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"Thai massage (also called Thai yoga therapy) will give you an experience of your total body. You can think of it as acupressure and shiatsu combined with stretches and yoga asanas. It will strengthen you physically and harmonize your energy, allowing you to open to new life experiences.
"Thai massage works on the major meridians, also called energy lines or nadis, which run throughout the human body. It reconciles the body to and within itself, loosens energy blockages, and re-vitalizes deficiencies along the energy lines. Thai massage stimulates the acupuncture points of traditional Chinese medicine with healing touch. Pain and stress are reduced, and life energy, or prana, can freely and joyfully circulate.
During the session I will move, loosen and stretch your body: feet, legs, hands, arms, torso, head; all at once and one section at a time. You can relax completely into the experience and allow your body to be moved. |
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"I will also practice metta meditation throughout the session, sending you the gentle and calm energy of lovingkindness, which you may draw into your body and your Self. You can be nourished on many levels.
"To receive a Thai massage you will lie fully dressed on a pad on the floor. (I recommend that you wear loose, non-binding clothing.) Every technique of Thai massage is designed to support me as well as you, so that my movements flow without effort and you are carried in that flow."
Tom's Thai massage training is with Kam Thye Chow of Lotus Palm School in Montreal, where he is also studying the application of Ayurveda to Thai yoga therapy. |
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give up
to grace.
the ocean
takes care
of each wave
till
it gets
to shore.
--rumi |
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