Horse-y Reiki energy
Reiki, if you haven’t heard about it before, is a form of alternative medicine. The concept is universal energy healing, and so practitioners restore the balance in a patient or a client through the use of palm healing, where they transfer a degree of energy to you and fix your physical or emotional issues.
Rockin Heart Ranch in Idaho, U.S.A, offers Reiki on a horseback. Reiki master and owner Christina DiBartolo claims that horses carry the same universal energy or life force. Simply ride on a horse—solo or with Christina—and let your stress and anxiety melt away. We are not sure if horses in other ranches have the same healing powers or only the horses in Rockin Heart Ranch.
Snowy sauna
You go to a sauna to help heal your heart problems to a certain degree. Exposing yourself to a high-temperature room will help expand your blood vessels, boost blood circulation, and even helps decrease your blood pressure. The anti-sauna snow cave, on the other hand, is where you “cool off” straight from your sauna session. From going from hot to extreme cold, you will, according to experts, be rid of hypertension.
But if you want a cold sauna alone, there is also one. Through what they call cryotherapy, which is a quick three-minute treatment, your body will be healed from pain, aches, and inflammation. Those who go to cold saunas are usually arthritic patients or those who suffer from fibromyalgia and insomnia, sciatica, and even multiple sclerosis.
Stripped naked in a hammam
Hamman is a common practice in Morocco to get your skin completely clean. If you’re not shy, then this will suit you just fine because for the first step, you’ll be naked with other people and socializing with them. Don’t worry, there is gender segregation. But if you are uncomfortable being in your birthday suit, you can wear a bikini.
It’s a weekly ritual Moroccan skincare regimen that boils down to extreme exfoliation. After chatting with naked peeps, you will then exfoliate yourself in a large steam room or you can hire someone to exfoliate you, then you will be massaged. The process can be hardcore, but those who experienced it credit the hammam as one of the most cleansing experiences ever that you will leave the spa glowing and very relaxed.
Hot cupping delight
If you are into alternative medicine, you may already have tried the hot cupping therapy. If you suffer from any degree of pain, inflammation, or blood circulation problems, this is the go-to therapy. The therapist will place hot cups on your skin, leave them to suction, and in no time, your back will look like aliens have made crop circles out of your skin. How cool is that?
The hot cupping treatment originated in China, so if you want the most authentic experience, head on to that country. In China, they use special bamboo cups to suck on your skin, around 40 of them. Then the therapists will leave the miracle cups to do their thing and unburden you from your pain for almost half an hour.
Irish seaweed bathing
People usually hate it when they swim in an ocean littered with seaweeds. Well, what if I tell you that there’s such a thing as a seaweed bath? Submerging oneself in a tub filled with these stinky marine plants is a wellness practice that dates back to the Edwardian era, meaning it’s been around for hundreds of years. Seaweed baths are credited to the treatment of arthritic and rheumatic aches and promote intense relaxation.
This spa treatment originated in Ireland, and the Irish would harvest seaweeds from the North Atlantic coast. The seaweeds are called wracks—the brown ones—and are poured along with hot seawater in a tub. The wracks have oils that are rich in minerals, vitamins, and nutrients that will help you relax and soothe your pains.
Beer for radiant skin
Whether or not you love beer, you might find a beer bath enticing. Beer baths have been around for quite some time now in Eastern European culture. Folks soak themselves in beer, because, apparently, it contains organic ingredients that rejuvenate the skin, melts your stress away, improves circulation, detoxifies, and relieves back and joint pains.
Today, in Prague, there are plenty of spas that offer beer baths. While relaxing in this liquid, you can even scoot over to a nearby beer tap and drink beer with no limit. In other spas, the beer that they use for your bath water is in the early fermentation stages, which has a low pH, which will help give you healthy hair and skin.
Bathing the Turkish way
The Turkish bath has a high degree of similarity to the Moroccan bath experience. The only difference is that for the Turkish way, the process does not begin in a large steam room but in a dry sauna. A dry sauna is the most common sauna, where wood burns in a stove, then the hot water is ladled into the rocks, which creates moisture.
After the dry sauna, you will then proceed to your Turkish bath, which runs for 45 minutes. You will be scrubbed hard to leave, making you immaculately clean. Then, like the hammam, you will be massaged on a marble slab. Soap, oil, the works. But unlike the Moroccan bath, the last step on the Turkish bath is you have to plunge into a super cold pool.
Fun muddy pool
Be like Peppa Pig and jump in muddy puddles! Except in mud baths that originated in Japan, you literally jump into a pool of warm mineral mud and simply take a bath in it. This muddy spa treatment has been around for thousands of years and is credited for its high therapeutic benefits.
If you suffer from skin conditions, such as psoriasis or eczema, swimming in mud is good for you. It eliminates skin impurities, deeply exfoliates you, and if you have rheumatoid arthritis, it will relieve you from pain. Mud baths boast healing minerals like magnesium, zinc, sulfur, and bromine. Not to mention wading in mud sounds like a lot of fun. Now we understand why Peppa and George love their muddy puddles so much!
Skin rebirth in the Dead Sea
Dive into the Dead Sea in Jordan and float. Everybody knows that the Dead Sea is the saltiest body of water on the planet. But did you know that it also offers one of the most popular spa treatments in the world? Not to mention it’s one of the oldest. Even before King Herod’s time, folks have been trekking to the Dead Sea to find relief and healing through ultra-briny waters, as well as through the black mud found along the shores. The air, which is rich with ozone, is said to have health benefits.
You will be soaked in mud and then wrapped in polythene until the mud on your skin becomes dry. This is called a mud wrap. It is done to relieve muscle aches, reduce anxiety, and boost blood circulation. Then you can exfoliate your body using the Dead Sea waters and leave the area with baby-smooth skin!
Reflexology as medicine
If you enjoy hand and foot massages, why not go for a reflexology treatment and get cured of various illnesses and disorders? Well, that’s what practitioners claim. But if you’re ticklish, perhaps you should think twice—although some claim the process hurts to some degree. Also known as “zone therapy,” reflexology focuses on specific points in the hands and feet that are connected to other parts of the body. For example, there is one area in your hand or feet that represents your heart. Massaging that area will help your heart issues.
This massage does not make use of oil or lotion. Reflexologists stimulate your reflex points by some nifty combination of thumb-finger manipulations. By the end of the massage, they say you will experience a boost in brain power and nerve functions, and be relieved of aches and pains.