Hi E99
Is there a website for where you trained?
I use my Yam Khang (oil massage with the feet Northern Thai style) skills if I do a home visit and I'm working with a mat (far more portable than a couch, and I'm fit & flexible for floor work). I use a long wooden pole (as I can't obviously drill a hole in a client's ceiling) as a support. Agree with you about the pressures and techniques.
Best Wishes with your case studies (I would volunteer if I lived in London)
RP
The website is www.helennoakes.net If you email her to express an interest she'll let you know when & where she is next running a course. At some point I do hope to do some advanced traingin with her in Goa. The treatment that you do with your feet sounds good too.
I know a few people who are practitioners of Chavutti Thirumol and learnt the massage in Kerala, but I've never experienced it. I would like to have a treatment first so that I could see for myself whether or not it would suit me and potentially my clients.
I know it is a massage given on the floor, using the feet instead of hands using a rope for support. I have given some massage with my feet and I should imagine with a bit of practice they would become very effective.
It is good that training is available in London - though I wouldn't mind a trip out to Kerala to learn it there.
Love Binah
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I think you'd enjoy have a chavutti treatment. It a totally different experience.
It does take some getting used to the movements and moving your whole body like in a dance. Like anything with practice it's gets better.
I'm hoping to market this to new clients especially those involved with sports.
Hi E99
Thanks for the website
Cheers
RP
The main feature of 'chavutti thirumal' is that it involves strokes along the whole length of the body (which is why the client has to be undressed). It is not practical to do these long effleurage-type strokes on a clothed client !
I agree that 'chavutti thirumal' isn't practical for a mobile therapist. In my experience, the closest alternative therapy is the Hawaiian 'lomi lomi', which uses forearms rather than feet, and which has been discussed on four different threads in the massage forum.btw I wonder whether Daisy might have got more replies if she'd posted this thread under 'massage' rather than 'general therapies'?
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Alan
Better late than never! 🙂 Just spotted this suggestion, and the thread has now been moved to the Massage forum, with a redirect notice in General Therapies.
Holistic
Moderator
Hi Laura
Thanks for moving the thread ! btw I would be very interested in hearing how Essence99 is getting on with attracting clients. I have really enjoyed receiving chavutti thirumal but my reservations about training in it are broadly those which Daisy has already expressed: ie that many people are reluctant to try anything new !
Regards
Alan
Hi Laura
Thanks for moving the thread ! btw I would be very interested in hearing how Essence99 is getting on with attracting clients. I have really enjoyed receiving chavutti thirumal but my reservations about training in it are broadly those which Daisy has already expressed: ie that many people are reluctant to try anything new !
Regards
Alan
I'll let you know how I get on with getting new clients. My friends are willing and excited for me to pracitice on them which I hope to get started on next week. Some of my clients seem interested when I told them about my training. I have a few ideas for promoting it so the proof of the pudding will be how many clients I'll attract.