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What to expect? While it's always nice to be kneaded, Thai Massage is more active than your basic pummel-and-rub. Traditionally, it's performed on a padded floor mat instead of on a table; the client stays fully dressed and no oil is used. In a session, The practitioner uses all parts of her body to open energy lines and break up toxins in the body. This is done by aligning the energies of the body while working on the tendons. Thai Massage is an interactive manipulation of the body using passive stretching and gentle pressure along energy lines. These movements help to adjust the skeletal structure, increase flexibility and suppleness, recover vital energy, relieve muscular and joint tension, and stimulate internal organs. Additional benefits include: deep relaxation, balance of the body's energy system, increase of blood and lymph flow and release of emotional blocks. |  |
Thai HealingTherapy for Health & Well Being If you're interested in feeling your best and improving your health, then Thai Yoga Massage is for you! This unique therapy may share some similarities to other massage techniques, but it really is in a class of its own. Read on to see for yourself what Thai Massage can do for you.
An Ancient Health System
The philosophy behind Oriental bodywork is that optimum health is dependent on achieving balance of body, mind and spirit. A major factor is keeping the body's energy channels open, allowing the life force to flow properly. This concept of energy flows contributing to health is not often addressed in Western medicine.
If you picture your nervous system sending messages throughout your body, you can get an idea of these energy flows. If a nerve signal is blocked, a health problem usually follows. Similarly, a block in energy flows will adversely affect your health.
The technique used
is a natural healing method that is not toxic or harmful to your health and leaves no side effects. In fact, there are numerous benefits that can be received from Thai Yoga massage, more so than other types of massage since the focus is on balancing energy lines and blood flow in the body by working the tendons.
Stay Young, Stay Healthy!
The quest for health should be regarded as the search for balance in every facet of our lives. Rest and relaxation are wonderful ways of calming the mind and body to help this balancing process which we commonly call 'healing'. There are many things we can do in our daily lives to help make that happen. Receiving Thai Massage is one of them. Thai Massage offers a rhythmical workout that perfectly balances the body's need for movement and stretching. It also provides a relaxed state in which excessive worry and desire seem to evaporate way. 
The Sen Lines
In Thai madical theory the body's vital life energy flows along channels called Sen. This energy powers all the physical, mental and emotional processes which will only founction normally when energy supply matches demand. The Chinese call this energy 'Qi' and the Indians call it 'Prana'. Any imbalance or blockage in the distribution of this energy can cause pain and disease. When the system is working well and energy distribution is balanced, you feel happy, relaxed, energetic and free from stiffness and pain. Thai Massage focuses on the main Sen channels. The careful application of pressure along these channels helps to release any energy blockages and stagnation. Pressing and stretching muscles makes them more receptive to this flow. |
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