Ayurveda has originally been created as a medical system. However, in modern circumstances, it is often used as SPA-therapy. Ayurvedic SPA procedures revive the skins elasticity, remove stress and tiredness, and improve the overall state of the organism and its ability to fight illnesses.

Today there are many author methods, which adapt Ayurveda for use in SPA-centers and beauty salons. Usually, they have a complex approach, which combines traditional SPA-procedures with the use of special Ayurvedic cosmetics and Ayurvedic massage.

Ayurvedic massage combines the effect of plant and essential volatile oil, manual manipulations, and also, energetic and emotional influence. The massagist works with the energetic canals and meridians, therefore great importance is placed on the expertise of the massager, who usually practices yoga and meditation.

There are different kinds of Ayurvedic massage, each of which has its own features and solves certain problems. For example, during a dhara massage, a mixture of aromatic oils and milk with healing herbs is poured on the forehead of the client. It removes stress and relieves headaches, and also improves skin quality.

Sometimes oil is poured on the forehead, the head, or the body. However, no matter what technique of massage is used, warming and relaxing Ayurvedic procedures are very pleasant and useful.

The Ayurvedic cosmetics, which are used in massage, are a real natures Drugstore. All preparations are natural: honey water, pineapple gel, almond oil, and creams with extracts of a coconut, quince, Muscat, peach, papaya, dandelion, sandal-wood tree, wheat, and saffron. You can try the most impressing SPA-procedures in the Palestra SPA-club. One of them is called Keralla detox.

Doctors of the Southern Indian state of Keralla say that detoxication is the first step to becoming slim and rejuvenated. This procedure should be conducted at least once or twice a year for preventive maintenance. Palestra has developed the Keralla detox» together with the National Institute of Ayurveda in Keralle.

The program is divided into two parts: home procedures and procedures that need to be done by a SPA-therapist (two days in a week). On the first meeting, the expert of Ayurvedic therapy defines your type by using the Ayurvedic table of attributes, chooses procedures, prescribes a diet and explains how to use tablets, teas, and spices.

After this, a yoga and pranayama expert chooses an individual home program, which needs to be done every day. Experts will conduct classical Ayurvedic procedures: abyanga, shirodhara, svedana, and udvartanam twice a week. The set of procedures of for different types of people is very different.

For example, for Vatta people (air, nervous types), in the SPA-program, there is more massage and less sauna and herbs. Seven procedures of Shirodhara (massage of the third eye with warm oil) is a cure for excessive anxiety, depression, and insomnia.

For a Pitta type, who suffers from irritability, allergies, stomach problems, we use baths, which reduce emotional irritation and irritation of skin, procedures for clarifying skin, and various types of massages with healing oils and herbs.

For the Kapha-type, who is inclined to weight gain, apathy and melancholy, the program consists of herb sauna, peelings, intensive massage and other invigorating procedures. For home use, the person gets herb tablets, herb teas, spices, and also a set of yoga exercises and prana breathing exercises, which need no more than twenty minutes in day.


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