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SPA

In Latin “Salus Per Aquam” means the health that comes from water. The aim is to be healthier by using water, and it is to obtain the feeling of freshness by using the water in different ways. Generally, it is benefited from mineral water and seawater.  SPA’s history of a thousand years begins from Mesopotamia.

S P A   ( Salus Per Aquam )​

It has become stronger with the East Asia culture after the Romans and the Ottomans developed it. Although SPA has been developed a fair bit in USA, Europe, Canada and the Far East countries, In Turkey it is a sector that has just recently been realized and grown.



The most preferred methods done in centers are aimed at beauty and relaxing like, with relaxing aromatic oils and massage techniques applied to the person provides physical and spiritual relaxation. Colored therapies applied in classic fin sauna’s, aromatherapy sessions that help throw toxins away  in steam rooms, after massages heated couches that help relax the body. 

 



The International SPA union, has separated the SPA’s into seven categories. These are;

Club SPA :
It  has health services like fitness. Also it offers services for daily use.



Kurvaziyer SPA :
A kurvaziyer gives Wellness services on a ship. Different therapies, salon services are presented in an a la carte.



Daily SPA : 
It is the most common and gives daily services.



Destination SPA :
Provides physical health and with educational aimed services programs with on site accommodation directed at the improvement of the lifestyle and the increase of health. There is only one type of this SPA found in Turkey.



Medical SPA :
The aim is firstly comprehensive health. It provides services in a Wellness care, traditional SPA services and integrated complementary treatments atmosphere.



Mineral Thermal SPA :
Provides services of water taken from mineral sources, thermal or sea water Wellness - SPA and hydrotherapy.

Resort SPA:
It is a SPA found in a holiday resort or a hotel.  They provide wellness and fitness services next to the health unit.



We realize the value of having a healthy body and mind as the days go by. The use of a sauna has attracted the eye as the most natural and healthiest way of relaxing and becoming fit. The medicine world has accepted that it has many ways of affecting the human health positively. Through history sauna, has provided for people to have a smooth skin and healthy body. In the old times only the rich and wealthy people could have this pleasure, but today almost people from all strata can own one in their home or Office without making it too big and without forcing their budget.



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Hammams are designed by ancient Greek and Roman long time ago. When the Turks arrived in Anatolia,  they were developed and used not just for a place to cleanse the skin, but also a place to socialize. It was intimately bound up with everyday life, a place where people of every rank and station, young and old, rich and poor, townsman or rurals, could come freely. As Abu Sir, an early Arab historian, stated  "Your town is only a perfect town when there is a bath in it."



 

It is ironic but true that Turkish baths are not popular in Turkey. Apart from tourist spots, most Turks do not visit these historical baths. Nowadays local  hammams are used for cleaning by the Turkish people and historical hammams are used for oriental experience by  the tourists. The Western world has taken a great interest in the hammam culture, which offers purification of both the body and soul. Trendy hammams can be found in most European capitals. Turkish baths have even become backdrops for over-the-top fashion shoots.



• Natural Soap : A natural oil-based soap, olive oil or other beauty oil can assist in loosening dead and dry skin. Foam massage in a hot marble gives a good feeling.


• Bath Clothes  : Cotton bath towels and the "peştemal" ( pesh-teh-mahl ), a large towel fringed at both ends and wrapped around the torso, from below the armpits to the knees. The pestemal is striped and red colored mixture of silk and cotton, or pure cotton, or even pure silk.


• Equipments : The "tas", or bowl for pouring water over the body, is always made up of metal, silver, or tinned copper. The "kese" ( keh-seh ), that rough cloth mitt carrying the soap case, not only scours the dirt out of the pores, but also serves to deliver a bracing massage. The soaping web, on the other hand, is specially woven out of hair or plant fibers. The “takunya” ( tah-cunia ) is made of wood and used as footwear instead of slipper.


• Jewelry Box : A small box  made of silver, copper or wood,. As you undress in the your small room, you can keep your jewelry, clock and wallet in this box.


Running hot water and almost 100% humidity are very suitable for physical and mental well being. As in Ottoman Empire time, you immerse your silver bowl into hot water to make your body and soul pure in a Turkish Bath of  50°C at 100% humidity. The steam and hot water relaxes your muscles and cleanses your skin. The humidity also helps eliminate toxins. Following the hot baths, you will experience a brisk and vigorous body scrub with the traditional Hammam glove. You can scrub away all that dead skin in a hammam using a loofah made of natural material to gently exfoliate and regenerate the epidermis, leaving your dead and dirty skin. After bath, you will enter the cool shower, which acts as a skin and muscle toner. There are three towels for drying, one to go around the hair like a turban, one around the shoulders, and one around the waist. And finally after resting for a while at a hammam room for one or two persons, you look and feel refresh.



 

A two-hour treatment once a week is recommended. Please check with your physician before using Hammam if you have heart or circulatory problems. It is recommended that you eat a very light meal before you arrive to the Hammam and drink plenty of liquid to replenish the body after the treatment. The Hammam is an appropriate habit during the winter since it helps clear the sinuses and may help prevent cold and flu, but also in summer because the pleasant and refreshing treatment helps cool the body.

 

 

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A sauna is a place where a person sweats like water as they are sitting. While in a passive situation the advantages of sweating in quality is high. Foremost the tiredness created in active sweating on the contrary is removed by sweating in a sauna. The removal of Metabolism waste through perspiration from the skin pores provides general relief and relaxation. There is a linear relationship between the change of body temperature and number of heartbeats (Pulse). The bost temperature increases according to the saunas hot air, and the pulse together with this will increase. In the sauna according to the resting situation, the pulse rises 50% - 60% with 100 – 150 beats a minute. While the fast beats in the pulse are like this, there is a small increase in the blood pressure (tension).

For this reason, the load on the circulatory system is low. A sauna bath affects the cardio-vascular system and the blood pressure in an effective way; it exercises the heart and the whole cardio-vascular system stresses.  Less trained hearts can also adapt in a sauna. It has been seen that in the pulse comparisons well-trained sportsmen staying in a 90 C hot sauna for 15 minutes makes their pulse rate the same as a 3000m run. For this reason, the benefits of regular a sauna use is believed. Right after a sauna a person feels like they have been reborn. Physically and spiritually, it relaxes the body and makes you happy.
  
Due to the rise of temperature in the body, the production of antibody’s increases. The antibody, is the substance its immune system produces to protect the body against sicknesses. It disables the infections by strengthening the defense system. It eases the blood pressures adjustment in high and low tension. Regular use of the sauna will make a person to look young and fresh. The opening of pores on the skin and the dead cells on the surface of the skin will be thrown out. The metabolism activity is accelerated with a sauna and an energy needing to be used to sweat, in a sauna session close to 300 calories will be burnt. This amount is at the same value of running 3-4kms. The changes on the outside will be noticed right away.  It will help lose weight. Heavy sweating will set the balance of the water and toxins in the human body. Especially after sports going into the sauna and after sport the secretion of the body and muscle pains caused by lactic acid through sweating will ensure to be thrown from the body. Programmed sauna baths will help the respiratory to work properly. However when the sauna effects are applied properly it will be positive.



 

Sauna Use:



It should be entered into a sauna not with a swimsuit, t-shirt, bikini’s etc but either completely naked or with a towel. After having a shower when entering a sauna you must be dry. Before a sauna, you will have to meet the needs highly for fluids. The sessions in the sauna are 15 minutes each. After getting out being like steel to provide fitness you should take a cold shower or enter the shock pool (for hygienic reason taking a shower is preferred). After drying, the loss of fluid needs to be taken with water. (Need of water should not be taken from other drinks). You should rest in a spacious area. The procedure above can be repeated 3 times after another at the one time. You should not enter the sauna with metal goods (watch, necklace, earring, ring, hair band etc.) and plastic goods (slippers, hat etc.). If the temperature in the sauna is enough for you it is not a tradition to pour water over the volcanic stones, it is a method used in some saunas for extra heat. If the sauna is a shared space or when you enter there are other people, you will definitely need to ask for permission to pour water because there will be a sudden layer of hot air.



 

Sauna Suggested Sicknesses:

• Chronic fever and upper respiratory tract
•   Chronic bronchitis  
• Bronchial asthma.
• Romatismatic sicknesses that are not active
• Arthritis, degenerative spinal cord syndromes           
• Soft arthrelgias.
• Capillary disease     
• Menopausal complaints  
• Chronic inflammation of gynecological organs  
• Stress and depression 



Sauna Suggestions as a Must:



• In coronary circulation disorders
• In vein disorders
• In artery disorders
• In periods due to pregnancy
• In chronic liver inflammation
• Acne (Conditional in public saunas) 
• Allergic eczema (Conditional in public saunas)

 
Sauna Unrestricted:



• In diabetes (Useful for arterial vascular)
• Pregnancy (Useful for birth in the pregnancy period)
• Treated high blood pressure
• In depression (Psychological relief)
• Glaucoma



Sauna Restricted:



• In febrile diseases with acute features
• In inflammatory diseases
• In unbalanced heart disturbances
• In epilepsy and epileptic situations
• In cancer and malignant degenerations
• In healed pulmonary tuberculosis
• In serious neurovejatitive disturbances.
• In hypertonic conditions in the heart and kidneys
• In serious blood circulation disorders in the brain
• In serious changes in the liver and kidneys.



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  Hammam

Turkish Bath

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