Find Your Bliss With Ayurvedic Services at Sense of Samadhi

Words are what I work with every day. I write about anything from businesses to fundraising events and everything in between. So I laughed a little when I was interviewing Shyam Stephen Alling about the Ayurvedic healing he does at Sense of Samadhi and he said it wasn’t something he could describe with words, it had to be experienced.

About an hour later, when I climbed out of his steam bath, I, too was speechless.

Now, a couple weeks later, I have at least one word to describe what the treatment was like, but Alling is right - this is something you have to experience for yourself.

Bliss. It was the word Alling used when he came back into the room after I changed back into my street clothes.

I don’t know if I retained much more than that.

By the time my hour treatment was over, I had a peaceful feeling and wasn’t really processing much from an intellectual place. And that is what bliss is for Alling.

“For me, the bliss state feel like a very calm and peaceful place,” he said.

I experienced Abhyanda then swedhana, which is a steam bath.

Abhyanda is like a massage, but there is a very specific way that oil is applied to the skin.

And, the type of oil, in fact the type of treatment, varies depending on what dosha one is exhibiting that day.

In Ayurvedic treatment, each of the three energies believes to circulate the body and govern physiological activity is called a dosha. There are three: Vata, Pitta and Kapha. On that particular day (on most days), I had more Kapha.

Doshas refer to the different states of the body.

“Pitta is fire, Vata is wind and Kapha is earth,” Alling said.

“When the doshas are present in appropriate quantities, they support the health and integrity of the body; when they are out of balance, they can cause illness and disease,” Alling said.

So the idea of ayvedic healing is to balance the doshas. By doing so, clients often experience feeling a state of bliss.

For the body to heal, you have to bring the body into a blissful state of a Samadhi state,”

“That’s where all of the body’s natural healing mechanisms kick in is in that state.

Alling is a Ayurvedic body worker who is officially titled Parkarma technician

The training for that is four levels and Alling is at level three.

Ayurvedic is the sister science of yoga.

“Part of your yoga teacher training the hours you get, does count towards Ayurvedic certification,” Alling said. “I have well over 1500 hours of yoga and yoga therapy training.”

Alling began his journey in Ayurvedic healing last summer.

“It’s the natural path side of yoga,” he said. “It matched up with the other skill sets I have.

“In the yoga world, it’s another tool in your bag.”

To make an appointment with Alling, visit gongbaths.com