I've tried probably over 10 different nasal sprays.
They all last about two hours.
It's worse than it's ever been at the moment.
So I'm really hoping this procedure helps.
I'm getting the nasyam therapy procedure done today.
I'm here today because I lost my sense of smell probably about two to three years ago.
I do have a nose piercing, but I did get this in December, November time, so it's pretty new.
This happened way before that.
I'm not really sure what started it.
I noticed it when I couldn't smell perfume, I couldn't smell alcohol, and people would be like
holding their noses or something and I wouldn't smell anything that they were talking about.
So I did bring my nail polish remover today.
If you want to see something crazy, this is, I guess, a party trick that I'm not going
to have anymore.
Do not try this at home.
Nothing.
A weird fear I have is like, how do I smell?
Do I smell okay?
That's the only thing I don't like because I'm really 100% okay with not smelling garbage,
because when I can smell and I smell garbage, it's disgusting so...
Western medicine has been really helpful, but definitely always come back to nature.
That's what your body will understand more.
I am Martha Soffer, and I'm the founder of Surya Spa.
I've been doing this for 30 years, so I just keep training here
and things that I've learned from more classes that I take to make things better.
Ayurveda is a whole system of life.
If you change your diet, if you meditate, which is very, very important
because you take the stress out of the body.
I'm 58 years old, and I just I don't have anything.
I just don't have anything that I can say is not working in my body, and I feel great.
We treat every system of the body.
The nasya treats the respiratory system.
Nasya normally will take between 45 minutes to an hour.
So if you have someone that has a cold or has been coughing or has any problem with
their respiratory system, I will use a nasya.
Before the consultation, all the tools are being boiled and sterilized before we use them,
so that way we don't have contamination.
Through the pulse, I learned that her lymphs were very congested.
So I will try to open all of the lymph nodes to drain all her congestion
so that way she can breathe and taste again.
After I do a short massage on her face, I will do some marma points that will open the
channels that go to the brain and the nasal passages.
At the end I use the collagen cream.
The original recipe came from my grandmother.
What I did is took that recipe and then combined Ayurveda.
The result of that is this incredible cream.
Then after that, I will do a short massage.
This very energetic, kind of vigorous kind of massage on the head.
And then I use the eucalyptus to massage her chest to
open all the channels that go to the lungs.
Then after that, I will do a massage on her neck and shoulders,
draining more of all the lymph that I put in the upper neck,
moving more to the lower part of the lymph.
And then I will do the buffalo horn, and I will do the Gua Sha.
These tools will help me move the stagnation from the muscles up again to the lymph and
then move them out.
After that, I'm just going to put her to sweat.
For the steam, I use water, and I use two different kinds of eucalyptus.
I actually go and get them from the mountains and bring them, dry them,
and then we use them when we need them.
And then sometime, the time I use it to open again, all the respiratory system.
And then the hoppers smell that for about 5 to 10 minutes.
After she sweats, then I'm gonna give her a little massage in her face,
do a little bit of the toner on the face after the sweating to close the pores.
And then I will use the tuning forks, and that's to vibrate, so through vibration I'm opening
the marma points.
So, therefore, the respiratory system also will help with that.
And then after that, I will make her drop her head back to be able to put the nasya oil.
Nasya oil is the medicated oil that I have prepared before she came, so that will be able
to open all the channels and then make all the mucus come out.
Breathe into your nose
and hold it.
Breathe out your mouth,
and now breathe in like that.
Then I will make her sit up and then do some gargle with the salt and warm water,
and what this will do is make all the mucus come out.
Working with Tiffani today was really nice.
She was very, very easy.
And it was very gratifying to me to be able to
hear her say that she can breathe better.
My nose feels so nice, like I blew it out a bunch of times.
So it feels so clean and open right now, and in my throat, too.
Your throat?
You can’t see it, but my throat--
There is a difference between your voice now.
Oh, does it?
Is there a difference in my voice?
There is?
Crazy.
That's amazing.
Working with Martha was awesome.
This procedure was done literally for me and it was to my lifestyle and just to what caused it.
She actually went back and asked, when did this start?
And she said it has a lot to do with stress, even.
She kind of just knew how they connected and just elaborated on it and didn't keep anything from me.
She was very open.
She's really just here to help people.
And they give you really good aftercare.
So it's not just like one and done, like you can continue doing this and make it a lifestyle.
So one of the things that I will recommend for Tiffani is actually, keep using the oil
that I used today and then put it like once or twice a day.
This oil helps move the mucus out.
I would definitely recommend this to somebody who has the same problems as me,
just because there's so many other things that are connected to it.
I just feel a lot better.
It's been almost a week, and I'm still feeling this way.
When I first got home the first day after the procedure, I got off the metro,
and I smelled wood, like really strong.
And I was like, where's that coming from?
And apparently there's a bunch of wood by the metro.
I had no idea.
The day of the procedure, I sniffed nail polish remover, and I didn't really smell anything.
I don't think I can do that anymore.
So my party trick is gone.
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