Day Massage · Chaska, MN
Deep tissue & Swedish oil massage in
Chaska, MN.
Deep tissue massage in Chaska, MN comes off the same oil massage menu as Swedish: 30 minutes $55, 60 minutes $80, 90 minutes $120, 120 minutes $160. Pressure is set in the room and can change mid-session, so the only real decision at booking is how long.
Oil massage — 30 min $55 · 60 min $80 · 90 min $120 · 120 min $160 · hot stone add-on $10
Open daily · Mon–Sat 9 AM–9 PM · Sun 9:30 AM–9 PM Chaska Commons, Chaska
At a glance
- Session lengths
- 30, 60, 90 or 120 minutes — one menu item, four clocks
- Price
- $55 / $80 / $120 / $160. Gratuity is not included
- Swedish or deep tissue
- Same booking, same price. You set the pressure with your therapist, and you can change it mid-session
- Hot stone add-on
- $10 on any table massage — add it when you book or ask at the desk
- Where
- 150 Pioneer Trail, Chaska, MN 55318 — Chaska Commons at Hwy 41 and Pioneer Trail, free parking directly in front of the door
- Booking
- Walk in, book online, or call or text (612) 600-9298. Long sessions are worth booking ahead
— Four numbers, one variable
Pick the clock first.
The entire price list for this service is four numbers: $55 for thirty minutes, $80 for sixty, $120 for ninety, $160 for two hours. Deep tissue sits on those four numbers and so does Swedish. There is no firm-pressure tier, no therapist grade, no upcharge at the counter — whatever you say about pressure, the amount on the card is decided by one variable, and the variable is the clock.
Which makes the length the whole decision, and it is the one people think about least. Thirty minutes and ninety are different jobs, not the same job at two settings. A half-hour has no warm-up in it — the therapist starts on the area you named at the desk and stays there until the timer goes. Ninety has room to work slowly, and slow is the mechanism: pressure applied gradually gives tight muscle time to let go, while pressure in a hurry just makes you brace.
So the page is organised around the clock, not the technique. Here is what each length covers, priced off the full published menu.
— 30 / 60 / 90 / 120
What each length actually covers.
One thing worth saying before you read the table: the half-hour is the only length that costs more per minute. Two 30-minute visits come to $110 and give you an hour of table time split across two trips; a single 60-minute session is $80 for the same hour, uninterrupted. If you book short twice a month out of habit, that is worth a second look.
| Length | What it realistically covers | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | One region and no more: neck and shoulders, or the low back, or feet and calves. Name it at the desk so no time goes on deciding. | $55 |
| 60 min | The standard full-body session and what most people book. Back, shoulders, neck, arms, legs and feet, with a few minutes held back for whatever you flagged on arrival. | $80 |
| 90 min | Full body unhurried, plus twenty-odd minutes of focused work on one stubborn area. The first length at which deep tissue stops feeling like a race. | $120 |
| 120 min | Two or three areas worked properly, and long enough that most guests fall asleep somewhere in the middle. Book ahead — it needs a therapist free for the whole block. | $160 |
Prices are per person and exclude gratuity. Swedish and deep tissue are one menu item at one price: the decision happens in this table, not at the till.
— Pressure and pace
Deep tissue and Swedish are the same booking.
On our menu they are one line: Oil Massage (Swedish or Deep Tissue). Same room, same warm oil, same price at every length — one booking with a dial on it.
The difference is pressure and pace, and it is easier to feel than to read about. Swedish is broad and continuous: long strokes, moderate pressure, a rhythm steady enough to fall asleep to. Deep tissue is slower and narrower — a smaller patch, sunk past the surface layer a little at a time, worked with your breathing rather than over the top of it. Same hands, lower gear.
Most sessions are not purely one or the other anyway: Swedish pace for ten or fifteen minutes to warm the tissue, deeper work through the shoulders and low back, Swedish again to finish so you do not walk out still braced. Want it firm from minute one? Say so.
One thing matters more than all of that. Deep work should register as a strong, manageable ache, never a sharp pain you are holding your breath through — if you are gripping the table, the pressure has gone past useful, and saying "lighter" mid-stroke is the fastest route to an hour that was worth the money. Our guide to deep tissue vs Swedish massage goes further.
- Ask for Swedish when the goal is simply to stop thinking for an hour.
- Ask for deep tissue when there is one specific spot you keep reaching for at your desk.
- Ask for a change halfway — the dial moves in both directions, and it costs nothing.
— Bench shifts and cleanrooms
Shoulders that got that way at work.
Chaska's three largest employers are a school district and two advanced-manufacturing plants: Eastern Carver County Schools with about 1,346 staff, Entegris with 925 and Beckman Coulter with 850. That is roughly three thousand people whose working day is spent with their arms out in front of them — at a bench, gowned at a cleanroom station, or standing at the front of a classroom — holding one position because precise work does not allow a better one.
The precision is what does it, and the mechanism is nothing dramatic. You cannot fidget while you are assembling something to a tolerance, and you cannot roll your shoulders out mid-sentence in front of twenty-six teenagers, so the shoulder stays where you put it until it stops volunteering to come back down. Shift work compounds it — the same posture held at two in the morning costs more than it does at ten — and it lands in almost exactly the same three places on almost everybody: the tops of the shoulders, the band between the shoulder blades, and the forearms from grip. Sixty minutes covers those three. Ninety is the better call when the low back needs including too, which by Thursday of a long week it usually does.
The other Chaska profile is the commute rather than the job. US-212 was relocated in July 2008 onto a twelve-mile freeway between here and Eden Prairie, and SouthWest Transit's East Creek Station — 675 parking stalls, about two miles from our door — runs weekday express coaches into downtown Minneapolis and the University. A good share of our evening bookings are people who left a car in that lot before seven in the morning and came back to it eleven hours later. Closing at 9:00 PM is the only reason that appointment exists.
None of it has to be a justification — plenty of people book 90 minutes because the week was long. If two of you do, the couples room takes two tables at once.
— Heat before pressure
Hot stones, ten dollars.
Hot stone is a $10 add-on to any table massage. It does not get a page of its own because there is not much to it: smooth basalt stones, warmed, worked along the back and shoulders, or left resting in place while the therapist works elsewhere.
What you are buying is heat, for a practical reason rather than a luxurious one: warm tissue takes pressure more easily than cold tissue, so the first ten minutes of a deep session stop being a negotiation. Add it when you book or mention it at the desk. And if it is your feet rather than your back that never warm up, the better booking is reflexology in a recliner, where the therapist stays below the knee and you keep your clothes on.
— Ninety-minute blocks
Booking the length you want, tonight.
Walk-ins are genuinely welcome; a real share of our 30- and 60-minute sessions are people who spotted the sign from the light at Hwy 41. Length is the thing a walk-in cannot always have — a 90 or 120-minute booking needs a therapist clear for the whole block, and at six on a Friday we cannot promise that from the doorway.
So: short session, walk in. Long session, book it online or call or text (612) 600-9298. We are at 150 Pioneer Trail, Chaska, MN 55318, in Chaska Commons at Hwy 41 and Pioneer Trail, with free surface parking directly in front of the door and accessible spaces at the entrance. Open 9:00 AM — 9:00 PM Monday to Saturday and from 9:30 AM on Sunday.
Every price on this page is the price — no membership, no packages, nothing to sign. If you are weighing a monthly contract somewhere else against paying per visit here, we work that comparison through on the Chanhassen page. Gratuity is not included.
Still hovering over the four rows above? Book sixty the first time. Walk out wishing it had kept going and ninety is your session from here on; find you had had enough by minute fifty and thirty was the honest answer. Either way you have settled it once, for $80, rather than guessing for a year. Take the rest of the evening gently afterwards.
— Every price published
Oil massage — every length, every price
Oil Massage — Swedish & Deep Tissue
The studio's core table massage. Warm oil, your choice of pressure — flowing Swedish strokes to unwind, or slower deep-tissue work into the knots.
- Oil Massage (Swedish or Deep Tissue) 30 min $55
- Oil Massage (Swedish or Deep Tissue) 1 hr $80
- Oil Massage (Swedish or Deep Tissue) 90 min $120
- Oil Massage (Swedish or Deep Tissue) 2 hr $160
Add-Ons
Add to any table massage when you book, or just ask at the front desk.
- Hot Stone 5 min $10
One menu item covers both Swedish and deep tissue, so the pressure you want is a conversation rather than a price tier. Hot stone can be added to any table session for $10. Gratuity is not included in any listed price.
— Before you book
Questions we get
most often.
Still unsure? Call (612) 600-9298 — someone at the front desk will actually pick up.
I've only got a lunch break — is 30 minutes worth booking?
Yes, as long as you name one area and accept that one area is what you get. Thirty minutes ($55) covers neck and shoulders, or the low back, or feet and calves — not two of them, and not a whole-body pass. Tell the front desk which it is when you arrive so none of the time goes on deciding.
What's the difference between Swedish and deep tissue?
Swedish is broad, flowing, moderate pressure — the goal is to unwind. Deep tissue is slower and more focused, working into specific tight spots layer by layer. Both are on the same oil massage menu at the same price, so you're not locked in: tell your therapist during the session and they'll adjust.
How long should my massage be?
Thirty minutes handles one area — neck and shoulders, or feet. Sixty minutes is the standard full-body session and what most people book. Ninety or 120 minutes is worth it when you want unhurried work on several areas, or when you simply want the longer version of a good thing.
What if the pressure is too much — or not enough?
Say so, right away, mid-stroke if you need to. A relaxation massage should never be painful, and deep work should never be more than a manageable ache. You set the dial, not us — and no therapist here will take it as a complaint.
Can I add hot stones?
Yes — hot stone is a $10 add-on to any table massage. Ask when you book or mention it at the front desk.
What should I do afterwards?
Drink some water, move gently, and give yourself a little time before jumping straight back into the day if you can. Mild soreness the next day after deep tissue work is common and usually passes on its own.
Is gratuity included?
Gratuity is not included in the listed prices. It's appreciated but entirely up to you, and it's never expected.
— Background reading
Deep tissue and Thai-style bodywork get talked about in some big terms online. We would rather point you at the neutral sources — see the NCCIH on massage therapy , things to know before you book , the Mayo Clinic on easing tension headaches and managing everyday stress .
These are educational references about massage in general, not claims about our services.
Day Massage is a relaxation and wellness studio, not a medical provider. Nothing here is medical advice — if something hurts in a way that worries you, see a clinician.
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