Ayurvedic Self Massage: a lush daily ritual for women - Bliss Baby Yoga

Do you find yourself feeling easily ‘flighty’ and anxious? Do you often have suffer from insomnia? Does your skin get dry, especially during the colder months of autumn and winter?  Or, perhaps you’re just feeling a bit ungrounded and ‘stressy’? If so, you may need to take some extra care to balance your ‘vata‘. Vata is the Ayurvedic constitution associated with air and ether and can cause many of these symptoms.  It can therefore be very helpful to ‘ground’ this vata energy with some nourishing daily yoga and Ayurvedic rituals. A regular practice of a pawanmuktasana (joint-freeing, vata-reducing) yoga sequence as well as the delicious practice of Ayurvedic self massage can be just what the doctor ordered. Ayurvedic self-massage involves lovingly massaging yourself with a warm oil and can be a boon to women. Shiva Rea enthuses that massage of warm oil on the body is ‘one of the most nourishing, life-enhancing gifts of health you can give yourself for the rest of your life.’[1] I particularly love it as a healing and balancing practice for perimenopause (the turbulent years leading up to menopause). Ayurvedic oil massage works on a deep level to lubricate the joints. This has a powerfully […]

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