Hot Stone massage is a bit different than regular Swedish massage. You begin face-up (lying on your back) with tolerably hot stones placed strategically on either side of your spine and just under your skull. The therapist will massage some areas of your body with smooth flat stones held in each palm of their hands. By the time the therapist turns you over on your stomach, your back muscles are consequently relaxed due to the heat from the stones.
Many Massage Envy locations near us have begun offering hot stone massage as one of their options. So, of course, my boss wants us to start learning how to do it in order to keep up as much business as possible. In order to entice therapists to want to learn how to do hot stone, my boss is offering 16 free CEU’s (continuing education units that we need to have each year) to watch all the videos needed, read a thick workbook, complete all the quizzes at the end, and do six “practicals” (practice massages). The problem here is that we are not getting paid to do any of the six 90-minute practicals. We then have to bend over a sink for a half an hour scrubbing the stones clean and scouring the whole hot stone cart clean until it sparkles. I don’t particularly think that this is fair.
The most unfair thing of all, however, is that we would not get any additional money for doing a hot stone massage versus doing a regular massage. Yes we would get paid to do a two hour massage when the hands-on part is only 90 minutes, but that’s because we would be working for two hours, bottom line. It really frustrates me how money-hungry some business owners can be.
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