Toronto’s holistic community is vast and diverse. The city offers many different forms of wellness services benefiting both spiritual and physical healing.
 
Recently we had the opportunity to visit one of Toronto’s fastest growing health and wellness centers, Sage Clinic. Located just south of Yonge and Bloor we dropped in for a massage and left not only feeling relaxed, but also left with a better understanding of the power massage and all it has to offer for overall health.
 
There are hundreds of different kinds of massage and bodywork techniques. At Sage Health and Wellness Clinic they utilize multiple techniques, all aimed at healing and relaxing someone’s body and mind.
 
The benefits of massage therapies are wide ranging. Massage is an integral part of many physical rehabilitation programs and has been proven effective in the treatment of physical conditions, including back pain, arthritis and high blood pressure.
 
Many of us spend our days hunched over a computer keyboard, throwing off our posture and creating stiffness and discomfort. Others who lead an active lifestyle can exercise until a toll is taken on their muscles and joints. Here are some of the physical benefits of massage that help to alleviate this:
 
 
• Relief of pain, stiffness and discomfort
• Increase in mobility
• Improvement in circulation
• Promotion of relaxation
• Reduction of stress
 
 
Nothing ages us faster than high stress. While massage cannot eliminate the pressure caused by our professional lives, it can help manage that stress. In addition to stress reduction, some of the psychological benefits that massage therapy offers are:
 
 
• Decrease in anxiety
• Improvement in the quality of our sleep
• Increase in our energy
• Reduction in fatigue
• Improvement in concentration
 
 
After we completed our visit to Sage Clinic and our massage therapy session, we left with a feeling of clarity and well-being that was valuable for both our physical and spiritual health. Prior to visiting Sage clinic, we had heard all of the hype surrounding massage and now we believe it!
 
For more information on Sage Clinic as well as other holistic and wellness studios in Toronto, please be sure to check out the holistic and wellness section on ExerciseToronto.Com.
 
 
ExerciseToronto.Com Staff