Ayurvedic Yoga Massage — The Kusum Modak Method℠

A holistic healing dialogue for body, mind, and soul. This profound therapy combines over 120 maneuvers, deep breathwork, natural oils, and calamus-root powder to guide you into a state of healing and transformation.

"With every session, I can feel layers of tension melting away. It’s not just physical - it’s like my whole system resets. I leave feeling lighter, calmer, and more connected to myself. It really is an incredible feeling."

Claire T.

What Makes It Unique

Developed by Master Kusum Modak, who integrated traditional Yoga and Indian massage, the Kusum Modak Method℠ is recognized globally as one of the most complete therapeutic techniques. It uses hands and feet with slow, deep, sliding, traction and pressure movements—awakening circulation, realigning joints and spine, and inviting inner stillness.

With conscious breathing woven throughout, each session becomes a moving meditation, helping restore the flow of prana (vital energy) and ushering in an indescribable sense of well-being.

Physical

It relieves tension, realigns the spine, strengthens the immune system, nourishes the skin, balances the nervous system and hormonal production, releasing endorphins and well-being hormones.

Mental

Promotes relaxation, restores mind-body communication, improves focus and concentration, combats stress and its symptoms, such as insomnia, impatience, apathy and depression.

Emotional

It favors the process of self-knowledge, promotes the alignment of energy and emotional centers, awakens self-confidence and self-esteem.

The Ingredients of Healing

Each session is a synergy of ancient tools, intuitive touch, and deep listening.

The Kusum Modak Method℠ draws on the power of the body’s natural intelligence, paired with traditional Ayurvedic tools and carefully crafted movements. Every aspect of the session is intentional—designed to release what no longer serves and restore what’s essential: vitality, calm, connection, and flow.

Medicinal Oils & Calamus Root Powder

At the heart of this massage is a unique and powerful Ayurvedic blend: oil combined with calamus root powder (Vacha in Sanskrit).

Calamus is a revered medicinal plant in Ayurveda, known for its ability to stimulate circulation, detoxify tissues, and awaken the body's subtle energy channels (nadis).
Its slightly abrasive texture gently exfoliates the skin, increasing blood flow and lymphatic movement.
When applied with oil, it warms the muscles, loosens fascia, and allows for deeper, safer physical manipulation.
Energetically, calamus is said to balance excess Vata and Kapha doshas, restoring groundedness and clarity.

Together, this combination prepares the body to receive the full depth of the treatment, softening tension and opening the door to transformation.

120+ Therapeutic Maneuvers

This method is more than massage—it’s movement-based medicine.

Each session is a unique treatment, intuitively crafted using over 120 curated techniques, including:

Sliding strokes to lengthen and lubricate the tissue
Deep pressure to release chronic holding patterns
Tractions to create space in the joints and spine
Assisted yoga postures that gently stretch and realign the body

These maneuvers are adapted intuitively to your needs, meeting your body where it is on the day. They can:

Ease chronic pain and deeply held muscular tension
Improve posture and mobility
Support injury recovery and prevent recurrence
Unwind habitual stress patterns stored in the fascia and nervous system

Clients often describe the experience as feeling both structured and flowing, deep and tender, leaving them physically lighter and emotionally clearer.

Conscious Breathwork

Breath is not an afterthought in this therapy—it is the thread that holds everything together.

Throughout the session, you're invited to breathe consciously, using each inhale and exhale to support:

Relaxation of the nervous system
Presence in the body
Release of physical and emotional holding

This intentional breathwork transforms the massage from something being done to you, into something you're actively participating in. You become a co-creator in your own healing.

As the breath deepens, the mind begins to quiet.

This creates a natural state of meditation in motion, where healing can unfold not only in the body—but also in the subtle layers of the psyche and heart.

Together, these three ingredients—herbal touch, intelligent movement, and conscious breath—create a full-spectrum therapy that supports:

Long-term physical health
Nervous system balance
Emotional wellbeing
Energetic renewal
And a deeper sense of connection to Self

This is not surface-level bodywork. This is healing from the inside out.

TREATMENT PRICE

60 minutes:

£50
90 minutes:

£70

Therapeutic Ayurvedic Yoga Massage improves our physiological system, and generates bodily, mental, and emotional transformations. This unique blend is designed to address physical imbalances, pain, and strain by not only focusing on the muscles and joints but also on the underlying energy systems of the body.

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Location: At my home in Gomeral, I'll email address details on booking. I have two small dogs (Olive & Lily), please let me know in advance if you'd like me to keep them in another room rather than be greeted by them on arrival.

APPOINTMENT CANCELLATION:For cancellations made less than 48 hours before the scheduled treatment but more than 24 hours in advance, a 50% refund will be provided. Cancellations made within 24 hours of the appointment time or no-show appointments will incur the full charge with no refund. In all instances of cancellation, every effort will be made to fill the appointment slot in order to provide a full refund. However, please note that due to the timing of the cancellation, filling the appointment may not always be feasible.

Meet the Founder — Kusum Modak

A life devoted to healing, transformation, and the wisdom of the body

Kusum Modak was born in 1938 in Pune, India, into a traditional Brahmin family. Her father, a doctor, and her mother, a woman of strong faith and discipline, helped shape the qualities of clarity, compassion, and conviction that would later infuse her life's work.

In her early years, Kusum faced serious spinal and respiratory issues—challenges that conventional medicine could not fully resolve. At the age of 40, her personal search for healing led her deep into the roots of two ancient Indian sciences: Yoga and Traditional Indian Massage. What began as a personal journey became a calling.

With devotion and insight, she wove together these ancient practices into a powerful healing system: the Kusum Modak Method℠ of Ayurvedic Yoga Massage Therapy.

A Method Born from Direct Experience Kusum’s work is not theoretical. It was shaped by her own experience of pain, discipline, and eventual transformation. What makes her method so profound is that it doesn’t just treat the physical body—it meets the whole person, gently inviting balance on every level: muscular, energetic, mental, emotional, and spiritual.

Rather than teach a "style," Kusum shared a process:

A dialogue between giver and receiver.
A space of surrender, breath, and respectful guidance.
A method grounded in tradition, but evolving with presence.

"This massage is quite literally divine. It soothes my nervous system, helps me sleep deeply, and has eased my chronic back pain. I stand taller, breathe better, and feel genuinely cared for."

Julia M.

"At first, I came for relaxation—but what I found was something much deeper. The experience invited me into a space of self-awareness and connection between my body and mind that I didn’t expect. It's powerful work."

Helena M.

Amanda’s touch is intuitive and healing. This isn’t just massage - it’s therapy for the whole being. I sleep better, my digestion has improved, I move more freely, and feel emotionally more centred after every session."

Roxanne S.

What can I expect during a Modak Method Therapeutic Ayurvedic Yoga Massage?

In practical terms, treatments work on the whole body, with more emphasis on the areas that need more focus.

A session starts with an oil massage. This gradually warms up and softens muscle tissues and fascia, relaxes the body and mind, helps breathing and improves circulation.
We work specifically with the breath to help the nervous system to relax.
We use natural oils and a powder from the ground root of Acorus calamus, a wetland plant in the sweetflag family. This gives a pleasant exfoliating feeling, but mainly helps improve circulation and warm up the tissues, intensifying the benefits of the massage.
The oil massage is supported by gentle mobilisations, tractions and assisted (passive) yoga stretches if needed - I'm doing the work; not you. These help lengthen the tissues in a functional way, useful if you’ve had injuries. Through these gentle movements we help relax the tendons and ligaments, and improve the circulation and promote natural healing in joints.

Why is Therapeutic Ayurvedic Yoga Massage so beneficial?

Therapeutic Ayurvedic Yoga Massage works with both oil massage and movements, meaning your body gains all the benefits of both. I'll take time to understand your needs and your limits so you never feel over or under worked.
Combining working close to your limits and using breathing to help activate the parasympathetic nervous system helps release tension from even the most ‘stuck’ parts of your body.
Massaging, moving or stretching tense muscles can cause pain, resistance or agitation. The mindful touch and deep, relaxed breathing that AYM offers helps retrain the nervous system to not react in this way. This is great for moving you out of chronic pain.
This whole-person approach to Therapeutic Ayurvedic Yoga Massage gives a lasting feeling of being centred, where you are less likely to feel agitated or restless, and experience increased clarity of thought.
The approach aims to help you develop body awareness.

What's the best length for a treatment?

This depends on the individual: how quickly your body responds; how many parts of the body need deeper work; and your priorities/what you would like to get from your session. If you’d just like to relax and have an amazing full body massage experience then we’d recommend 90 minutes. If you’d like to start working deeper on different parts of your body then it depends how many parts of the body you’d like to work on, how quickly they respond, and whether you’d still like a full body massage as well as the deeper work. Generally, muscles will respond faster if (i) they haven’t been tight for a long time, and (ii) the body is used to yoga/bodywork/something where we feel some pain, breathe into it and then feel better. Then your brain associates being in that condition with relaxation rather than with danger/injury. We can work effectively on some people in 15 minutes, if they’re experienced yoga practitioners and we only work on the tightest part of their body. Many regulars prefer 2-3 hour sessions so they can have a full body massage with extra time to work deeper on the areas needing more attention. It’s really open ended as there’s always more that can be done!

What’s the difference between Thai massage and Therapeutic Ayurvedic Yoga Massage?

Traditional Thai massage is given with the client fully clothed, so it’s not an oil massage. In AYM we can warm up and soften the soft tissues and promote circulation quicker through oil massage, and particularly with the use of calamus powder. Once the soft tissues are warmed up with the oil massage, we find that the stretches work better. This is the brilliance of AYM, and specifically of Kusum Modak who developed this method.

As a modality does Therapeutic Ayurvedic Yoga Massage work with the nervous system and is it Trauma-Informed?

Therapeutic Ayurvedic Yoga Massage combines massage with tractions, mobilisations, rocking, and assisted stretches. Because it's dynamic we see where the body holds a lot tension, and we can work on getting the nervous system to release where we need it to with whichever tools seem to work best for you. It's often nothing short of miraculous.

What do I wear or am I completely naked?

During the session, you're typically undressed to your underwear and you have a folded lungi (soft cotton sheet) fashionably worn as a bandeau top. You're then draped with lungis - acting as soft cotton sheets. These sheets are continuously adjusted to ensure that the you remain covered at all times, with only the area being worked on exposed. Your comfort and modesty are always prioritised throughout the massage experience.

Originating from the Indian tradition, the Modak Method Ayurvedic Yoga Massage body therapy is a comprehensive Dynamic Yogic Bodywork modality that combines elements of deep tissue massage therapy, yoga-based assisted stretching (passive yoga), and coordinated breath-work into one treatment.
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Amanda Meadows (Dip.Ayurveda)
Yoga Teacher | Ayurvedic Massage Therapist
Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant | Clinical Somatics Educator

Gomersal, West Yorkshire | amanda@pranadi.co.uk | Tel. 07411 548052

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