DID YOU KNOW...

• That a recent report by the Fraser Institute estimates that 23 percent of Canadians have used some type of bodywork to help restore or maintain health?
  Globe & Mail, July 3, 2001
  
  
• The Ontario Massage Therapist Association suggests that massage is good for relieving specific conditions, such as repetitive strain injury, headache, muscle strain, sprains, arthritis, and reducing stress and tension?
  Globe & Mail, July 3, 2001
  
  
• Bodywork for stress management is a legitimate and well-accepted approach to healing: it allows the body to set in motion a mechanism to heal itself: It relaxes muscles, slows breathing, lowers blood pressure and increases circulation. These counter the negative effects of the fight-or-flight response that releases adrenalin and cortisol; tenses muscles; lowers immune systems; interrupts sleep; and adds to chronic-condition pain. A massage or other spa treatment can induce the feel-good hormones and return us to a feeling of well-being.
  USAtoday.com November 5, 2001
  
  
• Relaxation is the primary reason respondents gave for visiting a spa according to 45 percent pf day spa-goers and 61 percent of resort/destination/cruise spa-goers.
  American spa-goer survey conducted on behalf of ISPA by Yesawich, Pepperdine & Brown, 1999
  
  
• The Ayurvedic solution for acne and blackheads is grated cucumber applied over the face, eyes and neck for 15 minutes.
  Allayurveda.com
  
  
• Chronic stress increases susceptibility to the common cold by 16%.
  New England Journal of Medicine
  
  
• Ayurveda is the oldest known natural healing science being over 5,000 years old, while Chinese medicine is only 2,500 years old.
  
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