Rest and Reset is a massage space in downtown Oamaru, at 179A Thames Street, reached from the back off Eden Street carpark, between Paperplus and Badger & Mackerel. Every hands-on treatment uses the owner's own balm, made with sweet almond oil, mango butter, vitamin E, and chamomile and lavender essential oils. Treatments include an hour-long massage that blends Indian head massage, energy healing, hot stones and foot and face reflexology, a face-down session for tired muscles, foot reflexology, an Indian head massage ritual, and a 45-minute healing session that blends Ashati, Reiki, crystals and sound. The website presents the treatments as affordable.
The owner was born and raised in Oamaru, studied away, and moved back in 2022. Customers say they were gifted a massage and found it amazing. Others describe it as good value and say they are going again. The balm gives the treatments a character of their own, made here in the town centre rather than bought in.