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EASTWOOD : Space D, Ground Floor, One Orchard Road, Eastwood City Cyberpark, E. Rodriguez Jr. Avenue (C-5), Bagumbayan, Quezon City.
TOMAS MORATO : D & M Wellness Spa Inc. 238 Tomas Morato Extension, Brgy South Triangle, Quezon City.
A soothing massage that targets tense or knotted muscles using a combination of Swedish and Shiatsu techniques. The natural medicinal properties from the herbal pack ensures relief from stress, headache and other pains.
The herbal pack helps soothe and relax tensed and overworked muscles, eliminate aches and pains, improve appearance of the skin, reduce congestion of the lungs, sinuses and bronchi, disinfect cuts and superficial wounds, and stimulate the senses.
Shiatsu, thumb and palm pressing technique, and Swedish, thumb and palm gliding technique, massage also help in relieving stress.
Blue Water Day Spa’s Combo Herbal Massage takes approximately one hour and fifteen minutes starting with a fifteen minute application of herbal pack then a combination of Shiatsu and Swedish massage.
Quick Fact:
Shiatsu comes from the Japanese words ’shi’ meaning finger and ‘atsu’ meaning pressure. Shiatsu technique uses fingers and palms to put pressure at certain points to correct imbalances in the body.
Price: 750 php
Designed for sports-minded people with 10 minute application of hot moist packs that heals pain and improves mobility. The athlete’s massage focuses on problems associated with the heavy physical activities of athletes who are left with little or no time to rest.
Hot moist packs help in relaxing tight muscles. This decreases pain caused by muscle tension or spasms. It also causes vasodilatation of the blood vessels which increases circulation to the area. Patients with muscle strains, spasms, or arthritis often benefit from treatment with moist hot packs.
Blue Water Day Spa’s Athlete’s Massage helps the body relax by reducing heart rate and blood pressure, relieving tissue and muscle aches and injuries from recreational activity. Pressure is applied to the soft tissues of the body, and the benefits include improved flexibility, improved motion of the joints, and decreased muscle stiffness.
Quick Fact:
An athlete who goes into a game with muscles that are relaxed and toned is in much better condition to avoid greater injury to those muscles if they are tense.
Price: 850 php
Swedish massage has shown to be helpful in reducing pain, joint stiffness, and improving function in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee over a period of eight weeks. This massage helps the body release stress and relieves muscle spasms and tension, by use of pressure on the body that is firm but gentle, improving blood circulation and flexibility of the muscles.
Different particular movements are associated with the Swedish massage; these include long, gliding strokes, kneading of individual muscles, friction, hacking or tapping, and vibration. The process is helped by the application of massage oil on the person’s body. This type of massage is regarded as the foundation for other kinds of massages practiced in the West.
Quick Fact:
In the 19th century, Per Henrik Ling, a Swedish doctor, poet and educator developed massage based on gymnastics and physiology, and on techniques borrowed from China, Egypt, Greece and Rome.
Price: 650 php
Amidst the stress and distress of this world comes an image of perfection and balance. Brazilian Crystals contribute to putting back the body’s vibrations from raucous to harmonious.
More than just for show, Crystals have been used all throughout history as a medicinal agent, a cure not only for the physical but the spiritual as well.
Ancients believe that ailments are caused by imbalances in one’s spirit. They also believe that crystals help in putting back this balance because they set the body’s vibrations to its right tune.
Our Brazilian Crystals have different therapeutic properties that help the body recover from various ill-health due to stress, pains or aches. This is done by means of placing the crystals at strategic points around the body’s center of energy.
Quick Fact:
The word crystal comes from a Greek word Crystallos, from “Krysos” meaning “ice cold”. People from long ago thought that crystals were a type of ice that never melted.
Price: 950 php
Filipinos take pride in their diverse culture. Among which are the many native rituals that may have had influence from neighboring countries.
Traditional Filipino Massage, natively known as Hilot, was once an inexpensive means of healing practiced by local “arbularyos”. People then believed that ailments were caused by witchcraft and some of the sort.
Blue Water Day Spa’s Traditional Filipino Massage is combined with Ventusa, otherwise known as Chinese Cupping.
What is Ventusa? It is used for warming and for removing blockages in the channels. this means it can remove colic, muscular pains and relieve knotted muscles.
Hilot and Ventusa are becoming popular again, it was almost a lost healing art form. it was the common home remedy for cough, for flu and for tummy pains.
It was only later on when Filipinos realized that more than its healing property, Hilot and Ventusa could also be used to relax the body.
Although, modern medicine may be dubious of Hilot and Ventusa’s healing effect, it did not hinder it from gaining worldwide fame.
Blue Water Day Spa’s Traditional Filipino Massage is a Filipino indigenous massage technique that is now getting much popularity around the world because of its unique, calm, tender and relaxing way of massage strokes. It relieves body pain and restores body movements.
Quick Fact:
There are several types of Hilot (practitioners) in the country. Among which are the Comadrona (expert in post natal massage), Hilot (bone setter), Accupressurist, (aligns ugat or nerves and balances electrical energy in body), Reflexologist (drains excess energy from body) and the Herbalist (uses herbs for healing).
Price: 950 php
The convenience of slimming through massage. Say goodbye to cellulite without the hassle of exercise regimes and the pain of crash diets.
Cellulite is the condition when one part of the body becomes dimpled due to excess fat, usually at the thigh, butt, upper arm and abdomen areas. This condition is more applicable to women than men because women’s connective tissue are inflexible compared to men. Cellulite is also known as orange peel syndrome, cottage cheese skin, the mattress phenomenon and hail damage all of which describe its unsightly appearance.
Blue Water Day Spa’s Cellulite Melter Massage is a one hour and thirty minute hard massage that uses anti-cellulite oil. This massage helps in burning fat to reduce cellulite.
This massage detoxifies, lessens fluid retention, promotes hormonal balance and breaks down fats.
Although the effect of the therapy may not be visually evident, a burning sensation would then be felt thus an indication of burning.
Quick Fact:
The term Cellulite first appeared in English language publications in the 1960’s. Although it was first used in the 1920’s, some 40 years earlier.
Price: 700 php
What could be sweeter than chocolate as a slimming agent?
Blue Water Day Spa offers a sweet solution to slimming through chocolate.
Over 2,500 years ago, chocolate has been used as a divine gift and was held in high regard in the Mayan civilization. It was used for ceremony and at times was used as a form of currency. The term ‘Cacao’ meant in Mayan, good food.
And good food it is, chocolate contains caffeine which is a known anti-oxidant which has been associated with anti-aging and other health benefits. It contains essential trace elements and nutrients.
Blue Water Day Spa’s Chocolate Slimming Mud Therapy is a delicious way to detoxify, tone and improve skin texture while firming tissue to reduce the appearance of cellulite. Results of about one inch loss in size on treated area are evident even after therapy.
Chocolate Slimming Mud Therapy can be applied from two to three times in a week.
Quick Fact:
Chocolate is identified as an aphrodisiac by romantic folklore. Probably because of the simple sensual pleasure when consumed. Although there is no proof that is so, a gift of chocolate is still a familiar courtship ritual.
Prices:
Full Body- 3,200 php
Upper Legs- 1,500 php
Tummy- 1,000 php
Arms- 900 php
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Fire is not simply for burning, it is the power behind all transformations within the mind, body and spirit. It can create energy, warmth growth, healing and vigor.
The Tibetan Meridian Fire Therapy Massage eliminates excess fat cells, water and toxins in our bodies; it improves blood circulation and lymph drain; firms and shapes skin on the treated area; reduces the appearance of loose, sagging skin; significantly reduces gastro discomfort, stomach cramps and menstrual pain; regularizes the menstrual cycle; boosts the immune system; deep cleanses the skin; and relaxes the mind and body.
Blue Water Day Spa’s Tibetan Fire Meridian therapy is a 45 minute treatment starting with a hard massage then fire then another hard massage. This treatment takes 30-45 minutes. Effects are evident even right after therapy. Though therapy can be applied everyday (depending on the client’s tolerance), it is recommended to do the treatment at least three times a week.
Quick Fact:
According to the principles of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and Tibetan medicine, “fire therapy” is effective in making people stay young and relieves fatigue.
Price:
Back- 3,000 php
Tummy- 3,000 php
Upper Legs- 3,500 php
Upper Arms- 3,200 php
