Abdominal Therapy with Roots in Maya Traditional Healing

Abdominal Therapy with Roots in Maya Traditional Healing

In Maya healing, physical ailments are not separated from spiritual ailments. For thousands of years, the Maya healing system looked at the ailments of the body as a whole, and addressed the emotional, mental, physical and spiritual together.

In ancient times when a person fell ill they were taken to the village healer or granny midwife who were often the same individual. This person massaged their belly, knowing that circulation to this area worked to balance the whole body, increasing circulation of blood, bioenergy and fluids, creating optimal health. Abdominal massage was helpful for good digestion, elimination and to ensure a healthy reproductive organs. 

Abdominal massage has been practiced all over the world since antiquity; in ancient Greece, Rome, Asia, Africa, Oceania and of course the Americas. This practice was typically passed down from teacher to student, shaman to apprentice, parent to child, grandparent to grandchildren, since time immemorial. 

In the last 100 years or so, with the advent of “modern medicine” surgery and drugs,  abdominal massage has taken a backseat to medicines and procedures that “cure” modern maladies such as heartburn, dyspepsia, constipation, and diarrhea. Other treatments were created to treat difficult fertility, painful and irregular periods. Along with these new drugs and procedures came new disorders, such as irritable bowel syndrome, food sensitivities and allergies, Small intestine bacterial overgrowth and celiac. 

Modern life has created many difficulties for our global population; food lacking optimal vitamins and minerals, pesticides that diminish our microbiome and mimic hormones, busy lives with no time to rest. 

We need abdominal therapy now more than ever. With each gentle stroke, we increase circulation into our organs, allowing us to breathe deeper, bringing vitality to our bodies for optimal digestion, energizing the nervous system, endocrine system, and reproductive organs. Abdominal therapy reduces stress and tension that contributes to many modern diseases including diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic constipation and difficult fertility.

This practice of Abdominal Therapy specifically works over the abdomen, back and hips. It is an effective combination of ancient Maya folk healing traditions from Central America with modern Western understanding of the functional body. 

Abdominal Therapy supports the health of ligaments and organs in the pelvis, often resulting in improved digestive, circulatory, menstrual and sexual health.

It’s all about stimulation; encouraging the circulation of blood, lymph, nerves and energy, and assisting in helping the body gain and maintain its natural healthy balance called homeostasis.

Abdominal Therapy Sessions: €100 Europe, US $200