The healing art of Thai Yoga Massage is an ancient and sacred system of healing with roots in Yoga, Ayurvedic Medicine and Buddhist spiritual practice. Thai Yoga Massage combines rhythmic massage, acu-pressure, asanas (Yogic stretching exercises), gentle twisting, energy work and meditation. Thai Yoga Massage stimulates and balances the flow of healing energy within the body, opening the areas which are blocked bringing a person deeper into balance and harmony for health, happiness and wellness of being. This system creates a powerful release of stress and tension, an increase in vitality and well-being and it deepens the connection between mind, body and spirit in both the giver and receiver.
The three main lines energetically are the Sushumna (rising straight up through the center of the spine) and the Ida and Pingkala nadis which run on either side of the spine. Health in eastern philosophies is regarded as a state of balance between these energies, where all the systems of the body, including mind and spirit, function in harmony with each other.
In Thai Massage the use of weight and leverage is very clever. Rather than relying on muscular force or pressure, strength and balance come from the center of the body, enabling the practitioner to conserve energy and use it in the most efficient way.
Traditional Thai Massage is performed on a mat on the floor, rather than on a raised massage table. This allows for many movements and procedures that are not practical or effective on a raised massage table, and, most of all, for the best use of the practitioner’s body weight. Both client and practitioner are dressed in comfortable clothing allowing ease of movement and flexibility.
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