When different tissues, such as ligaments, joints, and bones, come together, it creates energy centres known as marma points. They are pathways for the prana or vital energy that flows through your body and reflects the equilibrium of the three doshas.
Marma treatments treat various illnesses by stimulating certain marma points to restore a healthy balance to the body’s three doshas. Comparable to acupressure sites in Chinese acupuncture, marma points are located along the chakras rather than the meridians.
In ancient times, doctors and soldiers alike used their understanding of marma points to strike at their opponents where they were vulnerable. Massages using circular movements focus on a subset of the 107 marma points used in contemporary marma treatment, allowing personalised care.
Marma Points and Their Functions
There is health when prana flows easily from the nadis into the marma points. If the energy can’t move freely, health problems might arise. Numerous everyday actions might impede prana (life force energy) from moving freely via the marma points:
- Devitalised food consumption
- Irregular sleeping patterns
- Psychological strain
- Excessive time in the sun
- Insufficient physical activity
- Pollution
- Artificial light
- Inadequate ties to nature
Even if you try to maintain a healthy lifestyle, contemporary life may still interfere with the flow of chi into your body, regardless of how well you eat or exercise. In addition, according to Ayurveda, a lack of pranic flow causes the gradual devitalisation of the body, which manifests as many of the symptoms of ageing (tiredness, stiffness, memory loss, brittle bones, sensitive digestion, etc.).
Further, Marma treatment helps revitalise the associated organs and tissues by releasing blockages in these energy centres. Healing on all levels—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual—is made possible by marma methods because they operate at the level of raw prana (prana before it has been separated into its many functions inside the human body).
Marma Point Therapy: Basic Principles
The basic principles of Marma Point Therapy are as follows:
- Subtle Layers Have the Most Healing Potential
Strong pressure is required for successful muscle action. Toxins are moved through the lymphatic system with less power. If you apply too much pressure, you’ll stimulate the muscles instead of the lymphatic system. Hence, to get to the energy layer, you only need to touch it very lightly. Energy is like a delicate plant that crumples under pressure. Working on Marma’s points requires a very gentle touch.
- Therapist and Client Intentions Must Match
Energy returns what it receives. It’s a universal law that opposites attract. One’s thoughts may influence the body’s energy field. Therefore, by combining their focused attention, the therapist and client can awaken the marma point and channel the pranic energy flowing through it. Marmas may provide cerebral stimulation since they are not surface but reach deep into the system.
- A Qualified Practitioner Should Perform Marma Therapy
The prana, and by extension the whole body’s health, may be affected by working on the marma points. Learning the marma points and their unique roles and how to synthesise that knowledge with individual client requirements requires years of training and expertise. Therefore, only a qualified practitioner should do marma point therapy since it is a kind of Ayurvedic medicine.
Conclusion
An Ayurvedic practitioner will evaluate your condition and then use circular massage motions to activate the appropriate marma points in a formal marma therapy session. However, a Kansa wand allows you to do a simplified version of marma treatment in the comfort of your own home. Kansa wands activate marma points across the face and neck, with skin-healing advantages such as improved complexion and lymphatic drainage for toxin elimination.
