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Today’s spa is a center for healing and nourishing mind, body, and spirit. People go to spas for fitness, stress management, peace of mind, pampering and pleasure, and health and wellness. Spas offer a wide variety of techniques and services - traditional and modern, from the East and from the West - to meet the diverse needs of their clients: Swedish, Japanese Shiatsu, and Thai massage, European facials, acupuncture, Dead Sea salt scrubs, Moor mud wraps, thalassotherapy, aromatherapy, reflexology, microdermabrasion, endermologie, reiki, aura imaging, watsu, rasul, hypnotherapy, classes in nutrition, meditation, journaling, yoga and Tai Chi, state-of-the-art fitness centers with personal trainers, and much more. To understand and organize this overwhelming variety of spa offerings there are "ten domains of SPA" like:
- "The Waters"
- Food, Nourishment, Diet and Nutrition
- Movement, Exercise and Fitness
- Touch, Massage, and Bodywork
- Mind/Body/Spirit
- Aesthetics, Skin Care, Natural Beauty Agents
- Physical Space, Climatology, Global Ecology
- Social/Cultural Arts and Values, Spa Culture
- Management, Marketing, and Operations
- Time, Rhythm, and Cycles
HEALTH BENEFITS OF SPA THERAPY:
The health benefits of spa therapy are numerous.
As your body weight is reduced, by the water around you, your heart has to work less. Your blood vessels dilate which causes your heart not to have to pump so hard. Your blood pressure can actually be reduced using this therapy over a period of time. Being immersed in this warm water is a form of cardiovascular exercise.
Diabetes can also be reduced using this therapy every day over time. The blood sugar levels have been found to be reduced as much as 12% in some people.
Arthritis pain has been found to be reduced because of the therapeutic effect of the warm water. The Arthritis Foundation as found that spas are yet another method for helping arthritis suffers.
Pro sports teams use this therapy to relax over taxed muscles, aches, and pains. By relaxing in a spa your body releases endorphins which is a natural body chemical for pain.
Stress reduction is a major benefit. In today's society stress is just about impossible to avoid. Relax in the warm, churning, bubbling waters and feel the stress being extracted from your body.
Sleeping will become much easier because of your relaxed state. No drugs will be required for you to drift off into a deep sleep.
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