Hydotherapy and the Portable Spa
Having a spa in your own home makes a statement, to yourself as well as the rest of the world. You’re putting value on the idea that having a good time and relaxing with your family is very important. You’re also making pleasure a priority, and giving some necessary props to the good life. You’re also making a positive move toward better health. The icon of the spa in the popular imagination is usually related to wild parties rather than wild relaxation, but the fact is that there are splendid health benefits to using a spa regularly. And interestingly enough, using a portable spa is a form of hyrdotherapy. It’s a newer therapy, perhaps, but its origins go back for millennia.
Hydrotherapy is the use of water to treat pains and diseases of the body. It’s often used as an umbrella term to refer to all therapies with water that use streaming jets, massage, or essential oils and salts. You could decide to get serious about it, then, and turn your portable spa into something very much focused on healing, but if you only use it recreationally, you’ll still get many of the health benefits. Many people connect hydrotherapy with the bathing practices of the ancient Romans, Renaissance Europeans, and Native peoples in the Americas, connecting especially with their use of hot springs. Hot springs enthusiasts from all over the world speak about the way the Native peoples used natural spas for the spiritual and physical benefits. They probably still do. They’re still here.
Hot springs are particularly interesting for purists practicing hydrotherapy, because the fact of the water coming from the earth has a more immediate effect on the body in terms of healing power. There are many forces at work in a portable spa, however, that can make the water push and pull against the tired muscles in a way that’s entirely soothing, and aids in deep relaxation. Its effect is certainly quite similar to hot springs, and sometimes even better for certain ailments. It’s also certainly part of the same family of therapies, and it’s something you’ll have in your own backyard.
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