Renowned for services ranging from eyelash extensions and laser hair
removal to chakra balancing and chi revitalizing, Bangkok is host to an
exotic and bizarre array of treatments and therapies. A quintessential
component to this multi-faceted jamboree, traditional Thai massage is
perhaps the most well-known and celebrated of Bangkok's pampering services.
As the Japanese delicately knead flesh in accordance with Shiatsu and the
Chinese offer rubs following principles of Tui-Na, Thailand presents a
signature massage technique involving traditional systems of holistic
beliefs.
Thai massage draws significant influence from India's ancient Ayurvedic
traditions of medical practice. Ayurvedic medicine, also a holistic form
of healing, plays an integral role in the practice of both Hinduism and
Therevada Buddhism. Monks and similar practitioners of healing transmitted
Ayurvedic techniques to Thailand some 2,500 years ago, thus giving birth to
the wonderful phenomenon that is Thai massage.