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Lynette Ferguson and Lisa Bush are bringing an ancient massage therapy with a difference to Warkworth with their new business, Kansa Body Balance.
Instead of using their hands, the women employ specialist polished rounded bronze metal tools to glide over the skin for facial, scalp, foot and full body massages.
These ‘kansa wands’, as the tools are known, come in several different sizes and, when warmed and used with natural oils, feel soft and smooth on the skin.
Both Lynette and Lisa have long been remedial massage practitioners and advocates of alternative health therapies before they literally turned their hands to kansa wands, when Lynette came across them in the US more than a year ago.
The make up and use of the bronze wands is based on ancient Ayurvedic healing practices used in India and Tibet for thousands of years, and they are designed to draw acidity and impurities from the skin while balancing the body’s ‘doshas’, or energies.
The benefits of this are many and varied, according to Lisa.
“The list is so long,” she says. “Relief from stress, relaxation, detoxification, putting yourself into balance. It clears your mind. You’ll sleep like a baby just from a facial. People do fall asleep on the table, it’s so calming and relaxing.”
The practice, which is used in beauty spas in North America and Europe, is also said to improve circulation and rejuvenate the skin.
The opening of Kansa Body Balance is the culmination of a 20-year friendship for Lynette and Lisa.
“We’ve been best friends for 20 years, our daughters are best friends, and we always knew we were going to do something together,” Lynette says.
Kansa Body Balance is open from 10am to 4pm, Monday to Friday, but appointments can be made outside these times.
