Last January, I gave myself one of the best gifts ever: the Sarahpeutics Five Element Thai Massage Training. For seven wonderfully jam-packed days, I was deeply immersed in a wonderful introduction and VIP tour of the human body. We cultivated a healing touch, created a wonderful space for study, and tapped into thousands of years of knowledge to better understand our own body’s experience.

They’ve written up a wonderful introduction that I’d like ya’ll to read. There is another training coming up in LA on June 8-11 & 13-15. I highly suggest you take it! Mention my name (Daniel Scott) when you sign up for a special discount. I love the instructors– Sarah Yovovich and Sarah Vosen. In addition to being two of my best friends, I believe they are two of the most talented and intuitive bodyworkers I know. I don’t say that about everyone, nor would I care to.

Do this, feel better. I did, and you can, too.

More info can be found here: http://sarahpeutics.org/upcoming-courses/5ett/

ABOUT FIVE ELEMENT THAI MASSAGE:

To study Five Element Thai Massage is to gift yourself and your community the loving kindness of Thai massage, and the ancient wisdom of Chinese medicine. These practices will support your optimal wellbeing and maximum joy, for the rest of your life.

Why Thai Massage?

The Sarahs have studied many modalities of therapeutic massage, including deep tissue, hot stone, sports massage, swedish, myofascial, trigger point, lomi lomi, and shiatsu.  We find Thai massage to be the single most effective massage modality for facilitating healing. Because Thai massage is, most essentially, a meditation on metta – loving kindness — it does not require the memorization of complex sequences or anatomy to still be highly effective. When the healer holds a meditation on metta, for themselves, that love is transmitted to the receiver. The receiver’s relaxation is then felt and received by the giver, so that a feedback loop of relaxation is created between giver and receiver.

Because Thai massage is done on a mat, using bodyweight, leverage, and patient presence, this meditation is actually healing for the giver. Thai massage is a gentle asana practice, with breath work, lunges, toe stretches, hip openers, and even gentle backbends – for both the giver and receiver. This is unique in our experience of massage modalities, which usually physically deplete the giver.

What is this Five Element thing?

The Five Element system is a key to unlock the ancient mysteries of Chinese medicine, to make them available for our modern everyday health and wellbeing. Five Element theory uses imagery and symbolism to link physical ailments with emotions, behaviors, internal organs, lines of energy along the body (called meridians), and also with the forces of nature. We are amazed at the power of Chinese medicine to effect sophisticated cures, described in very simple terms. The language of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water is powerful because it is not scientific; rather it is a symbolic language that evokes images more than single events or anatomical parts. It provides the synergy that we, as Western analytical thinkers, crave and need.

So what do you get when you combine the Five Element system with Thai massage?

Five Element Thai Massage is a unique modality that uses touch and listening skills to diagnose and treat physical ailments, and the patterns that create them. Our Thai massage flows and therapeutic flying balance the energetic meridians in the body. With practiced diagnosis, Five Element Thai Massage can be used to treat many common ailments, such as chronic headaches, coughs, fatigue, joint pain, menstrual pain, stress, indigestion, anxiety, and depression. Because no healing journey can be completed without the receiver committing to their own proactive process, we teach behavioral and nutritional concepts to support the bodywork, and how to coach your receiver in those supports, for a holistic healing framework.

Why do you teach this?

Just as a Thai massage practitioner is inspired to greater relaxation by their receiver’s relaxation, we, as teachers, are inspired to greater healing and learning by our students’ journeys. As more people commit to their health and happiness, the vibration of our human community is elevated. The ripples of this work extend far beyond our time together in the classroom.