Thai Yoga Bodywork
Description
What is Thai Yoga Bodywork?
Nuat Boran (Traditional Thai Massage) is an ancient healing art with roots leading back over 2500 years ago to India. It traveled and evolved with the Buddhist monks, preparing each other for long periods of meditation, embraced as a practice of loving-kindness. This healing art was eventually adopted in Thailand among the fisher and farmer populations and has evolved into one of the 5 primary branches of Thai Medicine.
This ancient form of bodywork has evolved over the centuries with other oriental medicines and has made its way into homes and healing practices around the world. Practitioners like myself have naturally added techniques from other modalities. While it may not be appropriate to use the term “Traditional”, the modality is often referred to as Thai Massage or Thai Yoga Bodywork.
Benefits
The session incorporates thumb and palm pressure, rocking, tapping, stretching, and guided breathing to stimulate energy flow throughout the body. Other benefits include:
- Softening of muscle tissue
- Release of facial adhesion
- Enhanced cardiovascular and lymphatic circulation
- Improved conductivity of the nervous system
- Disperse stagnation and harmonize the body-mind
- Increase flexibility & joint mobility
- Enrich your body’s innate abilities to detoxify and regenerate
What to expect from your session
Arrive to your session in loose, comfortable clothes (yoga clothes or sweat pants and a t-shirt), as Thai Bodywork is done fully dressed without the use of oils. The session is practiced on a memory foam floor mat, using professional body cushions for optimum comfort & mobility.
The first half of the session is generally spent warming up the body with rhythmic palm and thumb pressure along the Sen Lines of the body (energy pathways that follow fascial tissue, blood vessels, and nerve channels.) With the body warmed up and the energy channels stimulated, we follow up with sequences of stretches and range-of-motion explorations, which serve to increase flexibility and disperse stagnation that builds up in the various circulatory systems of the body from our modern repetitive lifestyles, stress, and trauma.
Throughout the session, gentle tapping and rocking are used frequently to disperse stagnation, settle the body into its natural alignment, help the muscles relax, and because it feels really, really good.
Longer sessions may include abdominal massage, extra flexibility training, and relaxation techniques about the head, face, and neck.
About Me
I’ve been practicing Thai Yoga Bodywork since 2003, alongside aromatherapy, whole foods catering, and teaching classes in food preparation. I believe in the value of bringing the sacred into everyday life by the simple choices we make in how we take care of ourselves and each other and what we offer back to the world.
My first training in Thai Massage was at Kalani Retreat Center on Big Island, Hawaii, with Michael Ceraso. After a year of practice, I began studying with Tanya Boigenzahn, of Devanadi School of Yoga & Wellness, in Minneapolis, MN. Over the years, I’ve completed 6 levels of Thai training. I’ve also received training in Shiatsu, Reiki, and other hands-on & energy-based modalities. While I incorporate techniques from these other modalities into my sessions, the holistic approach of Thai Yoga Bodywork is the foundation of my practice.
I currently offer Thai Bodywork sessions at my home studio in Guadalupe de Rivas, Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica, and am available to support retreat leaders worldwide. I’ve lived in Costa Rica for 14 years and am fluently bilingual.
Give yourself or a loved one the treat of this unique and profound therapy!
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Beyond my practice of the healing arts, I also have a passion for building cultural bridges and empowering regenerative projects to thrive. I do this through my podcast Regeneration Nation Costa Rica and my work as an Entrepreneur Consultant.
To learn more about the contributions I’m making to empower ecologically and socially beneficial projects in Costa Rica, visit https://regenerationnationcr.com.
Mallory Hightower
I located Jason Thomas through this platform as I was looking for a deep tissue practitioner near to me, who was going to be able to help me improve my physical relationship to my body, aches, pains and all; shoulder tightness, minimal range of motion, several issues around multiple foot surgeries, discomfort from having had a baby recently & all that brings.
Jason came to my residence, Yes he does house calls, for a 3 hour thai massage. I not only felt significantly improved after this session, I also really enjoyed his methods. Many of the movements are ones Ive never had any practioner use, and now I’m questioning why because they are often so simple but so effective. Since finding his services I’ve had Jason out for about a dozen sessions. I personally prefer the 3 hour slot because of how comprehensive it is and how improved I feel. He is definitely one of the best practitioners I’ve ever hired and I’ve easily had over 50 practitioners work on my body in the last decade, all around the world. Jason is in the top 3, and he is the #1 for his style in my book. I know when I feel something is wrong he can make it feel significantly improved.
I’m truly grateful I found Jason and his healing ways, he’s changed my body and it’s capacities in a relatively short amount of time. When he is providing the treatments I feel very comfortable to share other issues I have and Jason kindly provides any insight he can. I feel he’s like a guide of mine now.
In summary, Jason is a must know in the field. I know he is incredibly talented and that he can help you, too!