The word ‘Amnanda’ can be translated as ‘the path to joy’, or ‘the path to bliss’. It’s a specialist Ayurvedic therapy that was developed by trial and error over time, starting about 300 years ago. The lineage behind it dates back as far as the Buddha’s time in India, around 500 BC.
The treatment works on multiple levels. It relieves stress and anxiety, dissolves past traumas, rejuvenates the person receiving it both physically and mentally, and brings a more balanced perspective to the challenges of daily life.
To receive this treatment, you lie on your back, mostly unclothed, on a massage table. Your body is covered with a sheet or duvet. In a setting that induces deep relaxation, the therapist starts by applying a specially formulated oil to the face. Then the arms are uncovered and treated, followed by the chest, stomach, and legs. The recipient then turns over and the process is repeated on the back part of the body. The oil is applied or ‘anointed’ with a slow, gentle touch over a 45 minute to one hour period.
Amnanda can’t be called a massage, and it’s not a beauty treatment, at least not in the conventional sense of the word! It is a process of rejuvenation as described above, which is undertaken over a 12 month period. The recipient usually has a treatment once a month over this timeframe until the process is complete at number 12. The interval between treatments can be extended to six weeks if required.
Amnanda is done in a special setting, which encourages a deep relaxation in the person receiving it. You may experience a dreamlike state somewhere between consciousness and sleep.
The oils have specially treated herbs, which facilitate the rejuvenation and healing of the body. The quality of the touch of the therapist has a metabolic and epigenetic effect on the body, which also encourages a healing response.
There is also a psychological aspect to the treatment, which works mostly at a subconscious level. What this means is that whatever stress and trauma you may have experienced recently or in the distant past, and which is still affecting you on a conscious or subconscious level, is changed. It is not forgotten – instead you form a new interpretation of those events. This is actually a change in neurology. When it happens, events that in the past may have caused you psychological and physical distress, lose their power. You are released from their influence.
Why do Amnanda?
Reasons to do the Amnanda treatment include:
- Release of deep-seated trauma and stress
- Better metabolism, leading to increased energy
- Bodily rejuvenation – feeling and looking younger
- Longevity – increasing your potential towards a long and healthy life
Who can benefit from the Amnanda Process?
There are times throughout life when we all experience stress and trauma. We may feel that we have some negativity that we’d like to transform into positivity. We might think that we’re not living the life we want to live and we long to find a more authentic way of being in the world.
It’s at times like these, or when we feel we’ve reached a turning point, or we’re starting something new, that Amnanda can help make it happen.
- You might be embarking on a new career. You might be about to become a parent for the first time. Maybe you’re entering a new relationship. You might have retired and now you want to redefine the ‘third age’ of life in a positive way. Re-inventing yourself.
- You want to turn the clock back a bit, slow down the ageing process. And you want to have good health for the rest of your life.
- You might have experienced injuries on a psychological and / or physical level and you would like to find healing.
- You have lost loved ones and experienced grief, and you want to move on from that.
- You simply wish to be or become more relaxed and happy. You want equanimity in your life.