Should You Keep Your Underwear On For Your
Massage? Let's Discuss General Manners And Spa
Etiquette
Attire: What does one wear for a massage, et al appointment at the spa? Personally, I think one should
wear what's comfortable. This might also depend on your plans before and after your massage. Some
people bring an extra change of clothes and change. However, for your sessions themselves, attire is a
whole other thing. Massages like Shiatsu and Thai require comfortable, yoga-like clothing. No jeans! Your
therapist will need to stretch you and you will be contorted into several different positions throughout so
yoga-like clothing, shorts or tights are best, although we are trained to professionally drape you.
For regular massages on the table (Swedish, Deep Tissue, Thai-Swedish and/or Shiatsu-Swedish, etc.), no
clothes are needed underneath your sheet and/or blanket. This depends, however, on the level of comfort
you have with your own body and the therapist working for you. Expect to be handled, while naked, but
draped professionally and handled with dignity. Underpants are fine, but may become troublesome if
your complaints are for lower back pains, in which case, these could prevent your therapist from
accomplishing the task of giving you relief effectively; not to mention that you run the risk of our getting
oils all over them and hence potentially ruining them. The sacrum, gluteus, coccyx, periformis, etc., are all
involved in lower back/circulation problems and manipulation of these is sometimes necessary to relieve
back and/or leg pain. If you wear boxers or panties to your knees (not thongs) during your massage, then
we might not be able to effectively get to your complaint spots or target the "solution" spots. We are
trained to drape you professionally and will protect your dignity, so get naked, supine or prone under the
covering as directed, and let us get to work on those tight muscles.
Once we have brought you in to the massage room, please put your clothes where your ther