Vision Spa Retreat: Reflections on spa, soul, and the role of water

A blog concerned with: Water consciousness for personal and planetary wellbeing. Associated with Visionary Spa Consultancy Service. Topics covered include: Trends in spa-retreat culture; Creating a spa-retreat center; Visiting a spa-retreat; Water in health and healing; Water in the environment. By Sara Firman.

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A Sleeping, Floating, Dreaming Spa Experience

Mar 1, 2010 7:16am

This workshop profoundly influenced my thoughts about spa, and the power of water to evoke personal and collective dreams of transformation and healing. 'Spa Cultures, Dreams and Healing Waters' at Toskana Therme, Bad Sulza, June 29 to July 4, 2010....

Drawing up water for spas: is it sustainable?

Feb 26, 2010 9:01am

There are obvious challenges for spas in providing safe water in abundance without incurring heavy financial costs and without further exacerbating increasingly evident problems regards our water resources in general. The latest Spa Business Digital Edition, issue 1, 2010, describes some heartening developments that indicate that economic and environmental...

Letting Go: Osho Zen Tarot Valentine

Feb 12, 2010 8:00pm

'In this image of lotus leaves in the early morning, we can see in the rippling of the water that one drop has just fallen.' (Osho Zen Tarot) In my own life and work and in that of many around me, I see us like the drop that 'trembled...

The bathing pool: rituals

Jan 2, 2010 9:11am

Recently, a dear friend wrote asking: 'Would you be able to advise how best to use the time when I go and spend a day in the hot baths in Budapest in order to relax, and detress the best? '...

New Year: Riding the waves of change

Jan 1, 2010 4:00am

January is a good time for looking backwards and forwards ... it's also a traditional opportunity to review and perhaps revise one's purpose. Putting together this New Year post for Vision Spa Retreat had me doing all these things. In the process, it clarified three missions that have evolved...

Three Wishes and Four Guiding Stars for Spa: A Dialog with Marion Schneider

Oct 27, 2009 1:35pm

Sara Firman of Vision Spa Retreat talks to her friend and colleague Marion Schneider of Toskana Therme, Bad Sulza, about Marion's 'three wishes' for spa. Sara also proposes 'four guiding stars' for the future of spa....

Managing for sustained success of spa

Oct 23, 2009 1:13pm

The new 2010 edition of International Standards of SpaExcellence(SM)2010 released this month addresses sustainability and the environment in a number of places. Julie Register, Managing Director at SpaQuality outlined them for Vision Spa Retreat....

Spa Finder Awards: Environmental Practices and Mineral Springs

Oct 15, 2009 10:47am

SpaFinder has just announced the winners of its Readers' Choice Awards in three areas - favorite spa by continent, favorite by region or country, and best in any of 27 categories - based on approximately 300,000 votes. The categories range from Best for Accommodations to Best for Yoga, and...

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Recession and Spas

Sep 24, 2009 8:48am

A look at what is happening in our culture in general, how this might relate to spa, and how we might respond - not in terms of surviving as businesses but rather in order to support cultural change and contribute to our survival on the planet. What is needed...

Growing for spas: a local enterprise

Jul 29, 2009 9:41am

This month, Vision Spa Retreat ventured into the local community with the article below which was extracted from the series of six related posts about spa products and the powerful potential they have for enabling sustainable spa culture....

Visions for Spa?

Jul 12, 2009 8:44am

Vision Spa Retreat take the first part of it's name seriously, though that's certainly an ongoing process of exploration. In fact, a friend recently commented that Sara 'seems to be trying to work something out' though this website and sharing. That's true! No definite answers or opinions...