Most people who study Thai Massage are taught the same story. That it originated in India. That it was brought by Jivaka Kumar Bhaccha, physician to the Buddha, over 2,500 years ago. That it is essentially an expression of Ayurveda, transplanted into Southeast Asia. It's a compelling story. It's also incomplete. Thai Massage is not Indian medicine practiced in Thailand. It is Traditional Thai Medici

We are living in a age of information, where all sorts of data are available at our fingertips. Combinations, mergings, amalgamations and “improvements” give rise to new modalities at a faster pace than ever. A society constantly demanding, encouraging and rewarding the constant “newest”, “latest”, “trendiest”. With all that, there seems to be less and less space ( and importance given) to tradition. I once read “ Tradition is peer pressure from dead people”. And it sure see