Can't get to a spa as often as you'd like? You can create a spa experience at home that will be available any time the need arises or time allows. The following are some ideas to help pamper, relax, and rejuvenate you at home. You can shop for items you need to create a spa experience on the pages below that provide links to online sources.
Spa Sense
Read about the program at Canyon Ranch and how to apply it at home
in
• The Canyon Ranch Guide to
Living Younger Longer
Spa Fitness
Start your spa day with exercise - some yoga, a brisk walk, some strength training - whatever works for you.
• Home Spa Gym
• Spa Fitness
Videos
Set the Mood - Scent
Aromatherapy can be relax or revive (among other things). Diffusers, which come in many forms, disburse tiny amounts of essential oils in the air and fill the room with a wonderful aroma. Use lavender to relax or peppermint to revive. My very favorite is lemongrass - a clean, citrus aroma that is used widely in Thailand. I also like cedarwood and patchouli. Keep a variety on hand to fit your mood.
• Aromatherapy Diffusers and Candles
Set the Mood - Sound
Music can play an important part in your spa-at-home time. Find music that is relaxing or inspiring - something that fills your soul. If music doesn't appeal, perhaps the sound of a bubbling fountain would. Sometimes silence is what you need. You decide.
• Spa Music
• Fountains
Set the Mood - Sight
There's nothing like the soft glow of flickering candles to calm and relax. Leave demands on your energy in the shadows and allow yourself to recharge by concentrating on nothing but you.
• Aromatherapy Diffusers and Candles
Water Therapy
Stimulate your skin with a quick dry brush exfoliation or salt scrub then relax in the tub. Use your favorite foaming bath gel to create a scented bubble bath or transform your tub into a therapeutic whirlpool or bubble spa using relatively inexpensive appliances (the cost is about that of getting a massage or facial at a spa). Generously apply soothing and moisturizing body lotion afterwards.
• Spa Bath Accessories
• Spa Body Scrubs
• Spa Equipment
• Spa Bath Gels
• Spa Body Lotion
Spa Treatments
Give yourself a facial, salt scrub, or body wrap. You can make the recipes from scratch (there are lots of books that provide these) or buy a ready-to-use product.
• Spa at Home Books with Treatment Recipes
• Spa Equipment
• Spa Gifts
Spa Cuisine
Treat yourself to a nutritious and delicious spa meal.
• Spa Cuisine Cookbooks
Wrap Up
At the end of the day, cuddle up with books about spa travel and dream about a future visit. Plan a trip (even if you never take it). Read about how spas came to be with books about their origins. Finally, think about sharing a spa experience with someone you care for. Look through Spa Gifts for ideas from day spa certificates to a spa gift basket to a spa party kit.
• Spa Travel Books
• Spa History Books
• Spa Gifts
