MARMA THERAPY SUCCESS on PHYSICAL and EMOTIONAL ABUSE Marma points are also called as HIDDEN or SECRET points. In this context, hidden or secret means that the points have the ability to hide emotional memories. Our body has specific places where it can store EMOTIONAL memories. Quite interestingly, our brain [...]
MARMA THERAPY AND THE BENEFITS OF MARMA THERAPY MARMA THERAPY is a 5,000-year-old Indian Ayurvedic practice and the main focus of marma therapy is the opening of energy channels for healing the body, mind, and spirit. The Sanskrit word "marma" actually means vulnerable point. Marma therapy harnesses the energies in [...]
USING AYURVEDA TO TREAT DEPRESSION The journey of life is a mix of the good times and bad times. During the good times, we are happy and excited. During the bad times, our lives can be full of anxiety, stress and depression. Sometimes in our lives, we have a [...]
The Clutching Feet Syndrome is a psychosomatic disorder whose development in time is the result of untreated and unintegrated emotional and mental trauma. "Psychosomatic" refers to both body and mind, and concerns physical symptoms that are caused by emotional or psychological turbulence. "Psyche" means mind and "soma" means body. Because [...]
My student Victoria’s question to me was: I am overweight, suffering from PCOS and have irregular menses due to the cysts. I am taking medication for PCOS. Can I heal myself through Ayurveda? What is PCOS? PCOS or Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome is a common condition among women in which the levels of [...]
Recently, I went out for lunch with a friend whom I hadn't met in a long time. The food was good but not really much on our minds after we got started. Mostly we just sat with each other catching up on what had happened since [...]
How Emotions keep us down We really do not think how emotions keep us down or stop us from growing or cause diseases. We all feel these emotions like frustration, anger in our system and we ignore these emotions that it really doesn’t matter and we put it [...]
In the following post, I share my student’s and my own experience of an impromptu 2–weeks Ayurveda Massage course in Pune, India. While we usually schedule massage courses during the non-monsoon season between October and April for Goa, we decided to go ahead and conduct an ayurveda course in Pune. [...]
In the following, we will have an experienced free-lance bodyworker/massage therapist and massage teacher from the San Francisco Bay Area in the US share his views on entering the profession as a bodyworker or massage therapist. Although market conditions and outer circumstances in India differ greatly from the conditions Art [...]
No doubt, visiting a spa has become popular in India. But if spas want to remain popular they will have to sharpen their profile. In the future not only will they need to appear as champions of tasteful interior design and superficial pampering. They will also need to become centers [...]
