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Padabhyanga

Padabhyanga is an Ayurvedic foot massage practiced in India to strengthen nerves and restore health. The massage focuses on marma points to balance doshas and help with insomnia, fatigue, and cramps. Regular foot massage before sleep is believed to prevent disease and enhance health. Benefits include calming the mind, improving sleep, circulation, and foot health while helping conditions like sciatica. Massage oils like sesame can enhance effects and provide therapeutic properties and nourishment.

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Padabhyanga

Padabhyanga is an Ayurvedic foot massage practiced in India to strengthen nerves and restore health. The massage focuses on marma points to balance doshas and help with insomnia, fatigue, and cramps. Regular foot massage before sleep is believed to prevent disease and enhance health. Benefits include calming the mind, improving sleep, circulation, and foot health while helping conditions like sciatica. Massage oils like sesame can enhance effects and provide therapeutic properties and nourishment.

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Padabhyanga (Indian foot massage)

It includes massage of the feet. Feet are very important part in our body, as many
nerves from many organs terminate in the feet. So massage helps to strengthen
these nerves and restores health to many parts of the body. The marma (vital)
points are massaged which gives balance to your dosha and is very helpful for people
with insomnia, fatigue and cramps.

Foot massage is called "Padabhyanga", and it has a very special place within the
Ayurvedic tradition. It is helpful in the treatment of illness, and significantly
prominent in the area of preventative medicine. In India, Padabhyanga is commonly
practiced as a daily ritual, especially before retiring at night. There is a wonderful
ancient Indian saying:

"Disease does not go near one who massages his feet before sleeping, just
as snakes do not approach eagles."

India is a country of great diversity. The many dialects and melding of religious
practices have impacted upon the techniques and words that are used within
Ayurvedic practice. There are various methods of Padabhyanga. However, the
movement of energy is uniformly accepted as a focus for the foot massage.

 Benefits of Ayurvedic foot massage include:


o Helps to calm the mind
o Helps maintain eyesight and hearing
o Promotes quality sleep
o Improves peripheral circulation
o Aids foot health (alleviates pain, improves muscle tone and nourishes
the skin)
o Helps prevent sciatica
o Helps to calm and maintain the "Vata Dosha" which, when present in
excess, is regarded as the major cause of illness (Dosha is the name
given to a specific body temperament or energy type.)

The benefits of the massage may be enhanced by the choice of the massage oil.
Although the base oils that are commonly used have their own therapeutic
properties, they can also act as suitable vehicles for the addition of herbs and
essential oils to help obtain the required healing effect. Sesame oil is the most
commonly used oil for massage. It is rich in fat soluble vitamins, has a high mineral
content and has excellent keeping qualities. Sesame oil is a powerful antioxidant, is
easily absorbed and is very nourishing for the skin.

In parts of India a small bronze Kasa bowl is used in the massage routine. The bowl
is warmed (preferably in water), and the rounded surface is well oiled before
application. The skin surface is rubbed lightly and briskly in circular and lengthwise
directions to stimulate circulation and energy flow in the area.

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