wellness area

 

Our exclusive wellness area

The Wellness Area of Spa & Relax is a space devoted to relaxation through water, warmth and quiet.

The whirlpool bath, Kneipp path, sauna, steam bath and emotional showers guide the body towards progressive release, within a refined and private setting.

An experience that complements our rituals and massages, broadening the path to wellbeing.

Calm and harmony lead the way to a renewed sense of lightness.

Turkish Bath

Relax and rejuvenate in our Turkish bath

Benefits: organic and metabolic cellular stimulation, raising the immune system’s defences, cutaneous cellular renewal and soothing dry skin.

Encourages deep cleaning and purification of the skin, good for the respiratory system, has toning and relaxing effects and reduces stress.

When you feel your temples pulsing, it is time to end the steam bath and have a quick cold shower; followed, if you wish, by another steam bath. The alternations in temperature are essential for getting good bodily reactions.

Temperature: 40-50°C – Recommended time: 10-15 minutes per session – Frequency: no more than 4 sessions per week

The relative humidity is 100%, forming a mist of layered temperatures, from 20-25°C at the floor level, up to 40-50°C at head level.

Sweating is less intense than in a very hot and dry environment like a sauna, but since the duration is longer, the end result often is that there is more total perspiration. Normally associated with massages, this is a time of relaxation and true well-being.

Contraindications: persons with cardiovascular disorders should avoid the steam bath.

Sensory of experience showers

Jets of scented water with orange essential oils and cold mist scented with mint.

Sauna

Benefits: bodily and metabolic stimulation, removal of toxins, cellular exchange and treatment of damp skin problems, benefits to the entire neuro-regenerative system.

The sauna originated in Finland, where it has been practised since 1100, not just as a time for pleasure and relaxation, but also as treatment in pursuit of clinical results, as happens for example in thermal centres, and thus requires specific medical instructions. The most obvious effect of the high temperature is sweating, a natural mechanism that acts to regulate the body’s temperature, keeping it as close as possible to 37°C. Sweating eliminates water and, by increasing the activity of the sebaceous glands, toxic substances. The increase in body temperature has beneficial effects on the musculature, which relaxes and lowers tension.

During the sauna, metabolism* and cardiac frequency increase, there is vasodilation and the blood becomes less ‘viscous’: these reactions facilitate the blood’s circulation in the body.

Heat can also provide benefits to those suffering from respiratory illnesses (bronchitis, sinusitis and chronic rhinitis); it can encourage faster muscular recovery (with facilitated relaxation and discharge of lactic acid), a sedative effect on nerve endings and improved resumption of peripheral circulation. This phase is followed by a bath in cold water, or at least a cold shower.

Temperature: 80-100°C – Recommended time: 10-15 minutes per session – Frequency: 3 sessions max. during one day

Contraindications: those with cardiac and/or blood pressure problems should undergo this treatment only after a doctor’s careful examination

Whirlpool Bath

Tub with hydromassage chaise-lounge, jet benches and platforms, neck jets.

Kneipp Course

Alternating hot-cold water baths with plantar massage on a bed of river stones.

Benefits: stimulation of organ reflex points on the sole of the foot with restoration of balance to the entire body, treatment of vascular problems. Through a pleasant massage of the sole of the foot performed with white river pebbles lining the bottom, the so-called ‘muscular pump’ is activated: the muscles of the lower limbs, in contracting and relaxing, ‘express’ the vessels, facilitating the return of blood and thereby reactivating circulation.

Temperature: 15-38°C – Recommended time: 10 minutes – 2 minutes per tub – show walk

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