I left walking on air, one chilled mama! Christ knows where a two manned massage, as demonstrated below, would take you? Out into the stratosphere perhaps? The effect is also incredibly nurturing and comforting – the essence of “aloha” no doubt? Brilliant if your in need of a little TLC. I can tell you it just feels like your whole body is connected, and treated as a whole, rather than one limb at a time. I now realise why Esme is so fit – the massage is a work out in itself, its almost a dance. This is performed through rhythmic long flowing motions, using not just the fingers but the palms, wrists and forearms, working sometimes both on top of the body and underneath, at the same time. The aim of Ka Huna massage is to allow energy to flow freely throughout the body, facilitating relaxation and deep muscular and emotional release. OMG.it’s not often I blog about something unrelated to design, dance or style but I was recently treated to a Ka Huna massage by my friend Esme Adams and it was just something that I have never experienced before….and this is coming from someone who once trained in massage. The most famous image of her, shot by Patrick Lichfield, shows her as an enigmatic but alluring figure crouched on her roof in Marrakech, clad in white pantaloons and decadent, colourful kaftan, her husband casually looming in the background, and is considered culturally significant to the point that it resides in London’s National Gallery. Getty was a style icon who came to be the blueprint for what we consider hippy luxe – to the inner fashion world if not the general public (a lot of whom would incorrectly cite Sienna Miller, who was at least thirty years behind Getty in popularising the look).
Her opulent Moroccan palace, which she shared with her oil heir husband was the setting for some of the decade’s most raucous parties – the likes of Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger would flock to them, charmed by the couple’s bohemian lifestyle. It was here where he met one of his muses, the ill-fated and impossibly beautiful Talitha Getty (supposedly the only woman Rudolf Nureyev was ever attracted to). Very reminiscent of the photographs Patrick Lichfield took of Talitha Getty, the queen of Marrakesh kool in the early 70s: Love this photo shoot by Tom Craig for Porter Magazine.
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