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This was written about the healer and teacher…
She teaches the soul and body as a complex system
„Monika, my masseur in time became my coach and instructor. I visited her, with a inchoate of a slipped disc, long time ago. After some treatment, I recovered. During a massage she made, she treated not just my body, but also my soul. She fronted me with the things could created my illness. Sometimes her questions were as hard, as the pressures on the therapy’s points on my body. After all the therapy turned out a success, she restored me. Later, on behalf of my good experiences, after my recrudescent chill I also went to Monika. It happens once before my performance, my shoulder as streched, as my fingers were numb. It is not necessary to say, that Monika with her Thai massage she could solved my problem. As I experienced on my side the beneficial effect of the massage, I decided to learn from her. Monika as a teacher she also a philosopher as a masseur. She often leads me without worlds, to be able to play on the body’s string as on my guitar. She teaches the soul and body as a complex system, must treat with humbly and focus.”
Dora Pallagi, guitar teacher
She is strictly committed and consistent…
„Monika is the unit of the contrasts of ancient oriental knowledge and a western, self-fulfilling modern woman. She gives enthusiastic lessons with much love and laugh, however she strictly committed and consistent to the traditional teachings. I am grateful having found her.”
Eva V., Musician at the Brabants Symphonic Orchestra
Harmony of body and soul...
"As a speech therapist, I heal with the power of words. The wonderful resonation of words lifts up, embraces and takes others to their own inner self. Learning massage, I got to know another touch… It did not go easily, there was plenty of resistance in me until I realized and understood what a tool I have at my disposal. Thai massage is a special way of touching a person. It adjusts the healer and the person who wants to be healed to acceptance. It initiates a journey inwards, it opens your heart chakra. This is the freedom of the spirit. The harmony of body and mind. Love…”
Eleonora B., Speech and Health Development Therapist
The doctor announced my death sentence: I have to stop doing karate!
„My name is Beatrix Bartha. I am 40, with the illness of artrosis. I have been doing sports from my age of 12. I have 4-5 trainings a week. I have been doing karate since 20 years. I won silver medal on an European championship. Good to know that this karate is a full contact style, so I had to train always very hard. I can tell, I fought till I could stand. I realised in 2007 that after almost every training I had a big backache. I stopped training for 3 months, but the pain had risen. In the mornings I woke up not to able to move my legs. After the first shock I went to doctor, who said that the operation is not avoidable. I did not want to accept it, so I went to Monika. To specify my friend took me to Monika on his lap. After the first treatment I immediately could use my legs. It was a miracle, in deed. Since than I am regularly visit Monika, and I am able to train 4-5 times a week. Sometimes when I have to miss a treatment, the training is harder. I am sure of, that without Monika’s knowledge I should stopped doing karate, which means the end of my life. I can tell, that Monika saves my life, with treating my soul, also, because she always give me healthy tea, and good advice how to live.”
Beatrix Bartha – 2008.11.29.
Case study elbow fracture...
"I am a sixty six year old woman. Antecendent: in February 2010 I fell and some bones broke in my left elbow. I was operated the following day. After this, I wore a plaster cast for three weeks, which went all the way to my shoulder and down where only my lower phalanges were visible. After the removal of the plaster cast the doctor suggested physiotherapy. I immediately started the excercises and it was certainly not a very happy sight as I raising my arms like clipped wings, as if I still had the plaster cast on. I could only very weekly squeeze the silicone ball for the palms with my fingers too. Only after this did I think that perhaps a massage would also be good. I asked the doctor and he recommended it. This is how I ended up at Monika. On the first occasion Monika said that it would have been good if I already came when my left arm was still in plaster. In situations like this massaging the other arm helps too, because some sensations go to the paired body part. My first thought was: Why don’t doctors know this and why don’t they say it? I was lying on my back, Monika was pressing and stretching my left arm. Although it hurt, it was endurable. When I laid on the matrass, I could not place my left arm in front of me with my ankle touching the ground. After the one hour long massage, I was surprised to notice that it does touch the ground. Anyway, I felt really good after the massage – but this did not surprise me that much, as I have experienced this before, because massage is recommended because of my scoliosis. Throughout the years I also experienced what a great difference there is in this aspect. The 15 minute quick job in the bath, prescribed by the rheumatologist – when he shouts over to his masseur neighbor over my head – neither brings real relaxation nor other results. How different it is when with soft music in the background, I experience the professional motions of the person concentrating on me only! Heaven and Earth. I went to the physiotherapy three times a week, I practiced at home too, and Monika massaged my arm once a week. I found she knew a lot about massage and the human body. This went on for 4 months. I am convinced that massage greatly contributed to the fact that I could straighten my arm better and better and moved it more naturally. Today the difference is barely visible. Five months after the surgery, the surgeon was surprised to see how well my rehabilitation went.”
Eva Monspart, Writer - Budapest
I love you Moni!
"I was a student of Monika Karsai at a school call TEGYE. She gave us her spiritual and material knowledge with mind and brain. Later our relationship went into discipline. Spending my time with her makes me fresh physically and I am renewing from her massage. All of our meeting give me spiritual message. I offer her with all of my heart to ones who would like to have a thai massage program with a women full of energy, cheerful, genuine to gave recreation to their body and soul.”
Judit Schuck - Budapest
Instead of one or two lines, a little more.
"Today it is almost a luxury if we can take care ourselves too. We keep throwing stress into ourselves, as well as the frustrations coming from overwork and competition. Then all of a sudden we realize how important a comprehensive detoxification is, that gives back our breathing, open souls, the optimistic ambitions and our positive outlook on the world. Years ago I thought that Monika and her knowledge – getting to know which gave me full trust - will help me with this. I was happy that I got to discover another opportunity. I had no idea that this opportunity is more complex than what I could even hope for at that time. Her work does not only turn into value through our bodies, in itself. Spiritually linked, our complete psyche is revealed to her, and we become aware of it through her. I go to her to rest and to feel renewed and I leave mentally charged.”
T. Zs., Nestle Purina – European Marketing Manager
Moncsi domesticated me like the Little Prince did so to the Fox…
"I will start at the beginning. It has been almost 10 years that we lived together, my back pain and me. During the years I was operated, bolted, infusioned, injected and all. When I got to know Monika, it has again been a topic for a few months already that another surgery would become necessary. I started to look for alternative solutions. This is how I ended up at Monika Karsai. At the first moment, I almost burst out crying. A blonde chick with the physique of a gazelle received me. I thought there will again be abracadabra, two incense sticks, then a nice amount of money, and eventually, pain and I will go home together again. I quickly learned the first lesson, to get rid of prejudices. On the first occasion we talked through almost an entire evening and in the meantime, I didn’t even notice that we performed exercises that for years I believed I could not do anymore. The real surprise came the following day. I was prepared that pain and I will be in bed all day, but it did not happen this way. That was when I decided, I will go for Thai therapy. Since then, every Friday evening, Moncsi and I work for hours (mostly her) and talk a lot about the big things in life. Something slowly changed in me. I am getting to know myself and accept the world more and more, my life is more calm and balanced. The most important change is that pain is now a very rare visitor of mine. Moncsi domesticated me, like the Little Prince did so to the Fox. And I learned that I am responsible for my body and my soul. Well, this is how I develop at her, next to her, with her every week and I would not trade my Friday evening for anything else anymore.”
Dora B., Art Director
Ornithological category: very rare heron on the merge of extinction.
"I am reluctant to analyze the custom-designed, personalized Thai massage technique of Monika Karsai, because I do not understand it (although I did try it, and keep the eternal memory of the detoxifying night and the three wonderfully clear days that followed ever since). I would rather formulate personal impressions that I, as a mortal human received during the rare dramaturgy of our meetings. As my student, I got to know her as a sharp-witted, bright minded pupil, who talks a little or not at all, she rather points the essence of her message as sharply as a pin tip here or there. I remember, back then I considered her a migratory bird that flies high and only casts her shadow on earth in extraordinary sunlight. Meanwhile she changed and changes a lot too. Nowadays she descends among people from time to time, and armed with the transcendentally priori content of the border area of the stratosphere and the cosmos known to a few, she operates charismatic healing powers. She is one of the chosen few of the shadow world within whom cerebromanual electromotive power and power transfer potential catalyze one another, organized in the organic cycles of the patient, guaranteeing the efficiency. She is instructive and intuitive all at once. Hand and wing, as well as brain at the same time, inseparably. Ornithological category: very rare heron on the merge of extinction.”
T. S., Anatomy Professor - 2006. Frankfurt, Medical University
It is an old story, related to the spine…
"I live two hundred kilometers from the Capital and I will be 79 years of this year, but three times a year I travel there with bus or train with great expectations, so that I can go to Chi. Usually I spend 5-6 days in Pest and I go to treatments two-three times of even four times during the week. These visits always precondition me for a long time. I have had scoliosis since my birth and when I was young, I had to go to medical treatments every semester, so that I can handle everyday life. Later I learned a 35-40 minute exercise and I am exercise daily ever since. However, the osteoarthritis and vascular calcification cannot be avoided as the decades go by, only reduce the symptoms associated with it. I live in the countryside, we have a rather large garden of herbs, I move a lot, but I love gardening too. I of course have to consider carefully what tasks I undertake, and what not anymore. Before, I think about four years ago I was just starting to feel that I am losing my energies, that not everything can be solved with the exercises. It was a coincidence that doctors advised my right hand thumb that had been hurting for years to be operated and that Chi Massage Center opened just at that time. Knowing Monika, a friend of ours convinced me that if someone can help with my pain of 15 years, it is her. I told many people since then that Monika Karsai evaluated my condition with a quick glance and maybe said something like: it is an old story, related to the spine. The point is, after the first treatment that day that bone never hurt again! Perhaps it is needless to say that during those 15 years how many places I have been to at public and private practices, private clinics. The result, before I went to Chi, was an appointment for surgery and a medical referral in my hand to the Orthopedic Clinic. Back to my energy status: those who are familiar with Thai healing methods know plenty of things that we only suspect in our great big civilization. Following these visits to Chi from 220 km I felt a lot stronger for a long time. I do not believe that I will live forever, but until I do, it will be a lot less helplessly. If I could, I would visit every week, but it is also nice to live in a small village.”
M. S., Writer
I gladly recommend it to anyone…
"I got to know Monika Karsai, and through her, Thai massage a few years ago following a surgery after a hand fracture. The treatment contributed to the fact that my hand regenerated in a short time. I thank her for the help and I gladly recommend it to anyone with this type of problem not to hesitate to contact her.”
V. K., Guitar Artist
A little belated, but with all the greater love…
"She has been my healer, colleague and friend for eight years now… I as well, like many others met Monika during a very difficult time in my life eight years ago. I arrived to her after giving birth for the second time with a persistent back pain, after having tried several other methods. I had to be confronted with the fact that symptom management is never enough, if we do not want the symptoms to return, we have to deal with the body as a whole, the harmony of body and mind as well. Thai massage, as a special mixture of Eastern medical treatments first mattered to me as a treatment, but in the past eight years, it has become part of my life and I have withdrawal symptoms if I miss out one or two occasions. My relationship with Monika started out as being a patient of hers, but with time I happily “midwifed” to several Thai massage and spa-wellness projects with Monika, so with time a close friendship developed between us as well. I heartily, recommend Monika to everyone, since she has many years of experience, complex knowledge and in addition her really special personality is the guarantee for someone to rely on her both professionally and privately with any kind of problem.”
Marti T. Marketing Manager (41 years old)
I had a dislocated shoulder
“I had a dislocated shoulder (I can prove it with a radiogram too). In the SZTK I was referred to physiotherapy, which meant a ten minutes rubbing with an ultrasound device. Already at first it did not seem like a method that set healing as aim. I immediately came to Chi Thai Massage salon, where following the professional consultation with Monika Karsai, the kind, tireless and very strong Thai girl, Ngiu massaged me for more than two hours. The result is astonishing, just like the difference between the two methods. Physiotherapy is an at least two-week long program, and admittedly too, they would have treated a – non-existent – inflammation, while my upper arm would get back to its place or not. In contrast, Thai massage invested energy in finding the root of the problem and treated that. I felt of full value again and could use my arm practically after one treatment.”
Thomas M. Sculptor, Budapest, 02. 10. 2006.
I came here with a painful lumbago
“It is great joy when someone is safe and sound. But this one only realizes when he has health problems of physical pain. I did not know Thai massage when I came here with a painful lumbago. I did not believe in it, but – although the first treatment was very painful – it worked a miracle on me. Thank you! In my hectic and tiring work not only mental, but also physical stamina is very important. The ancient Greek proverb is eternal, “a sound mind in a sound body”! This treatment, this magnificent massage provides plenty of help with this. I will for sure return several times again.”
Arpad Duka Zolyomi, Bratislava, 30 May 2007