Katie Vasti and Griva Vasti

These doughnuts are placed on the top of ones back the base of the neck and at the base of the spine in the lumber region. Sometimes they are quite cold which is distinctly uncomfortable at first. They are 'cemented' on with spare dough to make little dams into which warm medicated (whatever that actually means) sesame oil is poured in by the way of squeezing the little sponge. One is left to rest for about 15 minutes when the oil is exchanged for warm oil again via very skilled handling of the sponge, and left for another 15 minutes.