The History Of Head Massage

We need to go back to our early ancestors and even to our primate cousins to find the origins of massage. Grooming behaviour was one of early mankind's ways of building social structures. This instinctive technique for dealing with aches and for relieving stress would have been part of everyday life long before language was invented.

It takes a lot of trust for one human to let another touch their head. But our ancestors knew what was good for them. Massage therapy's aim is the promotion of good health. Early humans figured this out and applied it daily.

Cave paintings in Europe depict scenes of "healing touch", massage therapy in its original forms. Ancient Chinese wrote about health treatments involving therapeutic massage. Hindu scripts regularly talk of massage. The Ayurvedic tradition absorbed massage as an integral part of its teachings.

In modern times, Ayurvedic practitioners helped popularise Indian head massage in the west.