Spray it Safe
According to the american cancer Society, more than 1 million non-melanoma skin cancer cases diagnosed yearly in the U.S. are considered to be sun related. Unprotected exposure to ultraviolet radiation is one of the biggest risks for developing non-melanoma and melanoma skin cancer. As more attention is given to the dangers of skin cancer, more spas are doing their part to help clients prevent it by offering the latest trend in suncare services—sunless tanning.Related posts
Coming Clean
With spring right around the corner, chances are pretty good that nailcare services, pedicures in particular, will soon become a priority for many of your clients. Unfortunately, when it comes to nailcare sanitation, we've all heard the horror stories. It wasn't all that long ago that "American Idol" judge Paula Abdul appeared before a California Senate Committee lobbying for new state regulations establishing safety standards for manicure and pedicure equipment and a mandate that nail establishments clean up their act.Related posts
Native American Sweat Lodge
The sweat lodge is kind of “ceremonial” sauna, used by the first settlers in
A lodge was a wooden structure built on earth, made of pliable tree branches, arching in a dome shaped form. This wooden structure was then covered, usually with blankets or animal skins. Sometimes, if the lodges were “permanent”, they were sheathed with soil or mud. The lodge doors are in the east faces sacred fire. The stones were heated at the exterior fire, outside the lodge, brought on forked poles into the lodge, and then placed in the pit in the ground at the centre.
Purpose of the Lodge
For Native Americans sweat lodge had several functions: to purify the body, but also the mind and spirit, to connect the physical with the spiritual and to reconnect with the nature and the earth. The sweat lodge ceremony and its preparation were conducted by the medicine man. It was often connected with the god and creations, or reconnection with the Mother Earth. The ceremony was accompanied with spiritual songs and prayers, or dancing. Rituals were different from tribe to tribe, but the purifying of body, mind and soul was at the heart of the every sweat lodge ceremony. The end of the ceremony differed from tribe to tribe. Some tribes after the ceremony cooled off by rolling in the snow and others have plunged into the lakes or rivers.
Some Indian tribes and Alaskan Eskimos were building lodges heated directly by the fire. The lodge was large enough to receive a dozen of men (women could enter the lodge just during some particular ceremonies when lodge actually haven’t had its original purpose of “bathing”)
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The appearance of sweat-bathing…
The sauna is a form of sweat bath with a long tradition, but it is hard to define the first sauna. Already the nomad people, when they were wandering around the territory which later became Finland, had made heated holes in the ground, covered with a canvas or animal skin. These sweat-bathing places we can consider as primitive forms of saunas. But the sauna is not the only sweat bath in the world. There are many other types of 'bathing houses' among the cultures, as the Roman thermae, the Turkish baths (Hammam), the Native Americans' sweat lodge, the Japanese bath furo or Russian banja. But for the Finns we can say that sauna is still a way of life to them, and we can freely say that they are the ones who spread the sauna culture around the world.
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