In Thai yoga massage, the body’s life force runs along a system of energy lines called the Ten Sen. (TYM). When things get in the way of this life, energy, aches, pains, and sickness happen.
Along with gentle stretching and Hatha Yoga, our therapist in Ashiatsu Massage London uses their hands, feet, and elbows to press on key points along the energy lines. This frees up stuck energy and turns on the body’s natural ability to heal, bringing back balance and harmony.
What kind of health benefits could Thai Yoga Massage have?
Our Thai Yoga Massage treats many conditions, such as headaches, knee pain, back, shoulder, and neck pain, and tension before menstruation. It can help relieve pain during labor and is especially helpful for people with Multiple Sclerosis or who have had a stroke and are numb or can’t feel things. The technique makes you more flexible, calms you down, gives you energy, and helps you relax.
Who can get a Thai yoga massage?
Contrary to popular belief, neither the performer nor the recipient of TYM must be fast, strong, or athletic. Each treatment is made to fit the needs of the person who is getting it. Palming and thumbing techniques are used to balance the energy body. This bodywork can be done on or by anyone, young or old, healthy or sick.
Yoga-based TYM stretches are great, but they don’t have to be the main focus of treatment. On the other hand, these nice and helpful stretches make the experience and benefits much better for those who can get them.
Why should you work as a Thai yoga massage therapist?
Through movement and breath, TYM gives you a chance to explore a meditative world. It is a gift for both the person who does and gets it.
Giving TYM is rewarding, even if you don’t think about how it helps the person you give it to. Practitioners are asked to open their bodies and become still, centered, and have thoughts so they can fully participate in the treatment’s rhythmic dance. Many students of Ashiatsu Massage London say that their lives have changed physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
TYM can be given and received by people of any age, shape, or size. Because yoga is a broad and deep practice, people who do it can choose stretches and techniques that work for their bodies and their clients’ bodies. A small practitioner, for example, could use their feet and elbows to put pressure on a big and heavy client without getting tired.
Even “hands-on” experts like yoga and pilates teachers, personal trainers, shiatsu practitioners, osteopaths, and physiotherapists find that incorporating TYM ideas and practices into their skill set can be very helpful for their patients.
Thai yoga massage’s benefits:
Our Thai yoga massage can improve circulation, which is a big plus for the body as a whole. How well your lymphatic and blood fluids move through your body affects your health and well-being.
Thai yoga massage improves your body’s natural blood flow by using palming, thumbing, pressing, and pulling techniques in different yoga-like poses. Because most people live in the West, your lymphatic fluid can get slow and stagnant, which helps move and drain it.
Feet:
If there are no other reasons not to, all Thai yoga massages include work on the feet. You use your feet daily, but you don’t usually think much about them unless they hurt or make you uncomfortable.
This is the main reason Thai foot massage is good for your health. It can improve blood flow and lymphatic drainage in the foot, which can help reduce swelling (edema). Also, working out your feet can help you feel better, sleep better, and feel less pain.
Hands:
In most Thai massages, both the hands and the feet are used. We use a variety of hand skills to do work and have fun. Hand pain can be very painful, especially if it’s caused by overuse, an injury, or a disease like carpal tunnel syndrome or arthritis. This is because it takes a lot of our sensory brain to process the feelings we feel in our hands.
It makes sense that we might feel too much when our hands hurt. Thai yoga massages with hand massage can help people with Dupuytren’s contracture, neuropathy, carpal tunnel syndrome, and arthritis feel better.
Face and head:
The head and face massage is one of the most well-known parts of a Thai yoga massage. A head and scalp massage is fun and relaxing, but it may also help you pay more attention, lower your blood pressure, sleep better, and grow your hair faster.
The biggest benefit may be relief from migraine, tension, and cervicogenic headaches, as well as a decrease in how often or how bad they are. Your skin may feel smoother, your head and neck may drain lymph better, fine lines and wrinkles may look less noticeable, and you may feel more relaxed.
