Ayurvedic Massage

I decided to try an ayurvedic massage at one of the hotels I was staying at. This 5,000-year-old Indian healing method  utilizes medicated herbal oil to bring harmony to the mind, body, and spirit. That may be true, but my body was completely doused in oils. The treatment I received began with ayurvedic practitioner Shaiya having me remove all clothing and wearing nothing but those lovely paper panties. Sitting on a small wooden bench, she first gave me a pizhichil. which is a "dusting" of a cloth dipped herbal oils dip all over my body.  Next she poured warm oil on my head and proceeded to chant, and gave me a wonderful head massage.  She followed that up with a marma abhyanga, a massage with warm organic extra virgin coconut oil, organic sesame oil, and various other oils that is supposed to leave the skin revitalized. I just felt like a greased pig and could not wash the oil out of my hair or off my body for two days.