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RESEARCH PROTOCOL

Women’s wellbeing and extended holistic massage: an international overview.

A global exploratory mapping — operating instructions for a reproducible scoping review

1. Research question and purpose

1.1 Main question

How documented and geographically widespread, worldwide, is the offer of extended holistic massages specifically dedicated to women’s psychophysical wellbeing?

A systematic international search must be conducted to identify practitioners, studios, wellness centres and spas that offer very-long manual holistic massage sessions (“Extended Holistic massage” or “Long-Form Holistic Bodywork”), with specific attention to women’s psychophysical wellbeing.

1.2 What the research must and must not do

The research is descriptive and exploratory, not evaluative.

It must not establish who is better or worse, it must not create rankings, podiums, league tables or scores, it must not award records. The purpose is exclusively to:

• document the geographic spread of this type of service;
• identify offerings that are genuinely verifiable on primary sources;
• distinguish full matches from merely partial ones, based on criteria fixed in advance;
• highlight the countries where the offering is more or less easily found online;
• allow the reader to consult the sources and form their own assessments independently.

1.3 Guiding principle on objectivity

Every classification decision must be reconstructable by a third-party reader from the cited evidence, without needing to know the judgement of whoever carried out the research. In practice: if a datum is not citable (URL + textual sentence or figure), it cannot be treated as fact. Impressions, inferences and estimates never enter the match categories; at most they are noted as hypotheses in the decision register.

2. Scenario and perspective

The landscape of women’s psychophysical wellbeing is going through a phase of deep structural, conceptual and philosophical transformation. Demand for immersive, prolonged experiences capable of generating a real "Return on Time Invested" (ROTI) is steadily growing, in sharp contrast to the fragmented protocols typical of traditional spas, which tend to split the time across various accessory activities, limiting the continuity of contact and, in any case, the time devoted to the massage proper. Within this competitive scenario, the offer of extended holistic massage sessions – lasting two, two and a half, and up to three hours of continuous, uninterrupted contact (technically termed "hands-on") – represents an absolute rarity worldwide, also because of the technical difficulty of finding practitioners able to sustain and guide sessions of such length and depth. It is therefore still a “niche” market, which is often unable to meet the needs and expectations of this specific demand.

In order not to limit the results automatically proposed on the basis of the user’s location (geolocation), adopt the point of view of a woman based in New York interested in international experiences of transformative, immersive wellbeing (Long-Form Holistic Bodywork): assume this person is willing to travel anywhere in the world and is looking for practitioners, or venues specialised in women’s wellbeing, that offer prolonged, immersive and predominantly manual holistic massages.

Correct use of the scenario. It serves only to define the international horizon of the research. It must in no way favour US results over those of other countries, nor steer the queries toward the English-speaking market alone.

3. Neutralising the initial biases

To reduce the geographic, linguistic and indexing biases from the outset, the research must follow the operating rules below.

• Do not limit yourself to the results automatically proposed on the basis of the user’s location.
• Set up the search as if it originated in New York, but with multilingual queries (see §12).
• Two-languages-per-country rule: for each country, queries must be run both in English and in the main local language. A country cannot be considered "covered" if it was queried only in English.
• Consult national domains, local directories and regional booking portals, not only the large international aggregators.
• Include large cities, secondary cities, tourist destinations and provincial centres.
• Do not automatically favour the sites with greater SEO visibility; scroll beyond the first page of results.
• Record, for each country, the approximate share of English-language sources versus local-language sources, as an indicator of linguistic imbalance.
• Note in the appendix all the languages and queries used (complete register, not a selection).

4. Countries to analyse and coverage threshold

At least the following twelve countries must be included:

• United States
• India
• Thailand
• China (with Hong Kong and Macao as distinct areas)
• Japan
• France
• Germany
• United Kingdom (England)
• Italy
• Spain
• Sweden
• Australia

Other countries may be added when relevant, well-documented results emerge (e.g. South Korea, Indonesia/Bali, United Arab Emirates, Portugal, the Netherlands).

Coverage target per country. For each country, at least three verifiable offerings are sought. If three meeting the requirements cannot be found, no forced results are inserted: only those actually verified are reported, and it is explicitly stated that the minimum was not reached, indicating how many queries were run and in which languages, so that the reader can distinguish a real scarcity of supply from a scarcity of searching.

5. Operational definition and duration categories

An “Extended Holistic Massage” or “Long-Form Holistic Bodywork” is a professional session consisting mainly of continuous manual massage or bodywork, longer than ordinary formats. In particular, the term “extended holistic massage” refers to a holistic massage session lasting on average between 2 and 3 hours, and even more. The reference duration is that of the continuous, uninterrupted massage performed by hand (hands-on), not the entire stay at the venue.

5.1 The four categories

The duration to be classified is always, and only, the confirmed hands-on time (see §8).

Non-confusion rule. A Category D offering may under no circumstances be presented as equivalent to a Category A, B or C one, even when the total duration of the ritual is very long.

6. Definition of hands-on duration

Hands-on duration means exclusively the time in which the practitioner actually performs the manual massage or bodywork on the person’s body.

The following do not count as massage minutes

• reception and registration
• intake or initial consultation
• preparation and changing clothes
• meditation delivered as a separate phase
• separate guided breathing
• sauna
• steam bath / hammam
• hydrotherapy, pools, showers
• scrub / exfoliation
• aesthetic and facial treatments
• wraps and muds
• breaks and waiting
• herbal teas, drinks, meals
• post-treatment rest and relaxation
• final consultation or debriefing
• time spent independently at the venue

Application example. A 3-hour ritual comprising 40 minutes of hammam, 20 of scrub, 30 of rest and 90 of massage must be classified as 90 minutes hands-on (hence Category D relative to the 120 threshold), not as a 3-hour massage.

7. Focus on women’s wellbeing — decision criteria

The mere possibility of receiving female clients is not sufficient. The focus on women is assigned to only one of the three levels below, applying the criteria in the stated order and stopping at the first that is fully met. Each assignment requires at least one citable textual proof (a sentence or a price-list entry on the official source).

Level 1 — Explicit focus on women

Assigned when at least ONE of the following conditions is met, documented on the official site or booking system:

1. the venue or practitioner explicitly defines itself as dedicated to women (e.g. "women-only studio", "women-only", "for women’s wellbeing"); or
2. there is a programme or service explicitly aimed at a specific women’s condition — pregnancy, menopause, the menstrual cycle, pelvic wellbeing, fertility, women’s psychophysical wellbeing, women’s emotional wellbeing, women’s burnout — with a dedicated page or price-list entry; or
3. the practitioner declares specific training in the women’s field, verifiable on the official profile or CV.

Proof required: direct quotation of the statement or the programme name, with URL.

Level 2 — Strong orientation toward a female audience

Assigned when Level 1 does NOT apply, but at least ONE of the following conditions is met:

4. the official communication is predominantly aimed at a female audience (language, images, testimonials clearly majority female) consistently and not occasionally; or
5. the practitioner is a woman who presents her work as oriented toward women’s wellbeing and emotional sphere, even without a formally dedicated programme; or
6. the service is placed in an explicitly female context (e.g. a maternity centre, a women-focused spa) but the single long session is not on a specific women’s theme.

Proof required: description of the observed elements with URL. In case of doubt between Level 1 and Level 2, Level 2 is assigned (precautionary criterion).

Level 3 — Generalist service also open to women

Assigned when neither Level 1 nor Level 2 applies: the service is aimed at a general audience and women access it like any other client.

Presentation rule. Level 3 cannot be presented as equivalent to Levels 1 and 2. A Level 3 result, even at long duration, is flagged as "not specialised" in the dedicated column of the table.

Full match. A match is considered full for the purposes of the research question only if it combines a duration category A, B or C with a focus-on-women level 1 or 2. Combinations with Level 3 are reported separately as "duration-only match".

8. Mandatory procedure for hands-on duration

Before assigning a duration category, apply the following steps in order. The outcome of the step determines the category; no interpretive shortcuts are allowed.

1. Does the official source state a manual-massage time? If the site, price list or booking system indicate a number of minutes referring to the massage (not to the "experience" or "journey"), use that number. → Proceed to A/B/C/D classification by band.
2. Does the source state only a total experience duration? Look on the same page or on linked pages for a breakdown (e.g. "includes 30 min of hammam and 60 min of massage"). If the breakdown exists, use only the massage part.
3. The breakdown does not exist or is unclear? The result goes to Category D and is marked "hands-on time not determinable". It is not permitted to estimate, round or infer the manual time from expressions such as "full day", "luxury ritual", "immersive experience", "extended session".
4. Is the long duration offered only "on request" or "customisable"? If there is no page or price list documenting it as a standard service, it goes to Category D with the note "on request only, undocumented".
5. Continuity check. Even when the manual time is stated, check that the session is described as continuous. If the description indicates structural interruptions (e.g. massage + sauna break + resumption), classify based on the single longest documented manual stretch, not on the sum.

Golden Rule. In the presence of any ambiguity about the manual time, the result cannot enter categories A, B or C. Uncertainty is always resolved toward Category D, never upward.

9. Evidence hierarchy

Each result is assigned one of the three evidence levels below. This is the only "ranking" the protocol allows.

Constraint. No result may be classified in Category A or B with low evidence. Categories A and B require high evidence or, at minimum, moderate evidence with an explicit manual duration on the official source.

10. Ordering rule and absence of rankings

The use of comparative evaluative expressions is forbidden, including: "best", "worst", "number one", "world leader", "unique in the world", "top performer", "winner", as well as overall scores, league tables, podiums and orderings based on presumed quality.

Results are ordered exclusively according to this fixed hierarchy:

1. by country (alphabetical order of countries);
2. within the country, by duration category (A, B, C, D);
3. within the same category, by evidence level (high, moderate, low);
4. within the same evidence, by city alphabetically and finally by name of the venue/practitioner alphabetically.

This ordering is purely organisational and must not suggest any professional superiority.

11. Types, exclusions and sources

11.1 Types of operators and venues

The search may include: spas; resorts; retreats; professional holistic masseurs and masseuses; bodyworkers; mind-body practitioners; individual studios; centres dedicated to women’s wellbeing; ayurvedic centres; integrated-wellness facilities. For complex venues, the name of the practitioner performing the treatment should be indicated when available. Keep distinct: individual practitioners; studios with several operators; spas and wellness centres; resorts and retreats.

11.2 Exclusions from the main selection

Legitimacy and professionalism requirement. The research concerns exclusively professional, lawful wellness services. Excluded from the main selection are:

• erotic services;
• sensual or sexually connoted massages;
• practices with sexual components;
• pseudo-tantra practices with yoni or lingam massage;
• listings without a verifiable professional identity;
• massages performed by unidentifiable staff;
• results based exclusively on automatic aggregators;
• offerings no longer available;
• pages without a verifiable duration;
• long-duration rituals with a short massage;
• experiences consisting mainly of non-manual activities.

Excluded but potentially relevant offerings may be reported in an appendix, indicating the precise reason for exclusion.

11.3 Sources, in order of priority

Primary sources (highest priority; necessary to confirm the duration):

• official sites of practitioners and venues;
• official pages of the individual treatments;
• official price lists and booking systems;
• verifiable named professional profiles.

Secondary sources (corroboration of existence and reputation, NEVER the sole proof of duration):

• international wellness, travel and tourism portals; authoritative professional directories; professional associations; institutional tourism sites;
• Google Business Profile e recensioni Google; Fresha; Treatwell; Tripadvisor; Viator; GetYourGuide; BookRetreats; Retreat Guru; Esalen Massage Directory; Trustpilot; Trustindex; Wanderlog; Expedia; Groupon; Funbooker; ProntoPro;
• national portals and local directories of the countries analysed.

Rule on sources. The duration must be verified preferably and as a priority on the primary source (official site, treatment page, price list, booking system). Reviews and aggregators can confirm that the business exists and is reputed, but on their own they are not enough to establish the massage duration.

12. Query strategy and bank (reconstructed)

Queries must not revolve only around "3 hours / 180 minutes", because almost no venue indexes its service with those words. The search combines three axes: (A) the type of practice, (B) duration expressed in different ways, (C) the focus on women. Each axis is crossed with the local language.

12.1 Axis A — Practice terms to use as anchors

Many long-form bodywork traditions are not called "holistic massage". They must be searched by their own names, because that is where the long durations concentrate:

• Lomi Lomi / Kahuna bodywork (Hawaiian tradition, often long and nurturing sessions);
• Esalen massage (slow, continuous bodywork);
• Abhyanga / Ayurvedic massage (India; note: often in packages — apply §8);
• Traditional Thai massage (often available in 2-hour formats);
• massaggio olistico / holistic massage / ganzheitliche Massage / masaje holístico / massage holistique;
• somatic bodywork, Long-Form Bodywork, Long-Form Hands-on Bodywork, integrative bodywork, holistic bodywork, Holistic Massage-Extended Session, Extended Holistic Massages;
• female / woman massage; massage for women (linking duration and the focus on women).

12.2 Axis B — Alternative ways of expressing duration

To be crossed with axis A: "120 minute", "2 hour", "2.5 hour", "150 minute", "3 hour", "180 minute", "long session", "extended session", “extended”, "deluxe duration", “massaggio olistico esteso”, plus the local equivalents ("2 Stunden", "2 heures", "2 ore", "2 horas", "2時間", "两小时", "120 นาที"). The numeric duration must always be verified on the source, not assumed from the query.

12.3 Axis C — Focus on women

Terms: "women", "women-only", "for women", "female", "pregnancy", "postpartum", "menopause", "pelvic", "fertility", with local equivalents ("Frauen", "femme", "donna/donne", "mujer", "kvinnor", "女性", "女士", "महिला").

12.4 Query template per country

For each country, run at minimum a cross of the three axes in English and in the local language. Examples of ready-to-use query rows (to adapt and expand):

Transparency note on volume. The number of searches that can be run in a single session is finite. If the query budget runs out before completing the three axes for all countries, this must be declared openly in the technical note and the register, indicating which countries/languages were left uncovered. A declared limit is preferable to simulated coverage.

13. Verification procedure per result

For each candidate result, in order:

1. open the official page;
2. verify that the service is currently available;
3. record the exact duration as stated on the source;
4. apply the §8 decision tree to establish the hands-on time;
5. assign the focus-on-women level according to the §7 criteria;
6. check the location (city and country);
7. identify the practitioner, when possible;
8. consult at least one additional independent source, when available, to corroborate existence and reputation;
9. assign the duration category and the evidence level;
10. record the date of the last verification and flag any uncertain information.

Explicit prohibitions: do not infer the duration from generic descriptions; do not turn hypotheses into facts; do not invent practitioners, venues, durations or URLs to reach the minimum.

14. Double-check coding module

For each result to be entered in categories A–C, fill in the following record. The record forces every decision to be made explicit and allows a reviewer to re-check it.

15. Anti-error checklist (mandatory final check)

The report must not be delivered until every item is passed. Next to each is the pass criterion.

16. Structure of the final report

The report is organised as an exploratory scoping review, with the following structure.

1. Technical note

Indicate: the platform used; the exact name of the model actually selected; the search mode used; the date and time of the search; whether web search was present; the reasoning or depth level, when visible in the interface; any technical limits (including any exhaustion of the query budget). Do not declare the use of a model or feature if it is not verifiable in the interface. Sample wording: "Research conducted with [model name] and [mode name] mode with web search enabled".

2. Abstract

Summarise: context; objective; method; number of countries analysed; number of results examined; number of verified matches (distinguishing full and duration-only); main limitations; general non-comparative conclusion.

3. Objective

Describe the research question in full (not summarised), reproduced in its entirety in the appendix, without references to rankings or records.

4. Method

Specify: countries; languages; axes and queries (referring to the register); search engines and platforms consulted; inclusion and exclusion criteria; duration classification (§5); hands-on decision tree (§8); focus-on-women criteria (§7); evidence hierarchy (§9); research period; verification procedure (§13).

5. Biases and limitations

Analyse at least: geographic bias; linguistic bias; indexing bias; greater visibility of optimised sites; the online absence of many practitioners; the ambiguity of the word "holistic"; the ambiguity between treatment duration and ritual duration; the difficulty of verifying hands-on time; review bias; source duplication; outdated content; possible AI errors; the impossibility of directly assessing the quality of touch; the absence of a global denominator.

Quantitative ban. Do not estimate worldwide prevalence percentages or market shares in the absence of a reliable denominator.

6. Results by country

For each country: a brief description of the offering found; verified results; partial matches; main and provincial locations; any scarcity of documentation (with the number of queries and languages); sources.

7. Results table

Use at least the following columns (the row order follows §10, not quality):

Country | City | Practitioner or venue | Type | Focus on women (Level 1/2/3) | Stated duration | Confirmed hands-on duration | Category | Evidence level | Official source | Independent source | Verification date

8. Unconfirmed or excluded results

Report: name; country; information initially found; verification performed; reason for exclusion; source.

9. Discussion

Analyse: how easy or difficult it is to find documented offerings; differences between countries; terminological differences; how venues describe duration; the distinction between extended massage and ritual; the quality and completeness of public information. Without personal judgements on the practitioners’ skill.

10. Conclusions

Answer exclusively the question about spread and documentary findability, with cautious wording ("… were identified", "the sources consulted document…", "the offering appears more or less easily found online…", "it was not possible to verify…", "the results do not represent a complete census…"). Without absolute conclusions.

17. Verifiability appendix

The appendix must be complete and not merely a summary. It must include:

A. Full initial request

Reproduce this request in full and word for word (the present instruction document).

B. Clarifications

Report any clarification questions and the related answers.

C. Research plan

Show the operating plan used before execution: countries; languages; categories; sources; criteria; verification strategy.

D. Search register

Use the following fixed table template, without selection (all queries run):

No. | Exact query | Language | Reference country | Engine/portal/directory | Approx. number of results examined | Date

E. Decision register

For each relevant result, in concise and verifiable form: why it was included; why it was classified as partial; why it was excluded; which proof was deemed decisive. No internal reasoning or chains of thought are needed, but a methodological trail made of facts, sources, criteria and rationale. For results in category A–C, attach the §14 double-coding record.

F. Complete bibliography and sitography

List all the sources actually consulted (not a selection). For each: the page title; the practitioner or venue; the full URL; the date of consultation; the source’s function (primary/corroboration); any content no longer accessible or archived. Do not include sources not actually consulted.

18. Final format

Produce a complete report in readable web format, with: clear headings; a table of contents; tables; clickable links; methodological notes; a bibliography; appendices. The document must not be delivered exclusively as a PDF. When the platform allows, prepare the result as a page shareable via a public link; alternatively, generate the complete report in Markdown or HTML, ready for publication without substantial changes.

End of the research protocol.

B.1 — Start. No clarification question was asked before Round I was run: the protocol was judged complete and self-sufficient. Single technical note: the colours of the original Word file cannot be rendered in the output (text, bold and tables can).

B.2 Timeline of the clarification requests

B.3 Divergences between the source documents

The unified report sets a precedence rule: in case of divergence, Document B prevails, being more recent and containing the declared corrections. The divergences found during reinstatement are listed here and not resolved by interpretation.

Round I. Coverage of the 12 minimum countries plus Hong Kong and Macao as distinct areas; three-axis queries with the two-languages rule; priority to official sources; a dedicated search module for mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao (EN/ZH); systematic application of the decision tree, Levels, evidence hierarchy, double coding and checklist; target of three verifiable offerings per country, without forced results.

Round II — completion of the JA/ZH/HI/SV axes; verification on the official sites of the Japanese salons that emerged in R-I from aggregators only. Round III — saturation of Spain, Sweden, India and China (including Catalan queries); systematic decomposition of the rituals. Round IV — corroborations on independent sources and corrections (Esalen 75′; AloeSpa Dortmund 90′; The Organic Spa Madrid 90′; Four Seasons Guangzhou not promoted; counting per venue).

Fixed table template (§17-D). Mandatory columns: No. | Exact query | Language | Reference country | Engine/portal/directory | Approx. number of results examined | Date.

Register status. From the Document B register the following were reinstated: the verbatim extract of twelve numbered queries, the numbering ranges per round, the subject of the subagent modules and the list of direct fetches. The verbatim of the remaining queries stays declared, not reproduced: no reconstruction by approximation is allowed (§13), and a declared limit is preferable to simulated coverage (§12.4).

D.1 Verbatim extract of the numbered queries (12 of 61+)

The «Engine/portal» and «Approx. number of results examined» columns cannot be filled in per query: the source documents declare them only in cumulative form (see D.3 and D.5).

D.2 Numbering ranges and subject per round

D.3 Moduli subagent, fetch diretti e portali

• Round I module — mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao (EN/ZH), queries no. 19–25.
• Round II subagent — verification of the Japanese official sites: machalomi.com, holistic-lounge.jp, heavenlyspa.jp, lomilominoa.com / edisone.jp, m-lomilomi.com, lomilomi-mehana.com.
• Round III subagent — China: official menus, Banyan Tree, Subconscious Day Spa, SLIM SPA, 月子中心 centres.
• Direct fetches — sfioramenti.it (and /sessioni-di-massaggio-olistico); holi-lomi.de; edisone.jp / lomilominoa; heavenlyspa.jp (robots-block); akahai-lomilomi.com (robots-block).
• Portals used only as corroboration — Hot Pepper Beauty, OZmall, Rakuten Beauty, Bokadirekt, Treatwell, Fresha, Tripadvisor, Dianping, Wongnai.

D.4 Cumulative distribution of queries by country

D.5 Elements still missing and reconciliations

Missing: the verbatim of the remaining numbered queries (no. 4–10, 12–25, 27–34, 36–38, 40–43, 45–58, 60) and of the Round IV queries beyond the three cited; the approximate number of results examined per query, never declared in any round; the engine or portal per query; the date per query, declared as a single one for the whole execution.

These elements are not simply «not transcribed»: they are not recorded in full in the source documents (technical platform errors declared in the Assembly note). The comparison with the earlier versions of the report, carried out to check for additional material, returned none: the §14 records, the subagent modules and the verbatim extract of the queries coincide with what is already integrated here. Reconstructing what remains by approximation is excluded by §13; their absence is therefore declared rather than filled, and would be recoverable only by re-running the queries.

Reconciliation (a) — volume. The per-country estimates in table D.4 sum to about 74, against the ~61 declared numbered queries: the gap is compatible with the inclusion of the subagent-module queries and with queries covering several countries at once, but is not verifiable without the full register. The figure is reported as declared, without estimated breakdowns.

Reconciliation (b) — modules. The Document B abstract declares 2 subagent modules, while the Method section describes three distinct moments (Round I on China/HK/Macao, Round II on the Japanese sites, Round III on China). The discrepancy is declared and not resolved.

Reconciliation (c) — Round I. The explicit per-country attributions for Round I alone summed to 15 of the lead researcher’s 18 queries, with Japan indicated as covered but without a figure. Table D.4 now provides the cumulative estimates across all four rounds, which do not replace the Round I-only distribution.

E.1 Main decisions by country (cumulative)

Japan: R-I aggregators → low evidence, not consolidable; R-II verification on the official sites → 3 full. Declared robots.txt: heavenlyspa.jp; akahai-lomilomi.com. Italy: SFIORAmenti → full A/L1/high; counting per venue (1 full). Hong Kong: Four Seasons prenatal/postnatal 120′ → full C/L1/high; «Nurturing Maternity» 180′ composite → D. United Kingdom: Aloha Therapies → full C/L2; Healing Massage Bristol → duration only A/L3. Spain: Masajes Sol i Lluna → full C/L1; The Organic Spa downgraded → D. Australia: MANA Body Therapies → full C/L2. Germany: Holi Lomi → duration only A/L3/high; AloeSpa Dortmund → D. China: Subconscious Day Spa → duration only C/high; Banyan Tree decomposed → D. Macao: Four Seasons → C/high. USA: Healing Hands → A/L3; Esalen corrected to 75′, extended standard on Still Point → C/L3. Sweden: Jelenas → C/L3. Thailand: Naree/Lila → C/L3. France: maisons L1/L2 but D. India: abhyanga 45–60′ → D.

E.2 Full Round I records (2 of 16)

Record 1 — Bart Conterio / SFIORAmenti (Lecce, IT). Primary source: sfioramenti.it, holistic-massage sessions page. Key quotes: focus on women («programma integrato di massaggi bionaturali e di discipline olistiche specificatamente studiato per il benessere psicofisico femminile» [an integrated programme of bio-natural massages and holistic disciplines specifically designed for women’s psychophysical wellbeing]) and duration («solo il massaggio, continuo ed ininterrotto (hands-on), ha la durata di ben 3 ore … tra tutte le sessioni che propongo è, in assoluto, la più richiesta dalle mie clienti» [the massage alone, continuous and uninterrupted (hands-on), lasts a full 3 hours … of all the sessions I offer it is by far the most requested by my clients]). Tree: step 1. Level: 1. Category: A 180′ (variants B 150′ / C 120′). Evidence: high. Independent source: Trustpilot. Noted doubts: male practitioner (not relevant to the criteria, noted for transparency). Outcome: full match; counts as 1 per venue.

Record 2 — Four Seasons Hong Kong, The Spa (Central, HK). Primary source: fourseasons.com/hongkong, prenatal and postnatal treatments page. Quotes: «120 minutes – HKD 3,380» / «HKD 3,580»; programme «tailored for pregnant women and new mothers». Tree: step 1. Level: 1. Category: C 120′. Evidence: high. Independent source: shopfourseasonshk.com. Noted doubts: composite «Nurturing Maternity» 180′ package → D as a separate entry. Outcome: full match.

E.3 §14 records in table form — 16 rows A–C

From the Document B register the primary-source URLs, some independent sources, two §8 tree outcomes and one moderate-evidence reason were reinstated. The full nine-field records of Rounds II–IV remain declared, not reproduced. Marker legend: declared = reported verbatim in the source; inferred = derived from the reproduced quote and marked as such, never used to change a classification; not reproduced = present in the source documents but absent in this version.

What remains missing. The explicit §8 tree outcome is now documented for 3 rows out of 16 (SFIORAmenti, Holistic Lounge, Four Seasons Hong Kong); for the other 13 it remains marked as inferred from the quote. Still not reproduced are the Level 2 textual proofs (MANA Body Therapies, Aloha Therapies) and the moderate-evidence reason for 6 rows out of 7 (documented only for Salone noa). No element was reconstructed by inference: where the source is silent, the cell declares it.

Category D entries documented by Document B: lomi-lomi.se (Level 1 but 90 minutes); intoFlow Hamburg; Goddess Touch by Kay C; Ceremonial Massage Therapy Berlin (60/90 minutes); Hagabadet "Gravid Deluxe" (composite); Maman & Moi Lyon ("rituel postpartum de 2h"); Thermes Sextius and Royatonic (rituals); Akahai (robots-block); Heavenly Spa Tokyo (robots-block); Fukuoka and Itoshima salons (aggregator only); Aman, Bulgari, Rosewood, Park Hyatt and Mandarin Oriental chains in China (composite packages). All reinstated in the «Unconfirmed or excluded results» section of the report body.

E.4 Exclusion decisions

Freya Graf; Touch by Venus; Esensua; Sbw-tokyo; Piacerepertutti; Awaken the Woman; Tantric Therapy London; Awaken Empress; Inna Wellness; Dakini Tantra — exclusions justified with textual proof in the dedicated section.

Criterion: the sources cited in the present document are listed, ordered by country/area, with a P marker (official primary source) or C (corroboration/context). The full Round I sitography (~150 URLs) and the cumulative one of Rounds I–IV (~240 verified sources) are declared, not reproduced.

Overall breadth. The ~240 verified sources and the ~150 Round I URLs represent the last stage of a wider funnel: over 60 numbered queries, 2 dedicated search modules and the Round IV corroboration queries in 9 languages; the scrutiny of the returned results, quantifiable as a process order of magnitude in several thousand items; the detailed examination of over 100 candidate offerings; the point-by-point verification of the sources with extraction of textual quotes; the double coding of the 16 final rows.

Australia — kahunaaustralia.com.au (P). China — subconsciousdayspa.cn (P); Banyan Tree Shanghai, official price list (P → D); Dianping/Meituan (C, partial access). Hong Kong — fourseasons.com/hongkong (P); shopfourseasonshk.com (C). Macao — fourseasons.com/macau (P). Japan — official sites of Holistic Lounge, Honu, Salone noa (P, URLs declared in the R-II registers); Hot Pepper Beauty and OZmall (C, superseded); heavenlyspa.jp and akahai-lomilomi.com (access denied by robots.txt). Italy — sfioramenti.it (P); it.trustpilot.com/review/sfioramenti.it (C). United Kingdom — official sites of Aloha Therapies and Healing Massage (P). Spain — masajesolilluna.com/en/pregnant-massage/ (P); fresha.com (C). Sweden — Jelenas Massage & Beautyworld (P); gravidmassage sources (C → D). Germany — Holi Lomi (P); AloeSpa Dortmund (P → D); Lomilomi Sisters (C → D). United States — healinghandsbodywork.com, stillpointwell.com, selinastherapycenter.com (P); massage.esalen.org (C). Thailand — Naree Thai / Lila Thai price list (P); tripadvisor.com and pelago.com (C); National Geographic (C, training context). France — Gynécée Paris 9; Maison Luna; Mamans & Merveilles; Bloom mamas (P → D). India — Divyamrut Ayurcare; Ideal Ayurvedic Resort; Prasavaraksha sources (P → D). Market and scenario context — globalwellnessinstitute.org, 2025 Global Wellness Economy Monitor, 19 November 2025 (C); B. J. Pine II and J. H. Gilmore, «Welcome to the Experience Economy», Harvard Business Review, July–August 1998 (C); L. M. Giurge, A. V. Whillans and C. West, «Why time poverty matters for individuals, organisations and nations», Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 4, no. 10, 2020, pp. 993–1003 (C); OECD, Gender Equality in a Changing World: Taking Stock and Moving Forward and Gender gaps in paid and unpaid work persist, OECD Publishing, 2025 (C — in OECD countries women devote about four hours a day to unpaid work, almost double that of men, with correspondingly less time left for themselves; the gender gap is widest in Turkey and southern Europe and narrowest in the Nordic countries. 2022 data or latest available year; verification of updated country values recommended before publication); EIHM Academy — Training in Extended & Integrated Holistic Massage (source of the «strategic opportunities» framing in high-end wellness contexts and of the concept of repositioning toward Long-Form Hands-on Bodywork).