Experience Bliss: Benefits of Ayurvedic Head Massage
Updated: Jul 7
Thinning hair? Stress? Anxiety? Poor sleep? Exhausted? Here’s a simple home Ayurveda treatment you can do to address it all--plus it provides you with shining hair.
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Ayurvedic Head Massage
Have you noticed your hair thinning with ageing or stress? According to the National Institute of Health, "Long-term, or chronic, stress puts people at risk for a variety of health problems. These can include depression and anxiety, as well as problems with digestion and sleep. Chronic stress has also long been linked to hair loss..."
Ayurveda offers a home treatment that addresses stress, promotes deep relaxation, nourishes healthy scalp and hair, rejuvenates the nervous system, and is said to support balanced brain chemistry and hormones. What else? Ayurvedic head massage promotes lustrous, shiny hair.
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How To Do Ayurvedic Head Massage
1. Warm oil, it should be comfortably warm, but not too hot. Clients love our special hair oil blend.
2. Sit with your head, neck, and spine straight.
3. Apply a small amount of oil into the palm of your hands, and also pour about one tablespoon of oil onto the crown of your head, and repeat on both sides of your head. Now, gently tilt your chin towards your chest, and apply more oil along the back of your head to the base of your hairline.
4. Using your fingers, comb the oil through your hair. Using your fingertips, apply firm pressure, and small, circular motions to massage the oil into the scalp.
5. Massage the oil on your neck and shoulders as these are common areas for holding tension.
6. Cover your head with an old towel and avoid any drafts.
7. Now, go to our free guided practices, and do one of the 11 minute guided practices from Part 1 and continue directly on to Part 2. This will take about 24 minutes, the minimum amount of time for letting the oil to absorb into the skin and hair.
Alternative: You can keep the oil on overnight. Wrap the head in a towel, hair turban, cap, or put an old towel on your pillow and drift off to sleep.
Ayurveda Marma Points
1. According to Ayurveda, there are 108 marma points in the body. What’s a marma point? A marma is an energy point that is accessed on the surface of the body and is connected to deep, subtle energetic pathways called nadis.
Marma points are connected to organs, channels, pranas, and emotions.
2. There is a marma point called adhipati marma located on the crown of the head. It's located about eight fingers above the eyebrows in the center of skull.
It is a sensitive and sacred point. While performing Ayurveda head massage, using very gentle touch, work the oil slowly and gently outward using the circular stroke, with feather light touch.
Benefits of Ayurvedic Head Massage
1. It’s deeply relaxing, so much you’ll wonder why you haven’t always been doing it.
2. It promotes lustrous, thick, soft, shiny hair.
3. Soothing and rejuvenating to all the sense organs.
4. Improves memory.
5. Strengthens and clarifies the senses.
6. Nourishes a healthy scalp.
7. Rejuvenates the nervous system.
8. May reduce fine facial wrinkles as stress melts away and nothing ages us faster than stress.
9. Include Ayurvedic head oil massage as part of your abhyanga morning or evening routine or perform Ayurvedic head massage separately.
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