It born among the ancient Indian ashram and in the Tibetan monasteries the Yoga, as a daily practise, was used to keep the body and the mind in harmonious balance.
It was the Indian master Kusum Modak, disciple of the famous yoga master B.K.S. Iyergar, to create this type of massage unifing the passive techniques of her master to the traditional Indian ayurveda massage, enriching it with the ancient practise of the usage of the feet as well as the hands coming from Kerala ( South India ).
The treatment involves:
- All over the body by the manual massage
- On the profound musculature of the back and the legs by the feet massage
- On the joints and ligament with specific exercises and charley horse
To practise the massage it is used an organic oil ( preferable olive or sesame oil cold squeezed ) with Velchana (root’s dust of dry calamo). This mixture has an antiseptic action, propels the bloodstream, detoxes and purifies the skin. Through a growing friction the massage reaches the deepest levels of the tissues and revitalizes the prana.
The complete treatment lasts about an hour and the massage involves either the posterior and the anterior side of the body, it requires in some phases of the session the active participation of the patient ( passive yoga and charley horses), ending with a fantastic head and face massage that introduces a deep relax.
The benefits of the Ayuveda Yoga massage :
- Relax and tone up the musculature
- Re-educate the spinal column
- Restore elasticity and the movement’s extention to the joints
- Stimulate the blood circulation and the lymphatic drenage and allows the toxins elimination
- Improve the postures and gives to it the vitalit
Abbhyanga
Soft and relaxing massage. The body is completely greased with precious oily ayurveda hot preparation.
It calms down the stress and allows a good rest, nourish the musculature and the bones ( dryness and osteoporosis) enhancing the endurance.
It lubricates the joints, makes the skin more bright and improves its texture, it helps the body to loose the toxins, it gives strength and vigour reducing the mental and the physical tiredness.
It is suggestes for those who practise sport and for those who perform intense intellectual activity.
- with dhara: after having massaged and greased the whole body a modest dosage of hot ayurveda oil is poured for a deep relax
- with pindasweda rice hot pads, ayurveda herbs and milk. Perfect to nourish the bones and for the muscular and joints pains
- With pad of hot stones: to enrich the permeability of the oil in the stress points and to allow a better and pleasant relax.
Shirodhara
pouring of the hot oil on the forehead with a constant and regular flux with a pleasant oscillatory slow movement from a temple to another.
It is applied after the Abbhyanga massage, causing a deep relax that contributes to quiet and to clean the mind.
It soothes various mental concerns among which stress, mental fatigue and insomnia.
It is suggested for those who suffers from pains at the cervical vertebras.
The hot oil, like a light wire, falls over and wraps the head, leading to an extraordinary well-being and serenity.
