Xavier Hlavacek offers you a variety of health and relaxation treatments, facilitating relaxation of the mind and body encouraging a state of harmonious, general well-being. Traditional Thai Massage. It is the result of a long ancestral practice of health and the reflection of a people's education. In the villages of Thailand or in structures such as the Hospital of Traditional medicine in Chiang Mai, it is used as a therapeutic practice combined very often with the pharmacopoeia.
Thus it looks like Chinese medicine which also applies a combination of treatments with medicinal plants and the massage and acupuncture points. Its founder, doctor and Buddhist was known under the name of "Jivaka Kumar Bhaccha", who lived there in the same era as Buddha, more than years ago. It is said that Kumar Bhaccha's followers came to Thailand during the same period as Buddha's followers around the second and the third century B.
Therefore the practice of Nuad Thai is connected to Buddhist traditions and philosophy. Theoretically, and due to its origins, Nuad Thai is closely related to the yoga philosophy and Ayurvedic medicine. The practitioners and receivers' positions are so similar to yoga poses that we, at times, call it Thai yoga massage.
The first aim of this practice is to get a harmonious circulation of body energy. As for the Chinese traditional medicine the vital energy is assimilated by the breathing and the feeding. It is concentrated near the navel and is dispatched into the body through the Sen, energy lines used in Nuad Thai, similar to Chinese acupuncture meridians.
It is performed with the patient dressed and on the floor. The practitioner uses pressure with his hands, feet, elbows, forearms and knees, as well as mobilizations and stretching.
