How to Give an Ayurvedic Body Massage

Transcript At an Ayurvedic spa, or an Ayurvedic healing center, there’s many treatments that are available. First, we’re talking about Ayurvedic massage. In Ayurvedic massage, there’s Abhyanga. There’s Marma massage. There’s Pinda Swedena. There’s Garshana. There’s Udvarta. There’s Nasya, Karmapordiva, and others. All these sessions are designed to bring balance to the recipient. And these …

Transcript Hi. My name is Lara Narayani Golland and I’ve been doing massage and healing work for about twenty years. I realized that my life was here to serve a higher purpose in my early twenties. I found that massage was a great way to get started in order to help people to feel good, …

Transcript The ancient science of Ayurveda goes back five thousand years. Ayurveda is rooted in the teachings that all life is connected. We are not separate from nature and we are not separate from each other. The gift of this teaching in our modern world gives us an opportunity to re-harmonize ourselves, our bodies, our …

Transcript In Western massage, Swedish massage, deep tissue massage, what we think of as our modern massage that we get at spas or that we get at the chiropractor that we get through our local practitioner, we are looking often at getting specific treatments for specific ailments that we’re having. Oh, your back hurts, so …

Transcript So if I was looking for a center, personally, to get Ayurvedic massage, I would like a center where I know that the people are certified and have really studied Ayurvedia. What you’ll find in the west is centers that have Ayurvedic practitioners, are going to also support your healing from a perspective of …

Transcript Ayurvedic Massage Therapy is effective for treating many different ailments and many different conditions. But unlike other massage therapy Ayurveda looks at the lifestyle of the person being treated and doesn’t just look at the massage to do everything. Ayurveda puts the responsibility of the healing in the client in the procedure of the …

Transcript Four handed massage is the traditional Ayurvdeic warm oil massage that’s done in panchakarma treatments. Panchakarma is talked about in another video, but for the purpose of this video, we’re going to do a demonstration to show how four handed massage is done on the body. So, I have my assistant Amora, and we …

Transcript Ayurvedic massage is great for babies. It’s so effective for babies. It’s said traditionally that if babies get massage, starting at birth, that babies will grow faster and be healthier. Babies will bond more quickly with their mom. Babies will have a quicker healing. So wonderful for babies, I recommend everybody massage their baby. …

Transcript So Marma massage is rooted in working on all the marma points in the body. In Ayurveda, there are a 107 marma points in the body from the head to toe. And working on the marma points is said to balance, clear, and harmonize all the systems of the body. And like acupuncture in …

Transcript We are going to do a self-massage demonstrating, and I’m going to teach Andreas how to do self-massage. First, you are going to use the sesame oil, and if possible the oil is warm. If you live in a warm climate, you can have it out in the sun for a little while. You …

Transcript In Abhyanga or Ayurvedic massage, we are offering our clients types that is very specific for them. Unlike Swedish massage or deep tissue massage that actually treats specific ailments, we are looking at the whole person as a person. So in this video, I’m going to be demonstrating three types of touch that we …

Transcript So, for Ayurvedic face massage, I’m doing a combination really, of aroma therapy and marma. I’m going to put a few drops in my hand, and then I’m going to use my ring finger. Take a little bit, on the tip, and I’m going to place on her marma points, on her face with …

Transcript So when doing gharshana, we use these raw silk gloves. They are really good for the energy field of the body in that they help to neutralize the energy field. And then on the physical form, basically getting into a nice scraping supports detoxification of the skin and helps to prepare the legs for …

Transcript For Ayurvedic foot massage, I’m going to using warm oil, and I’m going to apply it in circular motions to the feet, both at the same time. I like as much as possible to do the massage with both hands at the same time, for balance, balancing the yin and the yang, so to …

Transcript So for Ayurvedic abdominal massage, there’s many ways that you can do it, the most important thing is that you do it, because in Ayurvedic massage we’re using lots of oil, and the oil is going into the body, and what’s it doing is to help toxins come out of the body through the …

Transcript I’m going to explain in this video how to set up for Shirodhara, as well as how to do the pour for Shirodhara. It’s important to have a plastic strip. Voila. I will place this under the head of my client. Relax. I will place a rolled towel underneath her neck. Lift your head. …

Transcript Shirodhara is Ayurvedic treatment that is done for treatments during after Panchakarma, as well as for general healing of the mind, and aligning that with the emotions and the spirit. Shirodhara is the warm oil drip, as you see in the treatment. Shirodhara oil is poured through the vessel, and it streams out in …

Transcript For the purpose of this video, we’re going to do a brief one pour demonstration for the Shirodhara session. Usually, there’s a pour and then there’s a continuous heating of oil, and it flows through the system, either manually or with a machine.This is a manual Shirodhara setup. So, in preparing to do the …

Transcript So working on the legs using warm oil I will pour some of the oil into my hand. How’s that temperature? Is that okay? Pour it on the legs. And then return the oil. And go right into applying long, flowing stroke. And then begin doing squeezing techniques. Make sure as with doing all …

Transcript Like massaging other parts of the body with Abhyanga warm oil massage, we will be using sesame oil on the legs and doing a nice drip followed by a rubbing in of the oil. Making sure that the stroke is long, starting from the foot going all the way up to the hip, around, …

Transcript In this video I’m going to demonstrate using oil for a scalp massage, and doing some marma points for opening up the energy in the head, and for helping to relax the mind. So this is warm sesame oil, and I’ll apply a little bit to my hand, make sure the temperature is good, …

Transcript I’ve just put the oil on the hand of my client, and I’m going to lift up the hand, being mindful of the energy of the client, making sure that she is relaxed, kind of doing a little shaking, so that there is a letting go of the hand into mine, and I will …

Transcript And working upward along the spine, I transition into the shoulders. And I circle the shoulders. And I like to work underneath the shoulder blade from the opposite side. So that the same side stroke for the low back, I’m using to pull up. And this is good for the lymphatic system. And it …

Transcript So in doing this back sequence, there is usually a focus in ayurvedic massage, where we are working on the whole person and not just the parts. So, for the sake of the instruction, we’re going to breaking down the low back and the shoulders. Usually in doing ayurvedic massage, specifically abhyanga, which is …

Transcript Doing Abhyanga, doing warm oil massage, there’s many ways to heat your oil. I have here some examples of products to use for Abhyanga, which is Ayurvedic warm oil massage. I have here a nice essential oil blend. I like the Ajara Ayurvedic Beauty. There are many choices for essential oils to use in …

Transcript So, when preparing your space for Ayurvedic massage, it’s nice to have a clean, natural colored sheets and set up. We want to create harmony and peaceful vibrations in the space. So I’ve chosen this natural cotton color for the set up. And for the oil we want to also, of course, use natural …

Transcript Panchakarma is the cleansing system from India that’s designed to detoxify as well as rejuvenate the body and mind and spirit. Panchakarma is rooted in the science of Ayurveda and is related to integrating our unique constitutions with our collective consciousness. The root cause of, according to Ayurveda, the root cause of disease is …

Transcript When give Ayurvedic massage it’s important to tune into your own energy and life fore. In Ayurveda it’s called prana. Prana, I’ve been told, is the space between the cells. It’s a very subtle energy that comes from the ether element and is connecting to life force. We understand in Ayurveda that doing massage …

Transcript The principal of dosha is rooted in understanding the unique element combinations in the body. For ayurvedic massage, we like to understand people’s doshas and the dosha elements in order to provide a session and treatment that matches the needs that are unique to the client. Doshas, many people of heard of, Vata, Pitta, …

Transcript Prana is the vital life force in the body. Prana is the subtle energy that makes up all of creation. In ayurveda, there are also sub-pranas. Sub-pranas are related to the different winds in the body and the directional flow of our energy systems. The first prana is the prana, called little P prana. …

Transcript The first stroke is what I call the flowing stroke. And so for flowing, its long strokes using both hands; it could be hand over hand. And this helps to just start to move the limb, and to increase circulation in the surface of the skin, and, of course, begin to warm the tissues …

Transcript Ayurvedic Massage is basically a massage that’s rooted in teachings from India. So in India, massage a huge part of the life, the culture, the society, the healing and massage is done through pregnancy, during birth, during all stages of life. And massage is done as a healing modality to support rejuvenation, detoxification in …