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Sen Line Theory
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Hi everyone! This is a follow-up to an earlier thread started by Jo Jensen and replied to by various members including Enrique Dianti. The discussion was a sharing of interpretations and personal me…
Started this discussion. Last reply by Robert Henderson Dec. 6, 2009.
Three reasons for NOT showing compassion in massage
Again, this is something I'm just putting out there for you all to reflect on. It is not a suggestion to stop being compassionate in massage, it is simply a sharing of my understanding of the human c…
Started Oct. 3, 2009
Just who exactly do you massage in massage?
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Hi everyone! I've decided to throw this idea out to you all to see what your reaction is. I recently received an email from a fellow Thai Massage therapist in Cambridge, UK, who is on the point of s…
Started this discussion. Last reply by Robert Henderson Dec. 6, 2009.
To focus on anatomy in Thai Massage is to misunderstand Thai Massage completely.
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Thank you for welcoming me to the group, Pierce. I very much like the six points you set out on the 'homepage'. One additional thing I know from studying with both Pichest and Chaiyuth is the 'conne…
Started this discussion. Last reply by TaoMountain Sep. 18, 2009.
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Hi Alessandro,
The only thing I can advise you to do is to follow what your teacher has taught you to do.
My teacher taught me to start with the feet and after eight years it is still the way I start all my massages. However I do know that many of…
There are two very important points which tend to get over-looked in this commonly accepted female/left-side, male/right-side approach in giving a massage treatment.
1. The energy the therapist uses in the treatment is completely unquestioned.
By…
Hi Everyone,
In this discussion of types of touch, elemental-based treatment, Polarity Therapy and pulse-based disgnosis within the modality of Thai massage, can I just lend a voice to the more abstract and spiritual experience of energy work in Th…
Although my position within Thai massage is slightly different (I treat the underlying issue causing the manifestation which is the subject of diagnosis, hence I don't follow diagnosis), I am really delighted to see such width and depth of discussio…
Dealing with Stress & Energy Blocks in Thai Massage at Sunshine Massage School, Chiang Mai
December 21, 2009 at 9am to December 25, 2009 at 4pm
Join me this Christmas at the Sunshine Massage School, Chiang Mai, northern Thailand
for a great new five-day course:
'Dealing with Stress and Energy Blocks in your Client'.
This is a course for practising therapists who are becoming interested in,…
There is also the annnoying decision that every traditional Thai Massage school, who teach Farang, has to take in Thailand and that is....
If all our students are demanding references to anatomy and physiology, then what to do, what to do.
If we do…
This is a kind of double reply to the posts of both Nemir and Jo (above).
Again, it is interesting to read about the concept of Channeling coming from the Old Medicine Hospital. And again it falls in with my own (limited) experience of the masters…
It's great to hear that the Old Medicine Hospital says this, as it is also what I share with students in my 'Dealing with Stress and Energy Blocks in Thai Massage' class: the therapist does not heal the client, or in other words, massage does not he…
I like the idea of being a conduit. My personal definition of compassion has nothing to do with 'suffering with' another. Rather I feel compassion to be love flowing from above, through me to others. Being a conduit explains it perfectly, although a…
Interresting points indeed! Going back again to the basic 10 day course at the Old Medicine Hospital, the teacher Wasant explained that in the old days Thai people did not know about anatomy and physiology, all they knew was that pressing here helpe…
dear Robert,
One of the concepts i remember from the course at The old medicine hospital, is that massage does not, cannot heal, as it is not "medicine" , massage unblocks the energy by stimulating the SEN. The Prayer to Shivaka recited at the begi…
Gosh!
You have been on a journey, haven't you!!
I've never studied Polarity Therapy, not the thing you find in rural Ireland, but you never know, I might just end up somewhere and there it will be!
It's nice, though, to hear of all your experiences,…
Hello Robert:
Have you studied Polarity Therapy? This system is also based on Ayurveda and TTM. My Thai teacher did not discuss the boundaries of the energy lines, but to be fair the Thai class I have taken so far is only 30 hours.
As for the Thai…
Dealing with Stress & Energy Blocks in Thai Massage at Sunshine Massage School, Chiang Mai
November 30, 2009 at 9pm to December 4, 2009 at 4pm
Join me this winter (November & December) at the Sunshine Massage School, Chiang Mai, northern Thailand
for a great new five-day course:
'Dealing with Stress and Energy Blocks in your Client'.
This is a course for practising therapists who are beco…
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- What is your primary interest in the Thai healing arts? (Please provide a detailed answer.)
- As a tool to investigate the underlying methods of control by which the ego enslaves us and as a means to show and understand that pain is nothing but the physical manifestation of an untruth we hold in our body because it is something which we either believe in, follow, or live by. The ego, or the conscious mind, being the 'creator' of all energy blocks and pain we carry. When the untruth is released and the truth revealed, the pain disappears.
- What is your level of involvement? (Please provide a detailed answer.)
- Instructor, Professional, Practitioner
- What kind of Thai modalities do you have training in? (Please provide a detailed answer.)
- Thai Massage:
Multiple Beginners and Advanced Classes with Asokananda (2000-2003)
Teacher-training with Asokananda (2002 & 2003).
Certified to teach by Asokananda (2003).
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Instructor, Beginners and Advanced Thai Massage, New Zealand 2003
Instructor, Beginners Thai Massage, Lahu Village, northern Thailand (2003-2006)
Instructor, Beginners and Advanced Thai Massage, Sunshine Massage School, Chiang Mai (2005 to present date)
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Registered Thai Massage Master/Instructor, Thai Yoga Massage Association of New Zealand (750 hours training).
- Where/with whom have you studied? (Please provide a detailed answer.)
- Asokananda (2000-2003 in New Zealand, Thailand and UK);
Chaiyuth Priyasith (Chiang Mai, 2002)
Pichest Boonthumme, Hangdong (2003 & 2004)
- What are your other related or unrelated interests/hobbies? (Please provide a detailed answer.)
- Connecting with the true teacher inside through self-investigation and release of physical pain and energy blocks.
Connecting to spirit in nature and listening to the infinite wisdom contained therein.
Comment Wall (5 comments)
- At 6:28am on December 17, 2009,
Conny Smit said…
- Hi Robert,
Thanks for the invitation unfortunatly I have to do a visa run in that week so I have to miss out on your class. Maybe we'll meet somewhere here in Chiang Mai or in the future....
with Metta,
Conny
- At 11:40am on September 18, 2009,
Leah Pozorski said…
- thanks for the add Robert. The photo was taken in Orange beach Alabama in February. I grew up in south Texas and went to South Padre Island at every opportunity. After moving to Arkansas 4 years ago I realized I was feeling like a land locked mermaid. This is the closest nice beach to us (11 hours). It is so worth the drive.
- At 12:43pm on September 3, 2009,
TaoMountain said… - i don't know of a way to migrate a discussion from one place to another automatically. probably the best thing to do is for you to start a new discussion thread (under the FORUM tab), then cut and paste your opening comment in (or write something new) as the starting post. I can cut and paste mine or write something new after that. Let's see what comes of it.
Thanks.
- At 7:32am on September 3, 2009,
TaoMountain said…
- THis is certainly one of the most important "lenses" through which Thai massage can be seen, and one that i strongly emphasize in my upper-level theory courses. I wonder, however, how many Western teachers/students/practitioners are actually comfortable connecting and operating on this level. I've always found students to be enthusiastic about learning about this in class, but I wonder how much they employ spirit invocation or "divine vision" in their daily practice. Would be a great forum topic to get started.
- At 9:12pm on September 2, 2009,
TaoMountain said…
- Hi Robert. Good to see you on here. Thanks for signing up!
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