Traditional Thai yoga massage has a lengthy past of therapeutic healing. The founder of the art is thought to have been a doctor from northern India. Known as Jivaka Kumar Bhaccha, he was a contemporary of Buddha and personal physician of Magadha King Bimbisara over 2,500 years ago. The teachings of Kumar Bhaccha probably reached what is now Thailand at the same time as Buddhism - as early as the 3rd or 2nd century B.C.
