Thai Yoga Massage

A dynamic, full body approach, Thai yoga massage blends body weighted acupressure & yoga stretches, without the use of a massage table. It is a floor based practice requiring a futon mat and the recipient, wearing loose fitting clothes, receives massage either lying down or seated.

This treatment is rhythmic with fluid motion of both practitioner and receiver to create a collaborative approach to bodywork, unusual in Western therapies.

Bend me, Shape me!

Approach

The therapist moves around you, using alternating pressure from their palms or thumbs to sink into the soft tissue with the support of their bodyweight, working up and down lines of the body to release tension holding pressure over any areas where tension is found.
Approach

Additionally, the therapist will also move and place you into stretches within your range of comfort or mobilise joints, serving to unlock you from head to toe.
Approach

Most sessions will start at your feet and though moves are performed to the entire body, any issues which you are looking to address will be focused on and any physical limitations or conditions will be adapted to.
Philosophy

By not focusing on an area in isolation, Thai yoga massage unites all parts of the body together to address musculoskeletal ailments as a whole, with the view that as humans create movement through multiple working components, treating issues as one unit will be of greater benefit.
Philosophy

Feeling discomfort in one area gives little indication about what other areas are compensating so treating the body holistically improves the chances of calming the system rather than just a part.
Mindfulness

A unique aspect to this therapy is its work on mental wellbeing, encouraging mindfulness and relaxation through intentional calming touch on the organs most affected by stress and nurturing manual therapy techniques, leaving you with a feeling of space, comfort and lightness.
Benefits

Thai yoga massage works on improving mobility through stretching to increase the flexibility and reduce stiffness of muscles and joints, assisting in articular alignment, stimulating neuromuscular pathways and circulatory systems whilst acupressure alleviates soft tissue tension, stress and its symptoms.
Benefits

Physiologically, there are also differences in being stretched by someone or something else (passively) or by yourself (actively), often allowing for a greater range of motion and proper technique as the participant is not required to generate force or strength to achieve the stretch.
Benefits

Applying massage to the whole body also becomes a great diagnostic tool as it highlights areas of tension perhaps unknown to the client, indicating what may require attention going forward.
Experience

As a receiver, giving into someone stretching you is definitely challenging as it requires you to trust your therapist and giving up your own body weight unreservedly is not as easy as you think. Be reassured you are never stretched beyond your comfort and the practitioner’s hold is secure.
Experience

The therapist moves within your space to perform these holds which can feel unnerving at first if you are more used to table based therapies but you soon forget this aspect as the technique becomes more familiar.
Origins

Thai yoga massage evolved from a synthesis of yoga, Ayurveda and meditation. The principle belief is that energy, gained from our food and air we breathe, circulates around the body through pathways. This style of massage seeks to unblock these pathways to bring about equilibrium.
Origins

The benefits of this type of massage are not reserved for yogis and the more spiritual among us, I was unaware of these principles when I first received this style of massage but I enjoyed it so much, I went on to train in it.
Origins

Balance is seen in Ayurveda as the key to healing the body. This is an ancient form of bodywork; when you receive this treatment, you are experiencing techniques which haven’t changed in 2, 500 years.

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Testimonials Hear from those in the know...

“For a start Thai yoga is not painful in the way that deep tissue can be. It’s very relaxing but invigorating at the same time. I like how I get all my muscles stretched in a passive way, so I’m not unwittingly holding other muscles whilst I stretch a particular one.

I can just relax everything else. I don’t feel like chatting through a Thai yoga session as I tend to zone out a bit, whereas a deep tissue I’ll chat away, partly to take my mind off the pain.”
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Judith Oak
Warfield
“A whole body experience, stretching muscles I forgot, or never knew I had.”

Stuart Perkins
Bracknell

Price List

Accepted methods of payment are all cashless. You can pay via debit/credit card, bank transfer, payment link or mobile payment.

Book

90 minutes

£75

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Thai Yoga Massage

Bend me, Shape me!

Approach

Approach

Approach

Philosophy

Philosophy

Mindfulness

Benefits

Benefits

Benefits

Experience

Experience

Origins

Origins

Origins

Testimonials Hear from those in the know...

Price List

Price List

90 minutes

Want more focus?