About Thai Yoga Massage

Traditional Thai Massage, evolving from the ancient healing traditions of Ayurveda and Thai Buddhism, leads to greater physical awareness, grace, and spiritual energy. The practitioner uses hands, feet, arms, and legs to guide the recipient through a series of yoga postures involving fluid movements, gentle stretching, and breathwork. Performed on a floor mat in comfortable clothes, this assisted yoga creates a therapeutic "dance" incorporating rhythmic motion and palming and thumbing along energy lines to invoke emotional calming and deep relaxation.

Part of a uniquely Thai medical tradition tracing back to the time of the Buddha thousands of years ago, involving diet, physical exercise, spiritual healing, the use of medicinal herbs and therapeutic massage, Traditional Thai Massage, also known as Nuat Thai, Nuad Boran or Thai Yoga Therapy, is a therapeutic bodywork technique that dates back thousands of years.

Thai Massage involves gentle stretching and pressure techniques, used to release held patterns and blockages in the body and to treat persistent pain. Being a strongly Buddhist tradition, the practice of Nuat Thai is a practical expression of compassion toward oneself and others.

Benefits of Thai Massage

The Thai massage techniques, evolved and refined over 2500 years, work together to provide profound benefits including:

* relief of pain due to arthritis, repetitive stress, overworked muscles
* enhances your practice of yoga, pilates, and other physical modalities
* balances the body's energy pathways
* better resistance to injury
* improved range of motion
* release of lactic acid and other toxins from areas of accumulation
* toning of internal organs
* increased energy and peaceful alertness
* emotional calming and deep relaxation.