WHAT IS MARMA MASSAGE THERAPY
As per 5,000-year-old healing practice from India, Ayurveda, Marma Massage Therapy is a gentle stimulation of vital energy points on the body where muscles, veins, ligaments, bones, and joints meet. Through these junction points, 72,000 energy channels called ‘Nadis’ pass, which act like roadways to transport oxygen or ‘prana’ in our body. When oxygen cannot flow easily due to stagnation, we feel dis-ease. With gentle stimulation on these energy points, prana can flow freely by increasing blood circulation, resulting improved digestion, better sleep, stress reduction due to mental clarity, immunity boost, and many more health benefits.
Is Marma a regular massage?
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While a regular massage can be focused on releasing tension related to muscles using oil or other lubricants on the skin with continuous strokes, Marma Massage Therapy can be done over your clothes except when working on your belly for your gut health. Oil can be used with your permission on particular areas like belly or neck. This massage technique involves a gentle but firm pressure on vital points on your body to let free flow oxygen in that area, helping you feel relieved.
Is it painful?
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Each individual body responds to any healing modality differently at first. You get to decide your tolerated pressure during the session. While some areas may feel more sensitive due to stagnation, we slowly open the area up without pushing pain points.