I tried Transcend Wellness London’s massage chair and felt revitalised - Kingston Nub News

[Tilly O'Brien]

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Kingston Nub News editor Tilly O'Brien visited Transcend Wellness London to try the 7D AI massage chairs.

As an avid gym-goer, I constantly feel like I need a massage, but massages can be pretty expensive, especially in London.

So, when I saw that Transcend Wellness London in Kingston offers 30 minutes on its 7D AI massage chairs for just £30, I had to give it a go.

Transcend Wellness London opened in August and is located at 10a Eden Street. However, whilst this is the building's address, the entrance to Transcend is actually at the back of the Stylish Stag barbers on Bath passage.

Greeted by Transcend's lovely co-owner Angelo Dunning, I was taken to my massage chair and shown what to do.

Mr Dunning was wonderfully helpful at helping me choose which settings (out of 100) suited my needs best and ensuring I was comfortable.

The chair was extremely high tech, with different sections to put your arms, hands, and feet in and a little screen coming out of the chair's arm, like those on aeroplanes, for you to change the settings, along with a wireless phone charger.

And with the little cover hood hiding my face from the naturally lit room, I felt like I was in a mini spaceship, especially as it started moving me into position.

The chair took me a few minutes to get used to as it felt very mechanical, but once settled, I was able to relax and enjoy the full body massage.

Throughout the 30 minutes, the chair massaged my neck and shoulders, back, calves, feet, arms, and bum and I felt revitalised at the end.

However, whilst I thoroughly enjoyed my experience, I must say, it wasn't quite as nice as a massage from a real person as it lacks that added quality of the human touch, but I did love that the chair massaged certain parts of my body, like my feet, throughout the whole massage and worked on various parts of my body at the same time, which a masseuse having only two hands cannot do.

Transcend Wellness London has two &D AI massage chairs (Credit: Tilly O'Brien)

Following my massage chair experience, Mr Dunning gave me a tour of the small but sweet centre.

In the main room, where the massage chairs are, Transcend also offers Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, which Mr Dunning told me is "good for helping the body heal following surgery".

The tools for this therapy look like little blow-up tents and customers would usually spend "an hour or an hour and half in these things and then come out and their bodies would be working at a much higher rate," says Mr Dunning, explaining his views on the on the treatment.

He said: "With this therapy, you can knock a third off your healing time depending on what's wrong with you.

"It's particularly good if you've had operations, like if you've been cut into to heal the skin if you've got high blood flow or things like tendon damage."

He said that this therapy is also good if you have illnesses like Long Covid and for helping with side effects of cancer treatments.

"Although it doesn't help with cancer itself, it can help with everything around it. So, it can raise your immune system so the chemo doesn't hit you as hard as it otherwise would if you haven't had it.

"There's probably like 150 different things it can help with in terms of mood lifting.

"It encourages your body to produce stem cells. So, it's replacing dead cells or deficient cells that aren't working in your skin, liver, and brain etc.

"If you've had a stroke, you can help you rebuild neural pathways back in your brain."

Transcend Wellness London offers Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (Credit: Tilly O'Brien)

Next, Mr Dunning showed me the Compression Boots, "which you stick your legs in, and they blow up".

"They inflate going from your feet to your legs all the way up to your thighs," he explained.

"So, if you're doing a lot of training or you're on your feet all day, like if you're a hairdresser or you work in a shop, it kind of squeezes lactic acid out and blood back up to your heart, liver, and kidneys, purifies it, and it goes back down there," he told me.

Compression boots also help stimulate circulation, reduce muscle soreness, and speed up recovery from injured tendons.

Transcend Wellness London's Compression Boots help stimulate circulation and reduce muscle soreness (Credit: Tilly O'Brien)

On the main floor, Transcend also has a Red Light sauna, which Mr Dunning said is "very popular with the ladies as it helps reduce wrinkles".

"It's kind of like a sun bed, but without the damaging sun effects."

Mr Dunning explained that Red Light therapy "recharges the cells in your body".

He said: "And every cell in your body has got a little battery attached to it - it's called a mitochondrion, and they deplete whether you're young and just worn out or whether you're old and just old, so this will recharge it."

Transcend Wellness London offers Red Light therapy with salt therapy (Credit: Transcend Wellness London)

Trancend's Red Light therapy box also has a halo generator in it, which generates salt into the air for those using it to breathe in.

This, Mr Dunning explained, helped with his son's eczema.

Upstairs, Transcend also has an Infrared sauna with salt therapy.

Transcend Welness London has an Infra-red sauna with salt therapy (Credit: Transcend wellness London)

This style of sauna has a cooler temperature than the usual hot and stuffy saunas you find elsewhere.

Transcend Wellness is a lovely and extremely clean little centre, and I would strongly recommend you book in for a visit.