SPA - Body and Soul Health by Water

SPA – procedures are modern. The number of SPA – centers grows. So, the logic is simple: Bulgarians' change their way of life respectively their manners. The every-day stress impacts on health. Therefore, the need of adequate resting, relaxing environment and body care gets pressing.

Abbreviation SPA consists itself the main idea. It unites the aspiration after healthy way of life and the beauty. Term origin comes from the Latin expression “salud per aqua”, т.е. – “health by water”. Some people even think that “Spa” comes from the name of a Belgian medieval town where had had a thermal spring of healing water. One of the first evidences for presence of such an body and soul “extra” dates as far back as the epoch of Pharaohs and Cleopatra who had been taking milk baths as well as baths in a water solution of rose petals and herbs. In a word, SPA is combination of skin cosmetic procedures, massages for entire tonus or healing massages, aroma-therapy, hydro-therapy, aqua-therapy etc.
What is it like each one of these procedures? Fashion Lifestyle Magazine will introduce you with their main principle and the awaited results:

Aqua-therapy involves procedures comprising movement in water. They use the entire warming effect of water and releaving ligaments as a result of body lightening. In short - this is fitness in the water. Many of yours know that during the 2 weeks holiday near the sea your body gets firm by swimming, your skin gets refreshed and as a whole you feel lighter than a feather. All that is a result of the higher water pressure over your sinews' surface.

Hydro-therapy includes healing procedures with water where the accent is neither the number nor your activity within the water but its composition. Chemical substances, herbs, aromas and extracts dissolved in huge of water stimulate the blood-circulation. All of these are combined with vibrations, magnetic fields, sound waves, warmth and a variety of massage motions. 

Some other water procedures:

Sauna - this is a whole body warming up by the boiling water evaporation on the premises paneled in wood. It helps for body liquid excretion by sweating.

Mineral bath – this is a procedure which target is relaxing and body purifying by using the chemical and thermal effect of skin-healthy mineral substances. It is carried out inside special bath-tubes or pools. This one is often used for some rehabilitation procedures.

Salt bath – the water for this procedure has high salt concentration. Some of the more expensive procedures are taken directly in a sea water. Such procedure has extremely anti-bacterial effect without any skin injury. That's why all small flesh-wounds heal over so fast by sea-water baths.

Jacuzzi - "Jacuzzi" is the name of first American company producing bath-tubes with built-in stream nozzles for hydro-massage. This way it has turned to a trade mark of all devices of this kind. The massage is extremely tender and heavenly pleasant at the same time. It is held by spinning water streams.

Mud-bath - it represents to be dipping the body into a warm mixture with natural sand-like consistence. It has rich mineral composition which helps to skin purifying as well as joints and muscle strain relieving. This is a perfect way to refresh and exfoliate skin faded by every-day stress.

Herbal bath - it includes a number of herbs and natural oils dissolved in bathing water. Such a bath regenerates not only your body but your soul as well.

We offer you some techniques for SPA – релакс:

Roman massage
Most of cases such form of massage is applied to all body by using special aroma oils. The procedure ends with mopping oil off the skin by using a cotton or linen towel.

Classic massage (Swedish)
It's a form of massage found and developed in Europe. It is taken on a specially designed massage table. Such massage includes straight forwarded motions along the body and towards the heart. Oils, powders, ointments and lotions can be used during the massage. They ease gliding effect by reducing skin resistance. There are 6 main kneading motions: effleurage, petrissage, friction, knocking, squeezing and vibration.

Acupressure

Shiatsu
It's a form of traditional Japanese therapeutic massage in which pressure is applied with the thumbs and palms to those areas of the body used in acupuncture. Difference at such kind of massage is that you are dressed. The main purpose here is normalizing In and Yan energy channels.