Teaching Chavutti Thirumal is not for the faint hearted – this powerful treatment has a 2,000 year heritage and to make things more complicated it’s applied with the feet. Kath Seward gives the inside track on The Soma Institute’s training course “Learning Chavutti is a bit like learning to fly,” founder of the Soma Institute, Emma Field, told me on the first day of the course. “It’s a strange concept to balance on one foot while using the other one like a hand.”