Wellness Lexicon

Acupressure
Acupressure is part of the Tradional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
Akin to acupuncture it treats the energie points but with the pressure of fingers instead of acus. Hereby pain will be alliviated and organic functions will be improved.
Since you do not need any adjuvants, you can treat yourself with this kind of therapy.

Acupuncture
Through the treatment of special pain spots by acus chronical pains (like in lumber regions) can obtain a relaxation of the tissue.
Furthermore a stabilisation of circulation and an improvent of the general well being can be achieved.

Aerobic
In this kind of training kondition and koordination is trained with various combinations of steps accompanied with music

Aromatherapy
Essential oils will rather be mixed with water, spread and inhaled by skin and breath or gently massaged into the skin. That causes a pleasing feeling of relaxation.

Ayurveda
„The lesson and the knowledge of long life"
The issue of Ayurveda are the Tridosha (three doshas), which can be also identified as the three natures or tempraments: VATA stands for the elements air and airwaves, PITTA stands for fire and KAPHA for earth and water. In a healthy body all three temperaments are in balance.
Ayurveda includes the mental (meditation) and the physical (yoga) strenghening as well as a healthy and natural nutrition and living.
Principal constituents of Ayurveda packages are massages, oil treatments, warmththerapies and steam baths.

Back Exercise
Wrong seating, lifting, carrying, walking as well as wrong posture can lead to permenant damages of the spine and of the structure of the back musclature and ligaments.
A special training of posture school, in which daily motion sequences will be learned with a therapist to strengthen the back musculature by stretching and empowering will prevent and help.

Classical Face Treatment
Frequent Elements of a classic face treatment are skin diagnosis, deap cleansing, peeling, care, coloring of lashes and brows, brow correction, masks, packages and massage for blood circulation. Additionally ampullae, mineral masks or aroma therapies are offered in an extensiv treatment.

Cleopatra Bath
This relaxing and oriental bath of oil and milk cultivates skin and brings back the moisture
and precious minerals, vitamins and trace elements.

Exercise Therapy
In the exercise therapy condition, flexibility, koordination and strength of particular muscle groups will be trained in a gentle way. The motto is to sensual experience of movements instead of peak output through bodybuilding and power training.
Most likely the exercises will be accomplished in water since it is much easier to move and there is drag that makes the training even more effectiv.

Experience Showers
A warm atomised spray spoils the skin besides light flashes as in tropical storms. As an alternative: freezing sprinkles and glistening polar lights - that refreshes body and soul.

Food Combining
The way of nourishing whereby foods are seperated in carbohydrates, proteins and neutrally foods. Carbohydrates and proteins will not be combined in one meal, only with neutrally foods. The body shall digest easier so that there will be an equalised acid base balance.
With Food Combining you will receive the ideal weight, whether you will loose or gain weight.

Foot Reflexology
The different scopes of the sole of the foot are corresponding with different body aprts. A massage of these scopes can influence anent organs by nerve tracts.

Hamam
Rest, wash and talk in oriental bathrooms is a joy far away from stress and every day life.
In Hamam body and soul take a bath in warmth and gentle light. The ritual is almost everywhere about the same. Equipped with a cotton towel, which shall cover the bareness, a piece of turkey natural soap and a brazen bowl, you will be put in the hands of your male or femal bath master (Tellak or Natr). Then you will enjoy different hot steam-, relaxing- and soap baths.

Haybath
Wrapped in fresh hay you breathe flavours and beginn to sweat. It alleviates pain in muscles and joints.

Kneippism
Pastor Sebastian Kneipp established an integrated naturopathic treatment for induration, prevention, rehabilisation, alleviation of pain, activation of circulation and for debility and negativ interferences.

La Stone - Therapy
Treatment with over fourty different sized pepples and basalt stones. These will be put on the energy centres of the body like hands, forehead, stomach, back or under the neck. Afterwords, the body will gently be massaged with hot stones. The warmth and the masage will provide absolut inner relaxation.

Lomi Lomi Nui
With this therapy, what has been practised in hawaiian temples, you will gently be swung and massaged by your therapist with the goal to conciliate body and soul. Easeful music, healing chants, floral scents will round off the joy.

Lymph Drainage
The lymphatic system is also known as the disposal service of the body. Through gently circulating strokes and special hand movements congeries of lymph will be relaesed and the flow will be activated again, so that contaminations can be excreted.

Mare milk
Mare milk is one of the healthiest and empowering nutritions, which Mother Nature can offer.
It is very alike breast milk. The high content of immunoglobulin, special proteins, vitamins and unsaturated fatty acids makes it a high effetive nutrition. Amongst others its success and a beneficial effect on different deseases prescript; e. g. Gastro intestinal deseases, liver function disorders, low immunity, allergies, cardiac- and circulations troubles or skin deseases.
Mare milk also became more important in the cosmetic industry, since she has a lot of nutritional values but less fat.

Nordic Walking
Fast walking with two sticks as in ski touring.That trains coordination, as well as the circulation, strengenths musclse and condition. It takes up more calories than normal walking without the sticks and improves the general fitness and well being.

Nuad - Traditional Thai Massage
With this kind of massage the entire body will become gentle and loose.
Compared to other massage methods the Thai Massage is not done with oil, so the patient or guest has not to take his clothes of. The massage will be done on a mat that lies on the ground. The hand movements occur in a slow meditative sequence along the engery flow of the body and will be mostly completed with a stretch.
Muscles and sinews will be relaxed, blockades untightend and engery flows released.
The body will be harmonised and there will be a feeling of an unbelievable ease and run of the energy.

Pilates
Exercises shall built up muscles and teach body awareness. Key aspect is the quality of movement.

Qi Gong
A chinese breathing- and meditation therapy. Through ease body exercises energy will be moved whereby natural body defenses will be improved and stresses will be relieved.
Even for sleeping disorders and blood high pressure it is helpful.

Shiatsu
An effective cure from Japan. Through pressure of hands and fingers on acupuncture points physical and emotional tensions will be relieved and energies will be released.

SPA
The word SPA comes from the latin idea of "sanus per aquam" - healthy through water. Cure centres, wellnes centres, clinics and health hotels use the pleasant power of water. More classy like Kneipp or more experience oriented. Prickling pearl showers, sputterling spring water, comforting warm termal water.

Step Aerobic
Conditional training on an adjustable platform. The up and down stepping trains condition and coordination and is additionally an excellent training for legs and behind

Tai Chi
The calm and flowing movements of Tai Chi are the basic of the chinese shadow boxing.
These exercises are done world wide as effective and broad in remedial gymnastics. They loosen up blockades of the energy flow of the body. In a gentle way you train musculature, sinews and joints and stabilise the spine.

Thalasso Therapy
For hundreds of years they swear on therapies based on the healing powers of the sea.
An important part of this way of therapy are algea. In the last year the relevance of Thalasso Therapies has risen what propably resulted from the success of treatments of tissue stretching and purification.

Waterbalancing
Deep relaxation and harmony that with water. With the water balancing methode you can experience integral harmonisation and vitalisation. Through the in water exercised movements and relaxing techniques you will find a physical, menthal and psychic balance.
A special schooled therapist carries the patient - almost pending- in slow motions through the body warm water basin (in some cases with muted music under water). A feeling of security and trust will overcome. For the psyche this therapy often ends up in a start of an expedition to new dimensions of consciousness.

Yoga
A training of the body where a balance between physical and mental well being shall be achieved. You remain in special positions (Asanas), while you are concentrated and breathing constantly. That affects calming to the nervous system, keeps the joints agile and can mediate a positiv attitude to life.

Zen
This chinese kind of buddism, mostly practised seating, shall free you from your thoughts, open the perspectiv on your self and lead to inner balance. You can also find elements of
Zen-Buddism in other meditational or selffinding methodes like autogenic training, Reiki or Qi Gong.

Zilgrei
This artistic word occured from the initials of both names of the innovators, Adriana Zillo (Yoga teacher) and Hans Greissing (chiropractor). Zilgrei is a special method of self medication on muscle-, joints- or nervepains. Those methods are very incomplex. Through very easy combinations of breathing-, bearing- and movment excerises hardenings will be soluted and false postures corrected.