A person visiting an Ayurvedic practitioner or therapist for the first time usually does not yet know much about the unique Ayurvedic art of healing that underlies it all. Nevertheless, the massage unfolds its effect: it leads to a "being touched", a feeling of well-being, a physical relaxation, a calmness or relaxation of the mind and thoughts, or an insight in the form of an "aha" effect of various kinds.
"I've never been touched like this before."
"I had the feeling you've always known me."
... were astonished statements from clients after an Abhyanga, the Ayurvedic full-body massage with warm oil. When a client opens their eyes again after an Abhyanga or a Mukabhyanga, the oil massage of the head, face, décolleté and shoulders in particular, it is often their astonished children's eyes from earlier days that remember their basic trust and security.
Elementary balance for physical and mental well-being
The secret lies in the quality of the touch, the therapist's open and 100% focused attitude towards the guest and the universal effectiveness of the elemental forces.
"Like strengthens like, opposites balance out too much or too little." Water extinguishes fire, warmth reduces cold, moisture cancels out dryness. This is also the case in Ayurvedic massage. The therapists treat dryness with oil, apply heat to cold sensations, calm excessive heat in the body with cooling and activate slowed physical processes with stimulating and metabolism-stimulating treatments. They treat immobility, such as blocked tissue and clogged physical pathways, with moving and releasing herbal oils and releasing techniques. The practitioners soothe those stressed by a too fast-paced life with a gentle and enveloping oil massage. They treat those hardened by grief and suffering with the qualities of softness and warmth.
As a result, after a treatment, clients experience a sense of what they are lacking. They receive a (first) compensation for what no longer allows them to be whole. They feel seen and understood and get an idea of the possible healing that their body and mind in particular need. This is what Ayurveda calls "holistic". Body, mind and soul are seen as a whole and deficiencies, but also abundance, in the sense of "too much", are balanced out.
Releasing and processing stored emotions through massage
Ayurvedic massage treatments are particularly effective for life crises and trauma (after the acute phase), stress and excessive demands, chronic pain, lack of self-esteem, fear of failure or lethargy and listlessness. According to Ayurvedic understanding, experiences are "temporarily stored" as emotions, as vibrations, in every cell of the human body. As a form of repression or lack of time to digest the experience. Ayurvedic massage with all its aspects, in combination with the "heart quality" of the therapist, is now able to reach and touch these deposits. The guest is able to return his undigested old burdens, stored as emotional vibrations, to a process. Be it in the form of feelings that are actually relived and thus processed, or the proverbial bursting knot, because a blockage is released and, for example, long overdue decisions can be made.
