Pleasure Healing: Mindful Practices and Sacred Spa Rituals for Self-Nurturing

Description

One of the great values of getting away to a spa is not what's happening to your body during that timeframe but what is happening to your mind that you carry away with you. Author Mary Beth Janssen creates a guide for achieving total body well-being - not just looking good on the outside, but feeling a renewed sense of mind and soul as well. So what you won't find within these pages is advice for applying blush or creating the latest hairstyle.What you will find are proven techniques for achieving inner and outer well-being through spirituality, sensuality, and living organically, in addition to spa rituals for your body - also an integral part of self-care. This book can give someone the idea that they're nurturing themselves with spa therapies, without having to go to the spa and experience them there. These include the mindful and contemplative practices as well as the integration of 'mindfulness' into the fitness, nutrition, and beauty elements (massage, aromatherapy, etc.) of the spa experience as well.

"Pleasure Healing" is a joy to read. I can think of no better compliment than to say I d like to have written it myself! Mary Beth Janssen has given those in search of a healthier, more fulfilling life a roadmap that is both inspiring and practical. Turning these pages is a spa journey in itself a beautiful release from distraction and worry guided by an author who is intuitive and wise. Deborah Szekely, cofounder of Rancho La Puerta with her husband Edmond Szekely, and founder of the Golden Door Spa"