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Brighton teacher brings lazy man's yoga from Thailand "Not another type of massage treatment in Brighton!" you might well cry. But this is no ordinary massage. No, really. Thai Yoga massage is an ancient healing art that began its life thousands of years ago and has its roots in the traditions of Hatha yoga.

The treatment is applied in a meditative way along important acupressure points of the body. It doesn't just stretch the muscles it works the body energetically, improving the flow of energy along key pathways linking our chakras."some people call it lazy man's yoga," says Jane Newman a Brighton-based practitioner who studied Thai Yoga Massage in a hill tribe village north of Chiang Mai. "But you don't need to be flexible to do it because we can use props to help you. It's suitable for people of all ages."

Thai Yoga Massage was founded over 2,500 years ago by Jivaka Kumar Baccha - a physician from Northern India and a friend of the Buddha. The massage travelled with the spread of Buddhism, gaining influences from Chinese medical knowledge. When Buddhist monks and nuns migrated to Thaliand, they took the massage with them and used it as a means of preparing the mind for meditation and healing the body. It is still practised in temples in this way today.

The treatment helps to balance the body's energy system by combining stretches and acupressure on 10 main energy lines, or 'Sen'. The resulting free flow of energy helps to increase flexibility and mobility, stimulate the internal organs, relieve muscular and joint tension, enhance circulation and disperse toxins. "It's like the physical application of Metta, or loving kindness," explains Jane. "And it's performed when the practitioner is in a meditative state for maximum benefit."

~ The Insight City News, 2006

Wave Magazine, Brighton:

Thai Yoga Massage is an ancient form of massage that's been evolved to help the body maintain a free flow of energy by working to release blockages within the energy system. It's also incredibly relaxing.

Pressure is applied through light clothing while the body is worked through a sequence of gentle yoga-based stretches.

A member of the Wave team who attended a session with qualified holistic practitioner Jane Newman returned to the office feeling suitably enthused and blissed out.

What is particularly appealing about this therapy is that there is almost no effort on the part of the client, beacuse it's the practitioner who settles the body into the necessary poses. This makes it ideal for people with limited flexibility, or just those who want to feel utterly pampered.

~ Wave Magazine, 2006

The Argus, Brighton:

Traditional Thai Yoga Massage.

How was it for you? Less like a traditional western massage and more like applied yoga with acupressure, a Thai massage works the body through a number of yoga style positions.

In no time at all Janes gently guided my body into a multitude of weird and wonderful shapes allowing me to unwind from the 'hurry-sick' world of work I left behind. Sometimes she was kneeding my back with her feet or kneeling on my thigh, at one point her elbow was between my shoulder blades and at another my legs were somehow wrapped around hers...

The massage, for which you are fully clothed, really does stretch out all the body's muscles and I can see why its known as a lazy man's yoga. This soothing workout is a pure indulgence and the massage lasts longer than most other therapies you get in the UK. All in all it was a lovely experience and if I had a muscle of joint ache problems I'd book myself a session in a flash.

Value for money: £50 for a one-and-a-half hours or £60 for two.

~ The Argus Newspaper, 2006