Body Secrets

Siddha the “Sage of Tradition”, is a philosophy that covers every secrets behind body, health and life. Siddha also works on levels other than the physical, and this is where it differs most radically from Western medicine. It is part of a world – view that accepts the existence of unseen, both as part of a human being and as external energies that can affect us.

Most treatment methods are intended to bring disturbed energies back into balance, allowing the body to heal itself.

According to Siddha Vaidyam, five mahabhutas or “great elements” – air, fire, water, earth and ether (or space) – constitute the world with everything in it, including ourselves, and they affect us through three primary forces called doshas ( meaning “flaws” ) : vata, pitta and kapha. Each dosha owes its character to the elements associated with it.

Channels of Energy

The doshas are not the only forces that affect us, because our non – physical body has its own detailed anatomy. Just as the blood carries oxygen around the body, another equally essential life force called prana circulates in channels of its own. At any junction – for example where two kinds of tissues meet, such as bone and tendon, or where the influences or two energies meet there are marma points, where energy sometimes gets blocked. One of the major energy channel follows the line of the backbone and is studded with seven important points chakras.