Tall Guy Thai Massage
Traditional Northern Style Nuad Boran
AKA Thai Yoga Massage 

Thai bodywork is much different than what many think of as a regular massage therapy. It's more interactive, quite fun, and you can really feel the benefits afterwards! It can heal your body in ways you never would have imagined. Thai massage is a combination of assisted yoga, acupressure, and zen shiatsu. Along with working your muscles, it involves acupressure along your energy (sen) lines, and manipulating your body with passive stretching. This type of massage is very beneficial for people with back pain. You will leave our session feeling less tense, more energized, and ready to take on the world!

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Elements of Thai Stretching:

Thai bodywork looks like a cross between acupressure, yoga, and Zen shiatsu. The actual massage consists of a technique that uses slow, rhythmic compression and stretches along the body's energy lines. Thai stretching concentrates on applying pressure along 10 of the most important Sen using the palms of the hands, thumbs, elbows, and feet. The effort from the practitioner works to free tension within the body. Practitioners also position the body into yoga-like poses and gently rock the body to more deeply open joints and facilitate limbering.

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Stretching and range of motion:

 Americans like to call Thai Massage “Thai YOGA Massage”

 

Whole-body & four positions: 

Not just one part of the body but treats the whole, usually from feet to head. And usually in all four positions: supine, side-lying, prone, sitting. 

 

Sen line treatment:

(energy lines or meridians) 

The Thai way of treating the whole line rather than just specific pressure points. 

 

Jap sen:

Expect all practitioners to do ‘palming’, ‘thumbing’ and ‘compression’ and to use feet as well as hands and occasionally elbows, knuckles, and knees. 

 

Subtle energy work: 

A few practitioners do more subtle energetic/spiritual work aimed at affecting the over–all flow of energy/prana/chi around and through the person.

 

Pressure:

Thai bodywork gives practitioners a lot of leverage as they use their whole body, so they can easily apply a lot of pressure in their touch and movements.