Spa - treatments

Aromatherapy

It means making an impact on your senses with extracts obtained from plants, trees and flowers. Oils are widely used – their fragrance evolves from diffusers during various treatments, and they are also important ingredients of mixtures used for cleansing skin, adding to the bath and applied during massage.

Ayurveda

A Hindu art of healing, with the tradition reaching back one thousand years, based on the conviction that staying healthy depends on the harmonic interaction of body and soul. The therapy includes using hot oils, bathing in water with aromatic herbs, drinking purifying teas, meditations, yoga exercises etc.

Balneotherapy

Balneotherapy covers the range of treatments that are among the most characteristic for SPA resorts. It means bathing in water with various beneficial ingredients dissolved in it, applied in proper proportions. Water is enriched with natural additives like sea or mineral water or peat-based substances. Treatments of this type, offered in SPA resorts, are worth trying because due to their properties they exert favourable impact on the way we feel. They ease aching and tense muscles and allow for relaxation.

Beauty Farms

Beauty farms offer diversified cosmetic treatments – cleansing skin, peeling, manicure, pedicure, gymnastics and bath.

Body Cleansing

This type of treatment utilises the properties displayed by mixtures of sea salt, red clay, essential oils, almonds and sugar. It makes the skin radiant and ideally smooth.

Cleopatra's Bath

Wrapping the body with a sheet soaked with milk, honey and oils. It has a soothing effect on the skin.

Fango

Volcanic deposits used applied in cold, warm and hot compresses. They have a relaxing impact and ease rheumatic pains.

Hydromassage

The massage is done in water. Movement generated in this way, and combined with alternating temperature, may impact the body in many different ways. The term covers the whole range of treatments offering various sensations. Air massage, a source of extraordinary sensations, is one of them. It features millions of tiny air bubbles generated in a bathtub, making your body feel extremely light during massage in water. And if you add essential salts or oils to the water they permeate deeply into your skin, and the effect certainly strengthens their beneficial activity. And another example – water-and-air massage. Once you decide to try it you feel a strong, warm and soothing stream of water upon immersing. It causes the tense muscles of your back and legs relax and you start to enjoy the feeling of relaxation.

Kneipp Hydrotherapy

Walking in a shallow swimming pool with water temperature alternating between cold and hot; it prevents cold, supports digestion and exerts the relaxing effect.

Massage

This is a very wide term covering different methods of treating the surface of the body. Very pleasant and relaxing treatments, based on human experience in this area lasting already for hundreds of years. The main types are European and Asiatic massages, with numerous subtypes existing within each of the categories. However the common feature of all of them is the beneficial effect of the touch, reaching both to body and senses. SPA resorts offer a full range of various massage types, and the so called lymphatic drainage is very often mentioned in their offers. (It is a type of treatment leading to restoring patency of lymphatic ducts and stimulating lymph flow). The essence of drainage is to purify the body of deposits and toxins and remove fat tissue. The treatment does not cause any pain, it may even be considered relaxing. It is effected both as delicate and rhythmic hand massage as well as the water massage).

Phototherapy

It means treatment with light. The impact exerted on skin by ultraviolet radiation depends mainly on photochemical reactions within it. Skin treated with ultraviolet radiation features improved blood supply and is more elastic and less infection-prone. Phototherapy used Quartz and Biotron Sollux lamps.

Physiotherapy

All methods of treatment using physical energy for therapeutic purposes (mechanical therapies, electrotherapies, ultrasounds, light therapy).

Refleksology

Pressure point massage applied to the sites on hands and feet, corresponding to particular points on the body. It provides relaxation and supports natural ability of the body for self-healing.

Sauna

Bathing in hot air or hot steam, alternating with cold water bath. It strengthens immunity system and blood circulation and purifies the body.

Shiatsu

It means applying pressure with thumbs and is an oriental technique of using massage for healing purposes. It is based on pressing various parts of the body with fingers, stimulating recovery of balance; it removes tension and stress and improves the way you feel.

Showers

Alternating, mobile power showers (Scotch showers) are applied using a special device – the water control panel, equipped with a nozzle producing water stream at the pressure of up to 3 atmospheres and of controlled temperature. Their mechanic as well as thermal impact is very strong. They stimulate cardiovascular system and control nervous system.

Skin Exfoliation

Otherwise called peeling. It is one of the methods applied to deeply cleanse the skin. The external layers of epidermis consist of loose and dead cells that undergo permanent exfoliation process. Peeling is applied in order to speed up exfoliation process. It makes the skin younger, smoother, improves blood supply so absorption of nourishing ingredients present in creams and cosmetic masks is much easier.

Thalassoteraphy

The mystery name comes from the Greek word thalassos meaning the sea. It is a range of treatments using algae extracts, healing clay and sea water from unpolluted regions. Due to their properties they exert beneficial impact on the way you feel, as you may sense during such interesting treatments like covering the body with cold (Fri alga) or warm algae extracts (Alga-therm active). The treatment may also involve covering the whole body with micronised (i.e. powdered) algae body compress extremely rich in active substances, vitamins and minerals. Black Mud i.e. healing clay coming from the Dead Sea, with plant extracts added, is of a special interest among marine substances used in thalassotherapy. The high contents of minerals allow it to be called youth elixir due to its effect of quick regeneration of skin cells and preventing skin ageing. Black Mud is applied on the body as Body Wrap treatment (wrapping the whole body). Thalassotherapy treatments are very effective and their results are regenerated skin and body purified of all toxins. The therapy helps to re-mineralize the body, strengthens immune system, stimulates natural regeneration, and make you feel relaxed. Thalassotheraapy is specially recommended to overtired and overworked persons living under permanent stress.