massage · Amsterdam
Nuru massage in Amsterdam, booked for after the restaurant
Nuru massage uses a warm, almost frictionless gel and full body contact, and it needs two things from the room that the oil formats do not: a surface that can be protected and a shower you can use afterwards. That makes it a good booking after a restaurant evening, when you are back in good time and the bathroom has been looked at, and a less comfortable one at the end of a long club night. Ninety minutes suits it better than sixty, because the rinse takes a share of the time.
Origins
Nuru comes from Japan, where the gel was originally made from seaweed and used in bathhouses as a way of giving full body contact with almost no friction. The word itself means something close to slippery. The format travelled abroad late in the twentieth century and kept its name.
The technique
The gel is diluted in warm water and spread across both bodies and the protective sheet. She uses forearms, torso and legs in long slides, keeping her weight spread and even. Because the gel removes friction, movements are smooth and continuous rather than kneading. What the session includes is hers to decide and to state before it starts.
What to expect
Before she arrives, turn the heating up properly, because gel cools on the skin and a cold room makes it unpleasant. She brings the gel, a protective sheet and towels, and lays them out before anything else. She tells you her limits before the session begins. The gel is warmed and spread, and the work that follows is slow, gliding and continuous. At the end there is a shower, which in a hotel bathroom is part of the session rather than an afterthought.
Who it suits
Guests who come back from dinner with time in hand and a decent bathroom. Guests who want the session to be the event of the evening rather than its quiet end. It suits less well a guest who has had a great deal to drink, since the bathroom floor at the end is wet and needs a steady footing.
Benefits
It produces more continuous contact than almost any other format, and the warmth and weight of it are deeply relaxing. For a guest who has come back from a good dinner in no particular hurry, it turns the last part of the evening into an occasion of its own.
Length
Ninety minutes is the natural length, because setting up and rinsing take time that sixty minutes cannot spare. Two hours is comfortable. A single hour is possible but feels short in this format.
At your address
Nuru massage with warm gel in your hotel room or apartment in central Amsterdam, booked after dinner or a show, the therapist bringing gel, a protective sheet and towels, outcall only.
Related techniques
Body-to-Body Massage · Soapy Massage · Tantra Massage · Sensual Massage
Questions
Asked before the booking goes out
Is nuru a good idea after a night of drinks?
After a glass or two, yes. After a long night of drinks, a simpler oil format is kinder to everybody, because nuru ends with a shower on a wet floor and needs a steady guest.
Could the gel leave a mark on the hotel sheets?
No. She brings a protective sheet and her own towels, and the gel is water-based and rinses out easily. Nothing belonging to the hotel is used or left marked.
How much does the bathroom matter?
A working shower with a floor you can stand on comfortably is enough. Tell her in the thread if the bathroom is very small, and she can plan accordingly.
Why ninety minutes rather than sixty?
Because setting up and rinsing take time. At ninety minutes the session itself is not rushed; at sixty it can feel squeezed.
Who offers it
