Rejuvenation Cycle Method
SPA INVENTION OF AN ENTIRE MILLENNIUM….
The term spa is an abbreviation of the Latin expression "sanus per aqua", meaning healthy through water. Synonymous with beauty, since the Ancient Greek and Roman times, the spa is no longer a luxury and has become a need for stimulation and relaxation accessible to everyone and with quick results.
The Ancient Greek and Roman Baths were real "temples of pleasure", meeting and acquaintance places, health oases, theaters of art and culture, in which visitors listened to their body and spirit.
Their secret was locked in the healthy power of heat, which was produced in the famous Roman furnaces "hypocausius". These furnaces were constructions based on a special thermo-hydraulic installation which operated fuelled with charcoal. Special channels led the hot water to the pools and bathtubs, while the smoke, through a special installation, heated the walls and floors of the individual rooms.
Heat, that eternal human need, was the undisputed protagonist in the Roman Baths. Through bioclimatology and temperature control, so that it is given in the right amount and at different scales in the various sections, spectacular results were achieved both for the physical and mental health of the patrons. The architectural composition of the spaces obeyed a very specific sequence, around the heat source, the "hypocausius".
LACONICUM
The space closest to the heat source, in which the temperature reaches from 65°C to 80°C. Intense sweating causes a natural detoxification in the body. The stay in this area lasts up to 15 minutes. This space is today known as SAUNA. The laconicum (i.e. Spartan, sc. balneum, "bath") was the dry sweating room of the Ancient Greek and Roman thermae, sometimes contiguous to the caldarium or hot room. The name was given to it (Laconia: Sparta) since it was the only form of warm bath that the Spartans admitted. The laconicum was usually a circular room with niches in the axes of the diagonals and was covered by a conical roof with a circular opening at the top, from which a brazen shield is suspended by chains, capable of being so lowered and raised as to regulate the temperature.
CALIDARIUM: The next space from the Laconicum, in which the temperature reaches from 45°C to 48°C. Hot bath and steam. Water vapor enhances the regulation of PH, hydration and cleanliness of the skin. By adding essential oils to the steam, a pleasant, relaxing and beneficial bath is achieved. The application takes 15 to 20 minutes and is today known as a HAMAM. This was a very hot and steamy room heated by a hypocaust, an underfloor heating system using tunnels with hot air, heated by a furnace tended by slaves. This was the hottest room in the regular sequence of bathing rooms; after the Calidarium, bathers would progress back through the Tepidarium to the Frigidarium. The bath's patrons would use olive oil to cleanse themselves by applying it to their bodies and using a strigil to remove the excess. This was sometimes left on the floor for the slaves to pick up or put back in the pot for the women to use for their hair.
TEPIDARIUM
Followed by Calidarium. In the Tepidarium, a temperature of 37°C to 39°C develops, ideal for the natural increase in metabolism. Staying at this temperature is not limited in time. Today it is found as RASSOUL and is used in combination with muds all over the body for liposuction or algae in local areas or clay for firming or even moisturizing creams for the face and bust. After application, a pleasant shower hugs the body, washing it off and leaving it smooth, clean and velvety. The tepidarium was the warm (tepidus) bathroom of the Ancient Greek and Roman baths heated by a hypocaust or underfloor heating system. The speciality of a tepidarium is the pleasant feeling of constant radiant heat, which directly affects the human body from the walls and floor. There is an interesting example at Pompeii; this was covered with a semicircular barrel vault, decorated with reliefs in stucco, and round the room a series of square recesses or niches divided from one another by telamones. The tepidarium was the great central hall, around which all the other halls were grouped, and which gave the key to the plans of the thermae. It was probably the hall where the bathers first assembled prior to passing through the various hot baths (caldarium) or taking the cold bath (frigidarium). The tepidarium was decorated with the richest marbles and mosaics; it received its light through clerestory windows on the sides, the front, and the rear, and would seem to have been the hall in which the finest treasures of art were placed.
FRIGIDARIUM
Cold bath (-5°C to -10°C). Follows warm baths to strengthen and improve circulation. The duration of the cold baths depends on the sensitivity and endurance of the bather. Today it is found under the names "cold barrel", "crushed ice" or "friggo pool". A frigidarium is one of the three main bath chambers of an Ancient Greek and Roman bath or thermae, namely the cold room. It often contains a swimming pool. The succession of bathing activities in the thermae is not known with certainty, but it is thought that the bather would first go through the apodyterium, where he would undress and store his clothes, and then enter the elaeothesium or unctuarium to be anointed with oil. After exercising in a special room or court, he would enjoy the hot room, known as Calidarium or caldarium, then the steam room (a moist sudatorium or a dry laconicum), where he would most likely scrape the by now grimy oil with the help of a curved metal strigil off his skin, before finally moving to the frigidarium with its small pool of cold water or sometimes with a large swimming pool. The water could be also kept cold by using snow. The bather would finish by again anointing his body with oil.
DUCE AROMATIC
Aromatic rain shower at medium temperature with essential oil of lavender, jasmine, orange blossom and chamomile and then shower of frozen mist with essential oil of cedar, eucalyptus or peppermint to achieve the temperature difference and balance the body. Today it is found under the names Experience Shower or Adventure Shower.
Depending on the square meters of the Spa, we create stations of the Rejuvenation cycle method, with the aim of achieving the maximum wellness result, without an accompanying therapist and therefore without working hours, as long as the client is guided in the space and the special routes, with special forms of information and correct instructions and therefore we maximize profitability.