Cruise ships are the ideal way to escape the every day and head, perhaps, for warmer climates, fun and relaxation, and some time to yourself. Cruising is also a great time to invest in your well being with a visit to the onship day spa. There's no reason to leave behind the services you may have come to enjoy at your local spa. Cruise ship day spas offer guests everything from massages and...
For first-timers or regulars, a massage offered through a local day spa or resort has far-reaching effects. You can make the most of those positive effects with some prior preparation and know-how:
For the first-time spa visitor, go to your appointment with an open mind. It's important that you trust in the professionalism of the therapist. Also avoid any heavy meals just before a massage...
Keeping up with the demand of consumers, spa services, like any other consumable good, continue to grown and change with the times. Here, according to the International SPA Association (ISPA), are several of the trends making headlines in 2008:
Feng Shui Your Gym
Forget stark lighting and full-length vanity mirrors. Hello waterfalls and fine art. Led by ambitious gym projects, more...
Once considered an indulgence, spa treatments are quickly becoming a necessity to wellness. As more and more Americans take preventative health care seriously and consider how to achieve overall well being, spa treatments are beginning to find their way into the overall maintenance and care of one's self.
Several years ago, Cheryl Reid, owner of a New York City public relations firm,...
Who first thought of horse breeding? Who was the first person to decide that it was time for humans to give horses a hand in reproducing - a figure of speech that may seem all too apt to those who know a few things about the digital-stimulation techniques used in modern horse-breeding?
As with so many details of history, we'll probably never know; human and horse history entwine at a point...
Everyone remembers the "Simpsons" episode in which beleaguered Homer - not yet the walking punchline he was to become in later seasons - works himself nearly to death, taking second shifts at the Kwik-E-Mart with Apu, in order to afford a pony for young Lisa.
All ends well for the Simpsons, but the care and feeding of horses really isn't light work.
First of all, there's the question of...
The evolutionary history of the horse is one of the most-covered subjects in modern biology. And no wonder - of all modern animals, the horse has behind it the most intact and visible family tree.Our story begins millions of years ago - with the Perissodactyls.
No, not "pterodactyl" - those clawed flying relics of the dinosaur age as imagined in B-movies and The Flintstones. The...
Trying to pin down the moment at which horse and human history were first entwined is like trying to name the inventor of the wheel. The domesticated horse looms so large in human culture, and casts its shadow from so far back in time, that we may never know much about its origins.
We can say that the horse's first confirmed appearance in human culture is a dramatic one: the still-haunting...
Fans of Thoroughbred horse racing may find themselves wondering from time to time: How exactly do they decide what a horse's handicap will be?
An aspect of many competitive (and wager-worthy) sports and games besides horse racing - chess, Go, running events, yacht racing, polo, bowling and, infamously, golf - handicapping allows competitors at differing level of experience to clash without...
With ingredients like chocolate, coconut cream and caramel apple, it sounds more like an ice cream shop, but at Great Wolf Lodge in Traverse City, Michigan, these are just a few of the enticing items found in the spa services offered at Scoops Kids Spa.
Pint-sized clients enjoy a pedicure seated in an oversized ice cream sundae sofa surrounded by whimsical wall murals in this spa where the...
