RAINDROP TECHNIQUE
Shift your being, one drop of oil at a time.
Balance, harmony, and body wellness through Raindrop Technique
What is Raindrop Technique?
Raindrop Technique involves dropping essential oils along the spine and applied on the feet. The sessions is one hour, and it combines a few principles into one technique for maximum therapeutic and health benefits.
The oils are dropped from 6 inches above the spine. It feels like raindrops landing on your spine, hence the name. There is a combination of the feeling of the oils hitting the skin, the massage techniques, and the properties of the specific essential oils. All resulting in this unique and effective form of therapy.
The Benefits
Reduce stress and anxiety
Not only can the oils enhance positive emotions, such as joy and happiness, but they can also help us release negative emotions that are subconsciously stored on a cellular level.
Relax muscles
Basil, wintergreen, marjoram, cypress and peppermint essential oils help with all the common muscle discomforts.
Emotional well-being
Essential oils effect the limbic system in the brain where emotions are stored and controlled. Certain scents provide soothing experiences that the brain registers and responds to.
What to expect
There will be a neat application (undiluted on the skin) of 9 different essential oils – first applied to the bottom of the feet, and then dropped from 6 inches above the spine, providing a raindrop feeling. Using very gentle massage techniques, the essential oils are distributed along the spine.
If it is a little ticklish, it means it’s working! This response is your nervous system and is exactly as intended. The oils are then further worked into the skin with firmer pressure.
This technique is meant to be performed with calming silence to allow for a pure meditative and serene relaxation of the nervous system.
Some of the oils are warming oils and other are cooling oils – be prepared to experience different sensations. Everyone is different in the degree of warming and cooling that is felt.
How to prepare?
It’s important before all treatments and sessions at Let Health Flow to increase your water intake before and after. This is always to assist in toxins moving out of the system.
Having 9 essential oils applied to your spine will leave you smelling wonderfully aromatic. Wear a shirt that you are OK with transfering that aroma to.
We encourage you to sleep without washing off the oils, the longer you leave the oils on your skin, the higher the benefits.
The essential oils.
Valor Blend
This powerful, synergistic blend with a transformative aroma has contributed to its strong legacy as a key part of Young Living’s proprietary Raindrop Technique. Each essential oil in the blend was carefully selected for its unique aromatic and topical benefits.
Oregano
Because it is high in phenols, as is thyme, clove, basil, tea tree and peppermint essential oils, it may cleanse receptor sites topically on the body. This is why it is included in the Raindrop Technique where oils are applied to the spine.
Thyme
Known since ancient times as a medicinal herb, thyme contains large amounts of thymol. Use to energize mind and bring clarity of direction.
Used with infectious disease. It may be beneficial in helping to overcome fatigue and exhaustion after illness
Basil
Best known for its Soothing Properties for tired and fatigued muscles. Used traditionally to ease muscle discomfort after exercise.
It’s herbaceous scent restores mental alertness, and may also sharpen your sense of smell.
Peppermint
Peppermint essential oil can be used topically to cool the skin. It has an invigorating, cool, minty, herbal aroma that can help create a focused environment when diffused and can create a refreshing and cooling sensation when applied topically.
Cypress
Helps to relieve joint or muscle pain associated with sprains, strains and rheumatoid arthritis.
Also is spiritually grounding and helps us accept change by allowing us to go with the flow and feeling more secure with ourselves.
Aroma Siez Blend
An advanced complex of anti-inflammatory, muscle-relaxing essential oils that promote circulation and relieve headaches and tight, inflamed, aching muscles resulting from injury, fatigue or stress.
Marjoram
Relaxes tense muscles after exercise, and is supportive of nervous tension. It is beneficial for muscles especially when combined with massage.
Throughout the ages, Marjoram has been called the “joy of the mountains” and the “happiness herb. Emotionally, it is the plant of love and longevity.
Wintergreen
This oil contains 85-99% of methyl salicylate the same active ingredient as birch and is beneficial in massage for soothing muscle tension after exercising.
Birch and wintergreen are the only plants in the world that naturally contain methyl salicylate.
It’s refreshing minty aroma is stimulating and invigorating.