Health Desk- 13 Dec,
2019: The back-cracking traditional Thai massage has been added to a
prestigious Unesco heritage list.
Nuad Thai is now part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of
Humanity, which features traditions and practices passed across the
generations.
By being part of the list, Thai massage has been recognised
as something to be preserved for future generations.
Unesco is the United Nations' agency for education, culture,
and science.
The intangible cultural heritage list is separate from the
world heritage list, which recognises buildings and sites of prominence.
There are 550 items on the cultural heritage list - split
into three categories - from 127 countries.
Items are added every year, with this year's committee
meeting in Bogota, Colombia.
Unlike conventional massages, Thai massages involve a lot of
movement and typically sees people assuming a series of different positions.
Therapists use not only their hands but sometimes their
forearms and knees to apply pressure. There is also no oil involved in Nuad
Thai massage.
According to Unesco, the practice has its "roots in
self-care in Thai peasant society of the past, [where] every village had
massage healers whom villagers would turn to when they had muscle aches from
working the field".
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