Hydrotherapy: water treatments that are fabulous - December 29, 2005
by Rhiannon Rees - Nibbana Healing Spa - Whistler

Hydrotherapy...... water treatments that are fabuolous!!

In the spa world, the use of water is more than just the elixir of life. Spa professionals use water in many different ways including steam baths , bath treatments, vichy showers and the healing properties of salt pools and thermal baths.

I have to say one of my most favourite treatments is simply a salt bath. The use of salt (epsoms salt or dead sea salt) has incredibly healing and rejuvenating properties. But there is something about lounging in liquid bliss at just the perfect temperature which makes you feel like your muscle tension and pain will just melt away . Especially if you have had a hard day of skiing or boarding and you feel like your legs are iron rods and there is no way you can release your bindings without amputating your leg first. This is the time to think about a bath treatment.
Once you have had a salt bath or bath of your choice, you may then like to think about a massage. You’ll think that you are the reincarnation of a yogi with the suppleness that your limbs will feel after this. Maybe you won’t want to think at all ...

I know I usually don’t think well after these treatments although some of my friends would beg to differ and say that I don’t think well in general. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm maybe I need more spa treatments???? The list of services for any spa is so extensive that it will take me at least a year of writing once a week to even come close to giving you all a glimpse of what lies ahead....maybe by next year my picture in the paper will make me look so young (from all the facials of course!!!), that you will think I have a younger sister. I don’t . So, no asking for numbers or anything.

Now, on that note, I think I will go and give myself the poor man’s version of a bath treatment. Simply do all your chores, tuck the kids in bed, feed the animals , tidy up from the evening meal and prepare for the next day’s work and NOW........you have time for a 5 minute bath. By the time I run it and add the salt, that will make it 3 minutes..... no wonder people book spa treatments. Having a bath at home ju