All the latest news, views and insights into the wide World of Spas from our well-travelled expert editor, Jo Foley
EDITOR’S LETTER OCEAN HOME
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BRING World of THE SPAs SOMETHING FISHY
Well, we know fish are good for us – good for our diet, for our brain, etc, but did you ever think they would be good for your feet? Suddenly, the world has discovered the
HOW TO STAY AHEAD OF THE SPA GAME
CHIVA SOM, that grand dame of destination spas for the last 15 years, knows exactly how to keep its guests and devotees happy. Just keep of- fering newer and better treatments, packages and therapies. Thailand’s top spa never sits on
its laurels and, to ensure its place at the forefront of holistic health, it has recently introduced an awesome 34 new treatments.
These include a number of lon- gevity and anti-aging procedures alongside gyrotonic exercises and a host of integrative therapies. Add all of these to the most comprehensive spa menu, and there is nothing you cannot do or get here.
little GARA RUFA fish can give you one of the best pedicures ever. Until recently available only in Singapore, the Dr Fish concept has rolled out to Dubai, at the Wild Wadi Waterpark, at the Fortina Spa Resort in Malta and at the little Aqua Sheko Spa at 14 Holland Street, Kensington. Clients arrive and pop their feet into a bath of water where little fish begin to nibble away all the hard and dead skin. The fish also secrete an enzyme that helps the skin’s regeneration. Try it – and discover just how good your feet can feel!
BE PREPARED
It is always worth booking your spa treat- ments before you get on board just to ensure you get what you need when you want it.
And, to make life easier for you, COSTA CRUISES have introduced a new wellness mini-site for their Samsara Spa on board all their ships so you can plan well in advance for exactly how to improve, pamper and spoil yourself –
www.costacruises.co.uk.
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Fashions in fitness always leave me slightly bemused. How, for instance, did spinning suddenly become the exercise everyone wanted to do when we’d spent years in aerobics? Then running took over from jogging – who said? And why? Was one better than the other – or just faster? Or was it because we had seen pictures of Madonna running in the park? And then we moved almost without question into yoga – first Hatha, the original type, and then, once it became a fashion statement, everyone wanted to do Ashtanga, which was misinterpret- ed as yoga as an aerobic exercise, which it was never meant to be. Then somebody in the USA came up with Bikram, the one you do in a room heated to 105ºF. If you don’t die, it is supposed to do wonders for your body. I’m rather keen on Yoga Nidra, the
relaxing one that invariably sends me to sleep, something it is not supposed to do. After yoga, Pilates became the name of the game and after that, weights. They are all great types of exercise, many of which relax the mind as well as the body, but I still want to know – who starts a craze and why? I am thrilled, currently, to discover that walking is the ‘In’ thing. Now that’s what I call exercise.
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