Biodynamic Agriculture: Deliver A Wellness Experience


The issues facing a spa professional today are widespread and go far beyond the quality of a good massage or maintaining operational standards. As professionals in a ‘wellness’


industry, therapists


and managers are challenged to provide of


an authentic experience health, beauty and wellbeing,


whilst often wondering just what that experience is. Educating guests about effective treatments and


quality ingredients, whilst


providing healing experiences, is the role and responsibility of the spa professional, and yet one area where they are most unprepared. Offering


treatments


experiences with


by fusing informative and


experiential activities can create a deeply healing experience, a wider impact and a devoted guest.


In traditional models, health is


the body’s natural state of being, depressed only when under stress or out of balance. Healing then requires


the reconnection with


natural rhythms, environmental and social factors, and vital energies that provide the conditions for a natural state of wellbeing to occur. According to the theory of Salutogenesis developed by medical sociologist Aaron Antonovsky, maintaining a healthy balance is concerned with the relationship between health, stress, and coping techniques, and should focus on factors that support human health and wellbeing. The ability to offer an escape from everyday life into a safe and relaxing experience, to create a transformative session, or a consciousness-shift, is the ultimate goal of a spa and will offer the longest lasting results for guests. A spa that considers the atmosphere of the treatment experience, the story of the


guest journey, the


quality of products and ingredients as a means of connecting the guest to a ‘higher’ level of awareness will achieve a more authentic wellness experience.


Creating a story around the spa’s


product 10 ingredients, plant


Background to the Biodynamic Planting calendar: Earlier and less emancipated cultures identified the sun, moon, planets and stars as dwelling places of the Gods from where beneficial influences were radiated down on to the earth. Although most people no longer experience them directly, these influences continue to stream in. Life on the earth is unimaginable without the sun - but also the moon, planets and fixed stars play a vital role. Ever since the initiation of Biodynamic Agriculture, research has been carried out to determine how these cosmic influences can be used to benefit agriculture.


medicines, and native herbal remedies is one such activity that can create healing, inspiration, and a sense of a wonder. In the setting of an herbal garden, an apothecary, or an aroma boutique, the guest has a chance to interact through their senses with the environment and the healing qualities of plants. Plants provide a means or a medium to get back to a connection with natural rhythms that has been lost in modern day life. However, the plant itself requires the influence of these natural rhythms in order to have the vitality to provide the connection.


In order to achieve the best quality of plants, the procedures and techniques used for growing the plants are of utmost importance. Conditions


such impact as quality the quality, as of


soil, weather, and seed selection all


does


the level of consciousness of the agriculturalist when planting and harvesting. When considering the qualities of products, a certification is often seen as the stamp of approval, is


and an organic most common or biodynamic


certification. Although not the only accurate measure, these standards guarantee a level of commitment on behalf of the grower to maintain purity, ethics and connectedness with the natural rhythms.


Conventional agriculture is what is commonly known as the agro- industry where rules of the market and the demand for


production


require a low cost/ high yield model. The quality of the product and use of industrial chemicals or machinery is of less importance and the land is seen only as a vehicle or the arena where activities are orchestrated to achieve specific objectives. The


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Biodynamic Agriculture recognizes the rhythmic and symbiotic relationships between soil, plants, animals, human beings, the Earth, Sun, Moon and stars


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