Ayurveda Massage history, main characteristics, and benefits.

The Ayurveda Massage is one of the methods amongst the several and diverse technics of the traditional Hindu medicine known as Ayurveda. The Ayurveda is an holistic medical system that dates back beyond 5.000 years ago and which is still practiced with remarkable success. This millenary medical system is far away from the western´s medical approach were patient and illness are set apart and singled out. The Ayurveda is an holistic and integrated conception of the universe and human beings, were that known as illness, pain or whatsoever condition is actually a symptom, a warning sign, of an imbalance within our being. Such loss of balance affects our physical, mind and spiritual body and thus symptoms and conflicts develop and express through illnesses, which are susceptible of being brought back to harmony, or even attain and upgrade a new harmonious state of being by means of conscious healing. This paradigm radically differs from customary western medicine, the “patient” and his whole being is an active element both in the development of any disorder and in the process of healing from it. The Ayurveda Massage is a technique, a tool, to bring back to balance that which lost its inherent harmony. Furthermore, the Ayurveda deems illnesses or disorders as an opportunity, a door to a new state of consciousness of one self and thus a new equilibrium. “Ayur” stands for Life and “Veda” stands for knowledge, meaning Science of Life.

The massage comprises just one of the vast technics of the Ayurveda, from which also stand out meditation, healthy nutrition, medicinal herbs usage, and breathing technics amid further methods.                     

Our ever-growing rapid lifestyle leads us to ignore the messages of our body that warn us about our health and consciousness, thus we progressively accumulate high levels of tension and stress that gradually weaken and undermine our body, immune system and mind.

The Ayurveda Massage increases the circulation of blood and thus removing leftover and toxin accumulated in fleshy tissues, prompting an effective detox of the body, cleanest blood-stream and purest lymph. It alleviates ageing and fatigue, improves sight and sleep and strengthens stress endurance. Furthermore, it reduces the activity of free radicals, determining factor of cell aging, cancer, heart disease and related cardiovascular conditions. The massage acts upon the skin stimulating endorphins production, our own natural pharmaceutical that triggers relaxation and well-being.     

Benefits

Physical body

The massage relaxes, regenerates and invigorates muscles, tendons, ligaments and skin. It strengthens bones, removes excess and it is one of the most effective methods to purify the body. It encourages blood circulation draining fluid excess and toxins from the blood stream, lymph system and general tissue. Likewise, the massage is a front-line defense for the body as it boosts antibodies production reinforcing and toughening the immune system.

The massage is a successful routine against noxious sedentary or desk-bound lifestyle keeping adequate blood and lymph circulation and thus satisfactory immune system regeneration and detox from harmful excesses.

Emotional and mental body

The massage reinforces self-esteem, bolsters confidence, intensifies concentration, stimulates positive thinking, increases self-awareness and releases blocked emotions. Frequently, choked emotions have been present in our body developing as harmful concentration of toxins in tissues, muscles contractures or expressing throughout illnesses and health disorders; these emotion often find a healthy expression during the massage session. Subsequent to the emotional release, effortlessly surfaces a sense of wellbeing and happiness arising from understanding and completion of the emotional process. The Ayurveda Massage stimulates such emotional healing naturally. It also alleviates mental tension and stress resulting in a renew sense of clarity of mind.

Through kneading, rubbing and pressure, the Ayurveda Massage works over the circulatory, lymphatic and nervous system as well as over the energetic or subtle body, alleviating both physical and mental fatigue and invigorating resistance against health conditions.

Moreover, the Ayurveda massage is a superlative technique to induce profound meditation, both during and after the massage session.