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“Just as the technology exists to create external well-being,
there is a science to create inner well-being”.

Sadhguru

Specifically the IT band tendon
I went to doctors and physiotherapists and nothing worked
much effect. Then I got a tip about Raasti. 
When I visited him he started working with me.
We did various exercises and also manual release.
He taught me to see the body as a whole and not to focus on the pain all the time.  Later on I started to see him once in a while also about psychological stress
before a race and things like that.

I think that helped extremely in everything.
Thank you

Anyone who has experienced persistent pain knows it's not good for the psyche either.
I couldn't look forward to a new day.
I knew that when I got out of bed there would be that unpleasant pain again and it was killing me.

I got a referral to a therapist, so I figured I’d give it a try.
On my first visit I received a deep tissue massage and immediately felt relief and not just physically but mentally as well.

I felt that the body and mind were like a connected vessel and that it was impossible to separate.

In the second part I was given precise instructions on how to take care of my body and mind.

I followed these recommendations and gradually the pain subsided over a few weeks until it gradually disappeared completely and I was completely fit and could, as they say, enjoy life again.
If my story had ended there it would have been wonderful but life is colourful and so after about a year and a half I injured the same place, the same pain that I knew, hated and so dreaded.
At first I hoped it would go away but it got worse and that scared me even more.
I contacted Raasti and we arranged an online Zoom appointment later that day where I described my situation to him.
To my surprise, after some techniques where I received instructions online, I felt instant relief not only mentally but also in my physical body.

I would not have believed without this experience that this is possible even remotely. Afterwards we arranged a face-to-face meeting.
After the therapy, I realized that I could tie my shoelaces again and was happy to find that my back pain was minimal. Incredible feeling!
This time the instructions make even more sense to me. It suddenly became even clearer to me than the first time.
My condition began to improve immediately , first the mental and immediately followed by the physical.
More than one enlightening idea was impressed on my mind, but the one that stuck with me the most .
” Pain is our friend “.

Thank you Raasti

I went through the hands of several doctors in Slovakia.
Each of them had a different diagnosis for me, but they agreed on one thing.
You’ll never get rid of it completely, and the pain will keep coming back.
That’s when I got a tip about Raasti and we started to work together my problems.
He helped me, but most importantly he taught me how to deal with my crosses and how much relaxation is important.
Thanks to him, I was still able to play sports for another 5 years,
at the top level.
Last but not least, he is a great healer who gives emphasis on mental well-being and I’ve always come back from him as a new person.
:-)

Our first meeting started with a long conversation.
We’ve come to realize that there’s more to address than just migraines.

He also found the problem in my psyche, which was very fragile.
Our conversations were punctuated by my crying,
but I won’t forget how he told me that if I followed his recommendations,
I would see beautiful results. He was right.

After two weeks, I realized that I had only had a migraine once and after that I didn’t even know what a migraine was.

I made it through our second session without crying and had my first (and not last) powerful meditation that I will never forget.
It was then that I realized that Raasti truly has a tremendous gift – to heal people.

After about a year, I came for a massage and came to him as a new person.
I followed his recommendations and he could finally see me as I had always been – full of life, laughter and positivity.

He took me out of my comfort zone and showed me the way through the fears I had overcome and I will always be grateful to him for that.

Thank you for this journey Raasti, truly.

I come to Rasti and I'm jumping and running like a fawn.
I have found his techniques very effective.

I've been hearing about you for a long time from people who have been to your place, but somehow I didn't feel that way about going to you.

Until one day I came and I can only recommend your approach is healing. The welcoming atmosphere and the calmness I felt in about a second.

You taught me to breathe properly and to appreciate myself. I started to enjoy life because of that too.
You gave me incredible strength, you gave me something I can't even name.

I thank you and always will.
I also thank you for my son William, who was so inspired by you that he started to do similar things as you did.

I also had a slight problem with pain or whatever you want to call it,
some sort of tension or tightness in my lower back.

Our session, the massage, started with breathing where I was breathing,
and I tried to focus on what was going to happen in therapy.
I think that helped me. I started to see my body as a whole
and I wasn’t focusing on the pain that I’ve been feeling for the last week.

That lay, in my opinion, after the very first incorrect and mishandled workout
after a week’s rest after summer training.
The initial release was the breathing itself.
I tried to put my body in space, on a surface, to allow the pain and discomfort
could dissipate faster. Until then, I felt like I was tied down,
or certain points of pain were accumulated in places inside me.
In fact, as soon as he put his hands on my legs, I felt great energy and warmth.
That was a boost for me.
I couldn’t stop thinking about that warmth and energy that was coming and starting
flowing through me from where your hands were placed.
The very process of releasing with the warm stones, spreading the oil
and your masterful skills and techniques to take the pain away from the areas
in big steps. I had to breathe a couple of times, you noticed that right away.
I was still trying to concentrate on breathing, but also on the movements,
…and as the pain faded, I began to feel relief.

Gradually I began to realize again what my legs were for.
Until then, I had felt that my motor skills were not sufficiently developed,
or basic locomotor movements. I can’t exactly describe it, especially the feeling,
when I felt that moment that I didn’t need to lift or bend my leg
to engage the muscles that aren’t there to do it, but it comes naturally to me.

You pulled my legs out of the mud or out of the concrete. The right leg went a little slower,
the left one, I think, much faster. I came to you with a wrinkled smile,
but with every moment of therapy, the smile got straighter.
The week in pain was very difficult to go through with simple movements
activities, let alone workouts.

It felt like he had loosened some valve on his heels or opened a plug
and all the tension, pain, cramp, tightness, and worry would flow out, away.
As I lay on my back like that, I felt as if my legs were going back
to my body and I was beginning to think of them as mine again. They wanted to float.

A good signal, both for you and for me.

I’ll tell the truth I’d been waiting for this moment and feeling.

We finished the whole piece by releasing the crosses. As you said, their condition had the effect
the condition of the legs. Here it went very quickly, I felt no pain,
just a rapid relaxation and, if I may say so myself,
there was a total body harmony. The head realised that it had legs too.

The feeling after the therapy, was a boost for me, I was literally blown away by the energy,
that you gave me and especially the energy and the warmth of your hands, like they were replacing inch by inch every inch and part of the sore muscle.
It made me want everything again. My body was relaxed again and I had the feeling and the desire,
that I could even go right away with pleasure to the training.
Legs loose, movement controlled even supple, if I hadn’t experienced it for myself
I wouldn’t have believed it. I had the joy of movement.
I walked up the stairs to my room feeling new legs.

The joy of movement.

And I am able to experience situations of pain differently and handle them with ease.

A very mysterious and kind beautiful magician.

That is how I felt this was what I sensed in you.
I was very comfortable.
Thank you.

I suffered for a while and waited for it to pass, but after a week or two I said to myself,
I’d had enough and I started seeing different therapists.
But I’ve been to about three, and I always get relief for a day or so,
for a day or two, and it started to hurt again. And some of the visits weren’t exactly cheap either.
I was getting pretty desperate, but somebody told me a “good guy” came in.
from Slovakia and he was straightening everybody’s back. Then we met somewhere,
so I asked him and he came to my house.

He was quite enthusiastic, my vertebrae were peeling, I was a bit scared,
but somehow I trusted him.

And I did the right thing. I didn’t know any more about the injury.
And he didn’t want anything in return.

A few years later, the whole situation repeated itself again, a different part of the back,
but there was Rasti again, and crunch, crunch, and the pain was gone.

Respect! Sheepdog

I began to feel as if something was radiating from me, or coming out of me…

I felt something on my stomach and chest,
like a book or a brick or something.
It was going into my hands as well, and I felt such a weakness,
I couldn’t move my arms.
I can’t define exactly the feelings I was experiencing, but it was such a very intense tingling as if something was on top of me.

I started to smile and I couldn’t control it.
I started to notice the music again, you just the surroundings.
I felt so relaxed, I didn’t care about anything and it was so nice, nice.

I felt so calm inside me, so soothed, so relaxed, so relieved from the everyday life, I didn’t think about anything, I was the me I had never seen before.

I hadn’t experienced such a state, such inner peace…
Even when I was already travelling home I was completely so detached, so peaceful.

I look forward to another such state 😉
Have a nice rest of the evening 🙂

And I left as if I'd been replaced.
Without pain and also with a reset mind.

It seems to leap out of the page and into your heart. Just amazing.

I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel like I'm born again, my body and "head" straightened out = my mind. Thanks again.

As if they weren’t a part of me and neither were my hands.

I had to constantly put energy and attention on the smaller movements of having them 🙂
Well then it started to escalate, a huge pressure on my chest,
like someone-something was sitting there, I couldn’t breathe properly.
and at the same time the right side of my face was twitching…the whole time I wanted to scream enough!

I couldn’t…until you grabbed my right hand and started massaging.
I felt a gradual release, you continued with your legs, neck and suddenly I was engulfed
an incredible feeling of relaxation, happiness.

I was just going through my mind: I want to stay in this state forever 🙂

Your touch on my face made me awake…and your words, so this is meditation 🙂
Great!
All the time Your touches were very pleasant…
maybe I went into it with a little respect…
probably natural, I didn’t know what I was getting myself into…me Iva.

It was a very strong experience and pleasure for me, THANK YOU

Because of my job in which I regularly carried heavy loads, I didn’t even believe that I would ever get rid of this pain.
It was only when I finally found the time to visit my good friend Rastika that I understood that anything was possible.
After an incredibly relieving massage and good advice on how to take care of my body, I left a different person.
My spinal pain eased and every time the pain tries to return I remember Rastik’s valuable advice and immediately life is more beautiful.

Thank you for everything
😉

The beautiful music, the warmth from the stove and your attentiveness helped me to completely sink into my body and detach from my thoughts.

I felt safe, confident and professional. Every touch was sensitive and conscious.
I enjoyed your support in directing my breath-prana to the blockages in my body. You accurately pinpointed my weak points.

The combination of the warm stones and oil brought me relief and pleasure. When the treatment was over I felt nourished and grateful..

I definitely recommend him, his massages are an experience in themselves.

Raasti is one of my favorite people.
He has a great energy and a big heart,
which makes him empathetic and helpful.