Thai Yoga Bodywork

This powerful and dynamic form of massage is one of the main elements of traditional Thai Medicine. Originating in India around the time of Buddha, over 2,500 years ago, Thai Massage is rooted in Indian traditions of Yoga and Buddhist spiritual practices. It is founded on the idea of working with the body’s Sens, or energy pathways, and combines gentle yoga stretches with acupuncture/acupressure techniques.

It is a powerful form of energy rebalancing and physical massage. A fusion of Buddhist spiritual practice and Indian Ayurvedic bodywork, it combines hatha yoga techniques and the spiritual commitment of working with loving kindness. This approach of working intuitively and without judgment supports our body’s natural inclination to heal itself.As yoga traveled over the mountains of Tibet and throughout Asia, its influence can be seen in all aspects of Oriental Medicine and Healing—Chinese—Acupuncture; Japan—Shiatsu; Thailand—Thai Yoga Bodywork or Thai Massage. For cultural reasons and the nature of the people in Thailand, Thai Massage developed as a mutual therapy. It’s almost like doing yoga on someone, for someone, assisting them in yoga postures while doing yoga yourself. Combine that with the energy work—acupressure on the sens or energy pathways, and the result is one of the most relaxing, rejuvenating, healing practices you could ever experience.

How it is done and what to expect

It is done on the floor on a soft futon mattress. The recipient is fully clothed in comfortable loose clothing. The practitioner begins by centering themselves and connecting to the breath….. to the breath of themselves and the recipient. It is this connection between the practitioner and the recipient that makes Thai Massage so beneficial on so many levels—the loving kindness and acceptance, the mutual give and take, the ‘dance’ between them creates a release of tension, an opening of the heart to trust, allowing oneself to be vulnerable in a safe environment, letting go of negative thoughts and habits that create dis-ease. This is where true healing begins. The body has Innate Intelligence from the Source from which we all came. The body’s ability to heal is built into this Intelligence. Through Healing Modalities like Thai Massage, Shiatsu,Yoga, Reiki, Homeopathy and appropriate Chiropractic, this Innate Intelligence is tapped into and released to allow the body to heal itself. combinations of these Healing Modalities can bring profound results. By appointment only. Please call to schedule a convenient time for you to experience this amazing Healing Modality. Gift certificates are available.

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Stone People's Sweat Lodge

This special event is held as an offering to the land and to help facilitate our spiritual growth. The sweat lodge ceremony is common to indigenous peoples all over the earth and is part of the ancestry of most of us were we to trace our roots far enough back. The lodge ceremony is orientated toward turning off the outside world, and journeying into ourselves in a Stone People’s Ceremony (sweat lodge).

Health Benefits of the Sweat Lodge

Stress reduction caused from sauna usage comes in two ways. The first is the natural relaxation we feel when we spend time in a wet or dry sauna thanks to the heat. The second reason is a bit more technical. As our skin heats up the amount of chemicals that leave our body increases, when we become stressed our body creates particular chemicals that cause us to feel the feeling of Stressed by spending time in the sauna our body slows the creation of these chemicals and actually reduces the amount in our body causing the feeling of stress go away.

Our body releases as much as a third of it's toxins through the skin. It does this through the pores when sweating. By inducing sweating more often we actually detox ourselves of more toxins then normal thanks to the increased body temperature we achieve during a sauna.

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