Download or read book Pleasures of the Spa written by John Duguid and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leisure Pleasure and Healing written by Esti Dvorjetski and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with leisure, pleasure and healing at the spas in the eastern Mediterranean basin since the biblical era throughout the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and early Muslim periods focusing on daily life, healing cults, medical recommendations and treatments at the curative spas.
Download or read book Pleasure Healing written by Mary Beth Janssen and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2009-02-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spas have become self-care oases for millions of people living busy, hectic lives. And while your skin may be smoother when you leave, the relaxation response sparked by a visit to the spa is an equally invaluable gift. Pleasure Healing will help you give that gift to yourself every day by bringing relaxation and present-moment awareness into your life. As you incorporate mindfulness techniques including meditation, healing breath work, conscious movement, and other pleasure-healing rituals into your daily routine, you'll notice the spa ethos transforming your mindset, calming stress, and enriching your life.
Download or read book Healing Home Spa written by Valerie Gennari Cooksley and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike most spa books that emphasize beauty regimens, Healing Home Spafeatures an A-to-Z section of more than 100 common ailments and everyday health challenges with therapeutic prescriptions for prevention and healing-from acne to aging skin, congestions, eye strain, stress, varicose veins, and wound care. Hundreds of original, feel-good recipes for masks, tonics, soaks, inhalations, and oils can be found throughout the book, making this a unique therapeutic treat that readers will use alone or with a partner to indulge in the healthy pleasures of the home spa. Healing Home Spashows readers how to turn their home into a harmonious retreat by incorporating natural home spa treatments that are easy to follow, while including many of the latest trends practiced in spas throughout the world: essential oil and herbal therapy, hydrotherapy, flower essence therapy, massage, body wraps, skin brushing, sound and music therapy, teas and tonic, yoga, and more. In all, more than a dozen techniques are described, including their healing benefits and current studies to support their efficacy.
Download or read book The Royal Treatment written by Steve Capellini and published by Dell. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned spa therapist Steve Capellini offers instructions culled from years of experience and his interactions with the experts working at several luxury resorts on how to perform rejuvenating treatments. From the exotic herbal wrap used at California's Golden Door to facials, foot rubs, hair tonics, and sea salt scrubs, "The Royal Treatment" is a one-way ticket to a relaxing paradise in the privacy of one's home. 30 line drawings.
Download or read book Be Well written by Kari Molvar and published by Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A showcase of the current culture and architecture, protagonists and ideas, and treatments and aims of twenty-first-century wellbeing. One of life's greatest pleasures is a day spent rejuvenating the body and nourishing the spirit. Humans have practiced self-care for centuries--in the sweat lodges of the American Southwest, Roman baths, the hammams of the Ottoman Empire, Japanese onsens, and Finnish saunas. Today, a new interest in self-care is redefining how we accomplish wellness, and there have never been more options. In our increasingly switched-on lives, a growing industry of highly choreographed experiences is geared to help us switch off. Be Well is a journey around the world's most extraordinary spaces for achieving this, looking at the innovative practices they offer and how to carry them into everyday life.
Download or read book Spa Living written by Sunamita Lim and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spa Living explores the many benefits of the spa lifestyle, including skin care, ayurvedic healing, exercise, and a relaxing environment that offers inner peace, health, and well-being.
Download or read book Glow Guide Spa written by Andrea McCloud and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kick back and take five with Glow Guide: Spa, the latest in our easy-access series of little books with big benefits. This charmingly illustrated guide is brimming with ideas for brightening any day with the simple pleasures of the spa. From time-saving quickies like the detoxifying Lemon Water Cocktail and the Drive-Time Hand and Nail Treatment to little luxuries like a Cool Cucumber Mask and a Hot Rock Massage, the instructions in Glow Guide: Spa make it simple for busy bodies to take the time for a bit of pampered bliss. With more than 50 easy and instant indulgences for at home, at work, or even on the road, Glow Guide: Spa proves that any time is spa time.
Download or read book Sensual Pleasures written by Madison Bliss and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy TEN hot erotic massage stories that will drive you wild until the very last word. These massages are oily, sexy and... best of all... all about HER! A tropical holiday... a secret spa... a night with her best friend. These girls indulge their deepest fantasies with men (and women!) who really know how to please! Each luxurious massage has a long sensual build-up and explosive happy ending.
Download or read book Packaged Pleasures written by Gary S. Cross and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and sensual experience. Food, drink, and many other consumer goods came to be mass-produced, bottled, canned, condensed, and distilled, unleashing new and intensified surges of pleasure, delight, thrill—and addiction. In Packaged Pleasures, Gary S. Cross and Robert N. Proctor delve into an uncharted chapter of American history, shedding new light on the origins of modern consumer culture and how technologies have transformed human sensory experience. In the space of only a few decades, junk foods, cigarettes, movies, recorded sound, and thrill rides brought about a revolution in what it means to taste, smell, see, hear, and touch. New techniques of boxing, labeling, and tubing gave consumers virtually unlimited access to pleasures they could simply unwrap and enjoy. Manufacturers generated a seemingly endless stream of sugar-filled, high-fat foods that were delicious but detrimental to health. Mechanically rolled cigarettes entered the market and quickly addicted millions. And many other packaged pleasures dulled or displaced natural and social delights. Yet many of these same new technologies also offered convenient and effective medicines, unprecedented opportunities to enjoy music and the visual arts, and more hygienic, varied, and nutritious food and drink. For better or for worse, sensation became mechanized, commercialized, and, to a large extent, democratized by being made cheap and accessible. Cross and Proctor have delivered an ingeniously constructed history of consumerism and consumer technology that will make us all rethink some of our favorite things.
Download or read book Boo La La Witch Spa written by Samantha Berger and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spooky meets silly in this unique Halloween story about a witch’s night out at the fa-BOO Witch Spa! Halloween is the most important day of the year for any witch. So when the holiday ends and the witches are tired from tricking and treating, they all head to the fa-boo Witch Spa. Here they indulge in Bat-Whisker Tea, Broom Bristle Facials, and other spooky spa goodies. A trip to the Witch Spa is sure to make any witch or warlock feel refreshed, revived, and positively revolting. Charming illustrations, clever rhymes, and silly spa treatments make this a fun Halloween book with mega mom appeal.
Download or read book Spas Wells Pleasure Gardens of London written by James Stevens Curl and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London was once blessed with spas set in gardens, where beneficial waters could be consumed and enjoyed in agreeable surroundings, sometimes with music, food and alcohol. They were, in effect, the pleasure resorts of the 18th century. With the aid of many images the author - one of England's most distinguished architectural historians - provides a racy, informative, humorous and well-researched social history of these fascinating, if ephemeral, little-known features of London life, some of which survived until early Victorian times.
Download or read book Press Here Sensual Massage for Beginners written by Sydney Price and published by Fair Winds Press. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Press Here! Sensual Massage for Beginners is an introductory guide to practicing the art of sensual massage, with yourself and/or a partner—learn through beautiful illustrations, step-by-step instruction, and expert advice. Sexuality is an integral part of your health and self-development. Whether you are single, dating, or already in a relationship, spending quality time exploring the nature of your own and a partner's sexual pleasure and expression through touch can increase your satisfaction, confidence, and bonding while reducing stress. With this guide, learn how to create a unique and satisfying sensual massage experience, including: How to use communication to create a safe space and honestly share desires Using breath and focus to slow down How to create different sensations with your hands A demystifying and non-shaming breakdown of the anatomy of arousal (often left out of traditional sex education) Creating a sensual space with oils, aromatherapy, toys, and props A guided practice model for trying a full body sensual massage either alone or with a partner Add sensual massage to your self-care routine or bonding time with a partner to improve your overall well-being with Press Here! Sensual Massage for Beginners. The Press Here! series offers contemporary takes on traditional hands-on healing practices for a new generation of practitioners. These introductory guides feature easy-to-access organization, clear instructions, and beautiful illustrations of each technique. Other Press Here! topics include massage, Kama Sutra, reiki, reflexology, chakras, face workouts, and acupressure.
Download or read book Pleasure and Leisure in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan Huizinga and Roger Caillois have already taught us to realize how important games and play have been for pre-modern civilization. Recent research has begun to acknowledge the fundamental importance of these aspects in cultural, religious, philosophical, and literary terms. This volume expands on the traditional approach still very much focused on the materiality of game (toys, cards, dice, falcons, dolls, etc.) and acknowledges that game constituted also a form of coming to terms with human existence in an unstable and volatile world determined by universal randomness and fortune. Whether considering blessings or horse fighting, falconry or card games, playing with dice or dolls, we can gain a much deeper understanding of medieval and early modern society when we consider how people pursued pleasure and how they structured their leisure time. The contributions examine a wide gamut of approaches to pleasure, considering health issues, eroticism, tournaments, playing music, reading and listening, drinking alcohol, gambling and throwing dice. This large issue was also relevant, of course, in non-Christian societies, and constitutes a critical concern both for the past and the present because we are all homines ludentes.
Download or read book Liquid Pleasures written by Proffessor John Burnett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drinking has always meant much more than satisfying the thirst. Drinking can be a necessity, a comfort, an indulgence or a social activity. Liquid Pleasures is an engrossing study of the social history of drinks in Britain from the late seventeenth century to the present. From the first cup of tea at breakfast to mid-morning coffee, to an eveining beer and a 'night-cap', John Burnett discusses individual drinks and drinking patterns which have varied not least with personal taste but also with age, gender, region and class. He shows how different ages have viewed the same drink as either demon poison or medicine. John Burnett traces the history of what has been drunk in Britain from the 'hot beverage revolution' of the late seventeenth century - connecting drinks and related substances such as sugar to empire - right up to the 'cold drinks revolution' of the late twentieth century, examining the factors which have determined these major changes in our dietary habits.
Download or read book Next Year in Marienbad written by Mirjam Zadoff and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the last decades of the nineteenth century through the late 1930s, the West Bohemian spa towns of Carlsbad, Franzensbad, and Marienbad were fashionable destinations for visitors wishing to "take a cure"—to drink the waters, bathe in the mud, be treated by the latest X-ray, light, or gas therapies, or simply enjoy the respite afforded by elegant parks and comfortable lodgings. These were sociable and urbane places, settings for celebrity sightings, match-making, and stylish promenading. Originally the haunt of aristocrats, the spa towns came to be the favored summer resorts for the emerging bourgeoisie. Among the many who traveled there, a very high proportion were Jewish. In Next Year in Marienbad, Mirjam Zadoff writes the social and cultural history of Carlsbad, Franzensbad, and Marienbad as Jewish spaces. Secular and religious Jews from diverse national, cultural, and social backgrounds mingled in idyllic and often apolitical-seeming surroundings. During the season, shops sold Yiddish and Hebrew newspapers, kosher kitchens were opened, and theatrical presentations, concerts, and public readings catered to the Jewish clientele. Yet these same resorts were situated in a region of growing hostile nationalisms, and they were towns that might turn virulently anti-Semitic in the off season. Next Year in Marienbad draws from memoirs and letters, newspapers and maps, novels and postcards to create a compelling and engaging portrait of Jewish presence and cultural production in the years between the fin de siècle and the Second World War.
Download or read book The Pleasure Haunts of London During Four Centuries written by Edwin Beresford Chancellor and published by London : Constable ; Boston & New York : Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1925 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
