Enjoy the "Lazy Man's Yoga" and its' benefits

Thai massage is a unique style of massage based on the principles of compassion. It consists of many techniques such as leaning pressure, reflexology, energy line work, blood stopping, stretching and yoga. Therapists use many parts of their bodies when performing Thai massage such as palms, thumbs, feet, elbows, forearms, and knees. The receiver is moved through a variety of postures that can be safely modified to be as gentle or intense to suit the clients’ needs. Clients can be either lying on their back (supine), stomach (prone), side-lying, inverted or seated. The work is done on a mat on the floor with the client in comfortable clothing.

Heated Herbal Thai Massage

Herbal Thai massage incorporates the use of a heated herbal compress containing a collection of medicinal aromatic herbs traditionally grown in Thailand. The compress is steamed then pressed or rolled on the body during a Thai yoga massage. When used in conjunction with a Thai massage, the heated stem allows the muscles and joints of the body greater movement and flexibility. It calms inflammation and soothes tired achy muscles and joints. The herbs themselves are absorbed through the skin and used in the body to facilitate further release of energy blockages thereby improving energy imbalances within the body.

Benefits:

Traditional Thai massage is most commonly used to treat inflammation due to muscle and joint pain, injuries or imbalances but it is not limited to the muscular system. Thai massage along with the herbal compress can help with all the systems in the body.

The herbal compress promotes further healing as the typical selection of Thai herbs offer many healing properties to the mind, body and soul. Together the Thai yoga massage and the herbal compress promote healing in the following ways:

• Improves muscle injuries, imbalances and pain and improves joint flexibility and range of motion
• Improves appetite and digestive process and dysfunction
• Decreases cold and flu symptoms
• Slows the aging process and degeneration of soft tissues and joints
• Reduces acute and chronic inflammation
• Boosts the immune system
• Improves blood and lymph circulation
• Improves physical and mental energy by releasing energy blockages
• Lowers blood pressure
• Encourages relaxation by preventing and alleviating stress and anxiety
• Eases menstrual cramps and associated pain
• Calms the mind, improves concentration and positive thinking
• Calms and prevents migraines and headaches
• Helps with insomnia and other sleep disorders
• Improves organ function and movement
• Calms respiratory dysfunction and pain