Besides sticking with my morning routine, going to bed and waking up at my “normal times,” eating well, and melatonin, one of the BEST jet lag cures is a session of Thai massage.
Thai massage in Thailand is a real treat!
Over the last few decades of coming back to my motherland, I have enjoyed (indulged in) my favorite type of bodywork.
It’s not your usual relaxing massage, mind you, it’s more like whole-body acupressure, reflexology and stretching all in one, TWO-hour-long session.
Thai massage therapists can get chatty sometimes, especially if you start asking them questions. But it’s usually small talk; about this and that - nothing memorable per se.
I am usually in a zone of pleasure-pain anyhow.
That was not the case yesterday - my first session of the trip.
It was one of the best Thai massages I’ve gotten. Afterwards, my body felt like a new, improved piece of machine. What’s more, my mind was stimulated by the conversation I had with a very well trained therapist, Tsong.
“I started massaging my father when I was 10,” my “massage doctor” as we call them here, started her story.