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 It is widely
known that natural stones may beatify your look through wearing jewelry or bring
luck if you wear amulets. But in the opinion of doctors they are also able to
relief stress and muscle ache, they calm the nervous system and even smooth out
wrinkles! Of the most
efficient influence are the heated igneous stones that are placed on the body
in the particular arrange and number. This technique is named stone therapy. Spa
centers prestigious and famous in the world have already included stone therapy
procedures in the services rendered for their clients.
Celebrities
found stone therapy effective and immediately fall in love with its rites. Mel
Gibson, Naomi Campbell and Madonna are among the faithful admirers while
Madonna even wears crystals of Bohemian ruby to improve the health condition.
Elixir for fashionmongers
People all over
the world are always attracted by the magic force of stones. Pragmatic people used
stones for household purposes yet romantic people created jewelries and artworks.
And this attitude countered to the opinion of ancient physicians. As far back as
the reign of Egyptian Pharaohs medical people discovered the magic and medicative
power of minerals; as for Roman doctors, they would use hot marine rubbles as a
painkiller, yet the American Indians used basalt from Sonoran desert and
polished by the wind stones from Red Mountain canyon, a modern State of
Arizona, USA, for remedial treatment.
Stones have
been used in many cultures, such as Hawaiian aborigines used to worship Pele,
the Goddess of volcanoes who offered to the native people, under the legend,
the clinker, the mountain stones of healing features. The islanders believed that
every Volcano mineral contains the magic force of all four rudiments: rocks, spring
water, solid soil and gusty wind.
The
energies of the massage stones are known generators of energy among Asian natives
who were enamored with them, yet furthermore doctors from India and China
treated Emperors applying heated jadeite that hardly ever healed from all
diseases which was considered as a powerful relaxation facility. This stone was
practiced by healers of Maya, Aztecs and Celt nations either.
Moreover a number
of aristocrats during reign of Napoleon used to invite quacks (Moors and Asians) from exotic
countries right to their palaces from exotic countries right to their palaces and
they really enjoyed all those massages and other procedures with heated
minerals though the majority of people of that epoch found stones just stones
and no more.
Only our times
with our «stone friends» welcomed and evaluated such stones and they devoted to
this procedure called stone therapy the whole technique. Nowadays no woman of fashion
can do without «contact with stones» at least for one hour a day. The only factor
when a woman may have contraindications to stone therapy is the period of
pregnancy.
How many stones?
Updated beauty
salons offer a wide range of stone therapy procedures but the most effective is
the Classic Stone Therapy developed by Mary Nelson-Hannigan from the American
Massage Therapy Association.
The
principal procedure of such therapy is using absolutely determined combinations
of polished stones, namely 54 hot black stones (basalt from Peru, Indonesia, Argentina,
Italy), 18 cold white stones (marble from the Norwegian fiords either pebbles
from Northern Seas) and 1
stone of room temperature (jadeite from Mexico and Asia).
Minerals can be of various form and weight (100 to 200 grams) depending on
the part of your body they are assigned for. Tiny stones in the form of
crescent or heart are selected for faces, ears and neck, and bigger oval stones
are assigned for the body, hands and legs. Stones ease and tease your body into
a blissful state of relaxation.
According to
the procedure the Spa massager spreads the oil all over the body of the client
and works over the stones onto the body and leaves the client in the room lying
on the back in the dusky lighting with soft music. In 5 to 10 minutes when stones give their hot
and cold energy the client turns over and the process is repeated on the arms,
hands, and fingers. The final parts to be massaged are the neck, head, and
face. The whole procedure lasts 30 minutes and as the final procedure is the
light manual massage with aroma oils.
Other
advantages of minerals
As may believe
the stone therapy is absolutely useless apart from its esthetic function but
they are mistaken. These workful stones not only improve your feel but also they
stabilize your vessels functioning, they normalize your blood pressure, relief muscular
aches, help in metabolism process and blood circulation, increase your immune
system and , the most important, they smooth wrinkles and make your skin more
elastic!
Such
procedures with minerals are good for people in their post-operative period or
rehabilitation after bulimia. Those who work a lot at the computer will find it
useful and efficient to keep warm stones between fingers since it helps
relieving stress after the prolonged «dialogue» with the keyboard. Spa saloons
often render services to have a massage with pink marble and striped sardonyx
for those who want to have a flexible neck and a massage with a warm selenite
for the ones who would like to correct their face shape.
Stone Geography
In spite of
the fact that the stone therapy procedure is simple to perform it is absolutely
not recommended that it is performed at home - a professional always should be
there next to you!
The United
Arab Emirates is leading in the sphere of stone therapy: the new hotel «Khatt
Springs Hotel&Spa 5*» in the emirates of Ras-el-Haim (in Hajjar mountains) offers
luxurious stone procedures under the Chinese technique. That beauty salon uses
elite volcano rocks of specific polish. After the stone massage you are offered
to continue and rest in the swimming pool full of spring water or go and win
the mountain tops riding the pure Arab horse.
And the best
spa saloon offering stone therapy in Europe is the London «Berkeley Health Club
and Spa». The visit card of the saloon is the stone massage exactly (spa masters
were trained by the very Mary Nelson-Hennigan!), that lasts total 75 minutes, yet
apart from it the list of services contains more procedures with such splendid
names and no less wonderful effect as «Flowers and Sea», «Day of Silver Spirit»,
«light breath», «Damask Rose» and «The Best Girls' Friends»! Also the hotel «The
Berkeley» offers an exclusive program «Girls' Night In» as a unique hen party
including relaxation baths, energy masks and massage. Just after spa procedures
you are welcome to go with her friends to the famous bar of the hotel «The Blue
Bar» greatly appreciated by Madonna.
You should go
and visit the spa-center of the hotel «Capri Palace Hotel & Spa 5*» at the
picturesque island Capri where you may enjoy stone therapy procedures using
home stones and afterwards you will be under the magic influence of aroma
therapy procedures.
If you
prefer farer islands then you should go to the beauty center at the hotel «Le
Saint Goran» in Mauritius. Here you are face a huge amount of services to
choose from 12 kinds of Ayurveda massage with minerals. And this entire miracle
was developed the very «Givenchy» Laboratory Specialists.
You are welcome
to any resorts and spa centers all over the world to have stone therapy and it
is quite difficult to say which is good and which one is less.
This is
more essential that these stones can make your life not heavier but only
healthier, happier and more beautiful than ever!
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