Featured blog article: How Plantissima Spa creates transformative treatments and massage experiences
Plantissima Spa specializes in an integrative approach to wellness, combining 3 of the most validated wellness disciplines to create wellness treatments and retreat experiences. In this article, we share our approach and the benefits it has for you while visiting the Spa and the long term advantages for your lifestyle.
Prioritize inner balance through Ayurveda
Think deep and blissful. One of the secret of the success in creating wellness experiences is in the use of Ayurveda, the most ancient system of natural medicine.
Ayurveda treatments bring a deep state of self-repair to the body. This ideal for customers who wish to improve their physiological functioning and experience with an added sense of inner well-being.
Ayurveda offers a systematic and personalized approach to wellness at all ages. It has a unique perspective in restoring and maintaining balance in mind, body and emotions.
In Ayurveda everyone has a specific body type, or dosha: Vata, Pitta, Kapha, or a combination of the three. Each of us requires a personalized approach to restoring our physiological, mental and emotional balance, according to our ayurvedic body type.
Each body type has 5 subdivisions (or subdoshas) responsible for harmonizing physiological functions specific to the main dosha in various areas of the body.
Each dosha is prone to create specific types of disconforts when imbalanced. For example, an imbalanced Vata may expose us to situations of anxiety, insomnia, depression, or even constipation or cardiovascular difficulties. The escalation of the aggravetion depends on our body type.
The knoweledge of Ayurveda allows the user of Ayurvedic services to adopted a personalized approach to maintain physiological, mental and emotional balance at all times.
Wellness amplified through clinical aromatherapy
During the treatments, we work with the purest essential oils to maximize the results we imagined when creating the treatments.
Essential oils are distilled from aromatic medicinal plants. We source them ourselves around the world and count with 170 oils to draw from when we prepare our remedies.
The long list of compounds in essential oils are known for their therapeutic properties. Each belong to a specific biochemical family. And each biochemical family is in turn associated with a corresponding range of therapeutic properties of their own.
Understanding the application of the biochemistry of essential oils is critical to the creation of predictable wellness experiences.
For example, the Aldhehydes are one of the major biochemistry families in essential oils. They are known in aromatic medicine for their antiinflamatory, antiinfectious, analgesic properties, to name a few.
This understanding informs the use of aromatic medicine when creating oil remedies and ayurvedic preparations.
Specific biochemistry of essential oils balance specific emotions
In the above example of the Aldhehydes, it is important to know that there are known to be beneficial in the treatment of emotions related to fear of facing difficult situations.
Not all fears are created equal. Understanding the benefits of each biochemical family and the context of their application has a high value in creating targetted wellness experiences for the users of Spa services.
Again, in our Vata imbalance example above, Aldhehydes are known to have sedative properties when diluted in oil remedies. Usually no more than 1% concentration of Aldhehydes in the essential oil formulation will bring a deeply harmonizing influence to the Vata dosha. Otherwise, their presence in the oil remedy makes for a powerful stimulant to the nervous system and may even aggrevate the Pitta dosha.
In aromatic medicine they are 14 major biochemical families and hundreds of compounds. This has the potential for a large number of wellness applications, opening an inexhautible richness of Spa experiences and treatments.
Honour the legacy of indigenous traditions
The indigenous wisdom associated with essential oils brings the time tested therapeutic and spiritual understanding of medicinal plants to the modern Spa experience. It elevates the experiences and the formulation of our remedies and treatments protocols.
For example, in the context of our writing above Aldhehydes and Phenols help take the bull by the horns to come out of difficult situations. Likewise for every aromatic plant bring an emotional and spiritual legacy for the evolution of the users of modern Spa services.
It is a contribution that comes from the larger impact of nature’s pharmacy in human life.
Plantissima Spa honours and respects the wisdom of the guardians of indigenious traditions everywhere. This is present in everything we do, the herbal remedies, treatments and retreat experiences.