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Spa Fusion in Action

elijahwebcommunication 723487 Spa Fusion in ActionBob Henry, award-winning architect and author of Spa: The Sensuous Experience (and personal friend), recommended a bodyworker named Gary Wohlman a few months ago. Since Bob is “in the know,” I decided to give Gary a try.

My session with Gary last night began with his specialized form of Deep Tissue Body Sculpting, which he described as having three parts: Creative Release, Emotional Release, and Physical Release. According to Gary, these steps respectively represent the concepts of “fine tuning,” “retraining the patterns,” and “freeing the stress.”

What a great example of the Spa Fusion Trend we predicted as one of our Top Ten Spa Trends for 2007. Gary has fused massage, breath work, and verbal affirmations. While he did the deep massage and affirmations, I did the breath work; we continued this pattern throughout the entire hourlong session.

Results? Well, I can’t say I love having to take such an active role by breathing a certain way with every stroke, visualizing the sun rising, water flowing, anxiety releasing, etc., when I would rather lie there like a blob and nod off. However, I have to say that not only did I feel as though I could perform ballet after the session, but I also slept well and felt more energetic this morning than I have in a long time.

2007 – The Year of Balance

Happy New Year to everyone. Like all of us, I think about making some improvements in my personal life at this time of year. This year’s resolutions include eating more healthfully, exercising more, and getting more quality sleep. I thought it might be interesting to see what the statistics say regarding New Year’s resolutions.

ACNielsen, a global research group, surveyed consumers in 46 countries and found the following results for their top three New Year resolutions for 2007:

1) Striking a better balance between work and play
2) Exercising more
3) Avoiding disastrous relationships – detoxing in more intimate parts of life

Those were the global results. In addition, 33% of people in the U.S. mentioned going on a diet. Eating more natural and organic food was another popular resolution.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, then, that January is one of the top months for spa inquiries. We tracked a record number of emailed booking inquiries through Spafinder.com for yesterday alone. And when you look at the list of popular New Year’s resolutions, it is crystal-clear why people look for spas at this time of year!