Kansa Vatki Ayurvedic Foot & Calf Massage

IF YOUR FEET AIN'T 'ARF BEEN GIVING YOU GYP, you've come to the right place!

       Truly the Rolls-Royce of all Foot Rubs, Kansa Vatki Ayurvedic Foot & Calf Massage with Marma Therapy is a wonderful and preventative treatment that has been practised since Tutankhamun was in short pants!  

       You probably haven't heard much about it, but it's no less magical for all that.

       Kansa Vatki Ayurvedic Foot & Calf Massage with Marma Therapy is a beautiful, deeply relaxing health-care modality which balances the body, the mind and the spirit… through your feet!

       There are 107 main Marma points in the body, 14 of them being in your lower legs and feet. Stimulating these important points can help relieve certain conditions around your body and improve your overall energy flow.

       But at the heart of this treatment is the Kansa Vatki bronze bowl — a small three-metal bowl (or wand) that rebalances your body’s energy and the energy of your "doshas" (or Vata, Pitta and Kapha).

       With 28 separate moves on each foot, this Kansa (bronze) bowl is the secret weapon in this technique. With it, your lower limbs are comprehensively massaged, the vital nerve endings that terminate in your feet are stimulated, your circulation is improved and your nervous system is balanced.

       This unique and magical massage focuses 100% on your feet and lower limbs (as far as your knees) and places particular emphasis on stimulating your marma points, reflex points and energy centres (or chakras), through specific movements with the Kansa bowl, and simple massage techniques. 

       This treatment helps draw out excess heat, leaving your entire body cool, refreshed and relaxed. The use of clarified organic butter (ghee) is key to the magic (but rest assured, we can use organic coconut oil if you are vegan). The ultimate uplift comes from the addition of appropriate essential oils, either to match your body type or simply to make you feel like a regular human again.

       This beautiful, soothing massage is not only deeply relaxing, but also highly revitalising for tired feet and legs and so while it is good for everyone (of all ages), it is particularly helpful to anyone spending long hours on their feet. 

       And since this treatment cools the body down, it reduces inflammation and that makes it very beneficial to women going through the menopause (hot-flush hell!)

Whether it is ingested or simply slavered on your body, using Ghee isn’t like any other experience. It's more subtle than a stimulant — you could say more like switching on lubrication for both the body and mind.

• ENERGETIC FEEL:  On eating Ghee in a conscious way (warm, on an empty stomach, or with herbs), you will likely feel a gentle grounding at first, but soon that will feel like calm inner brightness. Ghee creates a sense of smoothness — your joints, digestion, even your thoughts feel “oiled.”
• BODY RESPONSE:  Youll feel a warmth in your stomach, have smoother digestion, and less irritation or “dryness” inside. Many describe it as if the body sighs in relief.
• MIND EFFECT:  You'll get the mental clarity and focus you need but withou the sharp edges — a “quiet fuel” feeling. Unlike coffee or stimulants, Ghee makes you feel steady and as if your energy is long-lasting, as if your energy has more depth and no rush.
• AT A DEEPER, SUBTLE LEVEL:  In Ayurveda, Ghee is said to carry subtle essences (ojas) into your tissues and even across the blood-brain barrier — so with long use people report memory sharpness, emotional stability, and deeper meditative states.

Where something like Shilajit feels like a “power surge of minerals”, Ghee feels like a silken river that lets energy flow smoothly without friction. Nice!

Sarah-Jane discovered therapeutic foot massage quite by chance. She says: “As a long-time carer for my Mum, I was often at my wits end trying to settle her when fear, anxiety, grief or rage flared out of control. 

       “Without much to go on, I had a pot of Vitamin E cream, and knew her mood could be lifted by Lavender essential oil — and with an ayurvedic blend for Vata imbalance (Sweet Orange, Geranium, Basil, Fennel and Marjoram). So in for a penny, I mixed a few drops of Vata oil into the cream and gently massaged her hands and feet to ease her daily Alzheimer’s melt downs, or when she woke in the night, upset by hallucinations. 

       “Well, as amateurish as my technique was back then, the oils and the foot massage really helped bring Mum back from the brink — especially when Mum was in hospital with a broken hip, parked in the dementia ward but with sufficient capacitystill to understand what was coming her way as her illness progressed… 

       “And the Vata oil would also help her drift off to sleep easily, so that she didn’t need any other medication.” 

       So buoyed up by this, and with a desire to help others regain their balance and emotional equilibrium too, Sarah-Jane started looking for courses so that she could formalise her experience — and as is often the way, the minute you start googling, Facebook randomly serves up an advert for a Kansa Vatki training course which she booked herself onto PDQ, and the rest is history. 

       Sarah-Jane completed the course, gained an anatomy and physiology qualification (as well as a CPD-certified Aromatherapy Diploma, where she got a Distinction) – and off she went. 

       She says: “This really is a lovely treatment. It soothes, calms, stimulates, invigorates and blisses you out, almost all at the same time. But it doesn’t just affect your physical body (joints, tendons, muscles etc), but brings balance to your mental, emotional and – if you’re in tune with it – your spiritual body too. 

       “You may just feel relaxed, or you may feel a burden being lifted off you. You may see colours, or have inspiring visions. You may simply get the ability to wiggle your toes again and release the swelling in your feet that makes them feel like blocks of wood. But whatever else, you will (without doubt!), have the best night’s sleep you’ve had since you were a kid!”