The Spa Travellers Diary

Through taking a 250 hour long teacher training yoga course  last year, I learned about and wanted to try thai massage.  I finally got a chance to have this unique treatment which combines yoga posses with gentle stretching and massage.  Thai massage is often referred to as the lazy man's yoga.  I discovered that it takes some skill and some level of physical dexterity for the therapist to perform this type of massage.  By the end of my session, the therapist was physically exerted.

I started simply lying on my back resting.  For this kind of massage you are wearing loose fitness attire and lying on a raised mat on the floor.  I could smell the sage which was burned to cleanse the air.  My legs were massaged up the zen lines and I was then placed into this tree pose (above).

Eri was the therapist.  She quickly positioned me into many posses that focused on flexibility of different areas of the body.  Some positions were exactly like yoga however, my body was also pulled and pushed and pressed into different positions.