5 Element Aromatherapy Massage

What is Aromatherapy?

Aromatherapy is the therapeutic use of essential oils to maintain good health and to revitalise body, mind and spirit.

Essential oils contain the vital life force of fragrant plants. They are essences that are extracted from the bark, leaves, petals, resins, roots and seeds of selective aromatic plants.

Benefits of Aromatherapy Massage:

- Relaxes mind and body
- Relieves chronic muscular tension and stiffness
- Releases and eliminates toxins from tense, knotted tissue
- Stimulates and improves blood and lymph circulation
- Restores joint mobility
- Relieves tension headaches
- Helps for insomnia
- Helps for indigestion
- Brings calmness and peace
- Dispels for fatigue, irritability and depression
- Helps for anxiety and stress
- Releases blocked energy
- Increases the general energy level
- Gives a general feeling of well-being

Best results are achieved with initially four weekly 1-hour treatments and follow up sessions as required.

Receiving a good massage is like entering a special room until now locked and hidden away, likely familiar to those who practice meditation. There, healing can happen.

5 Element Aromatherapy Massage is based on Oriental Diagnose, traditional massage, plant medicine and the therapeutic application of essential oils. It is a holistic treatment, combining massage techniques with a unique and customised blend of oils to balance the energies on all levels of the human being.

The Five Elements

Next to the concept of Yin and Yang, the theory of the Five Elements is the second main pillar of Oriental Medicine.

The Five Elements can be understood as five phases or movements of Yin and Yang energy. Rather than being elements in a literal sense, the images of water, wood, fire, earth and metal represent natural forces that describe states and processes of life.

Each human being is a mixture of all five elemental energies. Imbalances occur when one or more elements become afflicted, producing symptoms that either reflect some form of “excess” or a “deficiency” / weakness.


Water
Quiescent Yin – Winter – Night
May be understood as energy in a condensed and relatively static Yin phase, reflected by the dormancy of winter time and night. Related Organs: Yin: Kidneys. Yang: Bladder.
Root Emotion: Fear.
Therapeutic intention: to strengthen.


Wood
Rising Yang – Spring – Morning
Is indicative of energy in a rising Yang phase, as in the sense with spring time and morning.
Related Organs: Yin: Liver. Yang: Gall Bladder.
Root Emotion: Anger.
Therapeutic intention: to move and to relax.


Fire
Radiant Yang – Summer – Midday
Symbolic of energy at its most expansive and radiant, of Yang at its zenith. It is the element of summer, of midday and noon.
Related Organs: Yin: Heart & Pericardium.
Yang: Small Intestines & Triple Heater.
Root Emotion: Joy, Love.
Therapeutic intention: to harmonize.


Earth
Descending Yin – Late Summer – Afternoon
Energy in its descending Yin stage. Earth is predominant in late summer and in the afternoon.
Related Organs: Yin: Spleen. Yang: Stomach.
Root Emotion: Thoughtfullness.
Therapeutic intention: to clarify.


Metal
Gathering Yin – Autumn – Evening
Energy in a Yin phase of transformation. The season of metal is autumn and the time of day, evening.
Related Organs: Yin: Lungs. Yang: Large Intestines.
Root Emotion: Grief.
Therapeutic intention: to invigorate.

Treatments

Shakta Kaur gives 5-Element-Aromatherapy Massage treatments and consultations
Thursdays & Saturdays 3 - 8pm in Notting Hill
At Easterngarden, 170 Westbourne Grove, London W11 2RW, 0207 7270963.
Booking with Easterngarden essential.

She is also offering treatments & consultation at her home in Southall.
For appointments please contact Shakta Kaur, 079424 72662, shakta@kundalini-khalsa.com.

5 Element Aromatherapy Body Oils

Shakta Kaur has recently developed special 5 Element Aromatherapy Body Oils for massage, as bathing ingredient or moisturiser. These organic essential oils in a pure almond base oil are available for purchase at Easterngarden:

Soaps

Shakta Kaur is currently developing exciting recipes for handmade Natural Soaps,
which will be available for purchase here soon. Among her various soap models, the 5-Element-Soaps are an extremely popular speciality.

All soaps are made from pure vegetable oils and healing aromatic essences.