Philosophy
Mens sana in corpore sano
(harmony of mind and body)
Plan … to get the most from your spa stay
A spa visit is unashamedly for your own gain and fulfilment. It's “me time”. Time to reflect and breathe. Time to catch up. Time to enjoy. Time to restore the body. Time perhaps to review your lifestyle, and to initiate change.
Know your goal A spa visit is an investment in your wellness and wellbeing. To get the best return spend a little time beforehand considering what you would like to achieve. The spa team can then assist you in choosing an appropriate programme, incorporating a balance of therapies, nutrition, exercise and rest, and suggest how you can most usefully approach your spa visit. Experience
During your stay you will have the opportunity to eat and drink healthily, rest, take moderate exercise, receive care to the body. You will have time and occasion to begin to be aware of your physical dimension. To experience how the body responds to attention and care. To notice the effects of what you put into your body. You may gain an intimation of harmony between how you notice and experience the world and how you feel in your body. And you may conclude intuitively that how you attend to and care for the body affects how you experience the world.
Some of this awareness will be conscious, some unconscious. You will be introduced to skills and practices that you can follow up when you leave.
Following participation in the spa programme you may feel changed physically. You may feel whole again, rested and renewed. This organic change, this realisation that you can improve the quality of your life may give you the impetus to begin some new practices. Review
As you prepare to leave, review your experiences and what you have learned. Resolve
Resolve on some changes you would like to make in relation to nutrition, exercise and self care, and in nurturing your relationships. Make a small list, perhaps one item in each area. Consider one key practice that will recall your spa experience, perhaps a meditation or breathing practice, an exercise or an activity, or a particular dish you would like to prepare. And commit to implementing these within a finite time frame. Maybe arrange to meet a fellow participant. Or take a course. Bookmark the spa's website. Plan your next visit.
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