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The Royal Treatment

Name: The Royal Treatment
Author: Steve Capellini
ISBN: 9780440507765

by Steve Capellini

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Overview

Discover the beauty and health practices of the most renowned spas in the worldSwith step-by-step instructions for enjoying similar treatments at home.

Purifying Southwest desert clay baths...rich, hot olive oil hair packs...wonderfully relaxing full-body massages...delicious calorie-burning meals—you can create a new level of luxury and health in your life without ever leaving home.

In The Royal Treatment, leading spa consultant and trainer Steve Capellini describes the natural healing ingredients and fabulous special services from a dozen great American spas. You will join Steve as he travels from one exclusive retreat to the next, sinking into a mineral bath at the ethereal Sonoma Mission Inn north of San Francisco...reveling in a seaside hydrotherapy treatment by a great kahuna, or healer, at a pearl-hued resort on Oahu...and feeling the electrifying results of an Herbal Wrap at the Enchantment Resort in magical Sedona, Arizona. Then Steve uses his unique expertise and years of experience to tell you how to perform similar sensuous and rejuvenating therapies at home. Indulge yourself or a partner in pleasures that refresh the body and uplift the spirit as you discover:

Everything you need to create a home spa
A "conscious pleasure chart" to choose which treatments to use for relaxing, rejuvenating, energizing, or beautifying
Jojoba oil and flower extracts for foot and scalp routines
Exfoliating sea salt rubs for sloughing and stimulation
Herbal essences and other fabulous oils for bathing
Tantalizing spa recipes for weight loss and "youthing"

And more. . . .

About the Author, Steve Capellini

Steve Capellini, a traveling spa consultant and trainer, was named "the best massage therapist in the United States" by Travel and Leisure magazine; Self magazine also named him one of the top therapists in the U.S. As a long-standing member of the International Spa and Fitness Association, he has had unique access to the owners and upper management of the world's finest spas. He has appeared on "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" and "CNN Prime Time", and has written numerous articles for sports and health magazines. He lives in Miami.