Thai Sib Sen – Sen Kalathari

Sen Kalathari, also called the emotional and psychic line or “psychological and spiritual Sen,” is one of the ten Thai Sib Sen or primary Sen Energy Lines as known in Traditional Thai Massage and Thai Yoga (Reusi Datton).

It’s also the Energy Line strongly connected to “movement of the limbs.” Sen Kalathari is associated with the Fire and Wind Elements.

As for the connection to organs, Sen Kalathari typically relates to the heart and lungs, although many abdominal and pelvic organs such as the intestines, liver, spleen, and stomach are also associated with this Sen Line.

Other names found for Kalathari are Kaniataree, Kanlataree, Kantaree, Galadhari, or even Gandhari. Interesting fact is that the name Kalathari, notably the last two synonyms, reminds us of Gandhari Nadi, a Yoga Nadi Channel. Depending on how one interprets Gandhari Nadi — especially when taken together with Hastijihva Nadi — there may indeed be similarities.

Nevertheless, when you closely study the locations and trajectories of the fourteen principal Nadis, it rather seems that there’s more resemblance with Varuna Nadi, which like Kalathari “spreads everywhere” and “reaches the entire body.”

Trajectory and Location of Sen Kalathari

In any case, Sen Kalathari starts just above the navel (about one thumb distance) and divides into four sections, two on the right, two on the left, and runs on both the front and backside of the body.

The main line runs from the navel up to the chest and shoulders, down the middle lines of the arms (second inside line) to the wrists and from there to the tips of all the fingers on the inside of the hands on both the left and right side of the body.

Furthermore, it runs from the navel down the mid-line of the inside of the legs (second inside line), splits at the feet going under them and from there to all the tips of the toes on both the left and right side of the body.

See the image above for the trajectory of the extension lines on the backside of the body, running over outside lines number two of the arms and legs (middle lines) and further to the tips of the fingers and on top of the feet to all the toes.

Kalathari extensions also run over lines number two on the back (on both sides of the spinal column on the muscle, not in the groove, which would be either Sen Pingkhala or Sen Ittha), finally crossing over the head to go down through the face to meet the main Kalathari lines in the chest region.

Therapeutic Indications for Sen Kalathari

Therapeutic indications include diseases of the digestive system, abdominal pains, muscle pains (including bones, tendons, ligaments, fasciae, cramps), indigestion, hernia, paralysis of arms and legs, knee pains, jaundice, whooping cough, arthritis of fingers, numbness of the limbs, varicose veins, chest pains, asthma, shock, trauma, rheumatic heart disease, cardiac arrhythmia, angina pectoris, sinusitis, sciatica, arm and leg pain, epilepsy, depressions, hormonal control, menstrual cramps, sinusitis, attention deficit disorder (ADD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), schizophrenia, hysteria, addictions, various psychic diseases and mental disorders, back pains, stiffness, and spinal pains.

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