{"id":176,"date":"2018-03-01T19:58:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T19:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greekmedicine.net\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2024-02-25T14:16:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T14:16:17","slug":"david-wells-teacher-of-thai-yoga-reusi-dat-ton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greekmedicine.net\/blog\/events\/david-wells-teacher-of-thai-yoga-reusi-dat-ton.html","title":{"rendered":"DAVID WELLS, TEACHER OF THAI YOGA (REUSI DAT TON)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This blog post article introduces my readers to the work of David Wells in the teaching of Reusi Dat Ton, or Thai Yoga. It also explains how Thai Yoga, or Reusi Dat Ton, is related to Traditional Thai Medicine, and is a part of it. It also shows how Traditional Thai Medicine shares some points in common with Greek Medicine.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

My Introduction to David Wells and Thai Yoga<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"David-Wells\"<\/a>I was first introduced to David Wells and Reusi Dat Ton, <\/strong>or Thai Yoga, when I attended an evening seminar that David hosted on the subject at the Oh Happy Days Natural Food Store in Altadena, California.\u00a0 The presentation was interesting, lively, and beautified with a magnificent slide show of Thai artwork that David had amassed from his years in Thailand.\u00a0 But this wasn\u2019t just any traditional Thai art; David was showing slides of artwork depicting Thai hermits practicing the techniques and poses of Thai Yoga, which he called Reusi Dat Ton.\u00a0 The Thai name for their traditional yoga system means something like \u201cThe Self-Stretching Exercises of Sages\u201d, since the Thai word \u201cReusi\u201d is related to the Sanskrit word, \u201cRishi\u201d, denoting a hermit or sage.\u00a0 David told us that he had studied Reusi Dat Ton with traditional masters of this yoga when he was stationed with the Peace Corps in Thailand.\u00a0 I had a nice chat with him after his art show and presentation, and learned that, like me, he had also studied Ayurveda, but not at the Ayurvedic Institute like I did, but rather at the California College of Ayurveda in Grass Valley.\u00a0 Thai Yoga was the yoga and healing system that gave birth to Thai Massage, which is now enjoying great popularity due to its combination of yoga stretches with massage techniques.<\/p>\n

David Wells later let me sit in on a Thai Yoga workshop that he was giving at a yoga studio in nearby Sierra Madre.\u00a0 In the class, he led the students through a series of stretching and self massage exercises designed to soften, flex and reduce tension, stiffness and pain in every joint in the body.\u00a0 It was amazing how he worked all the major joints, from head to toe, in a rigorous and systematic manner, and after going through this routine, all the students felt a whole lot better, including myself.\u00a0 Although you can pay a practitioner of Thai Massage a considerable sum of money to have them stretch and massage your joints for you, it\u2019s nice to know that its parent healing art, Reusi Dat Ton, has devised a system that allows you to do this valuable stretching and massage therapy on yourself.\u00a0 In recognition of Reusi Dat Ton\u2019s great value to patients and clients in helping them to reduce chronic joint pain and stiffness, David now works at a treatment center for chronic pain in upstate New York.<\/p>\n