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Alberta Spa Vacations Journey Around the World

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The ancient Romans knew a thing or two about spas. While
Alberta's Aboriginal peoples were discovering the healing
benefits of mountain hot springs, Roman warriors halfway across
the planet were plunging into mineral hot springs to heal battle
wounds. The Roman population soon caught on-in fact, the word
"spa" comes from the Latin "salus per aquam,"
or "health through water."


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The ancient Romans knew a thing or two about spas. While
Alberta's Aboriginal peoples were discovering the healing
benefits of mountain hot springs, Roman warriors halfway across
the planet were plunging into mineral hot springs to heal battle
wounds. The Roman population soon caught on-in fact, the word
"spa" comes from the Latin "salus per aquam," or "health through
water."

You'll think of Rome when you visit Calgary's Spa Europa. This
luxurious day spa features the statues, pillars and marble that
evoke the ancient Mediterranean-and its Turkish Hammam Treatment
offers a modern twist on the Byzantine and Roman empires. "In
ancient Greece, bathing would be a ritual," says co-owner Laura
Ezekiel. "Now, bath is 'in and out' - it's not a ritual any
more. Our Turkish hammam, however - our signature treatment - is
a ritual."

At 3.5 hours, the treatment includes head-to-toe exfoliations,
aromatherapy steam sessions, hot and cold hydro treatments,
Swedish massage, cucumber mini-facial and a full body milk
rinse-along with a hair shampoo and condition, and scalp massage.
And, to keep up your energy levels, there's an elegant lunch,
too. "It does everything," says Ezekiel. "It refreshes and
purifies mind, body and soul."


When In Rome

The Romans transported their love of baths throughout their
far-reaching empire-a legacy that the crowned heads of Europe
made their own. Mountain spa resorts, with views as good for the
soul as the treatments were for the body, became especially
popular in the 1700s and 1800s.


Today, that legacy flourishes at the Willow Stream Spa in the
Fairmont Banff Springs resort-just 90 minutes from Calgary, and
tucked into its own stunning alpine valley. Sarvar Thermal
Crystals, distilled direct from Hungary's Sarvar springs and
containing such ingredients as potassium, magnesium and iodine,
turn the pool at the heart of the Willow Stream into a truly
therapeutic soak.

"The Hungarian mineral pool is the traditional spa," explains Pam
Ouellet, assistant spa director. "It has the healing waters that
assist in relieving sore muscles and aching joints, promoting
circulation, and detoxifying and re-mineralizing the body." She
suggests that spa guests also spend time in the nearby hot, warm
and cool plunge pools, with their cascading waterfalls (all of
which look out onto magnificent Mount Rundle.)

The Willow Stream taps into another European tradition in its
thalassotherapy treatments, which literally mean "from the
ocean." Ouellet explains that-from the Mediterranean to the Dead
Sea-the sea contains minerals, trace elements and vitamins that
are indispensable to our lives.

The Willow Stream's Thalasso KUR treatment, she notes, uses
sea-borne ingredients that nourish, rejuvenate and detoxify the
body, starting with a re-mineralizing algae body wrap, continuing
with a sea salt bath, and finishing with a marine firming cream.
Your body will thank you.


Asian Fusion

In the mountain resort town of Lake Louise, 30 minutes from
Banff, the Post Hotel's Temple Mountain Spa evokes a European
feel, with its beautiful dark woods, slate and glass tiles-but
its unique new signature treatment takes you to Thailand, says
spa director Anne Witzaney.

The Thai Herbal Stem Massage uses herbs such as ginger, cumin and
plai (from the ginger family), wrapped in unbleached cotton,
steam heated, and then used in a kneading and rolling movement as
part of a traditional Thai massage. "It's a wonderful experience
because of the aroma," she says. "It helps release toxins and
improves circulation, and is combined with deep pressure to
release blocked energy, and increase awareness and vitality." And
while the aromatherapy might take you to Asia, she notes, you
still wake up in the Rocky Mountains, surrounded by peaks,
glaciers and lakes-making it an ideal Alberta spa vacation
destination.

There's more of Asia at the Eveline Charles day spas in Calgary
and Edmonton, with their Indo-Chine Fusion. The Coco-Nilla body
scrub combines coconut milk and crushed vanilla beans, followed
by a tropical mist Vichy shower, Javanese floral bath, and shea
butter body wrap, plus massage. Can you say "aaaaah"?

Journey Europa

You can wrap yourself in Europe in Kananaskis, 1.5 hours west of
Calgary, where the Delta Lodge's Summit Spa body wraps use the
best of European ingredients. Need a Rocky Mountain spa weekend
to recover from your week? Try blissing out to a blend of French
and English lavender, or detoxifying with a combination of creamy
spa mud and Italian mineral salt thermal waters. Need some
stimulation? How about pure marine algae from Brittany, with a
slenderizing and firming effect?





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