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Our sense organs are increasingly in demand by modern methods of restoring health and beauty. Welcome to the world of invigorating colors and relaxing sounds.
The connection between color and our emotional state is literally obvious, clear – it is imprinted even in the language. Someone “sees everything in black”, someone “looks at the world through rose-colored glasses.” Some of us tune in to “rosy prospects”, others complain about a “colorless existence”. The impact of music on our spiritual world is also difficult to overestimate: it is successfully used in art therapy (one of the areas of psychotherapy) and even in psychiatry. So the use of color and sound in a spa is by no means a publicity stunt. What can you really expect from such methods?
Sound and light have a wave nature – this is what allows optical or sound waves to act on the cells of the body, stimulating or slowing down the processes occurring in them. These properties of waves are used both in medicine and in cosmetology, for example, infrared radiation or ultrasound. However, alternative medicine and spas that use color and sound rely not only on the latest scientific achievements, but also on the experience of millennia – for example, on the ancient Chinese doctrine of energy. The basic idea is this: our body is a complex instrument that is more or less deranged due to our lifestyle, but is capable of self-regulation under the influence of light or sound waves of a particular frequency. Vibrations spread along the meridional zones of our body and, like needles during acupuncture, awaken dormant forces. However, sensitivity to sounds and colors is very individual, which complicates the experimental confirmation of the effectiveness of such therapy (this explains some skepticism of scientists and doctors). So, the main advantage of these unusual procedures is as follows: we are offered to listen to our own feelings, to pay more attention to ourselves – our body and our emotions.
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Harmony of the Spheres
If you’re receptive to music and it helps relieve tension, you might want to try a Tibetan singing bowl massage.
The singing bowl is forged by hand from an alloy of seven metals and is used by Taoist monks both as dishes and as a musical instrument. Buddha is depicted at the bottom of the bowl, and Buddhist mantras are depicted along the edges. The bowl is placed in the area of one of the chakras, for example, in the area of the solar plexus or just below the navel, and a sound is extracted. The vibration of the bowl fills literally the whole body with this sound – and is felt for many hours after the end of the session.
Professionally: The program “Relaxing Sacrament of Tibet” in addition to sound massage with Tibetan bowls includes meditation and relaxing baths.
Arthurs SPA Hotel, Moscow region, 42nd km of Dmitrovskoe highway, Mytishchi district, village of Larevo, t. (495) 644 4121.
Houses: a singing bowl can be purchased at an ethnic store. It is suitable not only for massage, but also for harmonizing the space. This is an excellent tool for relieving fatigue and normalizing sleep: simply by placing a singing bowl on your palm and listening to the sound, you can relieve nervous tension.
Another tool for sound massage is a musical tuning fork. Applying a vibrating tuning fork to the sternum can ease breathing and coughing during a cold.
Colors of your life
If you are particularly sensitive to colors – you notice that a photo of a blue ocean surface on a computer screensaver has a calming effect on you, and a red sweater cheers you up, try chromotherapy.
A chromotherapist, a specialist in color effects, will ask you to select several colored squares. Depending on which shades you have chosen, it will reveal your conscious and unconscious needs, based on the symbolism of the colors and their corresponding energy zones in your body. Then the chromotherapist uses a special device to direct colored rays to the reflex points of your body.
Professionally: Based on the principles of chromotherapy, the Aura-Soma program includes color diagnostics and recommendations for correcting the emotional state and restoring health. The second stage is directed light therapy on certain areas of the body.
Center for Physical Excellence “Aero-flex”, Moscow, 1st Vrazhsky per., 4, v. (8 499) 248 6220,
Houses: get colorful glowing balls. Draw the curtains and fill the room with red if you need stimulation or blue if you want to relax. Green color will help to calm down and restore harmony if you are overwhelmed by confusion or confusion of feelings.
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Warm and light
Do you like to warm up in the bath or sauna? Try a gentle option for stress relief.
Infrared cabins are a new word in detox therapy. Gentle temperature – from 45 to 65 ° C, and not 80, as in a classic sauna – is very well tolerated by the body, which makes this procedure an ideal remedy for joint pain, fatigue and stress. Long-wave infrared radiation heats the epidermis, causing increased sweating, which releases toxins. Additional bonuses: relaxing music, pleasant smells and soft lighting playing with colors for absolute relaxation.
Professionally: chromotherapy and music therapy in the infrared sauna – the effect of removing toxins is enhanced when combined with a massage or body wrap.
Medi-spa “City resort”, Moscow, Michurinsky pr-t, 7, t. (495) 788 7391, 788 7392,
Houses: install color-changing lights in the bathroom. Try listening to relaxing music while taking a bath, such as the Sounds of Nature CD or whatever you like. It is also possible to purchase infrared cabins for home use.
Seven colors of chakras
Do you love yoga and want to improve your chakras? Try a holistic care system where color is the key to restoring harmony.
The color that seems most pleasing to the eye at the moment can tell us which chakra needs our attention – this is the principle on which the SpaRitual hand, foot and body care system is based. Each of the colors of the spectrum symbolizes one of the chakras: red – the root, yellow – the solar plexus, green – the heart chakra, etc. Each color feeds us with energy of a special nature. Choosing one of the segments of the color wheel – the one that seems to us the most “delicious” – in the SpaRitual system, we get a complex effect of aromatherapy, color, light and specially selected music, strengthening the energy of one of the chakras. The choice is left to our intuition – a holistic approach promises restoration of strength and spiritual comfort.
Professionally: SpaRitual spa treatment with color test, elixirs and aromatherapy products.
ELSE CLUB, Moscow, Ivankovskoe sh., 5, t. (495) 234 4444,
Houses: use colored clay for body wraps or masks. Red clay carries the energy of fire and stimulates the cardiovascular system, black clay is associated with the element of water and improves kidney function, microcirculation of fluids, yellow enhances the energy of the earth, affects the liver and removes toxins.