What is a snehan?

The Ayurvedic treatment of Snehan is a calming, therapeutic experience in which warm, medicated herbal oil is applied to the body in a specific pattern with consistent pressure. Accumulated stress and toxins in the mind and body dissolve during this luxurious experience. A snehan therefore acts as a powerful recharger and rejuvenator of mind and body.

How is a snehan different from a massage and why would someone receive one?

The heavy dense quality of the oil, along with the healing power of touch brings balance and re-establishes your body’s natural rhythms and ability to heal itself.

Snehan brings the proper flow of vata, or the air and ethers elements in the body, by removing blockages and allowing prana, our life force, to flow in its appropriate direction.

Receiving this treatment offers numerous benefits to your body and mind such as:

• Softer, smoother skin

• Soothes the nervous system

• Increased circulation especially to nerve endings

• Toning of the muscles

• Calms anxiety and fear

• Improves memory

• Lubrication of the joints

• Increased levels of stamina through the day

• reduces fatigue

• increases longevity

• Supports deep sound sleep at night

Done regularly, especially during seasonal changes, this treatment can provide a sense of grounding and calm to anyone.

In our busy modern world, technology coupled with career stress, commute times and environmental pollution have created a lot of problems for our body’s natural ability to stay healthy. The air element within us has become highly imbalanced, which can show up as adrenal fatigue, an overworked nervous system or thyroid problems.

If you experience any of the following symptoms, a snehan can be of benefit for you:

-Irregular sleeping, waking up worried, difficulty falling asleep

-Constipation

-Dryness in the skin, eyes, ears, nails, or hair

-Mental anxiousness

-Little to no muscle

-Lots of movement all the time, including eyes, hands, body, etc.

-Pain that jumps around the body

-Sudden onset of any symptoms

-Tension in the muscles

-Postpartum feelings after birth