15 December 2019
Massage in Nepal
It feels great to have a massage, right? Massage not only relaxes your muscles; it also has many health benefits. You feel different after a massage because massage helps heal and revitalize tired or aching muscles. It also aids in increasing blood circulation and assist in lymph movement, both of which supply nutrients and oxygen throughout the body and remove the toxins and waste.
We all know massage has been in practice for centuries. At present, if you want a massage, you can select from about eighty massage therapy styles with a wide variety of pressures, movements, and techniques. Mostly, massage involves pressing, rubbing, or manipulating muscles and other soft tissues with hands and fingers. Occasionally, even performed with forearms, elbows, or feet.
- Benefits of Massage
Generally, massage is considered to be part of complementary and integrative medicine. Nowadays, it is usually offered with general treatment for a variety of medical conditions. Study shows that massage not only relaxes your body but also is effective for reducing stress, pain, and muscle tension.
Massage also helps in working out:
- Anxiety
- Digestive disorders
- Fibromyalgia
- Headaches
- Insomnia related to stress
- Myofascial pain syndrome
- Strains or injuries to soft tissue
- Sports injuries
- Temporomandibular joint pain
Looking at the current scenario of Massage in Nepal, we have listed out the different types of massage you can get in Nepal along with its benefits.
- Aroma Therapy
Aromatherapy is a complete healing treatment that uses essential oils extracted from various plants to promote health and well-being. It is also referred to as an essential oil therapy. It helps to enhance both physical health and emotional health.
The natural oils used for this therapy not only has a powerful therapeutic effect but also relieve stress and anxiety, improve sleep quality, boost immunity, and much more.
- Shirodhara
Shirodhara is a traditional massage therapy that is used to calm and restore the nerves and purify the mind. This therapy is an ancient Ayurvedic therapy where warm oil is poured continuously over the forehead to concentrate the nervous system.
Shirodhara, through the use of mediums like oils, ghee, and buttermilk makes the head region strong so that the entire body works smoothly.
Shirodhara also resolves Insomnia, Jet lag, mental disorders, nervousness, and much more.
- Hot stone massage
A hot stone massage is a massage therapy used to aid tense muscles to relax and heal damaged soft tissue throughout the body. During this massage, smooth, flat heated stones are placed on various parts of your body. These stones are usually made of basalt, which is a volcanic rock that retains heat.
Hot stone massage helps to relieve muscle tension and pain, reduce stress and anxiety, promote sleep, boost immunity, and is also known to cure some cancer symptoms.
- Deep Tissue Massage
Deep tissue massage involves applying firm pressure and slow strokes to reach a deeper layer of muscle and the connective tissues that surrounds muscle. It is mostly used for chronic pains and contracted are such as a stiff neck and upper back, low back pain, leg muscle tightness, and sore shoulders.
- Ayurvedic Therapy
Ayurvedic massage is a therapeutic massage that uses essential oils to maximize your sensory experience and release the emotional burden and restore a sense of balance and harmony.
Ayurvedic therapy improves the immune system of the body, strengthens the body, and helps for good night sleep, helps to beat. For children, it encourages their growth and rejuvenates elderly people.
- Swedish Massage
Swedish massage is done to relax the whole body. This is done by rubbing the muscles with long gliding strokes in the direction of blood returning to the heart. Swedish massage uses circular pressure applied by the hands and palms, firm kneading, percussion-like tapping, bending and stretching.
Swedish massage is famous for releasing stress, numbness, pain, and constipation.
- Thai Massage
Thai massage includes the use of knee, foot, and elbow. Unlike most massage, Thai massage is performed while you are fully clothed, generally on a padded mat on the floor.
Unlike the relaxing gliding and kneading motions features of famous massages, Thai massage involves stretching, pulling and rocking techniques to relieve tension and enhance flexibility and range of motion
Thai massage is renowned for its benefits like relieving tension, reducing back pain, relieving muscle pain and joint stiffness, increasing flexibility, calming the nervous system, and boosting energy.
- Reflexology
Reflexology is a massage involving different amounts of pressure to the feet, hands, and ears. It is said that these body parts are connected to various organs and body systems, which helps to calm the nervous system, promote relaxation.
The benefits of reflexology include a boost of the immune system, fight cancer, cure colds, and bacterial infection, clear up sinus issues, and many more.
- Body scrub
A body scrub is a famous body treatment, which is basically facial but even used all over the body. It exfoliates and hydrates your skin, making it smooth and soft. A body scrub is usually done with sea salt or sugar mixed with some kind of massage oil and an aromatic like essential oils.
Body scrub helps to glow the complexion and rouses new skin growth.
- Four Hand Massage
Four hand massage is a type of massage which is performed by two persons working at the same time in beat with each other. You will feel as if you are getting a massage from a single person.
The renowned benefits of this massage are: it eases muscle pain by using various pressure point work and deep tissue techniques and stimulates the blood circulation.
- Traditional Newari Massage
Newari Massage has been in performance for thousands of years in Nepal. It is mainly popular among Newar Community in Nepal. This massage is done using a variety of herbs and essential oils in the base of pure mustard oil.
This massage gives you the deepest relaxation and also strengthens the core. It also helps to increase immunity, heal body pain, and nourish the skin.
- Trekker’s massage
As the name suggests, this massage is very helpful for trekkers and even athletes. It helps in the prevention of soft tissue injuries.
This is a combination of Ayurvedic massage, deep tissue massage, and stretching, which prepares your body for trekking or sports activities and also ease the muscles after activities.
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