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5 Keys to Energy Balance & Bliss Purchase this book or to take advantage of our 6 For the Price of 5 Special Offer The Enlightened Spa PartnerPraise for the book....I believe The Definitive Spa Therapists Handbook book should be made available to every spa therapist in every spa library and educational institute around the world. Tara is like your invisible companion, awakening you to self discovery; self investment; and eventual self mastery. Your passage to becoming a whole therapist is through first becoming a fully conscious; soulful therapist; and this book is your guided journey to becoming that extraordinary professional." Leslie Lyons, Founder Director of Spas2b, Spa Development and Management Training, Canada Tara Herrons book is available from May 2008.Excerpts will be printed from time to time on these pages. The following five keys are designed to cultivate the growing awareness of your crearivity and work within the spa environment developing your inner being, offering skills, understanding, insight and guidance of the influential areas that enhance your skills as a therapist, trainer or manager. Your Body Your posture and body awareness is fundamental to supporting your vehicle (your body) for practicing demanding physical therapies time after time. This chapter provides you with the awareness, techniques and safe practices to improve therapeutic benefits, avoid injury, protect you, reduce overload, and define your boundaries in the treatment room and as part of the spa team. Your Breathing If you are not breathing fully, your client is not breathing! Your breath is at the very centre of how your energy circulates and releases. A tool that supports, transforms and relaxes. Knowledge and techniques are shared to give you the skills required to use your breath as a means of transforming yourself and your clients experience. Your Mind The quality of your thoughts, consciousness and intention are at the pivot of how you relate to and transform your creative work experience. Understanding the dynamics of throught, orientation and intention with practices of how to use this knowledge to the benefit of yourself and others. Enlightening and inspirational. Your Spirit Your alignment with the resource of Universal Energy is directly connected to your insight, sensitivity and healing potential that protects and guides you through the transforming nature of hand on treatments. This chapter defines the experience of connecting to univeral healing energy, how you can consiously develop yourself within it, and how to open up your heart and mind to deepen and enrich your physical touch and healing potential.Your Space How you clean, clear, organise and relate to the space in which you work is an essential element to maintain balance, energy, safety and enjoyment. Also, understanding the nature of your work environment, the purpose of equipment and therapies, from high street salon to destination spa, is a crucial part of enjoying your work and creating a sense of belonging. Information on training, employment, job descriptions, how to deal with complaints, insurance, managment and team building are embraced within this chapter. Intelligent Wisdom The Five Keys together comprise the wholeness of your experience as a therapist which puts the wisdom back together with your intelligence, skill, and environment. This is for the Whole Therapist. This handbook draws on the Ayurvedic analogue of `wholeness` as the cornerstone philosophy for understanding the inter-relationship of all the elements needed to operate wholeheartedly as a spa therapist. It is one thing to have an intelligent grasp of therapeutic techniques on practical or theoretical levels, but is that really enough? In today’s world people come for spa therapy because they want to feel really good, deep down inside, not just for superficial reasons or to treat one particular symptom. Therapists need and want to know how to respond to this universal factor in such a way that you utilise all aspects of your body, mind and soul so that you include and balance yourself in the process of treating others. Ayurveda, which means `the science of life`, explains its fundamental philosophy of ‘wholeness’ by describing what happens when only the highly potent medicinal element of a plant is extracted, leaving behind the plant itself. This is understood as extracting the `intelligence` of the plant but leaving behind the `wisdom.`. Taking the medicine but not the healing! This means that the essence is aborted from its natural environment and therefore looses touch with its original source of energy, life and spirit - the plants` consciousness! And as like attracts like, the way the plants` potential power works will be diminished by not being its ‘whole plant self,’ and therefore not wholly digested thoroughly by the receiver.
The following five keys are designed to cultivate the growing awareness of your crearivity and work within the spa environment developing your inner being, offering skills, understanding, insight and guidance of the influential areas that enhance your skills as a therapist, trainer or manager. Your Body Your posture and body awareness is fundamental to supporting your vehicle (your body) for practicing demanding physical therapies time after time. This chapter provides you with the awareness, techniques and safe practices to improve therapeutic benefits, avoid injury, protect you, reduce overload, and define your boundaries in the treatment room and as part of the spa team. Your Breathing If you are not breathing fully, your client is not breathing! Your breath is at the very centre of how your energy circulates and releases. A tool that supports, transforms and relaxes. Knowledge and techniques are shared to give you the skills required to use your breath as a means of transforming yourself and your clients experience. Your Mind The quality of your thoughts, consciousness and intention are at the pivot of how you relate to and transform your creative work experience. Understanding the dynamics of throught, orientation and intention with practices of how to use this knowledge to the benefit of yourself and others. Enlightening and inspirational. Your Spirit Your alignment with the resource of Universal Energy is directly connected to your insight, sensitivity and healing potential that protects and guides you through the transforming nature of hand on treatments. This chapter defines the experience of connecting to univeral healing energy, how you can consiously develop yourself within it, and how to open up your heart and mind to deepen and enrich your physical touch and healing potential.Your Space How you clean, clear, organise and relate to the space in which you work is an essential element to maintain balance, energy, safety and enjoyment. Also, understanding the nature of your work environment, the purpose of equipment and therapies, from high street salon to destination spa, is a crucial part of enjoying your work and creating a sense of belonging. Information on training, employment, job descriptions, how to deal with complaints, insurance, managment and team building are embraced within this chapter. Intelligent Wisdom The Five Keys together comprise the wholeness of your experience as a therapist which puts the wisdom back together with your intelligence, skill, and environment. This is for the Whole Therapist. This handbook draws on the Ayurvedic analogue of `wholeness` as the cornerstone philosophy for understanding the inter-relationship of all the elements needed to operate wholeheartedly as a spa therapist. It is one thing to have an intelligent grasp of therapeutic techniques on practical or theoretical levels, but is that really enough? In today’s world people come for spa therapy because they want to feel really good, deep down inside, not just for superficial reasons or to treat one particular symptom. Therapists need and want to know how to respond to this universal factor in such a way that you utilise all aspects of your body, mind and soul so that you include and balance yourself in the process of treating others. Ayurveda, which means `the science of life`, explains its fundamental philosophy of ‘wholeness’ by describing what happens when only the highly potent medicinal element of a plant is extracted, leaving behind the plant itself. This is understood as extracting the `intelligence` of the plant but leaving behind the `wisdom.`. Taking the medicine but not the healing! This means that the essence is aborted from its natural environment and therefore looses touch with its original source of energy, life and spirit - the plants` consciousness! And as like attracts like, the way the plants` potential power works will be diminished by not being its ‘whole plant self,’ and therefore not wholly digested thoroughly by the receiver.
Your Body Your posture and body awareness is fundamental to supporting your vehicle (your body) for practicing demanding physical therapies time after time. This chapter provides you with the awareness, techniques and safe practices to improve therapeutic benefits, avoid injury, protect you, reduce overload, and define your boundaries in the treatment room and as part of the spa team. Your Breathing If you are not breathing fully, your client is not breathing! Your breath is at the very centre of how your energy circulates and releases. A tool that supports, transforms and relaxes. Knowledge and techniques are shared to give you the skills required to use your breath as a means of transforming yourself and your clients experience. Your Mind The quality of your thoughts, consciousness and intention are at the pivot of how you relate to and transform your creative work experience. Understanding the dynamics of throught, orientation and intention with practices of how to use this knowledge to the benefit of yourself and others. Enlightening and inspirational. Your Spirit Your alignment with the resource of Universal Energy is directly connected to your insight, sensitivity and healing potential that protects and guides you through the transforming nature of hand on treatments. This chapter defines the experience of connecting to univeral healing energy, how you can consiously develop yourself within it, and how to open up your heart and mind to deepen and enrich your physical touch and healing potential.Your Space How you clean, clear, organise and relate to the space in which you work is an essential element to maintain balance, energy, safety and enjoyment. Also, understanding the nature of your work environment, the purpose of equipment and therapies, from high street salon to destination spa, is a crucial part of enjoying your work and creating a sense of belonging. Information on training, employment, job descriptions, how to deal with complaints, insurance, managment and team building are embraced within this chapter. Intelligent Wisdom The Five Keys together comprise the wholeness of your experience as a therapist which puts the wisdom back together with your intelligence, skill, and environment. This is for the Whole Therapist. This handbook draws on the Ayurvedic analogue of `wholeness` as the cornerstone philosophy for understanding the inter-relationship of all the elements needed to operate wholeheartedly as a spa therapist. It is one thing to have an intelligent grasp of therapeutic techniques on practical or theoretical levels, but is that really enough? In today’s world people come for spa therapy because they want to feel really good, deep down inside, not just for superficial reasons or to treat one particular symptom. Therapists need and want to know how to respond to this universal factor in such a way that you utilise all aspects of your body, mind and soul so that you include and balance yourself in the process of treating others. Ayurveda, which means `the science of life`, explains its fundamental philosophy of ‘wholeness’ by describing what happens when only the highly potent medicinal element of a plant is extracted, leaving behind the plant itself. This is understood as extracting the `intelligence` of the plant but leaving behind the `wisdom.`. Taking the medicine but not the healing! This means that the essence is aborted from its natural environment and therefore looses touch with its original source of energy, life and spirit - the plants` consciousness! And as like attracts like, the way the plants` potential power works will be diminished by not being its ‘whole plant self,’ and therefore not wholly digested thoroughly by the receiver.
Your Breathing If you are not breathing fully, your client is not breathing! Your breath is at the very centre of how your energy circulates and releases. A tool that supports, transforms and relaxes. Knowledge and techniques are shared to give you the skills required to use your breath as a means of transforming yourself and your clients experience. Your Mind The quality of your thoughts, consciousness and intention are at the pivot of how you relate to and transform your creative work experience. Understanding the dynamics of throught, orientation and intention with practices of how to use this knowledge to the benefit of yourself and others. Enlightening and inspirational. Your Spirit Your alignment with the resource of Universal Energy is directly connected to your insight, sensitivity and healing potential that protects and guides you through the transforming nature of hand on treatments. This chapter defines the experience of connecting to univeral healing energy, how you can consiously develop yourself within it, and how to open up your heart and mind to deepen and enrich your physical touch and healing potential.Your Space How you clean, clear, organise and relate to the space in which you work is an essential element to maintain balance, energy, safety and enjoyment. Also, understanding the nature of your work environment, the purpose of equipment and therapies, from high street salon to destination spa, is a crucial part of enjoying your work and creating a sense of belonging. Information on training, employment, job descriptions, how to deal with complaints, insurance, managment and team building are embraced within this chapter. Intelligent Wisdom The Five Keys together comprise the wholeness of your experience as a therapist which puts the wisdom back together with your intelligence, skill, and environment. This is for the Whole Therapist. This handbook draws on the Ayurvedic analogue of `wholeness` as the cornerstone philosophy for understanding the inter-relationship of all the elements needed to operate wholeheartedly as a spa therapist. It is one thing to have an intelligent grasp of therapeutic techniques on practical or theoretical levels, but is that really enough? In today’s world people come for spa therapy because they want to feel really good, deep down inside, not just for superficial reasons or to treat one particular symptom. Therapists need and want to know how to respond to this universal factor in such a way that you utilise all aspects of your body, mind and soul so that you include and balance yourself in the process of treating others. Ayurveda, which means `the science of life`, explains its fundamental philosophy of ‘wholeness’ by describing what happens when only the highly potent medicinal element of a plant is extracted, leaving behind the plant itself. This is understood as extracting the `intelligence` of the plant but leaving behind the `wisdom.`. Taking the medicine but not the healing! This means that the essence is aborted from its natural environment and therefore looses touch with its original source of energy, life and spirit - the plants` consciousness! And as like attracts like, the way the plants` potential power works will be diminished by not being its ‘whole plant self,’ and therefore not wholly digested thoroughly by the receiver.
Your Mind The quality of your thoughts, consciousness and intention are at the pivot of how you relate to and transform your creative work experience. Understanding the dynamics of throught, orientation and intention with practices of how to use this knowledge to the benefit of yourself and others. Enlightening and inspirational. Your Spirit Your alignment with the resource of Universal Energy is directly connected to your insight, sensitivity and healing potential that protects and guides you through the transforming nature of hand on treatments. This chapter defines the experience of connecting to univeral healing energy, how you can consiously develop yourself within it, and how to open up your heart and mind to deepen and enrich your physical touch and healing potential.Your Space How you clean, clear, organise and relate to the space in which you work is an essential element to maintain balance, energy, safety and enjoyment. Also, understanding the nature of your work environment, the purpose of equipment and therapies, from high street salon to destination spa, is a crucial part of enjoying your work and creating a sense of belonging. Information on training, employment, job descriptions, how to deal with complaints, insurance, managment and team building are embraced within this chapter. Intelligent Wisdom The Five Keys together comprise the wholeness of your experience as a therapist which puts the wisdom back together with your intelligence, skill, and environment. This is for the Whole Therapist. This handbook draws on the Ayurvedic analogue of `wholeness` as the cornerstone philosophy for understanding the inter-relationship of all the elements needed to operate wholeheartedly as a spa therapist. It is one thing to have an intelligent grasp of therapeutic techniques on practical or theoretical levels, but is that really enough? In today’s world people come for spa therapy because they want to feel really good, deep down inside, not just for superficial reasons or to treat one particular symptom. Therapists need and want to know how to respond to this universal factor in such a way that you utilise all aspects of your body, mind and soul so that you include and balance yourself in the process of treating others. Ayurveda, which means `the science of life`, explains its fundamental philosophy of ‘wholeness’ by describing what happens when only the highly potent medicinal element of a plant is extracted, leaving behind the plant itself. This is understood as extracting the `intelligence` of the plant but leaving behind the `wisdom.`. Taking the medicine but not the healing! This means that the essence is aborted from its natural environment and therefore looses touch with its original source of energy, life and spirit - the plants` consciousness! And as like attracts like, the way the plants` potential power works will be diminished by not being its ‘whole plant self,’ and therefore not wholly digested thoroughly by the receiver.
Your Spirit Your alignment with the resource of Universal Energy is directly connected to your insight, sensitivity and healing potential that protects and guides you through the transforming nature of hand on treatments. This chapter defines the experience of connecting to univeral healing energy, how you can consiously develop yourself within it, and how to open up your heart and mind to deepen and enrich your physical touch and healing potential.Your Space How you clean, clear, organise and relate to the space in which you work is an essential element to maintain balance, energy, safety and enjoyment. Also, understanding the nature of your work environment, the purpose of equipment and therapies, from high street salon to destination spa, is a crucial part of enjoying your work and creating a sense of belonging. Information on training, employment, job descriptions, how to deal with complaints, insurance, managment and team building are embraced within this chapter. Intelligent Wisdom The Five Keys together comprise the wholeness of your experience as a therapist which puts the wisdom back together with your intelligence, skill, and environment. This is for the Whole Therapist. This handbook draws on the Ayurvedic analogue of `wholeness` as the cornerstone philosophy for understanding the inter-relationship of all the elements needed to operate wholeheartedly as a spa therapist. It is one thing to have an intelligent grasp of therapeutic techniques on practical or theoretical levels, but is that really enough? In today’s world people come for spa therapy because they want to feel really good, deep down inside, not just for superficial reasons or to treat one particular symptom. Therapists need and want to know how to respond to this universal factor in such a way that you utilise all aspects of your body, mind and soul so that you include and balance yourself in the process of treating others. Ayurveda, which means `the science of life`, explains its fundamental philosophy of ‘wholeness’ by describing what happens when only the highly potent medicinal element of a plant is extracted, leaving behind the plant itself. This is understood as extracting the `intelligence` of the plant but leaving behind the `wisdom.`. Taking the medicine but not the healing! This means that the essence is aborted from its natural environment and therefore looses touch with its original source of energy, life and spirit - the plants` consciousness! And as like attracts like, the way the plants` potential power works will be diminished by not being its ‘whole plant self,’ and therefore not wholly digested thoroughly by the receiver.
Intelligent Wisdom The Five Keys together comprise the wholeness of your experience as a therapist which puts the wisdom back together with your intelligence, skill, and environment. This is for the Whole Therapist. This handbook draws on the Ayurvedic analogue of `wholeness` as the cornerstone philosophy for understanding the inter-relationship of all the elements needed to operate wholeheartedly as a spa therapist. It is one thing to have an intelligent grasp of therapeutic techniques on practical or theoretical levels, but is that really enough? In today’s world people come for spa therapy because they want to feel really good, deep down inside, not just for superficial reasons or to treat one particular symptom. Therapists need and want to know how to respond to this universal factor in such a way that you utilise all aspects of your body, mind and soul so that you include and balance yourself in the process of treating others. Ayurveda, which means `the science of life`, explains its fundamental philosophy of ‘wholeness’ by describing what happens when only the highly potent medicinal element of a plant is extracted, leaving behind the plant itself. This is understood as extracting the `intelligence` of the plant but leaving behind the `wisdom.`. Taking the medicine but not the healing! This means that the essence is aborted from its natural environment and therefore looses touch with its original source of energy, life and spirit - the plants` consciousness! And as like attracts like, the way the plants` potential power works will be diminished by not being its ‘whole plant self,’ and therefore not wholly digested thoroughly by the receiver.
The Five Keys together comprise the wholeness of your experience as a therapist which puts the wisdom back together with your intelligence, skill, and environment. This is for the Whole Therapist. This handbook draws on the Ayurvedic analogue of `wholeness` as the cornerstone philosophy for understanding the inter-relationship of all the elements needed to operate wholeheartedly as a spa therapist. It is one thing to have an intelligent grasp of therapeutic techniques on practical or theoretical levels, but is that really enough? In today’s world people come for spa therapy because they want to feel really good, deep down inside, not just for superficial reasons or to treat one particular symptom. Therapists need and want to know how to respond to this universal factor in such a way that you utilise all aspects of your body, mind and soul so that you include and balance yourself in the process of treating others. Ayurveda, which means `the science of life`, explains its fundamental philosophy of ‘wholeness’ by describing what happens when only the highly potent medicinal element of a plant is extracted, leaving behind the plant itself. This is understood as extracting the `intelligence` of the plant but leaving behind the `wisdom.`. Taking the medicine but not the healing! This means that the essence is aborted from its natural environment and therefore looses touch with its original source of energy, life and spirit - the plants` consciousness! And as like attracts like, the way the plants` potential power works will be diminished by not being its ‘whole plant self,’ and therefore not wholly digested thoroughly by the receiver.
This handbook draws on the Ayurvedic analogue of `wholeness` as the cornerstone philosophy for understanding the inter-relationship of all the elements needed to operate wholeheartedly as a spa therapist. It is one thing to have an intelligent grasp of therapeutic techniques on practical or theoretical levels, but is that really enough? In today’s world people come for spa therapy because they want to feel really good, deep down inside, not just for superficial reasons or to treat one particular symptom. Therapists need and want to know how to respond to this universal factor in such a way that you utilise all aspects of your body, mind and soul so that you include and balance yourself in the process of treating others. Ayurveda, which means `the science of life`, explains its fundamental philosophy of ‘wholeness’ by describing what happens when only the highly potent medicinal element of a plant is extracted, leaving behind the plant itself. This is understood as extracting the `intelligence` of the plant but leaving behind the `wisdom.`. Taking the medicine but not the healing! This means that the essence is aborted from its natural environment and therefore looses touch with its original source of energy, life and spirit - the plants` consciousness! And as like attracts like, the way the plants` potential power works will be diminished by not being its ‘whole plant self,’ and therefore not wholly digested thoroughly by the receiver.
Ayurveda, which means `the science of life`, explains its fundamental philosophy of ‘wholeness’ by describing what happens when only the highly potent medicinal element of a plant is extracted, leaving behind the plant itself. This is understood as extracting the `intelligence` of the plant but leaving behind the `wisdom.`. Taking the medicine but not the healing! This means that the essence is aborted from its natural environment and therefore looses touch with its original source of energy, life and spirit - the plants` consciousness! And as like attracts like, the way the plants` potential power works will be diminished by not being its ‘whole plant self,’ and therefore not wholly digested thoroughly by the receiver.
