Hilot Healing Massage
The old way, by warm hands
Traditional Filipino hilot with virgin coconut oil and banana-leaf reading to find where the body holds its tension.
60 / 90 mins ₱1,800 / ₱2,400
Hilom · a quiet kind of healing
Come home
to stillness.
Twelve floors below, Makati keeps rushing. Up here, time loosens its grip. Traditional Filipino hilot, warm stones, quiet rooms — and an hour that belongs entirely to you.
- Since
- 2019
- Treatment rooms
- 7
- Guests returned
- 9 in 10
Now serving
Salcedo Village, Makati
Breathe in stay a while
Our philosophy
Healing isn't a luxury.
It's a returning.
In Filipino, hilom describes the quiet way a wound closes — not forced, never hurried. We built this place around that word: seven rooms, warm light, therapists trained in the manghihilot tradition, and no clocks on the walls.
Every session begins the same way — three slow breaths, a warm compress, and permission to do absolutely nothing. The city will keep your place in line. It always does.
“We don't fix bodies here. We remind them how to rest.”
Aling Remedios Buenviaje · Founding Manghihilot
Treatments
Choose how you'd like to be held.
Every treatment includes a warm welcome compress, ginger tea, and ten unhurried minutes in the quiet room afterwards. No one will rush you out.
Warm Stone Therapy
Heat that goes deeper than hands
Smooth basalt stones from Albay rivers, warmed and drawn slowly along the spine to melt stubborn knots.
75 mins ₱2,600
Aromatherapy Massage
Sampaguita, lemongrass, calm
Long Swedish strokes with essential oil blends pressed from Philippine botanicals. Choose calm, clarity, or sleep.
60 mins ₱1,950
Hilom Glow Facial
Skin, returned to itself
Calamansi enzyme cleanse, papaya polish, and a cooling cucumber-aloe mask. Gentle enough for stressed city skin.
60 mins ₱2,200
Couples Sanctuary
Two mats, one quiet room
Side-by-side hilot or aromatherapy in our garden suite, with ginger tea and bibingka to close the hour.
90 mins ₱5,200 / pair
Tired Soles Ritual
For feet that carried you here
Lemongrass foot soak, salt scrub, and a focused hilot for the feet and calves of the chronically standing.
45 mins ₱1,400
All prices are VAT-inclusive. First visit? Mention UNANG HILOM for 15% off any 60-minute treatment.
Signature
2.5 hours of nothing
The signature experience
The Hilom Ritual.
Our therapists' full repertoire in one slow arc — soak, scrub, hilot, stone, and stillness. Most guests book it before a hard week. The wise ones book it after.
- 0:00 Arrival tea & three slow breaths
- 0:10 Lemongrass foot soak & salt scrub
- 0:30 Full-body hilot with warm coconut oil
- 1:30 Warm stone sequence along the spine
- 2:05 Scalp massage & cool sampaguita towel
- 2:30 Quiet room, ginger tea, no hurry End of ritual
₱4,800 per person · 150 mins
Book the RitualOur space
Built like a deep breath, room by room.
Capiz light fixtures, abaca weaves, and plants we talk to. Photographed on a slow Tuesday afternoon.
From the quiet room
What guests whisper on the way out.
I cried a little during the hilot and my therapist just said, 'Okay lang po iyan.' I've been going back every month for two years.
Bianca R.
Project manager, BGC
My wife and I do the Couples Sanctuary every anniversary. The bibingka after is non-negotiable at this point.
Paolo & Mads T.
Regulars since 2021
Flew in from Cebu for meetings, walked out of the Hilom Ritual with my shoulders two inches lower. Worth scheduling the flight around.
Atty. Lourdes V.
Visits when in Makati
Hilom gift cards
Give someone an hour that's actually theirs.
Digital or pressed on seed paper that grows kangkong. From ₱1,500, valid for one full year — because rest shouldn't expire quickly.
Send a Gift Card Hilom
One quiet hour
for someone you love
From ₱1,500 Valid 12 months
Reserve
Your hour is waiting.
The city can too.
Book by call, text, or Viber — or simply walk in and let the day decide. Same-day slots usually open after 2 PM on weekdays.
Open daily · Last booking 8 PM
Visit us
A third-floor sanctuary above Tordesillas Street.
Look for the trailing hoya vines in the window. Ring once, take the wooden stairs, and leave your shoes — and your phone, if you're brave — at the door.
- Address
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3F Casa Verde Building
112 Tordesillas St., Salcedo Village
Makati City 1227
- Hours
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Mon – Fri · 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Sat – Sun · 9:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Holidays by appointment
- Getting here
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5 min walk from Salcedo Saturday Market
Parking at Casa Verde basement
Grab drop-off: Tordesillas cor. Bautista
Salcedo Village
Makati, Philippines