Body Therapies

The body therapies of Ayurveda are quite unique.  The pictures and descriptions below will give you a sneak preview into this beautiful world.  These therapies are inherently infused with love.  In Ayurveda the use of warm medicated oils inside and out are abundant.  The word for this is Snehana which means oil therapies.  Interestingly enough, this same word also means love.

Pricing:

Ayurveda often combines more than one treatment at a time.  When combining treatments, take $5 off each treatment.

Purchase a package of 4 of the same treatment and take $10 each treatment, save $40!

Gift certificates available.

24hr. notice required for cancellations please, otherwise full payment is appreciated.

Abhyanga – Ayurvedic Massage

A massage like no other.  Traditionally administered by two skilled practitioners and their four hands in a specific choreographed routine designed to move lymph, assist in toxin removal, nourish tissue and joints, while allowing the mind to let go.

Pricing:
2 person 60 minutes – $130
1 person 90 minutes – $130

Shirodhara

This wonderful treatment can stand alone, but is most enjoyed following an abhyanga massage, when your mind and body will be most relaxed and prepared to receive. 

Warm, herbal oil streams steady over your forehead while you slip into a liquid meditation. It is deeply relaxing and dissolves accumulated stress from the mind and nervous system. Your pituitary and hypothalamus glands will be encouraged to come into balance. Your 3rd eye point will be relaxed and receptive, receiving guidance more clearly.  Your hair will be soft and luxurious as an added bonus from the warm oil treatment!

Pricing:
60 minutes – $95

Svedana – Herbal Steam

Purify your skin and the channels of your body while deeply relaxing.  Herbal steam fills the tent, heating up your core, while your head and neck stay cool. 

Svedana is followed after an Abhyanga  massage.  Your muscles relaxed and body oiled allows the steam treatment to deeply nourish and moisturize as it detoxifies.

Diaphoretic herbs in the steam include: bay leaves, nettles, rosemary, peppermint, lavender, chamomile and sage.

To have the best experience, please hydrate well starting 3 days prior to receiving a steam, as well as, taking in electrolytes.  Consider drinking coconut water or Emergen C to help assure that you will feel your best after experiencing this wonderful treatment.

Pricing:
30 minutes – $50

Bliss Therapy

Set aside some time for yourself.  Combine the Abyhanga massage, with a Shirodara, ending with Svedana herbal steam.  Blissed!  The oil on your skin makes the steam treatment less depleting and more nourishing.  The ultimate treatment that lives up to its name!  Ideal during a cleanse or just when you need rejuvenation.  Truly a therapy for the body, mind and soul.

Pricing:
Approx. 2 1/2 hrs – $260  

Radiance Therapy

Combine Abhyanga massage and Shirodhara to deeply relax and re-set your mind, nervous system and body.  Excellent when feeling stressed out or burned out.

Pricing:
Approx. 2 hours – $215

Dough Basti

This series of treatments utilizes a vessel created out of a chick pea flour dough.  This dough ring is placed over the area to be treated.  It is a very quiet therapy that allows for deep healing and contemplation.

Penetrating warmth of herbal oils, milks, and sometimes essential oils bathe the area affecting both the physical and energy bodies with profoundly loving attention for deeper transformation and healing.

Svadishtana 2nd Chakra Basti

Women may have a variety of reasons to want to nourish this belly area, such as, reproductive issues, infertility, postpartum, libido issues, sexual abuse, lack of creativity, inflammation of the bladder, uterus, or ovaries. 

Pricing:
60 minutes – $95

Manipura 3rd Chakra Basti

The dough ring is placed over the belly button.  Warm, medicated oil pools over this energy center bringing balance and emotional release, paving the way for love and self-esteem.  This treatment also benefits digestion, absorption, IBS, flatulence, constipation and abdominal pain. 

Pricing:
60 minutes – $95

Heart Basti

This therapy utilizes an herbal, warmed milk infused with specific herbs for your particular situation.  The healing decoction pools over the heart affecting both the physical heart and the emotional heart.  Physical challenges may include angina, heart palpitations, congestive heart failure, and dry respiratory challenges. 

Emotional challenges may include grief, an inability to give or receive love, bitterness from past hurts, fear of being hurt again, a broken heart.

Pricing:
60 minutes – $95

Thyroid Basti

This therapy will be designed to stimulate the endocrine system for hypothyroid or to relax, soothe and deeply nourish for hyperthyroid.  Aids in hormonal balance and well being.  Affects both the physical glands within the throat area, as well as, the energetics that govern expression and speech.

Pricing:
60 minutes – $95

Netra Basti

Eyes are the windows to the soul.  Our eyes are the connection between the outer and inner worlds.  

No one wants to look tired, but often times we can’t help it.  Too much time on the computer?  Are your eyes dry? 

Netra basti uses triphala, rose and chrysanthemum infused into a lovely medicinal ghee.  Your eyes will feel wonderful and relieved afterwards.  Benefits include; strengthens eye muscles, improves eyesight, reduces redness and lubricates.  Triphala nourishes the nerves and tissues, cleanses and helps with the functioning of the eye muscles, eyelids and proper tearing.  Rose and chrysanthemum soothe and cool tired eyes.

Pricing:
60 minutes – $95

Kidney/Adrenal Basti

Begin to restore your body’s vital life force energy.  The kidneys house our vital energy.  Adrenals work overtime to the point of exhaustion. This treatment gives the kidneys and adrenals deserved care, respect and acknowledgment.  

This therapy helps to balance life in the fast lane, filled with stress, busyness, responsibilities, overwork, and burnout.

Pricing:
60 minutes – $95

Kati Basti – Lower back

Indicated in relieving chronic back pain in the lumbar or thoracic spine.  If you’ve had back surgery this brings healing to a traumatized area.  Increases circulation to that region, nourishing and relaxing muscles and nerves.

Relieves tension, spasms, degenerative problems and helps to restore flexibility.

Pricing:
60 minutes – $95

Nasya

The nose is the doorway to the brain and to consciousness.  Prana, life force, enters the body through the nose.  Prana in the brain maintains optimal sensory and motor function.  Prana  governs mental activities, memory, concentration and intellect.  Decreased prana creates defective functioning of all these activities and produces headaches, convulsions, memory loss, reduced sensory perception, and migraines. 

Nasya is also indicated for sinus congestion and benefits the ears and eyes. 

Includes a facial massage series, moist heat, medicated oils and essentials oils to open and clear sinuses in preparation for an oil application into the sinuses.

Pricing:
60 minutes – $95

Enema Basti

This is a very discreet, comfortable and relaxing therapy.  More and more colon upsets are becoming all to common.  Healing properties of herbs are readily absorbed and available to the system via the colon.  

Anuvasana Basti – Nourishing Oil Enema

One of the fastest ways to ground your energy, as the home of Vata in the body is in the colon!  This treatment introduces a small amount of warmed, medicated oil into the colon, ideally being held within for longer durations.  Soothe dry tissue and support this vital organ.  The bones, Vata’s second home are also nourished with this treatment.  

Indicated for; dryness, constipation, chronic fever, sexual disorders, kidney stones, backache, sciatica, Parkinson’s Disease, after colon hydrotherapy.

Pricing:
60 minutes – $85

Niruha Basti – Cleansing Enema

This treatment introduces a warmed herbal decoction into the colon.  Ideally held for 30 minutes then expelled.  This formulation is very grounding as well as cleansing, as the decoction is made with Dashmula, 10 different roots!

Indicated for; assisting in a cleanse, clearing vata, gastrointestinal issues, gout, hyperacidity, and heart disease.   

Pricing:
60 minutes – $85