Deep Tissue Massage

Russian Massage

Ripple Russian Deep Tissue Massage Package – Deeply relaxing, rare style of massage unique to Ripple. Wonderful as it includes deep tissue work and realigns your body. Very popular with our regular guests.

Russian Deep Tissue Massage Package

Deeply relaxing, rare style of massage unique to Ripple. Wonderful as it includes deep tissue work and realigns your body. Very popular with our regular guests

1 hr – $110 ($95 members)
1.5 hr – $150 ($135 members)
2 hr – $195 ($180 members)
3 hr – $295 ($280 members)
4 hr – $395 ($380 members)

Russian Massage Spa Packages

See here for what is included in each of our Russian massage packages

Deep Tissue Massage – Russian Massage Story

Where we found it

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A beautiful and deeply relaxing style it is fantastic for letting go of stress and tension.

It is based on techniques that have been used extensively in Russia for over 100 years, and has a philosophy that through massage the body can learn to heal, relax and repair itself.

Often used instead of medication, massage is a significant part of the mainstream health care system in Russia. When going to a doctor, you will often be prescribed a series of massages as part of your treatment.

Similarly, hospitals employ many Russian massage therapists and incorporate this style into their recovery

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programs.

Russian massage uses some unique techniques such as cresting friction (where the top half of the fingers are used to massage along the back) and also involves the rocking and movement of the body to release stress.

A big reason why this style of massage is so effective for reducing stress is that it encourages surrendering the body to the massage.

Some people find it difficult to let go of control and allow their bodies to relax (massage therapists are the worst.) and Russian massage incorporates techniques where the body will automatically relax and unwind.

It is a very slow, beautiful peaceful style of massage that is perfect for those wishing to escape the stresses of modern living. Perfect for professionals wanting to quickly unwind, Mums and Dads who need a little time out or those on holidays wanting to easily relax.

Deep Tissue Massage Review – by Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott enjoys a Ripple Russian Massage

Ever had a fantasy about being a post-Soviet billionaire, with super yachts moored in the Mediterranean, a football club as a plaything and the Presidents and Prime Ministers of developing countries on your speed dial?

Yeah?  Me too, and on a Monday afternoon last week on the Gold Coast, I got the closest I’ll ever come to feeling like a Russian magnate thanks to Ripples visiting massage.

True, I did have a good start – I was staying in the Penthouse apartment at the excellent Oceanside Resort at Bilinga while doing the incredible Bethel silent retreat. But other than that the delivery of Russian gold was entirely down to the talented therapist Mardi from Ripple.

Boy, are Alison Shaw’s Ripple a great company. They’re expanding rapidly throughout Australia offering a really warm and thoughtful visiting massage service.  From the initial peppermint and lime-scented foot soak to the masterful two-hour massage itself to the

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little gifts they bestow on their customers, you always feel safe and cared for in the company’s hands. Even a super rich Siberian might dispense with their burly security guards if paid a visit by Ripple.

As for me, on the third day of a silent retreat (during which my daydreams were becoming increasingly vivid) the Russian deep tissue massage was just about the perfect treatment. After long runs and walks on the beach previously, this 1.86m (6ft 2in in old language) bloke was not just soothed by Mardi’s opening and closing gentle strokes but also invigorated and smoothed by the sports massage techniques used for the interim sixty minutes.  It felt gorgeously indulgent and languidly slow, seeming to last twice the time.

What’s great about this combination is that the opening really prepares your body for the more vigorous strokes that are to come. You’re just seeping into the table in a bodily sigh when kneading fingers start to find their way deep inside your shoulder blades and into those twisted sinews in your neck and shoulders.  Oh, the burden of all that money, I kept imagining, as Mardi’s healing hands glided over my back, tackling one vertical side at a time.

Before long her sterling work had even erased my fictional worries and as the sun set behind the southern

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Gold Coast, I began to drift into a place of warmth and darkness not dissimilar from sleep. This was deep tissue work of the highest calibre, the sort of touch that releases weeks of stress and floods the muscles with such a strong feel-good factor that they’ll be good for weeks to come. As the back work continued it was fast, direct and utterly rejuvenating. Finally, this part of the massage drew to a close with feathery touches that settled everything down again.

A similar technique on the back of my legs took care of my aching calves and thigh muscles from all that beach running and then it was time to turn over.

First up now was an organic green clay cleansing face mask, applied after a hot towel had prepared the ground.  Well, we magnates have got to look our best, haven’t we?  Once this was on, it was time for work on arms, chest and some excellent digging under the shoulders again as well as some good head massage and finally some reflexology on my feet.  If I hadn’t had an urgent meeting with Julia Gillard and Queensland PM Anna Bligh to discuss my company’s mining rights, Mardi could have left me in my room to snooze all night!

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Unfortunately, even for the inveterate fantasist, all good things must come to an end.  But there was still time for another lovely Ripple touch, a celebratory card containing a $1 scratchy. Maybe, just maybe, my dreams were going to come true after all.

With Mardi recently departed I rubbed away at my scratchy and….won $2. Well, you’ve got to start somewhere and while I accumulate my billions, there’s always Ripple’s Russian massage with which to indulge my inner Czar.

The two-hour Russian massage costs $195 ($180 for Ripple members).  Ninety minute, three hour and four hour packages are also available.

Deep tissue massage techniques

Russian massage is based on techniques that have been used extensively in Russia for over 100 years, and is based on the philosophy that through massage the body can learn to heal, relax and repair itself.

Russian deep tissue massage uses many unusual techniques, but they do use similar terms to Swedish

Deep Tissue Massage Techniques

massage. So for example they use the terms friction and tapotement, but the techniques they use are very different to those used in other styles of massage.

The Russian massage style of tapotement is less intrusive than the Swedish style, covers a larger surface area and is used to increase blood flow to the muscles. Russian massage also uses some friction techniques, both that are very deep tissue styles of massage. The “sawing” technique is an intense style of massage that adds a lot of heat to the muscles and is helpful for chronic muscular problems.

The cresting technique is also unique to this style of massage and again is a friction technique. Often used in sports massage, this technique again provides lots of heat to the muscles.

Raking is also a common technique and is used along the erector spine muscles and also the inter costal muscles, allowing for deep tissue manipulation of these muscles.

However there are also some more gentle, relaxation styles of massage in the Russian style including the rocking of the body. During this style of massage, the client’s body is moved and rocked a lot, with the therapist using the client’s body to massage.

So when massaging the muscles in the calf, the therapist will pick up the leg and rock it back and forth, using the weight of the muscle to massage the attachment points. This allows for a less intrusive style of massage and allows the massage therapist to work with the body, not against it.

Russian massage is also known as being very easy on the therapist’s body and therefore helps extend the therapists working life. It does not use thumbs at all and a big part of the massage is protection of the therapist’s body. Russian therapists believe that sometimes giving 50% energy to a client will have a better effect than giving 100%.

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All of the techniques including friction and cresting use the weight of the therapist’s body to provide the massage, rather than stressing the therapist’s thumbs and hands.

This style of massage has developed in Russia over the last century and is used extensively in hospitals, with patients often being prescribed a series of massages during their stay. Similarly, doctors in Russia regularly use massage therapy in their treatment of patients. Russian massage has only been used in the West rarely and is not commonly available.

Ripple massage is the one mobile massage therapy business in Australia that offers Russian massage to its clients. Operating in Queensland, NSW, TAS and Victoria, clients are able to access this unique and rare style of massage that not only allows for deep relaxation but is deeply therapeutic.

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