Thai massage can be traced back in Thailand more than 2,500 years ago, when it was brought over from India by Shivago Komalaboat, a personal friend and physician to Buddha. The Buddhist order of monks and nuns found the practice to be healing and restorative, relieving many of their aches and pains. They valued and preserved the teachings, handing them down from one generation to the next.
The ancient Thai carefully recorded various states of disease and imbalances of the body, mind and emotions, and over time, devised methods for influencing the course of these imbalances. This was important because these imbalances often kept people from experiencing life in a full and productive way. If a Thai suffered injury or trauma, massage was the primary vehicle for rehabilitation.
Thai massage is an excellent alternative therapy for rehabilitation, pain relief and stress reduction. It is nurturing, calming and enlivening, and will expand your ideas of what bodywork can be.