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Naturopathy
Nature is the ultimate healer. When we harness nature’s elements and ingredients in our holistic healing practice, we call it Naturopathy. We are made of the five Panchamaha Bhutas (natural elements), which are Akash (space), Vayu (air), Agni (fire), Apas (water) and Prithvi (earth). Disease is simply an imbalance of nature’s elements in our body. When we violate the laws of nature, we automatically lower our vitality. This leads to an abnormal composition of blood and lymph in the body, and as a result, we start to accumulate toxins, which manifest as symptoms of disease. The beauty of nature is that it allows us to heal ourselves by providing us with the mechanisms to maintain our well-being and restore our health.
Healing occurs when we remove the obstacles that interfere with the natural functioning of the body, identifying specific treatments to catalyse the process. Naturopathy goes to the root of the illness. It homes in on healing the underlying internal imbalance at the physical, emotional, or energetic level that manifests as symptoms in the physical body. Naturopathy is a science. A naturopath will first identify the unique characteristics of a patient, and only then prescribe a line of treatment. From hydrotherapy to herbalism, naturopathy is non-toxic and designed to support the body in its elemental healing process.
What sets us apart from other places offering naturopathy treatment in Bangalore is our belief that personal responsibility is the key to well-being. With this in mind, we educate, empower, and encourage you to adopt a healthy lifestyle, positive outlook, and nourishing diet. We believe that teaching someone how to optimise their living experience takes precedence over treating a superficial symptom. Our practitioners pinpoint those specific areas of weakness and personalise your treatment based on their analysis. The idea is not to treat the disease but to heal the patient’s inherent traits that trigger the condition. Identifying the kind of individual who manifests a specific disease is more important, rather than simply diagnosing the disease that occurs in a particular patient’s body. Naturopathy is key to what we do at Shreyas. It is integrated into various aspects of our therapy. Right from the initial diagnosis all the way to the post-treatment process, our highly experienced consultants draw up a line of therapy based on each individual’s requirements and characteristics.
From brilliant sunshine to clean air, organically grown food, meditative spaces and sound sleep, we nurture a holistic environment in which you can allow your body to heighten its healing, regenerate its energy, and return to a state of equilibrium.
Underwater Massage
An ideal remedy for those who suffer from stiff joints and arthritic pain. Immerse your entire body in water that is temperature-controlled. The water is applied under pressure, for a specific period. This therapy enhances your blood circulation and lymphatic drainage. It eases out the stiffness in the muscles and tones the skin.
Spinal Spray
Water at a regulated temperature when sprayed at the spine stimulates the nerves, relieves sciatic pain, and assists in alleviating gastrointestinal issues. It is extremely effective for those who suffer from depression, irritability, and insomnia. It also eases vertebral tension, spondylitis, and lumbago.
Hip Bath
Ease your hips into temperature-controlled water, submerging the region from the navel to mid-thigh. For those suffering from irregular menstrual cycles, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhoea, a hip bath can be very therapeutic. It also helps relieve discomfort from constipation and enhances your digestion.
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Enema
An Enema is a simple method to relieve constipation, indigestion, acidity, and a slew of other digestive disorders. It irrigates your rectum and stimulates your colon to remove the toxins.
Colon Hydrotherapy
Feel lighter and cleaner when you irrigate the entire length of your colon. Colon hydrotherapy eases intestinal bloating, improves intestinal peristalsis and regulates the body’s elimination of waste to optimise the absorption of nutrients.
Arm & Foot Bath
Relax the nerve endings located in the arms and feet by immersing them in a soothing bath of warm water. Our arms, hands, and feet are important centres of reflex points throughout the body. This therapy eases the tension in these regions and makes us feel relaxed. It is extremely helpful to treat conditions like insomnia, nervous irritability, headaches, congestion, and pain in one’s joints.
Hydro Packs & Compresses
Wrapping various parts of the body with hot or cold packs or compresses can be extremely beneficial. From the chest to the abdomen and throat to the liver and kidneys, these treatments help relieve congestion, stimulate blood circulation, remove excess heat, relax the muscles, improve metabolism, and eliminate toxins from different regions of the body.
Steam Bath
Open up the pores of your skin with a steam bath. Steam makes the body perspire, allowing it to get rid of all the dead matter that lies beneath the lining of the skin. It also helps to ease body aches, rheumatic pain, and obesity-related issues.
Sauna
Release waste, salt, and toxins from your body when you bathe in the sauna. The dry heat causes the body to perspire, the blood vessels to dilate, and lowers your blood pressure. It kickstarts your internal metabolism and relaxes all the muscles in the body.
Mud Wraps & Packs
Relax your mind and body with a cooling mud pack. The cold mud wrapped in clean linen soothes the eyes, abdomen, and scalp. It keeps your mind calm, regulates hunger, and eases out a headache. It also helps to stimulate your hair. On the other hand, heated mud packs immediately relieve joint pains and stiff muscles.
Mud Bath
A mud bath is great for your skin. It keeps your nervous system tranquil and soothes mental stress, headaches, insomnia, hypertension, and migraines. Mud is applied all over the body, after which you lay out in the sun to dry. It enhances blood circulation and tones your skin, ideal for treating conditions like eczema and psoriasis.
Athapa Snana (Banana Leaf Wrap)
Relax your body with a gentle oil massage. Lay out in the sun while your oiled body is wrapped in a banana leaf. The antioxidants in the banana leaves slow down ageing, heal wounds, and lighten scars, leaving you glowing. Sudation is also a part of the process, which leaches toxins out of the body.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is an ancient remedy from traditional Chinese medicine. Our doctors insert very fine, sterile needles into certain points that lie along the meridians of the body, through which the Chi (energy) flows. The idea is to release any energetic blockages to regain your natural equilibrium. Acupuncture is an excellent remedy for muscle tension, aches, pains, and toxins stored in the gut. It also helps to heal the skin and the vascular system.
Reflexology Path
The soles of the feet are full of nerve endings and must be treated with care. At Shreyas, our reflexology path is specifically designed to ease, massage, and stimulate various reflex points in the feet. These acupressure points are connected to a variety of energy meridians across the entire body. When you walk on this path, the energy pathways get unblocked. It harmonises the endocrine system, soothes the nervous system and the muscles, improves balance, and normalises digestion.
Diet Therapy
Food isn’t just a source of nourishment but can also be medicine that heals. Naturopathy puts forth a three-pronged food theory: the eliminatory diet, the soothing diet, and the constructive diet. When your food intake is customised to address your condition, you imbibe the nutrients that can mitigate metabolic diseases.
Fasting Therapy
When we fast, we abstain from food for a specific duration of time. There are a variety of methods, but water, juice, and intermittent fasting are the most common. The benefits include better gut health, optimising glucose metabolism, increased joint health, improved cardiovascular function, a balanced hormonal system, a healthy liver, cognitive functioning, and improved skin, hair, and eye health while helping to manage body weight.
Acupressure
Acupressure is an ancient healing technique that involves applying pressure to specific points on the body, to stimulate energy flow and promote healing. It is closely related to acupuncture, but acupressure relies on the fingers, palms, elbows, or other devices to apply pressure to these points instead of using needles.
Cupping Therapy
Cupping is an alternative therapy that suctions the skin. Cupping glasses are made of glass, plastic, or silicone, which are placed over the affected part of the body. Cupping helps improve circulation, remove toxins, and relieve pain. Dry cupping, fire cupping, flash cupping, and running cupping are different forms of cupping therapies.
Ganji/Starch Turmeric Bath
Rice Starch (Ganji) is blended with curcumin powder. It is applied all over the body and then left to dry in the shade for 30-40 minutes, after which it is rinsed off with neutral water. The benefits are enormous as the ingredients have excellent antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antibacterial properties. It also helps to delay the ageing process and is vastly beneficial in managing skin disorders such as urticaria, psoriasis, eczema, and acne vulgaris.
Reflexology
Reflexology, also known as Padabhyanga, consists of applying appropriate pressure to reflex points using special hand and finger techniques. Stimulating reflex points on the feet and palms helps to soothe conditions like stress, sleep problems, and pain in the feet and palms, and causes certain physiological changes in the body that help to get rid of fatigue and tiredness.
Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy treatments are diverse and may include a variety of techniques and interventions; it is beneficial in treating cervical spondylosis, lumbar spondylosis, post-surgical treatments, frozen shoulder, and various aches and pains in the body.
Some common treatment methods include:
- Exercise Therapy: Prescribing specific exercises to improve strength, flexibility, and endurance.
- Electrotherapy: Using devices such as ultrasound or electrical stimulation for pain relief and muscle stimulation.
- Heat and Cold Therapy: Applying heat or cold to alleviate pain and reduce inflammation.
- Posture and Body Mechanics Education: Teaching patients proper body mechanics and ergonomics to prevent injury or improve function.
Massage Therapy
Massage therapy is a popular and widely practised form of therapy that involves the manipulation of soft tissues in the body, kneaded by the therapist’s hands and fingers. This therapeutic practice has been used for thousands of years in various cultures and is known for its potential to promote relaxation, relieve muscle tension, reduce stress, and address a variety of physical and emotional issues. Shreyas offers the following types of massage therapy at Anaha Wellness Centre: Swedish therapy, Aromatherapy therapy, Balinese massage therapy, Thai massage therapy, Partial massage therapy, Energy Balance massage therapy, and Hot Stone massage therapy.
Aromatherapy
Aromatherapy, as we know it today, is a revived branch of herbal medicine. It has been practised by people across the world for centuries. Based on each individual’s needs, the therapist chooses a blend of essential oils to stimulate or relax the body, and the aromatic oils help awaken the senses and stimulate the mind. Aromatherapy is recommended for chronic conditions like stress, insomnia, menstrual problems, hypertension, joint stiffness, low energy, and body fatigue.
Swedish Massage Therapy
Swedish Massage therapy was developed in the 1700s by a Swedish doctor, Pehr Henrik Ling. It involves specialised techniques that help relax muscles by applying pressure against deeper muscles and bones while massaging in the same direction as blood flows back to the heart. The main purpose of a Swedish massage is to increase the oxygen flow in the blood and release toxins from the muscles. Stimulating the skin and nervous system and soothing the nerves reduces stress, both emotional and physical.
Thai Massage
Thai Massage therapy is a system of massage and assisted stretching developed in Thailand and influenced by the traditional medicine systems of India, China, and Southeast Asia. A blend of yoga, acupressure, and reflexology, Traditional Thai massage is designed to relax and open the body’s natural energy flow, which is different from the scooping and continuous strokes of Western-style massage. During a traditional Thai massage, pressure is placed on various strategic points, the muscles get stretched, and the masseuse rocks the body in a gentle rhythm while compressing a certain area. It is often called “Lazy Man’s Yoga” or “Yoga For Two” because the receiver of the therapy is entirely passive during the treatment. The therapist helps stretch your body into a variety of yoga-like positions while applying manual compression strokes to the muscles to further enhance their stretch and release tension. No oils are used in a traditional Thai massage session, and it is performed on a floor mat or a low massage bed.
Balinese Therapy
Balinese therapy is an oil-based massage that involves deep manipulation of the body and soft tissue and concentrates primarily on the connective tissue of the muscles. The therapist uses smooth but deep thumb pushes along each muscle, following the course of the body’s energy channels (meridians). It is an excellent therapy for treating stiff and painful muscles and is also used in the treatment of conditions of the abdominal organs.
Partial Massage Therapy
This gentle massage, which focuses on the head, neck, shoulders, back of the body, hands, and feet, awakens your body and senses instantly, and leaves you feeling relaxed and refreshed. It helps in releasing muscle stiffness and improves blood circulation to the parts of the body.
Hot Stone Massage Therapy
This is a special treatment that uses pre-heated volcanic stones and medicated oil for fomentation; the stones are sanitised in boiling water beforehand. The volcanic stones, smoothed over time by water in nature (either by seas or rivers), allow them to absorb and retain heat well. The medicated oils are specially formulated for each individual regarding specific ailments. The therapist starts with a traditional massage, followed by one with a heated stone. As the stone cools, it is replaced with another, and the therapy continues with stones of different shapes and sizes placed on various muscles, along points of the spine, the palms, the forehead, and between the toes—to improve the flow of energy in the body. Ideally, the stones are neither too warm nor the pressure too intense, leading to a feeling of physical and physiological well-being. The Hot Stone massage helps remove stiffness from the joints, eases the tightness and tones the muscles, improves circulation, stimulates the nerves, and energises the body and mind. The Hot Stone massage is excellent for relieving deep-rooted stress.
Energy Balance Massage Therapy
Energy Balance Massage, also known as energy healing, focuses on the body's subtle energy system. It helps restore balance and free the flow of energy by addressing energetic blockages and imbalances through gentle, mindful touch. Practitioners use their hands to sense and correct energetic imbalances, aiming to facilitate a smoother flow of energy. Energy Balance Massage promotes relaxation, reduces stress, eases muscle tension, and enhances overall well-being by addressing energetic blockages that may manifest as physical discomfort or emotional distress.
