Renowned for services ranging from eyelash extensions and laser hairremoval to chakra balancing and chi revitalizing, Bangkok is host toan exotic and bizarre array of treatments and therapies. Aquintessential component to this multi-faceted jamboree, traditionalThai massage is perhaps the most well-known and celebrated ofBangkok's pampering services. As the Japanese delicately knead fleshin accordance with Shiatsu and the Chinese offer rubs followingprinciples of Tui-Na, Thailand presents a signature massagetechnique involving traditional systems of holistic beliefs.

Thaimassage draws significant influence from India's ancient Ayurvedictraditions of medical practice. Ayurvedic medicine, also a holisticform of healing, plays an integral role in the practice of bothHinduism and Therevada Buddhism. Monks and similar practitioners ofhealing transmitted Ayurvedic techniques to Thailand some 2,500years ago, thus giving birth to the wonderful phenomenon that isThai massage.