Muscle Relief
Experience our 45-minute cupping treatment, designed for relaxation and muscle relief. This modality is designed to promote blood flow and ease tension in the affected area. Perfect for a quick escape from stress or as part of your wellness routine. Treat yourself to the soothing benefits of cupping today!
A Core Modality of Chinese Medicine
Cupping is not a recent wellness trend. It is one of the foundational modalities of Traditional Chinese Medicine, practised for centuries alongside Acupuncture, and the two are often used together in the same visit for the same reason — they work on the same tissue from different directions.
Why Fire, and Why Glass
The name puts people off before they understand it, so here is what actually happens.
A flame is passed briefly inside a glass cup. It never touches you. The flame consumes the oxygen inside the cup, and as the air cools the pressure drops, so when the cup is placed on the skin it creates a gentle vacuum that lifts the tissue upward into the cup.
Glass matters. Plastic and silicone cups use a hand pump, which is simpler but blunter. Glass gives finer control over the suction, it lets the practitioner see exactly how the tissue is responding underneath, and it is smooth enough to glide — which is the part that matters most here.
The Cups Do Not Stay Still
This is the difference between what we do and the stationary cupping most people picture.
Rather than setting the cups down and leaving them for ten minutes, the cups are moved along the muscle — oiled, drawn slowly across the tissue, working along the fibres and through the fascia. It is used to help break up soft tissue adhesions: the places where layers that should slide over one another have become stuck together.
Think of it as massage in reverse. Deep tissue work presses tissue down and in. Cupping pulls it up and apart. Some restrictions respond to one and not the other, which is why cupping reaches things that pressure alone does not.
What the Marks Actually Are
The circular marks are the question everybody asks, usually after seeing them on an athlete.
They are not bruises in the ordinary sense — nothing has been struck. They come from the negative pressure drawing blood toward the surface in the lifted tissue. They are not painful to the touch, and they typically fade over several days.
Most people describe the session itself as a strong but comfortable pulling sensation, and feel loose afterwards rather than sore.
Benefits of Fire cupping
- Pain Relief
- Improved circulation
- Detoxification support
- Relaxation and stress reduction
- Immune system boost
- Respiratory relief
- Skin and fascia health
- Digestive and organ support