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Pak Mat Djabin is a traditional javanese healer specializing in “urut” massage. Urut massage is perhaps the most sophisticated of all the Indonesian healing arts and can only be found in Bali and in Java, where the Majapahit Kingdom flourished and was influenced from Arab, Chinese and Indian traders. It is certainly the most painful as it focuses on nerve pathways, pressure points and physically realigning and manipulating the anatomy. Urut can be used to treat everything from soft tissue damage to even bone fractures. 2010 © photos by Alejandro Plesch – all rights reserved

Pressure point healing along the knee cap

Using candles to heat bronze suction cups that suck the bad wind out of you

Urut massage is very precise and technical, but to endure the discomfort of a treatment is usually beneficial, as the feeling of well-being is quickly restored after a treatment.

If you like, Pak Mat will massage you with his wooden dildo

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  1. You had to go there didn’t you?

    Mar 18, 2011 @ 10:34 pm

  2. touti

    nice, another creepy old guy holding a dildo.

    Apr 13, 2011 @ 2:47 pm

  3. tony

    where is the address for the old guy urut?thanks>

    Jul 12, 2011 @ 3:47 am

  4. alejandro plesch

    Pasar Burung, Denpasar

    Jul 12, 2011 @ 10:53 am

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