The Christmas holidays are magical — until they’re not. Between the shopping marathons, endless cooking, late-night parties, and family debates, your body ends the year feeling like it ran a triathlon while carrying a turkey. The fastest way to undo holiday damage without booking a week in Bali? SOL SPA’s zero gravity chair massage. Here’s why you (and everyone you know) need to book a session before, during, and after the festive season.

It Instantly Melts Shopping Stress
Carrying 17 bags through crowded malls while dodging rogue toddlers is basically CrossFit. Chair massage targets the exact spots that suffer most: neck, shoulders, upper back, arms, and hands. In just 15 minutes you can drop the tension that’s been building since Black Friday.

Counteracts “Tech Neck” from Endless Scrolling
You spent weeks hunched over your phone online shopping and showing relatives family photos and funny memes. The forward-head posture kills your neck and gives you tension headaches. Our chair massage will release those tight muscles faster than you can say “one more reel.”

Survive (and Enjoy) Family Time
Nothing tightens the traps like listening to your family’s opinions for four hours straight. Chair massage lowers cortisol (the stress hormone) and boosts oxytocin and serotonin — meaning you might actually feel affectionate toward your relatives again.

Fixes the “I Ate My Body Weight in Pie” Bloat
Okay, it won’t burn off the calories, but massage stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system (“rest and digest”). That helps your body process the 17 courses you inhaled and reduces that tight, bloated feeling around the diaphragm.

Beats the Post-Holiday Blues
The decorations come down, the credit card bill arrives, and January feels bleak. Massage triggers a dopamine and serotonin release — nature’s own anti-SAD remedy. One quick session can shift your mood from “What is even the point?” to “I’ve got this.”

Perfect for People Who “Don’t Have Time”
Spa days are lovely, but who has two hours (plus travel and shower time) in December or early January? At SOL SPA, our 15 minute chair massage is available to members 24/7.

Saves Your Back After Wrapping 4,000 Presents on the Floor
Sitting cross-legged wrapping gifts for three nights straight = murder on the lower back and hips. A chair massage at SOL SPA includes lower back work and stretches the hip flexors so you can stand up without making that old-person noise.

The Ultimate Host/Hostess Gift (or Self-Gift)
Instead of another bottle of prosecco nobody needs, give the gift of relaxation with a massage at SOL SPA.

Your body will carry you through the most wonderful (and stressful) time of the year. Give it 15 minutes of love — you’ll head into January lighter, looser, and suspiciously cheerful.

Book that chair massage on SOL SPA’s easy to use app. You’ve earned it. 🎄

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Written By: Paige Stuart, VP of SOL SPA