Advanced Thai Yoga Massage: Postures and Energy Pathways for Healing
Kam Thye Chow
Language: English
Pages: 216
ISBN: 1594774277
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Expand your Thai yoga massage practice with advanced postures and energy work to treat stress, back pain, headaches, and several other common conditions
• Includes step-by-step photographs for more than 50 advanced Thai yoga massage postures
• Illustrates in full color the locations of the sen lines and explains their specific therapeutic qualities and connections to ayurveda and the 5 kosha bodies
• Details successful treatment plans for 8 common ailments with custom 60-minute Thai yoga massage posture flows as well as ayurvedic and yoga recommendations for continued healing and prevention at home
In the unique healing system of Thai yoga massage--based on yoga, ayurveda, and the martial arts--the practitioner uses his or her own hands, feet, arms, and legs to gently guide the recipient through a series of yoga postures while palming and thumbing along the body’s energy pathways and pressure points, known in the Thai tradition as sen lines and in ayurveda as marma points.
Providing a way to expand one’s Thai yoga massage practice, this book includes step-by-step photos and guidelines for more than 50 advanced Thai yoga postures as well as successful treatment plans for 8 common ailments: stress, back pain, stiff neck and shoulders, arm and hand exhaustion, headaches, constipation, fibromyalgia, and anxiety/depression. Each treatment plan offers a customized one-hour Thai yoga massage posture flow specific to that ailment along with ayurvedic and yoga recommendations for continued healing and prevention after the massage session. This comprehensive guide also illustrates the exact location of the sen lines and marma points, detailing their therapeutic indications and connections to ayurveda and the five kosha bodies, as well as explaining how to incorporate them into sessions for deeper healing.
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effective approach in this case? If so, choose the sen lines that work with that dosha.Is there a kosha on which you’d like to focus? Select the appropriate sen line for that kosha.If you want to work on two or three of these aspects at the same time, choose sen lines that also overlap. However, to begin with, keep it simple. It is better to have one clear-minded focus and explore it deeply rather than having your attention drawn all over the place at a surface level.Finding the Sen Lines Don’t
ethics of propriety and do not touch anywhere close to the breast, genitals, or anus. Furthermore, you should always check in with regard to pressure and keep a regular eye on your partner. If you feel the body tense, or receive visual cues from the eyes squinting or the face grimacing, reduce your pressure. There are many techniques for working the lines, using the hands, thumbs, forearms, knees, and feet. Additionally, there are many different hand techniques, some in which the thumbs are
you to the next level. Some of the sen lines cross the skeletal structure of the body. Is it okay to apply pressure there? In general, applying reasonable pressure on certain boney areas, such as the sacrum, the dorsal of the foot, and the scapula can bring significant relief. However, there are places on the body that should be approached very cautiously, including the shin bone, the humerus, and the spinal area, especially the cervical spine, just to name a few. Is it ever okay to press the
Preface This book, two decades in the making, is the accumulation of all that I have learned in the study and practice of Thai Yoga Massage, beginning with six years at the side of my teacher, Asokananda, and continuing with fifteen more as founder of the Lotus Palm School in Montreal and teaching around the world. Like my own practice, this book is a reflection of Thai Yoga Massage—where it has come from and where it is heading. So many things have changed about Thai Massage and the world.
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