Thai massage has long since arrived in our country from the hand of tourists from Avanzadilla who discovered it with amazement in his travels to Southeast Asia.But in recent years other types of oriental massages that are gaining followers are emerging as mushrooms.Next we make our small list of the most prominent and recommended in each specialty.Don't be surprised if you don't find some of the most expensive or famous centers, but it is that marketing and luxury imposed do not always go hand in hand with quality and authenticity.
Thai Massage
Few Thai massage enthusiasts know how Balsamica practice was started without wanting the Buddhist monks proc edentes of India .All their efforts were to teach the postures of yoga to the lazy Siamese, but, in the face of their indolence, they ended up opting to do the stretching themselves while they rested peacefully.That is why we can affirm that the Thai massage had its origin in the monasteries and in some it is still being taught.The most famous of all is the Wat Pho of Bangkok that forms thousands of girls (and some boys) every year, transmitting their extraordinary technique and an enviable spirit of service.
In the capital of Spain the Thai massage centers are countless.Although most are attended by genuinely Thai staff, there are also specialists Spanish and other countries that have formed in Thailand and do very well.There are quite a few recommended sites, but I have chosen for this occasion for its excellent quality/price ratio Chalalai Thai.
The name is very evocative.In Thai means « ; Rio Calm» and was opened in 2016 in Rafael Calvo, 42, under right, by its owner, Unchalee Ngomsangad (37), who, after training in Wat Pho, has already Ten years, he moved to our country, where he started working in the mythical Fusiom, now disappeared.Anny, as everyone calls her, already feels Spanish.He has soft ways and a tone of voice left, accentuated by such a perennial smile as dazzling.He speaks our language very well, as well as the other two masseuses of his team, equally stylized young people of pleasant appearance, which contributes to create that atmosphere of recollection and relaxation so important to feel comfortable in the intimacy of a massage.In Chalalai you speak in a loud voice and just cross the threshold to enter Rare in an area of serenity and stillness reminiscent of that of the temples.Despite its excellent location and its magnificent facilities, it cannot be said that it is a super-luxurious place, but it is very, very cozy, beautiful, clean, quiet , nice, comfortable and functional.And very friendly.
When I was ready and in a bathrobe, Anny appeared in the gloom of the room, a winged figure that washed my feet with an anointing, like Jesus Christ to his disciples.Then he asked me to lie on a wide stretcher of solid wood.Then I began to spread hot oil down my back with a softness that looked like a caress, or so I thought, but soon I I realized that his movements were like the calligraphy we learned when we were little: a very soft ascending line and a firm and thick descending line, only the other way around.Anny's fingers looked like wood in the ascent from behind and pure steel when they delved into the inserts s gnarled of the scapula.Then they descended gently like goose feathers.Their delicate touch gave me such confidence that I would soon abandon myself in their hands.In rigorous silence, I continued with their ritual of passes, waking up with each one so varied and subtle impressions that I end up triggering a tsunami of sensations as deep, refined and complex as some dishes of the sophisticated oriental cuisine, only suitable for gourmets.Time and space faded together and in my Mind I only have a persistent desire: that the flame never goes out.This masseuse is more than doing her job well, it is simply pure art , since her hands have the most refined sensibility, An authentic sublimation of touch.I can't think of describing it in any other way.Let's say it was a memorable experience.When I woke up, only silence accompanied me, as if everything had been a wonderful dream.On the way out I was waiting for Anny, with her everlasting Smile.I can only add one thing: don't miss it!
The specialty of the house is the Chalalali massage, a combination of classic thai and highly recommended oil (50€).The cabins have private bathrooms and all the comforts.
Shiatsu Massage
Shiatsu (shi,« finger» ;, and atsu,« pressure»), or acupressure, is a manual technique that has made fortune in Japan , where It is recognized as alternative medicine by the Ministry of Health.It is actually a compilation of various traditional techniques , but, unlike other therapies, it only uses the palm of the hand and the thumbs.The shiatsu, like almost everything Japanese, originates from the traditional Chinese culture and medicine.Already in the 20th century, Tamai Tempaku brings together all the traditional knowledge of Anmma, the ampuku and the do-in under the word shiatsu and spread them in their book Shiatsu-Ho , combining those techniques with western anatomy and physiology.The result was the current shiatsu,« a system- according to its creator-to improve health, eliminate the factors that produce fatigue and stimulate the ability to recover by means of digital pressure applied on certain points of the body» ;.
In a session of Orthodox shiatsu The patient is at all times dressed in a comfortable pajamas and does not use oils to carry out the treatment.However, in our country it is not uncommon to find places where the shiatsu itself is combined with an oil massage.In shiatsu treatments, localized pressure is applied to different points of the anatomy, located basically along the meridians of Chinese acupuncture, using the thumbs and palms.
Although in Madrid this massage is not as popular as Thai, There are a good number of places dedicated to this technique with great acceptance.My recommendation focuses on the Kamiraku.It is a place located full Golden Mile, in Ortega and Gasset, 11.Its founder, Mari Matsushita (33), is a young girl from Hiroshima who fell in love with a Spanish student who enjoyed a scholarship in that country.She was a newly licensed teacher and a great athletic lover, but I don't doubt in leaving everything to come to live in Spain eight years ago, a flagrant case of migration for love.He had a son and later he mounted a center of oriental massages, not only shiatsu, on his own, to which he has managed to print all the Taste of Japan, although it is an indoor place.To begin with, the anagram of its center is a a curious and original tree leaf that, he explains to me, is the only one that survived the atomic bomb that hit its city in 1945.The decoration of the center, with large sliding glass doors instead of partitions, and an incredible use of space, denotes austerity, good taste, neatness, simplicity and practicality of things.The courtesy of tea to all newcomers, the respect and the reverential ways that the Japanese learn from the cradle make Kamiraku (« ; Enjoy heavenly») a very suitable place to undergo a shiatsu session.There is no consensus on whether these pressures should be considered a therapy or a simple massage.So much so, because the experience of wise hands pressing certain points marked by the Chinese ancestral tradition can become a source of suprasensual pleasure, since its effect does not remain in an epidermal caress, but leads to a meditative state , out of time and space, where what you feel could be very well defined as pure happiness.
Mari is a small, proportionate, harmonious and attractive woman, something as well as a pocket princess, in whose vivacious eyes the light of intelligence always shines.He speaks our language perfectly and nobody knows where the strength comes from those tiny, soft hands that seem made to caress, but are capable of produce profound effects by pressing those mysterious points that only experts know.A massage with her crawling across the large table on which one is lying is a mystical experience difficult to describe.The only thing I can say is that at the end of the session you feel one the lightness of the sinner after the confession, the centering of the Carthusian and the joy of those who live in peace with life.Highly recommended.One hour of shiatsu costs 50€ (55€ with oil).
Royal Ki Massage
This massage is not an ancestral technique like the previous ones, not even a new therapy from those that sprout from time to time when for the sake of marketing to disappear after a while.No, the « Royal Ki» is a quintessential combination of five types of oriental massages with pedigree, which its creator, the Japanese Yuko Fukamura (36), develops with care in a three hour session! uninterrupted in Kinuan (« Refugio de seda»), the center that runs in Marques de la Ensenada, 6.
Yuko is a stylized, nice, charismatic, smiling, kind, educated and as young Japanese woman as Spanish, the daughter of a doctor, was born near Nagasaki, where Nipon Christianity was the best.In fact, Yuko studied at a Catholic school.A good day gave him a trip to Spain to visit a friend and he liked our culture so much that She decided to stay and live among us.The paternal influence led her to become interested in the body and health .Without patience to pursue a career as long and expensive as medicine, I opt for massage, which in the Japanese culture has the status of alternative therapy.I take it very seriously and it has never stopped training and learning.It has been years since he directed a reference center in Madrid.In his star treatment, the Royal Ki» (199€), has quintessentially the best of the best oriental massages and for three long hours she becomes a silent priestess who travels the secret paths of pleasure and healing.
Lying on a huge and comfortable wooden bed in the gloom of the room, I felt Yuko moved around me with his characteristic lightness.In the background, a soft hypnotic music envelops everything.The session began with the precise pressures of shiatsu .As if by magic, as if they had given me a morphine shot, I was immediately invaded a strange hybrid sensation, between pleasure and happiness.Then, always in religious silence, Yuko happened to spread with delicate firmness and wise precision what looked like hot oils or ointments on a skin already totally surrendered to his hands.By then, my mind had entered a kind of nirvana, in which the world, with its bubbles and its works, its cares and fears, had vanished almost completely.With the other senses turned off, I only perceived through the skin what seemed to me a strange euphoria sensory.With her burning hands, Yuko was lighting the different segments of my skin, as I walked them.Finally, I began to apply all over my body « pindas» hot , a kind of cloth onions full of healing herbs that end the resistance of the most stubborn.There was a time when my mind seemed to go out and I felt abandoned in an ocean of bliss.It could be three hours or three days.The time did not count in that state of which it cost me to return, as of a wonderful dream that you do not want reality to spoil you.
In the spacious, discreet and cozy facilities of Kinuan, an oasis of tranquility in front of the imposing building of the National Court, a team of therapists from different countries of the East offer, together with Yuko, all kinds of oriental massages: T hai, Shiatsu, Filipino, Ayurveda, etc.for 50€ the hour (55€ with oil).The quality of the treatments and the exquisite treatment is guaranteed by the consolidated success during the four years of existence that the center has, the same as the Spanish son of Yuko.But, above all, I dare to recommend to anyone who can afford it the sublime experience of a massage' Royal Ki' with Yuko.
Filipino Massage
Although much less popular in our country than other oriental massages, therapeutic massage is an old tradition in the Philippines, which aims to manipulate the energy channels.&Nbsp; With a medium to deep pressure, it relieves the stress, restoring health and well-being.It is also very relaxing.One of the most specialized centers in our city is Boracay, which has not yet been open for three years in Alonso Cano, 60.Its founder, the Philippine Victoria Joyohoy Gemiston (32) and his team offer a range of Asian massages, mainly Filipino and Balinese, as well as aesthetic treatments with an oriental touch.
It must be said that Victoria's grandmother was a healer on the island of Cebu , where Magallanes was found dead, and she prepared her curried oils and mussels with herbs At some of that it must have been recorded in the subconscious of this young Filipino, who trained as a teacher at the University of Cebu and shortly afterwards came to Spain, claimed by some of her uncles who lived here without offspring.They practically adopted her as if She was a daughter and was responsible for paying for her studies, which ended up opting for healing therapies and, particularly, massage.
Victoria, a cheerful, friendly and enterprising woman, with an unmistakable oriental touch, is always exploring new things and telling me that their workshops for couples are very successful, where they teach them to do mutual massage in a relaxed atmosphere, among juices, teas and glasses of cava.
My experience in Boracay was very pleasant and quiet.The facilities are very comfortable.Victoria has strong hands and is used to work in silence, something that is appreciated.The Filipino massage is very relaxing and does not differ so much from the usual massages in our tro country, if it is not at the price that is below average.One hour costs 40€ and announce sales for this summer, so it can be an interesting and economical option.It is necessary to take into account that, in addition to the Filipino massage, in Boracay they are also specialists in thai, balines, Hawaiian... and everything what sounds like oriental.
Ayurveda Massage
To understand the success of Ayurveda and the enthusiasm that arouses many Western citizens today, there is no other choice but to resort to the figure of « retroprogreso» , I end up cradled by the late Salvador Paniker to express what happens when a civilization advances rescuing the best of its past.Ayurveda is also offered today as a massage technique throughout the West.To focus the matter we would have to remember that Ayurveda, the oldest of the known healing forms , does not give other importance to massage that of scrubbing healing oils throughout the body so that they penetrate and produce their healing effect.Naturally, when that is done with silk hands it is a pleasant practice that adds a remarkable pleasure to the healing effects of oils.
Such is the case of Marlene Arana (38), a Paraguayan who arrived in our country sixteen years ago and soon discovered that her hands were a treasure.Caste comes to the greyhound, since that, he tells me, as a child he used to accompany his grandfather to collect leaves and flowers from the field, which he then used to make his macerations, essential oils, ointments, syrups and poultices .He still remembers the explanations that He gave about the properties and effects of each of them.Already in Spain, Marlene was trained in different therapies and aesthetic treatments, including Thai massage, osteopathy, Ayurveda massage, etc.and still continues to be trained in Nutrition and Dietetics at the UCM.
It is well known that the technique is learned, but art must be possessed.The same can be said about massage: the technique You learn, but the gift of playing must be born with it.And so this Paraguayan was born with magical hands and slender and elegant model figure, which makes the routine of extending the Ayurvedic oils s a pleasure of gods.There's something in his way of playing that falls in love and subjugates.Marlene serves as a private therapist at General Diaz Porlier, 15, 1ยบ right (911 377 619) a very central place in the Salamanca district.
There was a moment during the session when time stopped, the questions stopped, my mind went out and there I understood that I I had become a hostage of authoritative, captivating hands, which moved his agency through my body as if it were his own house.Sometimes he tried to give him some indication, but he always came forward as if he knew my anatomy better than myself.for enjoying every second, following the movements of his hand like a mere spectator, more or less as soccer fans follow Messi's dribbles.Finally, even to that I quit, already plunged into a dreamlike, meditative or maybe celestial trance, I cannot discern it with certainty, although I do remember thinking that heaven could not be something very different from what I was feeling.All that for 50€ the time.
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