Marma Therapy
What is Marma Therapy?
Marma Therapy is a famous Ayurvedic practice that focuses on the light stimulation or manipulation of ‘Marma Points’ on the body. Marma Therapy helps restore the biochemical balance of your body. It also helps sustain the flow of energy throughout your body by cleansing the blocked energy. It improves your health from inside-out, making you feel relaxed and refreshed.
Marma Therapists may massage the marma points on the body using aromatic massage oils infused with herbs. This increases the benefits of Marma Therapy.
Treatments used in Marma Therapy:
There are a total of 107 Marma Points in the body. The mind is considered the 108th Marma. The treatment involves the stimulation of these 107 points:
- 22 marma points on your arms
- 22 marma points on your lower extremities
- 14 marma points on your back
- 12 marma points on chest and stomach
- 37 marma points on head and neck
Conditions treated by Marma Therapy:
Each Marma point affects a specific body part.
Janu marma which is located in lower inner point at the bottom of each kneecap affects the heart, liver and spleen and is used to treat the conditions that affect these organs
Talhridayam marma located in the palm of each hand affects lungs.
Indravasti marma located in the centre of each calf muscle affects the digestion process and small intestine