Calm down. This isn’t a cult religion’s mating ritual or anything. I recently got Gua Sha for my first time. And no, I’m not pregnant with an alien baby…although I left Exhale Spa looking like I had an insane tribal tattoo on my back.
Gua Sha is a healing technique that’s been used for centuries in eastern medicine. It’s not the same as cupping, which gained notoriety in ’04 when Gwyneth Paltrow was seen in public with what looked like red welts on her back, but it is in the same family of healing practices. And, now that I’ve experienced this massage-on-steriods, I can’t believe how much us westerners have been missing out.
