Definitions for "Amma"
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A form of Asian bodywork therapy. According to author Carl Dubitsky, amma is the progenitor of all hand-healing therapies that assess and treat the energetic system.
Sometimes spelled "anma," it is the word for massage in both China and Japan. A gentle massage, it is based on principles of Chinese medicine and is over 5000 years old. Amma encompasses a complexity of techniques (of which shiatsu is but one) in which the practitioner uses thumbs, fingers, arms, elbows, knees and feet to press, stroke, stretch and perform percussive manipulations of the client's body. The technique does not use oils and can be done through clothing with the client sitting up or lying down.
An Asian therapy that manipulates vital points (tsubos) along the energy meridians with the fingers, elbows, knuckles and feet, to create energetic balance and health.
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mother, a compound often used in the names of female goddesses