| Spa Treatments are so plentiful and definitions are sometimes daunting. We hope to take the mystique from spa treatments. Next time you go to a spa, you'll know which spa treatment you are looking for!
Most people when asked about spa treatments will respond with the standard treatments - massages, facials, nails, and hair treatments. These are accepted as a necessary part of life by most women. However, those classic treatments barely scrape the surface of what is available today. As you browse our site and check out the many spa resorts you will find hundreds, if not thousands of treatments that are available and applicable to all and sundry parts of the human body. Some of the more standard treatments found in spas are bodywraps and mitts and booties...but the list goes on. The Eastern/Asian and Native American influence on spa treatments is very strong. Consequently the actual design of the spa may be influenced as well as products and services. Don't be overwhelmed by the myriad types of treatments, just try to find one or two spa treatments that really appeal to you and then choose your spa accordingly.
Just scroll down this list to see what your options could be:
Acupressure: massage that releases tension and improves the flow of energy throughout the body by applying pressure to the various meridians in the body.
Acupuncture: An ancient healing technique practiced by the Chinese for three thousand years. The belief is that if balance is achieved, the body will heal itself. I find acupuncture to be quite painless, even when needles surround the eye. I used acupuncture treatment after a bout with Bell's Palsy and the neurological symptoms disappeared within 3 weeks.
Aromatherapy: Using natural and essential oils from plants and flowers to help relax and refresh your mind. Induces a sense of well-being
Ayurveda Treatment: Ancient Indian medicine using various water treatments to restore the body. Helps relieve stress.
Chakra: Maintains there are seven energy fields within the body. Treatments are applied to these seven fields.
Chi Kung / Chi Kong: A Chinese exercise to enhance breathing and restore energy.
Craniosacral Massage: Massage of various points of contact on your skull.
Dancercise: Dance steps designed to give you an aerobic work out.
Dead Sea Mud Treatment: Mud from the Dead Sea believed to filled with minerals spread onto skin to rid the body of toxins.
Deep (Tissue) Muscle Massage: Massage designed to break up muscle attachments. Realigns posture, helps relieve tension.
Detoxification: The process of cleansing the liver. Believed to be helpful in ridding the body of elemental metals and toxins of all kinds.
Esalen Massage: Gentle massage performed with long smooth strokes.
Fango Body Treatment: Mineralized mud applied to the body, to release toxins, and put your body in sync with new minerals. May help arthritic pain.
Feldenkrais: Working with body manipulating and applying pressure to various points to re-program the nervous system.
Floatation Tank: Immersion into an enclosed tank filled with salt water which temperature is kept at your body temperature. Floating in isolation to achieve a sense of being in the womb and totally relaxed.
Herbal Body Wrap: Your body is wrapped in a warm cloth soaked in an herbal solution to eliminate impurities, detoxify the body, and induce relaxation. I like my arms left out!
Hydration Facial: A mask of paraffin and essential oils are applied to rehydrate and revitalize the skin. Helps hydrate skin cells.
Hydrotherapy: A traditional therapy which includes underwater jet massages, showers, jets and mineral baths.
Interval Training: A combination of high energy exercise followed by a period of low intensity activity.
Jin Shin Acupressure: Gentle yet deep finger pressure on specific acu-points with body focusing techniques to help release physical and emotional tension and armoring, assist the immune system, alleviate common ailments, and harmonize the flow of life energy within the body. Performed without oil.
Jin Shin Do: An ancient art of harmonizing life energy within the body practiced by placing fingertips over clothing on designated areas.
Kneipp Kur: Treatment combining hydrotherapy, herbology, and a natural food diet.
Kur: A course of treatment.
Lomi-Lomi: Hawaiian rhythmical rocking massage.
Loofah Scrub: A total body scrub with a Loofah sponge, to exfoliate the skin and stimulate circulation
Lymph drainage: It is considered by many as an anti-aging treatment. Lymph drainage may be performed with manual massage, hydromassage or aromatherapy massage. An exercise that you can perform at home is: Stand in a doorway, (about 3 feet wide is best)
put palms of hands of walls outside of doorway and then stretch your way thru doorway. Just a gentle stretch is all you need!
Mud Treatment: A treatment with mineral-rich mud that may be mixed with oil and water. The mud is applied to the body as hot packs to detoxify the body, loosen the muscles and stimulate circulation. A wonderful feeling!
Naturopathy: Natural healing prescriptions using plans and flowers.
Paraffin Mud Treatment: Mud mixed in paraffin used to relieve rheumatic and arthritic pains.
Paraffin Treatment: Heated paraffin is rubbed over the body, trapping heat, absorbing toxins and inducing relaxation. It leaves the skin as soft as silk. For an "at home treat"
paraffin baths are available at a reasonable cost for coating hands and feet. Get one!
Paraffin Wrap: A process of removing dead skin cells with hot oil and Japanese dry brushing techniques. Then an emollient wax is applied to the entire body for an intense hydrating treatment.
Parcours: An outdoor trail with exercise stations along the way.
Perfector Therapy: The use a low current that sends tiny electrical impulses to the muscles, stimulating them which in turn leads to cell regeneration, lymph cleansing, toxin removal and more toned and firmer skin and muscles.
Polarity Therapy: Balancing energy in the body through a combination of massage, meditation, exercise, and diet.
Polish: A gentle process using large sea sponges to cleanse, exfoliate, hydrate and soften the body.
Pressotherapy: Treatment with pressure cuffs to improve the circulation of the feet.
Rasul: An Oriental ceremony for body care involving a cleansing seaweed soap shower, medicinal muds, and an invigorating herbal steam bath.
Reflexology: Feet do your stuff and they'll be able to after a special ancient Chinese technique in which specific pressure points are massaged in order to re-establish the flow of energy throughout the body. This ancient Oriental treatment relieves stress and releases energy and pressure throughout your entire body.
Reike: The Ancient Art and Science of balancing the body's energy on a physical and emotional level.
Repichage A treatment performed on the face and on the entire body with the use of a combination of herbal, clay, seaweed or mud face-packs to produce a cleansing and moisturizing effect. Helps eliminate age lines.
Rolfing: Bodywork that improves balance and flexibility through manipulation of rigid muscles, bones, and joints. Intended to relieve stress and improve energy.
Salt Glow: The body is rubbed with coarse salt, sometimes in combination with fragrant oils, to remove the top layer of dead skin and stimulate circulation.
Sauna: Invented by the Swedes - dry heat in a wooden room. Opens the pores and eliminate toxins through sweat. In combination with refreshing cold showers, saunas can improve the body's immune defenses and favor recovery from stress.
Scotch Hose Massage: A massage received in a standing position and performed by a therapist who uses a hose to spray strong jets of water on the body, alternating hot and cold water or using sea water. This treatment is used to decongest inflamed muscles and to stimulate circulation. Not my favorite - always reminds me of mob control.
Seaweed Wrap: Ah| get all wrapped up in a mix of concentrated sea water and seaweed.
All those wonderful minerals, vitamins and nutrients absorbed by your body to revitalize a tired old you!
Shiatsu: Acupressure massage technique developed in Japan. Pressure is applied to specific points of the body. This helps to revitalize the balance of the immune and endocrine systems and to stabilize energy flow.
Spinning: A relatively new exercise performed seated on special exercise bikes: stretching, low intensity aerobics, high intensity aerobics, body contour, yoga, meditation.
Sports Massage: This is a deep muscle massage often used around the joints. It combines classical Swedish style massage with trigger points, compression and electro-neuromuscular techniques to reduce soreness. Before or after your golf or spinning!.
Steam Room: You've seen them a thousand times on TV and in the movies. Just grab a towel and sit while that steam opens your pores and gets ride of toxins. Not great if you have high blood pressure!
Step Aerobics: Aerobic sessions performed with a small platform used to step up and down. Hard on your knees!
Stretching: Various parts of the body are stretched by assuming different positions. This technique helps eliminate stress and tension and increase flexibility.
Swedish Massage: A classical European massage technique characterized by a delicate manipulation of the muscles with special oils by therapeutic stroking and kneading of muscle tissue to promote stress relief. It is used to improve circulation, relieve muscle pain and tension, increase flexibility and induce relaxation. It combines three basic strokes to the skin: long, firm strokes; kneading strokes; and small circles. This is the most requested and one of the most enjoyable massages.
Swiss Shower: Powerful shower jets that alternate hot and cold water, directed onto the body at various levels, produce the effect of an invigorating massage.
T'ai Chi: A form or Chinese martial art that favors a constant flow of energy. It combines mental concentration, slow respiration and graceful movements similar to those of a dance.
Thai: A technique that involves a unique combination of gentle rocking and stretching using range of motion and acupressure techniques applied through clothing without oils.
Thalassotherapy: A detoxifying treatment of sea products used to exfoliate, balancing skins pH and hydrate.
Trager Massage: Massage that uses delicate and slow movements to relieve tension and realign the body.
Waxing: The removal of body hairs with hot wax. Ouch!
Weight Lifting Work-out: Aerobic exercises that make use of the resistance offered by weights.
Whirlpool: A tub of hot water with high pressure side jets. It is a treatment that loosens inflamed and overworked muscles and induces relaxation.
Yoga: An oriental practice that uses special positions and breath control, to stretch and tone the body, improve circulation, calm the central nervous system and induce a meditative and all-embracing state of being.
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