This approach is relevant to massage people with back pain and/or pregnant women.

As your practice of Osteo-Thai  and thai-yoga massage develops, you come to realize that an important proportion of your clients come for relief of back pain or emotional issues. Working from the side position also allows recipients to turn inwards, toward themselves, allowing the masseuse to gently facilitate the healing of emotional and physical blocks.

With pregnancy and back problems, it is often too painful to lie in the supine or prone position, but from the side position, you can still offer a complete  Osteo-Thai  treatment.