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Complementary
Health Therapist, Kinvara, Co Galway, Ireland.
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Indian Head Massage
Head massage is known in Hindi as "Champi" and has been with the Indian people for many generations. It concentrates just on the head and hair. Indian mothers would give a daily massage to their babies as part of a grooming ritual. They would stroke their hair as they grew to promote health and growth. The Champissage was part of every day life in the homes of many Indian women, and traditional Indian hairdressers would still use it today.
Indian Head Massage was introduced to the West by a man called Narendra Mehta from India. He trained in England in the 1970s as a Physical Therapist, he is also trained in Reflexology, Body Massage and Touch for Health. But through all this he began to miss the therapeutic value of his native head massage. On researching into various forms of massage, he decided to extend his known ancient native head massage to incorporate the shoulders, neck and arms and call it Indian Head Massage. His primary function for this was for stress relieve, yet over the years it's popularity has increased due to it's extensive therapeutic benefits.
Benefits of Indian Head Massage
Indian Head Massage helps stimulate nerve function and improve relaxation, bringing on an overall sense of calmness and well-being and an increases of alertness and concentration. It also helps to disperse toxins held in tense muscles, and help stimulate the circulatory and lymphatic systems. As you relax you breath deeper into the body supplying oxygen and vital nutrients to all cells. Some of the conditions Indian Head Massage helps to relieve are tension headaches; eyestrain; ear problems; neck and shoulder stiffness; sinusitis, scalp tension and mental tiredness.
What to expect
There are three stages to Indian Head Massage. In the first stage the area covered is the shoulders neck and arms. The second stage works on stimulating the head area, and the final stage works on the pressure points on the face and ears. Indian Head Massage is usually given in a chair.
I personally start this way but when it reaches the final stage I ask the client to move onto the therapy table. I find this final stage to be deeply therapeutic and this way the client can relax fully and often drift off into a little catnap. The therapy on its own lasts about 35 minutes. It is ideal if you just want something quick to revitalize you and de-stress you at the same time.
Why not try my own personally designed Ultimate Relaxation:
Indian Head Massage and Reiki combined
Indian Head Massage is a wonderful therapy in its own right. It is revitalizing and relaxing all in one yet I became dissatisfied with what I was offering. It felt more suited to an office, or busy city working environment where you might want to fit it in on your lunch hour. Which is fine, and can be very beneficial, but I felt that if you have allowed yourself that extra little bit of time to unwind in Kinvara then why rush it. I used to finish off the Indian Head Massage with five minutes of grounding Reiki, but one day thought why not extend this to make it a full hours treatment and combine the benefits of both treatments together. So that is what I do now and it has become very popular. I will of course still do Indian Head Massage on its own but at the same time see if I can't convince you to find those extra 25 minutes or so, for the complete stress releasing treatment - go on, you know sure you deserve it!
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Lara
O'Connell, Dip. Reflex. MNRRI.
Main Street, Kinvara, Co Galway, Ireland. Ph:+353 (0) 86 277 5212.
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