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Spa focus: How water treatments can benefit you

The use of water for therapy has been carried out for hundreds of years and now forms a fundamental part of homeopathic medicine practices.  Many of us are unfamiliar with the concept of hydrotherapy and how beneficial it is for our well-being.

Hydrotherapy is the use of water to treat discomfort and promote physical well-being. A variety of therapeutic treatments and methods carry out the healing properties of water for relief of pain, as well as to enhance our health.

The Spa at The View Boutique Hotel offers a variety of hydrotherapy facilities giving you the opportunity to take advantage of the many positive effects of water therapy. Hydrotherapy encompasses a variation of treatments, including the use of hydrotherapy pools, steam rooms, and detoxing floatation therapy, which can all help to improve numerous conditions. Modern day therapies are also enhanced with extras such as aromatherapy or Dead Sea salt.

6 Health and Healing Benefits of Detox Hydrotherapy:

  1. Reduces muscle tension and relieves pain

The weightlessness you feel when emerged in water relieves tension in the limbs, supporting aching muscles and easing body movements as opposed to being on land.

  1. Treats Depression

Hydrotherapy stimulates the release of endorphins, which acts as a natural pain reliever, further more relieving muscle stiffness.

  1. Rehabilitates injured muscles

Being immersed in warm water raises the body temperature, increasing blood flow around the circulatory system and alleviating muscle soreness. The improved circulation will assist in healing injured tissues and rehabilitate damaged muscles or joints.

  1. Encourages detoxification

Steam rooms induce a substantial amount of sweating; the body’s primary way of excreting toxins and cleansing the body of impurities.

  1. Relieves stress

Hydrotherapy treatments can help reduce blood pressure caused by stress, slowing down the body’s reaction to anxiety.

  1. Treats Cellulite

The elimination of toxins prevents the appearance of cellulite.

For more information or to book a session, email spa@hoteltheview.com or call 031 903 1556. The spa is open every day from 08h00 to 20h30.

Other spa specials available for the month of March include:

Going traditional with an Easter biscuit

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Easter is a very special time of the year for those who celebrate, however even if one does not celebrate the religious occasion, it has well become a commercial celebration for all, with grocery store shelves packed with chocolate eggs, bunnies and more!

This Easter, instead of giving the standard chocolates, why not give a traditional stack of wrapped homemade biscuits with royal icing that are simple to make and great tasting. Plus, you can make a large batch to go a long way.

Ingredients:

250g butter

200g castor sugar

5ml vanilla essence

2 large eggs (beaten)

480g cake flour (sifted)

10ml baking powder

5ml salt

25ml water

Icing

375ml icing sugar

1 large egg white

4 drops lemon juice

Food Colouring (your choice)

Icing decorations (your choice)

Method:

Heat the oven to 180ºC

Cream the butter and sugar until fluffy and light in colour.

Add the vanilla essence and eggs. Mix well.

Sift all the dry ingredients together and add to the creamed mixture and mix thoroughly. Add water if necessary.

With a rolling pin, roll out the batter to a thickness of 3mm and then using cookie cutters, cut out into your preferred shapes.

Place each biscuit onto a greased baking tray and bake for 8 – 10 minutes. Once baked, cool on a wire rack before icing.

For the icing: sift the icing sugar, then beat the egg white and add it to the icing sugar. Mix until a smooth semi-thick piping consistency forms. Add the lemon juice.

Spoon some white icing into a piping bag or small plastic bag and push to one corner to make a piping bag. Snip off the corner and ice the biscuits. If you would like colour, add food colouring to the remaining icing mixture and add to a different piping bag.

Decorations such as silver chocolate balls or chocolate chips etc can also be used.

Once all the icing has set, you can stack a few of the biscuits on top of one another and tie them together with ribbon, or perhaps add them into a mason jar and finish off with ribbon and a tag that states “You’re a biscuit! Happy Easter!”

Recipe provided by The View Boutique Hotel & Spa kitchen team at Giorgio’s restaurant.