Fundamentals Of Thai Massage

Thai Massage activates the body’s energy flow by stretching and deep knead. Thai Massage is called “Nuat Phaen Boran” and denotes old-style massage in Thai.

The fundamentals of Thai medicine is a holistic method, treating the human body, mind and spirit. Thai massage is one of the four limbs of Thai medicine. Additional subdivisions in Thai medicine are botanical medicine, diet and spiritual practice.

Thai massage has been practised for more than 2000 years in connection with the foundation of Buddhism in Thailand. The massage style was brought by the Indian monks who immigrated to the Thailand. Thai medicine was evolved in Buddhist monasteries and temples, where Thai have traditionally sought out for help with their complaints.

Thai Massage enhances flexibleness and mobility, taking awaymuscle ache and muscle spasms, better posture, tranquilize the nervous system and boosts a powerful sense of relaxation with an increased energy quantity, allowing reposing of deep emotional stress, stimulates blood circulation and lymphatic drainage, excites internal organs, palliates fatigue, swollen limbs, arthralgia and headache.

Thai massage is executed by lengthy, rhythmical compressions and extensions along the body’s energy lines. The Thai massager concentrate on the palms, thumbs, elbows and feet massage. The massager also places the body into yoga-like postures and sways the body lightly to open up joints and help reposing. A classical Thai massage comprises the following four cardinal sets: From the front with the patient lying on his back, from the side with the patient lying on the side alternately, from the back with the patient lying on his stomach, and lastly in a posing stance.

One of the most relevant rules of Thai massage is the continuous flow of serial movements that set the patient for the succeeding step in treatment. Absorbed, long pressure, connective tissue becomes softer and unstrains to release the flow of energy along energy lines to organize the patient for the stretching that accompany.

Source: Bjorn Lundberg, creator of Alternativmedicin, Fertilitet and Naturmedicin