( John Sahakian takes a deep breath and ...)The 'lazy man's yoga",Health

John Sahakian takes a deep breath, and then his legs become contorted into a complex yoga posture. A few minutes later, his back moves into an arch in the shape of the letter "C."
Sahakian barely lifts a finger, or a leg for that matter. His instructor does the work for him, performing a Thai massage, an ancient technique characterized by lots of contorting and moving, with ironically little work on the client's part. Some people have even called Thai massage (or Thai yoga) the "lazy man's yoga."
"You're manipulated into letting go," //Sahakian said. "It feels very vulnerable sometimes because you're so open and on your back. Like a turtle lying upside down."

As its name suggests, a Thai massage involves some massage, but the main elements of the session include yoga poses and twisting.

"There's not anything that you have to do," said Phoebe Diftler, Sahakian's Thai massage therapist. "Sometimes you're asked to move over or from side to side or front to back or reach your arms back, but beyond that, breathing and just releasing into it are what you're supposed to do."

Diftler said the practitioner uses all different parts of the body.

"We use our hands and our feet and our forearms and our elbows and knees and actually the weight of the whole body," Diftler said. "There are parts of it that are a cooperative ... effort where it actually is two people, the practitioner and the receiver, in a pose together." Besides moving the client into various poses, therapists also massage acupressure points on the body.

According to Thai massage practitioners, blockages in energy lines are the roots of many illnesses. They say that stimulating the flow of this energy is the key to better health and the healing of serious health afflictions.

"There are meridians on the arms that are connected to organs and the entire body," Diftler said. "So as you press on the physical body and release tensi
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