Best Last-Minute Massage

TIE: Morningstar Trading Company, Castle Hill Specialized Fitness

Some mornings you wake up stiff … and it’s not a good thing. Maybe you slept wrong. Maybe you worked all night at your computer on a crazy deadline. Get thee to a massage, your body cries out, and make it snappy. Austin has more massage therapists per square mile than any city in this nation, yet many of them are booked weeks in advance. (We are a city that loves to be rubbed.) So if you wake up one day with a crick in your neck or shooting pains in your lower back, and your regular masseuse is busy, call Morningstar or Castle Hill Fitness, and you’ll get top-notch relief. Expect a variety of massage techniques, from cranial sacral to myofascial release; the repertoire, and the cast of therapists, is diverse. It’s not that both of these places don’t get booked weeks in advance, like a favorite fancy restaurant – they’re somewhat small, and they do – it’s that they often have openings just when you need them the most. And that puts the cherry right on top.

Morningstar Trading Company
1117 W. Fifth, 512/476-1727

Castle Hill Fitness
1112-B N. Lamar, 512/478-4567
www.castlehillfitness.com