After a stressful and unpredictable year, reducing stress is a top priority for many of us. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle by eating a nutrient-dense diet, getting proper sleep, and learning stress management techniques are all good ways to cope with stress. One important way to achieve this lower stress level is by focusing on self-care. Self-care comes in many forms but one of the most beneficial ways is regular massage. Massage can reduce stress and tension, lower heart rate and help with sore muscles and joint pain.
The relaxed and pampered feeling you can achieve with massage benefits both the body and mind. But with the world more demanding and increasingly more digital, it’s hard to break that mental and physical bond and just lay back, clear the mind, and fully relax. As you enter the treatment room, we have a million things on our minds, and it takes a long time to unwind. When you lay on the massage table, your mind is racing with your to do list. Your fingers itch for your cell phone to check texts, emails, and social media. It’s a real struggle to unplug and truly let go.
So WHAT is the solution??
What if…there was an all-natural, and quick acting way to help melt away the stress so you can focus on relaxation and get the most benefit of the massage?
What if…your mind could more easily forget the technology and dial down for the hour of your massage?
What if…you relaxed more deeply into your massage and the effects lasted longer?
What if…you got more out of each self-care session – more relaxation, more therapeutic muscle healing, more mindfulness?
What if…you could do this ALL with just ONE SHOT!! Drink this one shot just 10 minutes before your spa treatment?
Now this isn’t the type of vodka or tequila shot you would think of to help you relax. That is just not the healthy answer to self-care. This is a Spa Shot, specifically designed for the spa and wellness industry that focuses on relaxation and self-care.
Unlike alcohol, this shot doesn’t dull your brain, senses or give you a sluggish feeling. Rather, it clears the mind, promotes a positive mood and even supports muscle recovery. Chock-full of powerful nutrients designed to promote total body and mind relaxation. It’s the spa industry’s revolutionary new enhancement therapy, called the RELAX Spa Shot. This all-natural functional beverage is to be consumed 5-10 minutes prior to massage or spa treatment to quickly quiet the mind and deeply relax the body. Helping you forget about pending emails and life commitments. Letting you enjoy every minute of your well deserved “me-time”.
Four simple, but potent ingredients make up this therapeutic new tonic.
One ounce of the Relax shot contains Tart Cherry, Malic Acid, GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) and Organic Green Tea Leaf -98% Ltheanine (γ-glutamylethylamide). These simple, high-quality, natural ingredients work synergistically to relax the body and quiet the mind. Because you are more relaxed your muscles are more pliable, and the massage therapist can potentially work deeper into the muscle. Giving you not just a more relaxed experience but maximizing the therapeutic benefits of your self-care.
Tart Cherries not only give this Spa Shot a pleasant taste, but they are also high in phytochemicals and antioxidants. One potent phytochemical called an anthocyanin, gives tart cherries their deep red color, anti-aging benefits and immune support. In helping balance circadian rhythms, tart cherries also give you better-quality sleep. Additionally, tart cherries help support muscle recovery after exercise and provide faster relief from aches and stiffness associated with muscle exertion, ideal for a person looking to optimize a spa treatment experience.
Malic Acid
Malic acid is a naturally occurring compound found in a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, the richest source being apples. For this reason, it is sometimes called “apple acid.” Apples are rich in polyphenols (antioxidants) and help to produce energy, playing an important role in the complex process of generating adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the energy currency. An apple a day keeps the doctor away for a reason. Supplementing with malic acid and magnesium was found to provide relief from all-body discomfort.
GABA
Gamma-aminobutyric acid known as GABA serves as a critical calming agent, helping to combat stress and anxiety and promoting relaxation and positive mood. Our brains naturally produce GABA, the premier “calm and connect” neurotransmitter that works to inhibit or slow down nerve impulses. Supplementation with GABA may be a benefit in helping to cope with stressful situations, whether they arise from
chronic daily stress or short-lived, acute, or extreme stress. The RELAX Spa Shot includes GABA because healthy GABA levels are associated with positive mood and enhancing alpha-wave production in the brain. GABA has also been found to give an added immune boost during occasional stress. Supplementation with GABA may help support the parasympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for a variety of involuntary bodily processes involved in relaxation—the “rest and digest” part of the nervous system, which balances the sympathetic nervous system’s “fight or flight”.
L-theanine
The RELAX Spa Shot provides organic green tea leaf, which is 98% L-theanine (γ-glutamylethylamide). An amino acid, L-theanine relaxes the mind without inducing drowsiness. Fat-soluble, it is easily absorbed and crosses the blood-brain barrier resulting in increased dopamine and GABA levels in the brain, and increased production of serotonin and calming brain alpha waves. L-theanine has been shown to support improved sleep quality not by sedation but through anxiolysis (antianxiety). In one study where subjects were given L-theanine and a placebo, and exposed to stressors to test cortisol levels, the salivary cortisol response was significantly reduced in the subjects taking Ltheanine when compared to the placebo. Overall, L-theanine has been shown to cause “anti-stress effects.”
GABA and L-theanine together are well regarded for promoting mental and emotional calm without impairing focus and attention. They work synergistically in the RELAX Spa Shot formula to promote a relaxed mind but maintain clear thinking.
You spend your hard-earned money to take care of yourself. Massage, spa and holistic treatments are an important part of your self-care regimen so you can be on top of your game and take care of the many,
many things you need to do – and do well – each day. Truly relaxing is a vital key to living longer, looking younger and feeling healthier.
RELAX Spa Shots will help you learn to relax again, like you did before the busy-ness of modern life took over. With clinically tested ingredients proven to help you relax more easily and recover more quickly. Bring your spa experience to the next level with a RELAX Spa Shot.
Recommended Use:
The RELAX Spa Shot can be taken daily to support relaxation, positive mood, and muscle recovery. To optimize the full benefit and therapeutic effect of a massage/spa treatment, take one Spa Shot approx. 10 minutes prior to your treatment. Best mixed with 3-5 oz of water.
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