Bio-Feedback Rebalance is a heart-focused breathing technique that helps you to understand how your emotions can either deplete or renew your mind, body and spirit, and how these reactions profoundly impact your wellbeing. By practising Bio-Feedback Rebalance, you can manage stress more effectively and reduce its impact. The technique will objectively show the dynamic interaction between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, as well as demonstrate how breathing patterns can promote balance within the autonomic nervous system.

Prana means breath, respiration, life, vitality, wind, energy or strength. Ayama means length, expansion, stretching or restraint. Pranayama is therefore the science of breath, or the extension of breath and its control. Even as emotional excitement affects the rate of breathing, deliberate regulation of respiration keeps emotional excitement in check. Regular practice of pranayama will slow your heart and bring a subjective experience of relaxation. Proper breathing techniques can create space for personal healing and transformational growth.

The human body is a complex organism with the innate ability to heal itself when we learn how to listen to it and respond by supporting its needs. The Naturopathic approach seeks to find the underlying causes of your symptoms, remove obstacles to healing, and implement appropriate changes that restore the body’s natural tendency to return to health. Naturopaths use herbs, homeopathy, nutritional supplements, lifestyle modification, exercise, detoxification and the concept of food-as-medicine to help put your health back on track. Chiva-Som offers a full naturopathic dispensary of herbs and supplements which may be prescribed during the consultation.

As one of the five interdependent branches of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), this treatment begins with a diagnosis along traditional Chinese methods, which includes thorough history-taking and identifying significant signs from pulse and tongue analysis. Acupuncture treatment helps reduce blockages, stimulate energy flow, and restore balance in the body, mind and spirit. Acupuncture treatment has been shown effective in helping relieve aches and pains, insomnia, digestive disorders, stress and chronic immune dysfunction as well as to generally improve wellbeing.

Shiatsu is known as Japanese acupressure, which is acupuncture without needles. Shiatsu manipulates acupuncture points to stimulate the body’s self-healing system through a traditional Japanese massage technique using vertical and continuous pressure. Shiatsu Acupressure can help you relax and cope with stress, muscle pain, nausea, anxiety or depression. The treatment is tailored to your specific needs, and is safe during pregnancy and for all health conditions.

By quickly lancing the skin, a few drops of blood expressed from one or more of the peripheral acupuncture points provides therapeutic benefit through the “release” of excess heat or stagnant qi (chi or energy). The stimulation of Seiketsu points helps the autonomic nervous system to improve the flow of energy in the meridians, restoring neurological balance and aiding relaxation. Additionally, this technique will have a calming effect on motor and sensory nerves, helping to relax excessively tight muscles and relieve common complaints of muscle spasms, pain and tension.

This highly regarded healing procedure is the combination of modern scientific understanding and an ancient system of medicine once only available to occupants of the Royal courts. Using only the fingers and palms, practitioners unblock the 10 main health lines, akin to meridians in Chinese medicine, which allows restoration and energy flow to the whole body, creating wellness and vitality. Sufferers of acute or chronic pain, migraines, digestive or pelvic ailments and joint discomfort may sense immediate improvement of symptoms after this deep tissue and hot compress massage. Follow up treatments may begin with Thai herbal steam the use of traditional Thai herbs which can be obtained from our pharmacy on prescription of our Traditional Thai Medicine specialist.

Bamboo Massage’ offers a gentle, natural healing experience for stress relief and overall well-being. Bamboo Therapy Massage harnesses the innate healing power of bamboo to promote wellness and rejuvenation. This unique form of massage therapy offers numerous benefits for the body, mind, and spirit. The therapist uses the bamboo stick are carefully selected for their smooth texture, strength, and flexibility to apply various massage techniques, such as rolling, kneading, and tapping, along the body. Bamboo sticks provide a gentle, comfortable massage, applying targeted pressure to relieve muscle tension and promote deep relaxation, ensuring a customised and effective massage experience. Let's delve into the remarkable healing properties of bamboo and explore why it has become a sought-after treatment for stress relief and overall well-being.

Mien-Acupressure is a facial acupressure treatment that works by tapping into the meridian channels on the face, balancing the tissue and cleansing lymphatic vessels. This Mien-acupressure treatment is an excellent tool for emotional detoxification, helping you deeply relax and de-stress. An acupressure tool is used to gently stimulate the facial meridian channels, releasing nervous tension and negative energy as well as rejuvenating those who suffer from jet lag or insomnia.

This therapy uses rhythmic motions in the cranial bones to promote fluid movement through the brain, spinal cord and nervous system. This profound yet gentle manipulation promotes balance and harmony at the deepest level of your being.

The combination of the use of gemstones with Reiki can have very positive effects. Reiki enhances and the gemstones amplify the energy. The gemstones help by drawing negative energy out of the person’s energy field.

A traditional Chinese healing method, reflexology works on the connection between specific reflex points in the feet and all other body parts. After determining these tender and tense spots, the therapist then applies pressure on the feet to alleviate the local discomfort and treat the body parts reflected. Reflexology stimulates these points in order to improve and strengthen the weak areas of the body, remove congestion and eliminate discomfort. As tensions are eased and circulation is improved, this gentle therapy encourages the body to heal itself at its own pace, often counteracting a lifetime of misuse.

Frequent use of a personal computer and sitting still for extended periods of time can cause chronic physical problems. Stress Release Therapy is designed to relieve stressed musculoskeletal areas using a unique combination of myofascial techniques. Through soft tissue therapy, upper body massage and heat applied on the whole arm, we ease tension and enhance blood circulation. The treatment ends with the application of an herbal compress to the eyes and facial area, to relax soft tissue around the eyes. The benefits gained from this therapy help to relieve eye, neck, shoulder, arm, wrist and hand strain.

Total Body Balancing is an evaluation and treatment approach using Tuina principles, body re-patterning, myo-fascial release and spinal release to relax the body and improve circulation, nerves and energy flow. This treatment includes rhythmic compression along energy channels of the body, as well as a variety of techniques that mobilise the joints. Kinesiology techniques are then performed for arm and leg re-patterning, combined with relaxing joint tension.

This massage is a shorter version of our remedial style Deep Tissue Massage. The therapist will loosen tight muscles around the neck and shoulders while simultaneously assessing how much tension is held in the body and how best to release it. This is an especially effective massage for those who are stressed, work at the computer too much and don’t relax well.

A very gentle technique for people who suffer from chronic pain and discomfort. Based on one of the most powerful osteopathic methods, the purpose is to treat stiffness and to restore mobility and function of the joint. After a whole-body screening evaluation, your body is specifically positioned in all planes to perform the corrective movement techniques. The result is deep muscle relaxation due to muscle elongation while your joints are re-positioned to their optimal alignment.

Shirobhyanga is one of the classical Ayurvedic Rasayana, or rejuvenation therapies. In this treatment imbalance will be ayurvedically diagnosed and individually selected medicated oil will be used to massage the head. Special attention is given to the marma points (acupressure points) so that deep and penetrating release of blockages will take place and also lymph drainage will occur. The head is the centre of the whole nervous system and when stimulated by massage the benefits are numerous and profound. Shirobhyanga can relieve many of the stresses and strains that cause tension, fatigue and insomnia.

After any exercise session it is important to stretch and relax. Our fitness team has developed a unique stretch combination to refresh and rejuvenate you at the end of your workout. Receive a full one-to-one stretch, rounded off with muscle manipulation to aid the body’s recovery process. This cooling-down treatment is also highly recommended for golfers looking to improve their swing.

Ashtanga Yoga --The feature that distinguishes Ashtanga Yoga from the other forms of yoga is its unique movement and breathing system, or Vinyasa. Movement through the sequence of poses (Asanas) is responsible for producing heat, which, in turn, produces sweat that is both cleansing and purifying. As students progress more deeply into the practice, toxins held in the deeper layers of muscle tissue and internal organs are also released. The power of the breath is the key to this system of yoga. It draws the mind in on itself and, in so doing, yokes mind and body together. It is the breath, the energy centres (Bandhas) and the eye focus (Dristi) that, when applied together, bring about the physical and the meditative aspects of Ashtanga Yoga. The practice itself becomes a dynamic meditation. Hatha Yoga is the most popular branch of yoga and from which a lot of the styles of yoga originated. Yogis use physical poses, breathing techniques and meditation in order to bring the body into perfect health and for more spiritual elements of the mind to emerge freely. The meditative aspects of yoga can also help to develop your willpower, concentration and self-withdrawal. Hatha Yoga practice is a splendid way to cope with stress, relieve tension and promote positive moods. Vinyasa Flow - Vinyasa means linking movements. Vinyasa Flow Yoga is derived from Ashtanga Yoga, whereby the set sequence from the Ashtanga Yoga system has been ‘dissected’ to assemble a more freeform, creative approach. A typical Vinyasa Flow class begins with the Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutations) and continues with a variety of poses through the flowing movements of Vinyasa. Each pose will lead to the next like a continuous dance. It is advisable to be somewhat familiar with some basic yoga poses before trying Vinyasa Flow Yoga, as the pace will be quite fast. Although not essential, some basic Ashtanga Yoga experience will also be helpful. This style of Yoga is suitable for those who already have some previous experience in Yoga and are looking for a more dynamic, fun and challenging practice.

This highly regarded healing procedure is the combination of modern scientific understanding and an ancient system of medicine once only available to occupants of the Royal courts. Using only the fingers and palms, practitioners unblock the 10 main health lines, akin to meridians in Chinese medicine, which allows restoration and energy flow to the whole body, creating wellness and vitality. Sufferers of acute or chronic pain, migraines, digestive or pelvic ailments and joint discomfort may sense immediate improvement of symptoms after this deep tissue and hot compress massage. Follow up treatments may begin with Thai herbal steam the use of traditional Thai herbs which can be obtained from our pharmacy on prescription of our Traditional Thai Medicine specialist.