Descriptive Essay About Spa

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What is Spa?
According to Wikipedia, a spa is a location where mineral-rich spring water (and sometimes sea water) is used to give medicinal baths. Spa towns or spa resorts (including hot springs resorts) typically offer a number of health treatments, which are also known as balneotherapy. The belief in the curative powers of mineral waters goes back to prehistoric times. Such practices have been popular worldwide, but are especially widespread in Europe and Japan. Day spas are also quite popular, and offer a number of personal care treatments.
Who are Spa Therapist?
Spa therapists help to improve the entire well-being of their clients by providing a variety of body treatments, from facials to water treatments. They can offer relaxation treatments …show more content…

Hot, natural spring water was considered to be the best cure for wounds and tired muscles. The legionnaires, hence, started building baths around naturally found hot water springs or hot water wells. These baths were popularly known as 'aquae', while the treatments undertaken at these aquae were called 'Sanus Per Aquam' - of which SPA is considered to be an acronym - meaning health by or through water. Others believe that spa is an ellipsis of the Latin phrase 'Sanitas Per Aquas', meaning the same. The Belgian town Spa, which rose to fame in the 14th century in this context, thus got its name, since a thermal spring having curative and thermal properties was discovered …show more content…

Modern spas, though having undergone a paradigm shift in treatments, still retain water therapy as their nucleus, and follow a routine of cleaning, heating, treatment and rest, akin to their older counterparts.
Now, spa treatments can range from wet and dry treatments to wellness therapies and beauty treatments. These include thalassotherapy, meditation, yoga, Ayurveda flotation therapy, watsu, wassertanzen, water dance, liquid sound, Swedish massage, Japanese Shiatsu, Thai massage, European facials, acupuncture, Dead Sea salt scrubs, Moor mud wraps, aromatherapy, reflexology, microdermabrasion, endermologie, reiki, aura imaging, rasul, hypnotherapy, tai chi, dream therapy and much more.
Asia remains at the cutting edge of spa treatments, with its background in spiritual, mental and physical wellbeing. As mind-body guru Deepak Chopra has written, “…the mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe, must leave tracks in the physical one.”
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