shut your eyes one at a time. She can further the relaxing effects of her therapeutic treatments with steaming towel wraps and aromatherapy, allowing her to achieve multitiered healing and stress relief. Lauren also leads classes in basic and core yoga, allowing clients to align body, breathing, and mind.

Though they traffic in Swedish, hot-stone, and shiatsu massages and other traditional forms of bodywork, the therapists at Sacred Garden Healing Arts Center don't confine themselves to conventional treatments in designing their clients' pain-relief regimens. Instead they call upon such alternative therapies as reiki, which involves placing hands over the body's energy centers, and pranic healing, which manipulates the body's life force using a no-touch technique that won't be interrupted by rappers commanding people to throw their hands in the air like they just don't care. The center's treatments are meant to complement one another, so after craniosacral therapy or a Native American raindrop massage, patrons can retire to the salt room, where they can inhale air rich with Dead Sea salt, which can help to clear sinuses and relieve skin problems, among myriad other benefits.

Just before the entrance to Greenleaf Bodywork, a two-level garden box welcomes guests—its lower level filled with basalt stones atop combed white sand, the top sprouting young bamboo shoots. Inside the studio, this penchant for the elemental continues, surrounding guests with stone-tile floors, bamboo blinds, and treatment rooms where subdued lighting spills across the walls and the tapestries hanging there. Within these zen-like environs, Greenleaf’s massage therapists work their magic, healing soft tissue with modalities such as deep tissue, hot stone, and reflexology. They also offer couples massages, synchronizing Swedish bodywork between spouses' backs or helping rivals race to a state of relaxation.