Like house parties, massages give people an excuse to forget about everyday stresses and fall asleep on someone else's table. Attend a fettle-ready fiesta with today's Groupon: for $44, you get a spa package at Essence Reflexology & Massage in Tempe (a $104 value). The package includes:

• A one-hour massage (a $65 value)
• A one-hour reflexology session (a $39 value)

Essence Reflexology & Massage’s muscle whisperers evict tension from bodies with a slew of relaxing spa services. Massage therapists lavish dorsal appendages in a choice of five different massage styles, kneading musculature with the long strokes of the Swedish massage, the pressurized kneads of the deep-tissue massage, or the rolling strokes of the Hot Wheels massage. Reflexology utilizes pressure points on feet and hands to liquefy tension, rebalancing the body through therapeutic prodding that stimulates blood and lymph circulation. While the reflexologist manipulates hand pressure points, ped-appendages soak in the steaming footbath, fashioning a spirit more refreshed than a postvacation Kool-Aid Man.

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