SPA SERVICES TRAINING - this 100-hour program covers a variety of holistic treatments usually offered in health spas. Students learn body and skin care techniques using natural practices and products. Massage professionals can adapt these techniques to expand their practices and attract new clients.

This program includes the following areas of instruction:

Hydrotherapy Aromatherapy Paraffin Body Scrubs Seaweed Mud Herbal Wraps Indian Herbal Body Treatment Dry Brushing Lymphatic Dry Brushing Face, Hand & Foot Treatments Setting up your Spa

The Spa Services Training Program is a unique opportunity to experience first-hand some of the therapeutic, restorative and relaxing treatments usually offered at the world’s great spas. This series of workshops is designed for professionals in massage, natural health and skin care, and those considering a career in Spa Services. Or, this course can be taken as an informative, enjoyable way to develop a home health care routine based on proven traditional wisdom.

Benefits include:
Cleansing Detoxifying Stress Relieving
Invigorating to the Circulation
Pain Relieving Nourishing Skin Reviving
Energy Renewing Deeply Relaxing

OUR COMMITMENT TO HEALTH
We use effective, natural products known for hundreds of years for their healing properties. Most are blended from botanical extracts, essential oils and nutrients derived from the sea. You will learn to prepare your own blends from simple, organic ingredients.
These treatments are designed for convenience of application, require only simple equipment and can be adapted to suit your environment. Be creative in designing personalized programs to meet your needs and those of your clients. Discover the potential of these techniques to expand your practice and enhance your well being.

AROMATHERAPY
The power of aromas to affect our moods and emotions is well known. Less known is the almost unlimited potential of essential oils to safeguard and improve our health. We cover the basic theory of Aromatherapy and provide hands-on experience in some of its applications. Using concentrated botanical extracts blended for their specific effects, we will explore the use of essential oils in massage, baths, compresses and steams. Discover new ways to incorporate these delightful aromas into your current health and beauty routine.

BODY SCRUBS
These refreshing treatments cleanse and nourish the skin using various exfoliating agents. Dry surface cells are buffed away while the invigorating effect on circulation oxygenates the skin from within. Treatments end with a hydrating preparation. Skin becomes clean, silky smooth and revitalized. Products can include seasalt, dried herbs, and diatomes from the sea.

DRYBRUSHING AND LYMPHATIC DRYBRUSHING
Our skin is the largest organ of our body and has three important roles. It protects, aids absorption and allows elimination through the pores. Healthy skin supports a healthy body. Drybrushing is used to exfoliate dry surface cells, promote an increase in circulation, which encourage new cell development. Lymphatic drybrushing is a very subtle and relaxing technique primarily designed to stimulate lymphatic movement throughout the system. It is based on the Vodder Diagram of Lymphatic Massage and is unique to CIMSS.

FACE, HAND & FOOT TREATMENT
These treatments focus on specific techniques for local applications. Modalities include herbal compresses, baths, acupressure or reflexology massage and essential oils.

ESSENTIAL OIL AROMA WRAP
This full body skin treatment feeds the skin with rich nourishment from essential oils and herbal infused creams. Wrapped in a heat retaining environment, the client’s natural body heat opens the pores of the body to allow better receptivity of the herbal mixture. This mixture provides a nourishing concentration of nature’s best-minerals, trace elements and vitamins, which detoxifies, rehydrates and softens the skin along with providing a deeply relaxing experience. A short reflexology to the feet and a delightful face massage further enhance and complete the experience.

HYDROTHERAPY
Theory and techniques of various water applications, both hot and cold, are experienced in this part of the course. These include compresses and herbal wraps, which use moist heat and herbal infusions to stimulate de-toxification through the skin, the body’s most efficient path of elimination. You are wrapped in a fragrant cocoon of warmth scented by herbal teas specially blended to individual needs, while moist heat penetrates deep into the muscles promoting deep relaxation. An herbal wrap spa treatment is wonderfully calming and cleansing.

MUD WRAP
Mud has long been valued for its healing properties. Even animals have been known to use mud to heal wounds. Rich in nutrients, soothing to the skin and able to promote sub-cutaneous detoxification, mud is effective in healing soft tissue. This treatment is both healthy and relaxing.

PARAFFIN BATH
Warm wax is applied by brush or dipping. The penetrating heat is deeply soothing both to muscles and sore joints. Ingredients added to the paraffin leave the skin very soft and supple.

REJUVENATOR
This total body treatment draws from the ancient health and healing arts of India. This includes the application of a rich blend of herbs, essential oils, dry brushing, hot compresses and therapeutic massage which facilitates detoxification and revitalization of the mind, body and spirit.

SEAWEED WRAP
Seaweed has been prized since ancient times for its rich content of minerals, vitamins, enzymes and trace elements. A dry brush massage is used to stimulate circulation, promote detoxification and increase absorption of nutrients. A preparation of seaweed and aromatic oils is applied as a full-body mask, restoring the mineral balance so essential to the skin’s health while improving its ability to retain moisture.

Please check our program schedule for more details on spa training classes offered by California Institute of Massage & Spa Services.