Full Body Massage for Women in Berlin-Mitte
Esalen® Full Body Massage
A body massage at Inanna Wellness Berlin follows a single idea. Touch as one continuous movement that reaches the body as a whole. Every body massage in the house rests on the Esalen® Integrative Massage. It is a calm, flowing form of bodywork that began on the coast of Big Sur, California.
In the foreground is the person, not the technology. The hands lead, and the pace follows your body. Where it makes sense, supportive technology accompanies the session without ever directing it.
Full Body Massage as an Inanna Body Journey
A visit does not begin on the table. It begins with ten minutes of conversation and the question of how the day has been. The room is warm and the light is low. Appointments are placed so that you meet no one. That is Inanna Privé®: no pool, no sauna, no door that opens. Before the first touch, the Meisterin des Hauses holds her hands beneath the face cradle. You take six to eight conscious breaths. That is Inanna Aromatherapy®, with which every Journey opens. No open flame. A scent that stays only if you would like it to. After that nothing more is said, unless you would like it to be. At the close the Meisterin des Hauses strikes a bowl of fused quartz once. A guest who has fallen asleep wakes to the sound, without being touched and without being spoken to. Then there is tea, and the oil stays on the skin.
The work rests on the Esalen® Integrative Massage, whose signature is the long, continuous stroke. At Inanna it is the foundation of six Inanna Body Journeys. Two pillars carry them. The artisanal work, which answers tissue, breath and rhythm. And a selected technology, which enters only where it genuinely holds the session. A session may rest on one pillar or bring both together. You can read more about how we understand bodywork in our Philosophy, which underlies the Inanna Method®.
What is not massaged during a full body massage?
The intimate area is not massaged, and neither is the chest. Body treatments in this house are reserved for women. We work the back, shoulders and neck, the arms and hands, the legs and feet. Also the gluteal area over the sheet and, if you wish, the abdomen. You stay covered throughout, and only the region being worked is uncovered. In the conversation before the session you can name any further area to be left alone. We hold to that without asking again.
How far do you undress for a massage?
As far as you wish. Some guests wear nothing under the sheet, some take the house slip. Both are usual here, and you decide alone in the room. Nobody asks, and nobody remarks on it. You change unhurried, and we knock before coming back in. Sheets and everything else are provided, so there is nothing to bring. We had the slip made because the Esalen® stroke runs the length of the body in one movement. A waistband or a seam interrupts it, and everyday underwear is in the way. We do not use disposable slips. They are thrown away after twenty minutes, and you can feel that. If you take the slip, it is yours. Many guests go on wearing it at home, which is exactly what it was made for. The oil absorbs fully during the session, and afterwards you do not feel it. You dress as you arrived, evening dress included, and leave when you are ready.
What is the difference between a classical massage and a wellness massage?
A classical massage works region by region with defined grips. A wellness massage is composed for calm and follows no fixed sequence. The Esalen® Integrative Massage is a third thing. Long, continuous strokes join separate regions of the body into one. To that are added gentle passive movement of the joints and the work with the breath. It took shape from the late 1960s at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur. Who may use the Esalen® name is decided by the Esalen® Massage and Bodywork Association. It issues the certificate. The governing principle of the method is to work with a person rather than on them.
Which massage releases tension?
There is no honest general answer to that, and we do not offer one. What can be described is the quality of the touch. Esalen® work is unhurried and evenly weighted, and it follows the breath. Depth follows the tissue on the day rather than a scale. Where you would like us to work more firmly, say so and we adjust. Where something belongs with a doctor, we say that just as plainly.
Which Inanna Body Journey suits me?
We settle that before every visit, in a short conversation, and the answer may change from one visit to the next. Inanna Harmony® is the pure handwork over sixty minutes. Inanna Ember® lays warm stone work over it and opens in autumn 2026. Inanna Flow®, Inanna Shine® and Inanna Sculpt® pair the same massage with one non-invasive technology. That is the LDM® Triple ultrasound, the Dermalux® LED light or the INDIBA® radiofrequency. Inanna Symphony® is the longest session and is composed entirely around you. If you are coming for the first time, Harmony® is the calm beginning.
How much does a one hour full body massage cost?
A full body massage over sixty minutes costs 180 € here. That is Inanna Harmony®, the pure handwork with no supporting technology. The longer Journeys carry their prices on the cards above. A single session is what is booked.
How often is a massage worthwhile?
As often as your life allows, and that differs from person to person. Some guests come every second week, others four times a year, when work grows dense. We suggest the interval at the end of the session, in view of what we found under our hands. You take the next date with you at the desk. We offer no courses, no packages and no subscriptions. It is the rhythm that carries this work, not the count.
The house behind the care
Bodywork here does not begin with touch. It begins with listening. We ask how the day has been, where you feel your body at the moment, and what would do you good today. Only then is it settled how the session will be led. Ten minutes of conversation precede every first visit. The Inanna Consult® is the calm first step for anyone who does not yet know us.
This work is carried by the Meisterinnen des Hauses, the masters of the house. Their craft stands in documented lines. Each learned hers at its source. The hand leads, the technology follows.
On the coast of Big Sur in California, Michael Murphy and Richard Price founded the Esalen Institute in 1962. It stands on the land of the Esselen, with hot springs above the Pacific. From that setting, in the late 1960s, a form of bodywork of its own emerged. It was co-created by a number of practitioners. Among them Molly Day Shackman, who first offered Swedish massage there. And Bernard Gunther, a student of the Sensory Awareness teacher Charlotte Selver. Selver taught the practice of sensing from within, and that stance became the heart of the work. Ida Rolf arrived at Esalen in 1964. Until then she had trained exactly one person in her structural integration, her own son. From Esalen she trained about a hundred more into the early 1970s. She spent roughly half of each year on the land. In the early 1980s the Esalen Massage School was founded, and it continues today under its original leadership.
Since 1997 the Esalen® Massage and Bodywork Association has held the training and the standards. It issues the Practitioner certificate, and only those who complete its coursework may use the Esalen® name. The certificate is the licence.
Chantal Däumig, Meisterin des Hauses, is a Certified Esalen® Massage Practitioner. Her certificate number is 21000689. Her training ran to one hundred hours at the Esalen Institute Massage School. She was taught there by Perry Holloman and Eva-Maria Leve. Perry Holloman has taught at Esalen since 1979 and wrote the institute's Teacher Training Programme. The Association's directory lists five Esalen® Massage teachers for Germany, and none in Berlin. For its work in pregnancy the house also commissioned a module of its own. It was taught in Berlin by Ingrid May with Nina Ottenheym. Both are listed in that same directory.
Where warmth deepens the calm, Inanna adds warm stones through ELEEELS®. This work was given its present form in 1993 by Mary Nelson in Tucson, Arizona. A massage should not end with a question. The house searched long and tested oils from around the world, from the most precious to the plain. The measure was a single one. The oil must absorb fully during the massage itself. What remained is a Swiss dry care oil by Nescens®. That house goes back to Prof. Jacques Proust. He founded the centre for preventive medicine at the Clinique de Genolier. We even ask you not to shower afterwards and to leave the oil on the skin overnight. The slip the house offers is one hundred percent TENCEL™ Lyocell. That Lenzing fibre from Austria carries the EU Ecolabel. The finished slip is certified to OEKO-TEX® STANDARD 100. White, the logo tone on tone in the upper corner. It is sewn as little as possible, so no seam lies between hand and skin. At the sides of the waist it is cut narrower. The oils of Inanna Aromatherapy® come from Original Swiss Aromatics, the house Dr. Kurt Schnaubelt founded in 1983. The largest share is fine lavender, gathered wild in Haute-Provence and cut by hand with a sickle. It yields little: lavandin gives nearly three times as much oil. The bowl that closes a session is fused quartz. Bowls like this are a late twentieth century American invention. They come from the crucible technology of semiconductor manufacture, where quartz is melted to grow silicon. The Meisterinnen des Hauses chose ours themselves, in these rooms, from several instruments.
The house is named by others. World Spa Awards, Best Day Spa Germany 2024 and 2025. The only CIDESCO-certified house in Berlin, and portrayed in Vogue Italia in 2025.
Care includes the boundary. Research into the effect of massage on back and neck pain is inconsistent. The major reviews assess it with restraint. So we promise nothing that the evidence does not carry. With acute inflammation, fever or a fresh injury, we ask you to seek medical advice first. The same holds after surgery and with a complaint that persists. In pregnancy and in the time afterwards this work has a place of its own, in MamiSpa®.
Inanna is a house for non-medical, device-supported and manual care. We make no diagnoses and treat no illnesses. At the end there stands neither the device nor the method, but the person, accompanied calmly and without haste. The calm first step is the Inanna Consult®, and whenever you wish, you can reach us here.
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