Michael Graves, founder and owner of Lava Steam Spa, has been a strong advocate of holistic healthcare since his early days as a healthcare provider.

His RN degree set him on a firm healthcare course but his training and experience as a licensed massage therapist started him on a lifetime goal of helping people get healthy and stay healthy.

Michael has long been a proponent of natural and alternative wellness through massage, Far Infra-red heat, diet, and vitamin supplements. The desire to keep learning of ways to improve his client's well-being led him to Ping Ping Lin and her LavaBene Detox Steam therapy.

Michael was well aware of the benefits of steam therapy but discovered that steaming in a LavaBene pod surrounded by unique lava stones from Japan was many times more effective and beneficial than ordinary steam.

Michael was so convinced of the benefits of the LavaBene steam that he decided to incorporate the unique steam pods into his massage therapy practice.

Now Lava Steam Spa, offers the detox Steam Therapy, Massage Therapy, IV Drip Therapy, and Rehabilitative Physio-therapeutic Therapy.

We strongly support many traditional healthcare practices, especially if they are rendered from individuals that have a Holistic perspective of care. They offer adjunctive and alternative healthcare.

Discover unparalleled relaxation and rejuvenation at our wellness spa in Houston, TX, where expert treatments and state-of-the-art facilities create the ultimate sanctuary for your well-being.

Our Mission

The inventor of the Lava Vessel, Mr. Chen Hung Lieh, first met Mr. Takagi of the Japanese Nuclear Energy Council in 1996 and learned about the extraordinary power of Lava Energy Rocks, which are mined from Mt. Dekiyamakouzan in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Mr. Chen was interested in the properties of these special rocks, and in 1998 began looking at exploiting these unique properties to improve the effectiveness of traditional Chinese heat therapy. His endeavors led him through various approaches to deliver the benefits of Lava Energy Rocks, resulting in the current Lava Vessel approach.

In 1994, Mr. Chen’s father, who was then aged 78, fell down a flight of stairs and his injuries left him wheelchair bound. For three years, he suffered from chronic pain and general health deterioration, and had to see doctors once or twice a week.

Mr. Chen decided to try the Lava Energy Rocks therapy approach on his father. Three months after such therapy sessions, his father’s pain eased significantly and his general health improved to a point where he was able to leave his wheelchair, walk on his own, and resume normal activities. Much more than the medical benefits, Mr. Chen was impressed by his father’s transformation from suffering a debilitating injury to regaining his cheerful outlook on life.

Encouraged by what he saw, Mr. Chen decided to invest all he had to further develop the Lava Energy Rock therapy approach for chronic diseases. As Mr. Chen was near retirement, his family and friends thought that such an endeavor would be too risky for him. His father was the lone exception, and even contributed his own life savings — all for the cause of “breaking through the impasse that the medical field faces in the treatment of chronic disease”– in order to come up with a therapy that would be gentle and effective, but without side effects. As Mr. Chen’s research and development progressed, his father would often inquire about study subjects’ reactions to therapy. Seeing his own father’s eagerness helped to sustain Mr. Chen’s drive for a breakthrough.

Our mission is for everyone to ‘Be Well’.

Ping Ping ran into Lava vessels while developing her anti-corrosion coating business in China and Taiwan and was soon convinced of the therapy’s effectiveness. Wanting the natural, non-invasive therapy to become available in the US to help the numerous sufferers of chronic conditions there, she opened the first LavaBene spa in the US in Houston, Texas in November 2013 as a first step in her quest to introducing Lava vessels to the US. She then opened the first location in Pearland in January 2017LavaBene has served and helped thousands of clients.

While those who have tried LavaBene treatments can attest to its effectiveness, convincing those who have yet to try it is more challenging than one would hope. Western medicine traditionally focuses on treating symptoms, whereas Eastern medicine focuses on addressing root causes.

Chronic conditions are a realm in which Western medicine has not traditionally focused. Having been developed in an Eastern medicine tradition, LavaBene takes a different approach towards health. It considers causes and effects holistically in order to prevent ailments and maintain health. This is a key reason why Eastern medicine tends to produce holistic, natural, and non-invasive remedies that have few significant side-effects.

Having seen with her own eyes with LavaBene's effectiveness, Ping Ping has a burning desire to bring the therapy to more people, detoxing them and helping them get better. Building and expanding the LavaBene business would be a sure way to help even more people. Establishing networks and partnerships would be a key part of doing so, which can be concluded as a need to revolutionize our thinking in health : Treat illness and Raise Wellness.

Ping Ping is still searching for and finding the best and most holistic therapy products from Asia to include in LavaBene’s services to reduce the time of struggle and misery for unhealthy individuals.

Ping Ping graduated from the University of Houston-Clear Lake with a BA in Computer Information System and studied in MBA program at the University of St. Thomas. She is also the President of Parapet, Inc., head office in Shanghai, China, a company exclusively representing proprietary Texas based anti-corrosion coating products for all construction including concrete and metal for the Asia market. She lives in Sugar Land, Texas, USA, and is fluent in both Chinese and English.

Lava Steam is proud to work with Ping Ping to offer a second location in Houston for the LavaBene Detox Steam Therapy.

Michael Graves, RN, is the owner and manager of Lava Steam. Michael has a long successful history in the healthcare industry. Michael and his staff of qualified therapists has helped hundreds recover from injury, illness, pain and other chronic conditions.