Shoji Spa & Lodge Articles - Table of Contents
  • "The Benefits of a Long Hot Soak (Medical and Otherwise)"  by Roberta Jordan
    Hydrotherapy (or balenotherapy) is the use of water in various states and temperatures to maintain health and promote healing. Steam, ice, hot, tepid, and cold water are all used in a number of ways alone or as part of a therapeutic regimen. Contrast therapies, such as immersing in hot and then cold water, are used to dramatically stimulate circulation. Water-based therapies in spas are currently used throughout conventional, complementary, and alternative medicine.. August 2007
  • "Sanus Per Aquam, a Spa Commentary"  by Roberta Jordan
    It is hard to understand just how so many other industries got ahold of the concept of Sanus per Aquam, “spa”, and managed to get it to stick to their type of business. The acronym “spa” Latin; Sanus Per Aquam, means “health through water”; so who and what meets the definition? The steam of a sweat lodge meets the definition of spa, but nothing my hairdresser does, or any piece of medi-equipment will ever convince me “I am having a spa experience!” In attempts to move the Spa industry forward through the ever dynamic forces of growth, change and “progress”; sometimes it’s worth a look back at how (and why) we define ourselves.. August 2007