Ancient Healing System - Ayurveda

Whether you're looking to be pampered or looking for some relief from your health problems, this treatment can provide you with both. Hi, I'm Veronica with WatchMojo.com and today we're at the Victoria Park Spa for some more information about the Shirodhara treatment. So what exactly is Ayurveda? Ayurveda is an ancient healing system that originated in India about 5,000 years ago and it's believed is that everyone's path to well-being is unique. It will treat a person differently from you to me to somebody else on different herbs, different nutrition, therapies, exercises from the time you should wake up in the morning to your daily routines. So it's very unique. It makes it very interesting. Can you tell us about the three regulatory principles? So there's three doshas and basically a dosha is a combination of two elements. There are five elements in the world and everything in it is made up of those elements. Everybody has a bit of every element but in different proportions. So the doshas are vata, pitta, and kapha. And vata is a combination of ether and air. Pitta is a combination of fire with a little bit of water and kapha is a combination of water and earth. How do you determine which one a person is? Well we have a full assessment with a full range of questions. We also examine the way you are, the way you talk, the way you approach projects, your reaction to stress. So it's as much what you look like than how you are, how you react, and your tendencies. What is an Ayurveda treatment like? We have different ones. The ones that we offer here at Victoria Park include the bliss therapy. The bliss therapy is the combination of the abhyanga massage, the shirodhara, and the svetana. Svetana means a steam, means sweating. Shirodhara is part of this bliss treatment. What is it exactly? The shirodhara is a beautiful treatment that is done with an oil flowing at a very thin flow all the way to your third eye, the middle of your forehead, right between your eyebrows. This creates a very peaceful environment where you can go deep into relaxation or into meditation. It's very good. It's a treatment that we usually do for insomnia. Now you've mentioned the third eye. What is that exactly? Basically, in yogic medicine, you have the chakras, and every chakra relates to different organs or different emotional bodies. The third eye is really special because it goes into the, related to the pineal and the pituitary and the hypothalamus. That is basically why we do it really on the third eye, to regulate the digestive system and the nervous system. It regulates really the sleep patterns and the emotional center. Now besides insomnia, what other conditions can this treat? This can treat depression. It can help also rejuvenate. It also helps a lot with tics, tremors, anything related to the nervous system. Now when we think of something being dripped onto us, we don't think of relaxation. So how do you make sure that your person won't feel stressed? First of all, the oil is at the temperature of your body. So it's a very nice 37 degrees. It's a flow. We start off with a head massage and we end up with marma points. So marma points are like acupressure points all throughout your head. So we stimulate different areas. It can bring you anywhere from going into sleep and going into like a semi conscious state. Can you take us through the entire bliss treatment from the very beginning to the very end? The ideal sequence of this treatment is to start off with the massage. So you can opt to have a two handed or four handed massage. The four handed massage really brings you into a deep relaxation even faster. You have like your whole body being treated at the same time with two therapists really combining their pressure and their movements. And when you have the oil coming into the third eye, you will really go into a deep relaxation because the body is already relaxed. And then sphena. So we bring you to the steam and in there all the oils can penetrate the body and the scalp of the head. We recommend that you keep the oil as much as you can if you can even keep it the whole day or even throughout the night. It's ideal. Well, thank you so much. My pleasure. Thank you.