At some point in your life, you’ve used a neck pillow. Whether it belonged to you or another person – you undoubtedly experienced the pleasure and relaxation it can provide. However, despite it’s renowned comfortability, our neck pillows are often found stashed away in our closets waiting patiently for our…
How To Transform Empty Space Into A Relaxation Retreat
It is important that we have a space in our homes to relax and unwind at the end of the day. Not only does it allow us to process the events of the day, but it helps to relieve stress, and bring peace of mind before sleep. Here’s how you…
4 Ways to Bring Your Stress Down Fast
It doesn’t take as long to relax as you think. No matter how little time you think you have, there is always time to pull yourself together. It can take as little as 5 minutes. Our bodies are meant to react to range of stimuli. Some of those reactions include…
Your Naipo Travel Pillow Best Practices
Travel pillows are all the rage but it seems like it’s hard to find a definitive guide to how to get the most out of them. Most of the time you see people using every travel pillow the same way. You slide it behind your neck, lay back and try to…
Aromatherapy, Wellness, and Children. Do they mix?
Are kids too young to understand the concept of wellness? Parents often grapple with deciding when to teach their children certain lessons. Some factors in the conversation are the child’s age and their mental and physical development. For new parents who love holistic practices, it can be challenging trying to figure…
Why Can’t I Massage Myself?
Just as we cannot tickle ourselves, we also have trouble massaging ourselves. If you’ve tried, you would notice it just doesn’t feel as good as when another person does it. But why is that? Read on to discover a few theories behind why a self-massage is not as satisfying as…
Naipo’s Travel Pillow: The First Thing You Will Pack Next Trip
A few years back I was taking a train across the Chinese countryside. It was a five hour journey to Beijing. In between reading my book and looking at seemingly endless rice fields and small towns, I tried to sleep. I caught snatches but I was always woken up by the generally discomforting…
Your Touch is More Powerful Than You Think
It is easy to forget how influential the simplest things can be. Touch is one of them. As the to-do lists and bills and errands continue to pile up, so does our stress. The act of touching may not the first thing you would think about when times are hectic (or…
Get Smarter: do massages make you more intelligent?
So, we always hear about relaxation when it comes to massage. In fact, we hear about it so much I’d be beating a dead horse if I said that massages relax you. We all already know that, but what if I told you that getting a massage has a positive…
Massage and Music, A Mindblowing Experience
Natural sounds. Relaxing. Calming. These are just a few words that come to mind when you think of the background music in spas. Did you think that was a coincidence? It most certainly is not. When music and massage are carefully paired together, it can create an incredible healing effect.…
