Sukshma Marma Therapist: Marek Lorys

Sukshma Marma Therapist: Marek Lorys Sukshma Marma is a very gentle massage treatment that is deeply relaxing and healing - visit https://marmatherapy.org for more info. Please ask! Cost: £40/hour.

Welcome to Sukshma Marma Therapist: Marek Lorys. I was trained by Dr Schrott and am a qualified Sukshma Marma therapist. Sukshma Marma Therapy is a very gentle massage treatment of the body's vital points (Marmas) and energy channels (Nadis). It forms part of the age-old Ayurvedic approach to health and was revived by Dr Ernst Schrott, a German doctor, and Dr Raju, a famous Indian Ayurvedic physician. For more information on Sukshma Marma Therapy, visit: www.sukshmamarma.org. Sukshma Marma Therapy can be used to:
- Rejuvenate and relax
- Release blocked energy
- Strengthen, revitalise and detoxify the body

This gentle treatment can help with:
- Tension, Insomnia, Tinnitus
- Back problems, RSI
- Headaches
- Tired and strained eyes
- Many other everyday complaints

Treatments include:
- Sukshma Marma Taster
- Back treatment
- Face/head treatment
- Hand treatment
- Foot treatment
- Energy massages

All the treatments bring about profound rest and relaxation as well as balancing, rejuvenating and healing effects. Treatment sessions include one or more of the treatments listed above and can also include specific treatments depending on individual conditions. Treatments in Newhaven, East Sussex, take place in a purpose-built treatment studio constructed according to the principles of Maharishi Sthapatya Veda to promote good health. SPECIAL OFFER: £10 off first treatment. Book now on 01273 612477 or 07946 386290 or e-mail: mareklorys@gmail.com.

'My mind became free from all concerns and thoughts and I felt a deep inner peace with life. A few days later I noticed that my health had improved as a result of this treatment.'

For more information on Sukshma Marma, visit: www.sukshmamarma.org

Back pain?Back pain? It can be awful, or an ache or a ni**le. And so many people get it. I’ve found that Marma therapy i...
12/09/2025

Back pain?
Back pain? It can be awful, or an ache or a ni**le. And so many people get it. I’ve found that Marma therapy is extraordinarily helpful, while at the same time being totally gentle and non-invasive (the last thing you want when your back is hurting is for someone to prod you!).

Sometimes it needs barely a touch – one time a lady was sitting for a talk but complained of back pain, and I asked if I could put my hand over the appropriate Marma point. When she agreed, I just put my hand there for a few seconds. Later she came up to me and said: ‘What did you do – the pain has gone?’

Sometimes it needs a bit more of a treatment, which can be done standing up, just a few minutes, but again the results can be very quick.

Where the pain has been there some time, it may need a full back treatment on the massage couch, with a gentle treatment using a blend of essential oils and finishing with a hot towel. A social media expert with a bad back said after a back treatment: ‘I feel I’ve got a new back! So relaxing!’

Both relaxing and therapeutic
Which brings me to another point: the treatments are incredibly relaxing, as well as helping with the back. A local businessman hobbled in recently – every now and then he has severe back problems and has to be taken by ambulance to hospital, because he is totally incapacitated and just falls to the ground. Well, he hobbled in but walked out. He also commented that: ‘You know, this is the only place I really relax’.

And there are also people with acute pain who require several short treatments over a few days.

Please visit my Testimonials Page to read reviews, many mentioning the relief of back pain.

So if you know anyone with a back problem, please encourage them to come for a Marma treatment!

One Week’s Wonderful Marma ExperiencesOver the past week I received news of some wonderful Marma experiences.What was un...
05/09/2025

One Week’s Wonderful Marma Experiences

Over the past week I received news of some wonderful Marma experiences.

What was unusual was that they covered not just the usual in person treatments here in the Studio, but also 5-minute Marma taster treatments, Distance Treatments, self Marma treatments (using the daily Marmas of the Moon mailings) and even the results of trainee Marma therapists carrying out case studies on family and friends.

The results are amazing and just highlight the basic principle in Marma Therapy: do the treatment innocently, without any expectations, and this creates a situation where Nature can heal. And when Nature heals, this is the kind of thing that happens:

– following a single one-hour treatment, a client with heart issues reported: ‘I would like you to know that since my treatment with you my heart has been much better and the occurrences of atrial fibrillation have reduced considerably to the extent that I don’t think that I have had one since the middle of December. My heart rate also seems to be much more under control. This is absolutely wonderful for me so thank you and to all those that work with you.’

– after distance treatment, a man with painful knees wrote: ‘I hope you remember me? You did a distance session for my knees. They’re still pain free. It’s delightful and astonishing.’

Taster treatments
– on a recent ‘Introduction to Marma Therapy’ workshop I did 5-minute Marma taster treatments for 3 of the course participants who hadn’t experienced Marma therapy before. Even though the procedure was almost identical for all 3, the experiences were very different:

– the first person, who’d had a fall a week earlier and had cut and bruised her face, said that she could feel the trauma of the fall lifting from her, and that she felt much more connected with herself;

– the second person, who was quite sceptical about Marma therapy and had injured his big toe some time ago and it hadn’t healed said that, after that short treatment, the toe felt much better. A couple of days later when I spoke to him he confirmed that the toe was still pain-free and his partner said that its colour was now the same as the other big toe, no longer looking red and inflamed;

– the third person, who had anxiety issues, said ‘There was a release of trapped anxious energy. My anxiety disappeared’. A couple of days later he said ‘I feel significantly better and calmer’;

Marmas of the Moon – self-treatment
– the next experience was from Marma self-treatment. After practising self-treatment using the daily Marmas of the Moon mailings, a couple reported: ‘We both find it calming both emotionally and physically. I am not a great morning person; I quite often wake in a dark place and can still feel rough after [morning meditation] and the Marma Therapy has been most helpful in smoothing this out and bringing stillness and peace.’ He added that his wife:’ has found it likewise calming and peaceful and that it’s helpful with her backache.’

– and – another different perspective: a trainee Marma therapist wrote after a case study that the client ‘went deep, and afterwards said that she felt as if there was an angel holding her feet throughout. Isn’t that lovely?’

As you can see, many different types of treatment! The common thread in all this is Sukshma Marma Therapy – whether the person has a short treatment or a long one, whether they have distance treatment or do treatments for themselves, or even if they are training to be Marma Therapists, the results are wonderful, and available to all.

So, wherever you are in the world, if you would like to experience Marma therapy for yourself, or would just like to know more about it, please let me know!

What is Marma Therapy – I’ve never heard of it!When someone says this to me – and a lot of people do! – I say: have you ...
01/09/2025

What is Marma Therapy – I’ve never heard of it!

When someone says this to me – and a lot of people do! – I say: have you heard of acupuncture or acupressure? ‘Of course’ ‘Well, Marma Therapy has the same understanding, which is that in addition to the physical body, we also have an energy body, with energy flowing through.’

Traditional Chinese Medicine uses the word ‘meridians’ to describe the channels where the energy flows. Ayurveda – which is where Marma therapy comes from – uses the word Nadis, but it’s the same idea. Ayurveda tells us there are some 72,000 of these channels, and that they converge on specific points on the body. These are the Marma points. This is why the Marmas are so useful in treating patients.

Blocked energy – meridians and Nadis

Sometimes the channels, or Nadis, get blocked, and when they are blocked, then the energy can’t flow freely. This can result in physical or emotional symptoms. What we do in Sukshma Marma Therapy is to enliven the energy that is already there, and when the energy is enlivened, then it starts flowing again and releases the blockages.

Gentleness is the key
And how do we treat the Marmas? Very carefully and tenderly! In Sukshma Marma Therapy we don’t use needles, we don’t use pressure, we don’t tap, it’s just a very gentle massage treatment using wonderful blends of essential oils. The gentleness is the key!

You know how it is when someone approaches you aggressively – you tense up and shut down. And you know how you react when someone approaches you in a friendly and gentle way? You just relax and open up. And it’s the same with the Marmas – when you treat them gently, they and the whole physiology just relax and open up – and the result is that people relax very deeply very quickly.

107 or 108?!
In the traditional literature – the Sushruta Samhita – there are 107 Marmas listed. This is interesting, because it’s always 108 that is the important number. So what is missing from this list of 107 Marmas that would make it up to 108? My wonderful teacher Dr Schrott explained that the 108th is Atma or the inner Self (capital S) of the person. So when we treat one Marma, this enlivens the whole network of Marmas throughout the body, and when this network is enlivened, then this enlivens the person’s inner Self. Which is why people feel reconnected and at peace during a treatment.

When the body relaxes, it heals – it’s what the body does when it has an opportunity to rest. This deep relaxation in itself is profoundly healing. In addition, each Marma has a special connection to a specific organ or organ system or joint. We use this knowledge to treat specific Marmas in a specific order in order to bring about specific therapeutic effects, like easing back pain, reducing shoulder pain, sinusitis, headaches, emotional issues, so many different conditions.

So Sukshma Marma treatments are delightful in themselves and also very helpful in a range of conditions. To find out more, book a treatment or contact me for more information.

Have you read Marma Therapy – the book?Marma Therapy – The Healing Power of Ayurvedic Vital Point Massage by Dr Ernst Sc...
29/08/2025

Have you read Marma Therapy – the book?

Marma Therapy – The Healing Power of Ayurvedic Vital Point Massage by Dr Ernst Schrott
How do you translate from a language you don’t know? That’s the problem I had when Dr Schrott invited me to translate his brilliant book ‘Marmatherapie’ from German into English so that it could reach a wider audience. I had been translating professionally for over 20 years, but I translate from Polish, French and Italian into English. The solution? A combination of modern technology – online translation – to create the initial draft, plus Dr Schrott’s wonderful attention. Over the course of a year we connected by Skype – he would have an hour available after his medical practice closed, or during a weekend, and I might be in the UK, Italy, India or America – and we would go over every sentence, many times, to make sure that it conveyed the correct information. And that’s how we translated Marma Therapy – the Book.

As we worked through the book, I would ask questions about anything unfamiliar in the text. For me, it was an advanced course in Marma with the world’s best tutor. But it also resulted in the English text having more advanced information than the German original. So Dr Schrott then updated the original to reflect the new English-language version!

Going through the text with Dr Schrott was such an amazing privilege. I could see that the book contained extraordinary information that could benefit every individual and every family. Simply put, this was information to improve health, prevent illness and treat everyday complaints using the simplest of healing methods – a gentle healing touch of Marma points on the body.

The 3 main sections of Marma Therapy – the book
The book ‘Marma Therapy – The Healing Power of Ayurvedic Vital Point Massage’ by Dr Ernst Schrott has three main sections. The first provides background and explains some of the benefits. Using Marma therapy ‘we can improve eyesight, balance the digestive system, alleviate headaches, reduce tension and alleviate or cure many other everyday complaints’. It explains how we all have healing power in our hands and how we can use this.

This first section also explains what the Marmas are and how they are connected to each other and to joints, organs and organ systems as well as to the inner Self or ‘Atma’. This reconnection of the individual to their inner Self is what makes the gentle or ‘Sukshma’ Marma approach so powerful, and makes treatments blissful and relaxing. The Marmas also connect the individual to the outer environment. In the words of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the great Vedic scholar and teacher, they are a ‘cosmic switchboard’.

Very practically, there is information about the hierarchical order and structure of the Marmas, how they relate to Ayurvedic principles, types of Marma therapy and different treatment approaches and methods.

Parts 2 and 3
The second part lists the 107 principal Marmas. There are two pages of information for each Marma, with illustrations and photographs. This information includes the conditions for which you would treat this Marma, how to find it, and how to treat it for yourself or for a partner. This is an incredibly useful, straightforward, systematic and well-illustrated guide to self- and partner-treatment. It is a wonderful reference guide for both therapists and non-therapists.

The final part of the book has some amazing gems! There is an extraordinarily helpful chapter entitled ‘Supporting Self-healing with Marmas and Ayurveda’. This includes a section with a list of different conditions that can be treated with Marma Therapy. The conditions include back, neck and joint pain, menstrual disorders, anxiety and skin disorders, among many other everyday complaints.

Marmas and the moon
Another section is about the moon and Marmas. We know that the movement of the moon creates tidal flows in waters all over the world every day. And of course every sailor knows that the highest tides occur after the new moon and full moon. Dr Schrott explains that the moon also affects the Marmas as it travels through the lunar month. He lists which Marma gets ‘lit up’ on each day and how to use this knowledge to treat specific conditions and to increase overall vitality.

Finally, there is a useful index that includes the everyday complaints mentioned in the book. These refer you to descriptions of the Marmas to treat – and in which order – for those conditions. All in all, Marma Therapy – the book is a straightforward and well-illustrated reference guide to the Marmas – and I use it regularly. I’m so glad I had the opportunity to work on the translation – it’s been an invaluable companion in my practice.

You can buy a copy of ‘Marma Therapy’ from me if you are visiting (I’ll even sign it for you if you wish!) or buy it from Amazon.

Healing Hands Sometimes people ask about my own journey in becoming a Sukshma Marma therapist. This is what I tell them:...
22/08/2025

Healing Hands
Sometimes people ask about my own journey in becoming a Sukshma Marma therapist. This is what I tell them: a couple of days after my father died, I was in Ealing shopping centre, feeling a bit lost. I noticed that Suzanne, a psychic, was giving readings and, on a whim, I booked in. The first words she said to me were: ‘You’ve got healing hands’.

I saw her 3 times in total and each time she started the same way: ‘You’ve got healing hands’. I must confess I ignored her – I thought she just said that to everyone. But five years later I saw an intuitive in central London. This time the message was stronger. ‘You’ve got healing hands and you need to do something about it!’

So I started looking online for a technique that might suit me. Nothing really grabbed me. But I did find one technique that involved holding the hands over different areas of the body. When I tried that, I could feel warmth in my hands and some enlivenment of energy in the body. It surprised me.

Then, in 2013, while in Australia, I saw a lovely man called Colin who told me that healing was soon to be my life. I was a translator at the time. I worked hidden away in a back room in front of a computer. Hands-on treatments were a polar opposite to my usual work. But I had also just recommenced teaching Transcendental Meditation after a gap of a few years, and that took me to a course in the centre of India.

From India to Watford
There my room-mate told me about a gentle healing technique called Sukshma Marma (Sukshma means ‘gentle’ in Sanskrit) taught by Dr Ernst Schrott, a brilliant German doctor. This sounded intriguing. I contacted the course organiser in the UK. It turned out that the next foundation course (there was only one a year) would start the evening my plane from Delhi landed in London. And the course venue was 30 minutes from the airport. So I went straight from the airport to the course.

On the course I met Dr Schrott. He was a warm and friendly man and he explained that Sukshma Marma Therapy was simple, natural, easy to learn and very effective. He explained what the Marmas were and how we should treat them. And then… he offered to demonstrate the technique and asked for a volunteer.

The first demonstration
A lady put up her hand and explained that she had been involved in three road traffic accidents some years ago, which had resulted in whiplash injuries and she had very limited movement in her neck, and experienced back and shoulder pain. Dr Schrott invited her to come to the front and, while at the same time explaining what he was doing to all the students and also speaking to the patient to ask how she felt as the treatment proceeded, did very simple massage movements using aromatherapy blends on the Marma points of her back, hands, arms and neck.

After 20 minutes’ treatment, with no fuss, no drama, she was able to move her head to the left and right, forward and backward, and the pains had gone. A miracle had just taken place in front of my eyes – I was hooked!

This example is of a musculoskeletal issue, but Dr Schrott was also able to help with many other conditions, including deep-rooted emotional trauma, and these sessions, in addition to being extraordinary, were some of the most moving. [More about the wonderful Dr Schrott here]

And… it worked!
On the course it didn’t feel like learning, more like remembering. When I went home after the course, I tried out what I had learned on anyone who came through the door: my friends, my mum’s carers, a central heating salesman. And – it worked! People experienced profound relaxation. That delighted me. They felt happier, as if they had taken a step forward in their lives. I was just trying out the technique – and it worked.

As a result, I became more comfortable and relaxed with the process. Then people started reporting that specific issues were resolving. Chronic headaches went away, joint pain subsided, people with frozen shoulders were able to move more freely. Amazing! I was so glad to have been guided to this technique.

Sometimes the results were immediate: an earache that went away after a few seconds’ treatment, a backache that resolved after a touch on the painful area, carpal tunnel syndrome pains disappearing. Other cases required a longer treatment or a course of treatments. And while the treatments helped in many cases, sometimes patients required additional assistance.

After that…
I continued going to all of Dr Schrott’s courses – I found them totally fascinating. And I had the amazing privilege of working with Dr Schrott on the translation of his brilliant book ‘Marma Therapy’ into English, which was like doing an advanced Marma Therapy course with the world’s leading specialist! Giving Marma treatments and seeing people get better has been a real gift.

For more information, contact Marek at mareklorys@gmail.com or SMS to 07946 386290

Carpal Tunnel SyndromeThere’s a special Marma treatment for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. I was very surprised when my Marma t...
15/08/2025

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

There’s a special Marma treatment for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. I was very surprised when my Marma teacher Dr Ernst Schrott told us about it. Surprised, and a bit sceptical. I was used to Marma treatments bringing about profound relaxation, but improvements in a condition as specific as CTS?

But then I went to a well-being fair to give Marma taster treatments. I was busy all day but just before the fair closed, one of the stallholders came up to me. Would I give a treatment to her husband, who was suffering from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, and had been for some time?

Although it was the end of the afternoon session, I fitted him in. I just followed the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome protocol that Dr Schrott had taught us. The treatment doesn’t take long. I had one request for the client – could you let me know if there is any change? Then I waited.

And waited. Days passed and I sent a message to ask how he was getting on. No answer. Then I saw his wife at another well-being fair and asked about her husband’s CTS. She said it had completely gone after the treatment.

It’s an interesting thing: once our pain has gone, we often lose all interest in and memory of a problem that may have troubled us for years! We just want to get on with our lives.

Sometimes it needs more than one treatment. A client came for a treatment because her right shoulder was hurting. It had been painful for some months. The first treatment reduced the pain a lot, and then she mentioned that she had numbness in the fingers of the right hand.

So I also did the CTS treatment for her, and later taught her how to do it for herself at home. I recommended doing it daily.

She did it for a couple of days and found the numbness receded, so she stopped doing the self-treatment. A little bit of numbness continued and I suggested she do the treatment daily for a while. Then she told me that it had gone away completely.

Oh, and the shoulder pain was completely gone after a second treatment, too.

We’re much more than we think we are!We’re so much more than we think we are! On my first Marma course, we were learning...
08/08/2025

We’re much more than we think we are!
We’re so much more than we think we are! On my first Marma course, we were learning the brilliant Sukshma Marma Therapy scar treatment with Dr Schrott. He held his hand over the scar on the leg of a course participant who was lying on the massage table, moved it along the scar – still in the air, not touching the skin – from one end to the other and back again. He did this a couple of times. Then he turned round and asked us: ‘Which direction felt easier than the other – which was more like stroking a cat in the right direction, and which felt like the wrong way?’

We all picked the same direction. What? What had just happened? We had all felt that one direction seemed to flow more easily, and that the hand was experiencing some resistance when going in the other direction.

But that’s not possible, is it? We did this repeatedly and almost always there was agreement about the direction of the energy flow. Now that I train new Marma Therapists, I ask the same question of my students. They too feel the energy flow. Even if they’ve never done it before.

How many more abilities do we have that we don’t know about? At a meeting some years ago, we were given blank A4 sheets of paper. Then we were paired up and told to draw something relevant to the other person – but without speaking to them.

How on earth do you do that? I panicked and just – started to doodle. One of my default doodles since school was a simple aircraft. So that’s what I drew. When I finished the plane I drew some mountains behind it. Then I thought it would be nice to have a lake … and then some buildings.

When the time for the exercise was up, we had to swap pages. I felt very embarrassed by my effort but handed over the doodling. My partner looked a bit shocked. She said that this was exactly the place she was going in a few day’s time for her family holiday. Mountains behind, a lake on the right, buildings to the left. I had put in one building too many, that was all.

A friend of mine ‘sees’ points on the body that need attention. Another friend can feel where there are blockages in the body and is able to help resolve them by gentle manipulation.

All of this reminds me of the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland saying: ‘Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’

Sukshma Marma Therapy seems to fall into this area of – how is that even possible? How does something so simple have such profound effects? It doesn’t even need to be done by the therapist, even self-treatment can be very effective.

In addition to giving Sukshma Marma treatments in person, I also teach Marma self-treatment procedures to clients, sometimes in person, sometimes online – this includes the Marmas of the Moon, of course.

The procedures involve simple movements interspersed with moments of rest over specific energy points, or Marmas on the body. And – it works! People with bladder / prostate issues report that they don’t have to get up so many times in the night. Clients with carpal tunnel syndrome say the numbness in their fingers recedes. People with emotional issues say they feel happier.

My conclusion: we are much more than we think we are and we can do much more than we think we can. AI technology is all the rage now, but we’re probably capable of doing most things that AI does, but naturally, and in a more integrated and life-supporting way. We just need to expand our horizons.

The great Vedic scholar, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, said ‘individual potential of life is cosmic potential’ and he also said ‘Marmas are the cosmic switchboards in the human body’. By connecting with the cosmic value of life through the Marmas, horizons naturally expand.

[If you’ve enjoyed this, you might like this account of how a client’s crooked finger (it had healed badly following a fracture) straightened after a brief Sukshma Marma treatment: https://marmatherapy.org/crooked-finger-straightens/

Enjoying traffic in IndiaEnjoying traffic in India: tailgating, overtaking on both sides, swerving in and out of lanes, ...
25/07/2025

Enjoying traffic in India

Enjoying traffic in India: tailgating, overtaking on both sides, swerving in and out of lanes, hooting constantly to let people know you want to overtake them – that would lose you your driving licence in the UK.

In India, it’s the norm, in fact many vehicles have the words ‘Sound Horn’ painted on their backs to encourage overtaking drivers to let them know they are there. And somehow everyone seems to get on – cyclists, motorcyclists, tuk-tuks, taxis, vans, trucks and the supreme beings on the roads: buses. All travelling at different speeds, weaving in and out. And it all seems to work.

And of course, if there’s no one coming the other way, that’s a great opportunity to use the full width of the road. So you might be barrelling along a two-lane road and then you notice that, in front of you, coming towards you, a bus has decided to overtake a lorry.

How I have learned to deal with such moments: no screaming, no ‘brace, brace, brace’, just close the eyes and … keep them closed.

There was a particularly brilliant driver in Kerala. One time over lunch the subject of his driving came up and we all admitted how frightened we were when he drove. He was very keen to get ahead of everyone and functioned on an extraordinarily high level of alertness.

He reminded me of one of those deities with four arms that are so popular in India: one arm was for the steering wheel, a second for the gear stick, a third was permanently on the horn and the fourth was taking phone calls and texting. I’ve been with many other drivers – they’re less frightening and slower, but they just don’t have his level of mind-body coordination.

Riding pillion
I also had one other, very different, traffic experience. I wanted to have a Vedic ceremony for my family members who have passed away. It was a beautiful and emotional ceremony, even for the celebrant, as at one point he had to stop because he was overcome with emotion!

The ceremony involved offerings of rice, ghee, mustard seeds, flowers and grasses and, at one point, I had to take some of the offerings, hold them up to the sun, and then put them in flowing water. But there wasn’t any flowing water near the temple! So the pandit offered his scooter and suggested that my friend Chandraprakash drive me there. So that’s what happened – dressed only in a folded up dhoti (no crash helmet, actually no shirt either) I rode pillion on the scooter, holding on for dear life with one hand, clutching the offerings wrapped in a banana leaf in the other.

As we drove there and back through the morning traffic, I realised that no one seemed to be paying us any attention – this was completely acceptable road etiquette.

I realised I was enjoying traffic in India.

;Healing Hands' Sometimes people ask about my own journey in becoming a Sukshma Marma therapist. This is what I tell the...
19/07/2025

;Healing Hands'

Sometimes people ask about my own journey in becoming a Sukshma Marma therapist. This is what I tell them: a couple of days after my father died, I was in Ealing shopping centre, feeling a bit lost. I noticed that Suzanne, a psychic, was giving readings and, on a whim, I booked in. The first words she said to me were: ‘You’ve got healing hands’.

I saw her 3 times in total and each time she started the same way: ‘You’ve got healing hands’. I must confess I ignored her - I thought she just said that to everyone. But five years later I saw an intuitive in central London. This time the message was stronger. ‘You’ve got healing hands and you need to do something about it!’

So I started looking online for a technique that might suit me. Nothing really grabbed me. But I did find one technique that involved holding the hands over different areas of the body. When I tried that, I could feel warmth in my hands and some enlivenment of energy in the body. It surprised me.

Then, in 2013, while in Australia, I saw a lovely man called Colin who told me that healing was soon to be my life. I was a translator at the time. I worked hidden away in a back room in front of a computer. Hands-on treatments were a polar opposite to my usual work. But I had also just recommenced teaching Transcendental Meditation after a gap of a few years, and that took me to a course in the centre of India.

From India to Watford

There my room-mate told me about a gentle healing technique called Sukshma Marma (Sukshma means ‘gentle’ in Sanskrit) taught by Dr Ernst Schrott, a brilliant German doctor. This sounded intriguing. I contacted the course organiser in the UK. It turned out that the next foundation course (there was only one a year) would start the evening my plane from Delhi landed in London. And the course venue was 30 minutes from the airport. So I went straight from the airport to the course.

On the course I met Dr Schrott. He was a warm and friendly man and he explained that Sukshma Marma Therapy was simple, natural, easy to learn and very effective. He explained what the Marmas were and how we should treat them. And then… he offered to demonstrate the technique and asked for a volunteer.

The first demonstration

A lady put up her hand and explained that she had been involved in three road traffic accidents some years ago, which had resulted in whiplash injuries and she had very limited movement in her neck, and experienced back and shoulder pain. Dr Schrott invited her to come to the front and, while at the same time explaining what he was doing to all the students and also speaking to the patient to ask how she felt as the treatment proceeded, did very simple massage movements using aromatherapy blends on the Marma points of her back, hands, arms and neck.

After 20 minutes’ treatment, with no fuss, no drama, she was able to move her head to the left and right, forward and backward, and the pains had gone. A miracle had just taken place in front of my eyes - I was hooked!

This example is of a musculoskeletal issue, but Dr Schrott was also able to help with many other conditions, including deep-rooted emotional trauma, and these sessions, in addition to being extraordinary, were some of the most moving. [More about the wonderful Dr Schrott here]

And... it worked!

On the course it didn’t feel like learning, more like remembering. When I went home after the course, I tried out what I had learned on anyone who came through the door: my friends, my mum’s carers, a central heating salesman. And - it worked! People experienced profound relaxation. That delighted me. They felt happier, as if they had taken a step forward in their lives. I was just trying out the technique - and it worked.

As a result, I became more comfortable and relaxed with the process. Then people started reporting that specific issues were resolving. Chronic headaches went away, joint pain subsided, people with frozen shoulders were able to move more freely. Amazing! I was so glad to have been guided to this technique.

Sometimes the results were immediate: an earache that went away after a few seconds’ treatment, a backache that resolved after a touch on the painful area, carpal tunnel syndrome pains disappearing. Other cases required a longer treatment or a course of treatments. And while the treatments helped in many cases, sometimes patients required additional assistance.

After that...

I continued going to all of Dr Schrott’s courses - I found them totally fascinating. And I had the amazing privilege of working with Dr Schrott on the translation of his brilliant book ‘Marma Therapy’ into English, which was like doing an advanced Marma Therapy course with the world’s leading specialist! Giving Marma treatments and seeing people get better has been a real gift.

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The Studio, Hillcrest Road
Newhaven
BN99EE

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 9pm
Tuesday 9am - 9pm
Wednesday 9am - 9pm
Thursday 9am - 9pm
Friday 9am - 9pm
Saturday 9am - 9pm
Sunday 9am - 9pm

Telephone

+441273612477

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Welcome to Sukshma Marma Therapist: Marek Lorys. I was trained by the world’s leading Marma Therapy expert, Dr Ernst Schrott, and am a qualified Sukshma Marma practitioner. Sukshma Marma Therapy is a very gentle massage treatment of the body's vital points (Marmas) and energy channels (Nadis). It forms part of the age-old Ayurvedic approach to health and was revived by Dr Ernst Schrott, a German doctor, and Dr Raju, a famous Indian Ayurvedic physician. For more information on Sukshma Marma Therapy, visit: www.sukshmamarma.org. Sukshma Marma Therapy can be used to: - Rejuvenate and relax - Release blocked energy - Strengthen, revitalise and detoxify the body This gentle treatment can help with: - Tension, Insomnia, Tinnitus - Back problems, RSI - Headaches - Tired and strained eyes - Many other everyday complaints Treatments include: - Sukshma Marma Taster - Back treatment - Face/head treatment - Hand treatment - Foot treatment - Energy massages All the treatments bring about profound rest and relaxation as well as balancing, rejuvenating and healing effects. Treatment sessions include one or more of the treatments listed above and can also include specific treatments depending on individual conditions. Please ask! Treatments in Newhaven, East Sussex, take place in a purpose-built treatment studio constructed according to the principles of Maharishi Sthapatya Veda to promote good health. Cost: £65 for a 90-minute full body treatment, including initial consultation; £45 for a specific issue (60 minutes). Book now on 01273 612477 or 07946 386290 or e-mail: mareklorys@gmail.com. 'My mind became free from all concerns and thoughts and I felt a deep inner peace with life. A few days later I noticed that my health had improved as a result of this treatment.' For more information on Sukshma Marma, visit: www.sukshmamarma.org