This treatment is wonderfully warming and soothing, ideal this time of year as a detox.  The heat causes the pores of your skin to open and the herbs go into the blood stream and circulate around the body to detox all toxins and waste that your body doesn’t need which causes sluggishness and letheragy.  The compresses are warmed in a steamer and then used on areas of need on the body.  If your shoulders are prone to tension and tightness then the warming compresses are used to loosten those tight muscles.

Ingredients used:  Ginger root, Kaffir lime, Turmeric, Lemongrass, Citronella, Tamarind, Camphor, Bush cherry leaf, Zeodary, Jewel vine leaf, Indian sarsaparilla, Acacia, Orchid tree, Grapefruit peel, Myrtle, Borneol (thyme), Sweet flag plant, Aloe vera, Zedoaria ocinnia grandic voight

BENEFITS

• Improves the circulation; as the massage and heat dilates the blood vessels enabling them to work more efficiently
• Aids the elimination of accumulated toxins and waste products through increased lymphatic circulation and detoxification provided by the heat / massage / herbs
• Deep relaxation of muscle and nerve fibres (helps relieve chronic pain arising from overuse injuries)
• Reduces tension through the heat and aromatic properties of the herbs used in the compresses
• Decreases inflammation in the tissues arising from muscular pain (thai compresses are typically applied to an injury site to assist healing
• Eases respiration through the use of aromatic herbal vapours
• Softens and nourishes the skin (many of the herbs used in the compresses have a nourishing, exfoliating and restorative properties to the skin)
• Restores the body vital energy flow (through the stimulation of the Sen lines)

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