Like A Day At The Seaside

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Williamsburg Salt Spa:
Like a Day at the Seaside
Aladdin Consignment Furniture
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Williamsburg , Virginia 23185
757-206-1665
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757.564.8000 phone • 757.564.8025 fax
[email protected] • www.capitalcarpetcleaning.net
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Carpet Pro
Carpet and Oriental Rug Cleaning
7218-C Merrimac Trail • Williamsburg
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Colonial Center for Hearing
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337 McLaws Circle • Williamsburg
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Computer Concepts of Williamsburg
757.564.3996
5124 Center Street
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Custom Gardens, Inc.
Landscape Contractors
337 Redoubt Road • Yorktown
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Fleet Imports, LLC
Granite & Marble Distributor
4016 Seaboard Ct., Portsmouth, 757.465.9720
8310 Shell Rd., Richmond, 804.743.7404
www.fleet-imports.com
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Hatchett Design Remodel
Remodeling Homes Since 1960
757.229.4777
www.HatchettDesignRemodel.com
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Michael J. Hipple Builder, Inc.
Williamsburg’s Premier Green Builder
757.565.1725
www.mjhbuilder.com
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Innovative Financial Solutions, LLC
Your source for revenue recovery
757.903.2396
www.colonialbilling.com
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Integrative Chiropractic & Acupuncture
Wade Quinn D.C.
1318 Jamestown Road, Williamsburg
253-1900 • www.integrativechiropractic.com
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Iron-Bound Gym
featuring Pilates with Reformer
4325 New Town Avenue
757.229.5874 • www.ironboundgym.com
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Kitchen Tune–Up
Beautify Your Kitchen
Mark Levy, co-owner
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Nelsen Funeral Home & Crematory
The Cremation Specialists • On-Site Crematory
3785 Strawberry Plains Rd.
757.565.1141 • www.NelsenCares.com
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Palentino Plumbing
Williamsburg’s Master Plumber
757.259.7352
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Williamsburg Salt Spa
Old Colony Professional Ctr
1111 Old Colony Lane • Williamsburg
757.229.1022 • www.WilliamsburgSaltSpa.com
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WindsorMeade of Williamsburg
3900 Windsor Hall Dr. • Williamsburg VA 23188
757.941.3615 • toll free 866.403.5503
www.windsormeade.org
april 7, 2010
By Suzanne Douglas
t’s spring, and allergy season is
upon us. Luckily, you don’t have to
go far afield to experience one of
the fastest-growing respiratory and
spa treatments in the world. Just off
Jamestown Road, in a charming little
Colonial cottage tucked behind the
Bank of America, lies a true urban
oasis: The Williamsburg Salt Spa.
After just one 45-minute session in its
soothing, therapeutic environment,
not only will you be breathing more
clearly, you’ll feel as relaxed as
if you’ve spent
the day at the
seaside.
I
season, many people — including
children who suffer with asthma —
find that they are helped enormously
by this therapy. Inhalation based on
Himalayan salt was even featured on
a segment of the popular television
series The Dr. Oz Show, as one of the
alternative therapies Dr. Oz was keen
to try in 2010.
The Williamsburg Salt Spa is beautifully designed and immaculately
clean. Only natural materials — wood,
plaster, natural resin and organic glues
important health benefits. “The
Williamsburg Salt Spa has been a
blessing for me,” says another customer, Susan Deierling, who has been
going to the spa regularly for over a
year. “The salt air you breathe during
the session keeps on working
throughout your body afterwards. It’s
great for all ages — even my husband
and kids enjoyed the time relaxing
together.”
As the lights slowly brighten again
after the 45-minute session, time
seems to have gone
by in an instant.
Breathing
feels
clearer, and stress
and daily concerns
appear to have melted away. Following
the session, then, is
the perfect time
to
browse
the
on-premises shop,
which
features
attractive spa items
like salt shampoos,
salt soaps, bath salts,
salt candles and
lamps, and beautiful
Polish amber jewelry.
Salt-based
therapeutic and
relaxation therapy
is one of today’s
most
talkedabout new spa
techniques. Due
to
the
rapid
growth of technology and resulting environmental
pollution, respiratory symptoms
like
asthma,
sinusitis and allergies are on the
The price for a
rise. And stress
45-minute session is
levels have risen as
Guests include local people and visitors. Many clients return again only $25, and spewell. For those and again.
cial packages for
looking to improve
groups,
frequent
their respiratory health and their overall — have been used. And the cave itself visitors and couples are also available.
well-being, The Williamsburg Salt Spa is is truly spectacular. Fifteen tons of “We have both local people and visia godsend. “Love it!” wrote one happy Polish and Himalayan salt rocks and tors as our guests,” says Adamska.
client. “Cured a stubborn sinus infection crystals surround you as if in an urban “Many clients return again and
within 15 minutes inside the spa. snowfall. The floor is made of soft, again.” So whether you are looking to
heated salt sand, and salt crystals con- improve your respiratory health or
I have become a regular client.”
The Williamsburg Salt Spa, which gregate on the branches of Polish simply want to increase your wellopened its doors in November 2008, birch that line the mini-waterfalls. The being overall, the experience at The
is the very first spa of its kind on the air is clean, with a soothing, dry Williamsburg Salt Spa is unforgetEast Coast. Its owners, Agnieszka warmth. Unlike a sauna or steam table. Make an investment today in
Adamska and her husband Marcin room, this is dry air, so you do not improving your health!
Drygala, modeled their spectacular perspire or need special
setting on the salt caves and spas clothing. The air temperafound in Poland and throughout ture is controlled at a conEurope. “We wanted to recreate the stant 75 degrees, and
relaxing and beneficial experience humidity is less than 50 perthat Europeans have been enjoying cent. “This temperature is
similar to that in salt mines,
for years,” Adamska says.
which is best for absorbing
The benefits of salt air therapy are trace elements into the
well-noted. In 1843, a Polish doctor body,” Adamska says.
named Felix Boczkowski noticed the
After donning a pair of
healing effects of the air in his counsterile
booties (no other special
try’s numerous salt mines on people
attire
is needed), customers
with pulmonary and respiratory probsettle
back
into one of eight
lems. In the ensuing years, he further
comfortable
reclining chairs,
developed this therapy, and today,
and
a
warm,
amber glow of
spas all over Europe have created salt
ambient light envelops them.
Following a brief introduction from Adamska or her
staff, the lights dim, and the
sounds of waterfalls mingle
with quiet music. Blankets "Try some of our natural crystal salt
products, and experience what you can
are on hand, and customers
get when you choose the very best."
can run their hands through Agnieszka Adamska, Owner.
the heated salt sand as they
breathe the fresh salt air and begin to
drift into a sense of peace and wellbeing. “I love the salt spa,” says
Priscilla Collins, one of the spa’s regular clients. “It has helped me with my
bronchitis and I am breathing so
much better. An extra benefit is the
relaxation time you have with each
There is no age limit for a salt
visit.”
therapy session.
There is no age limit to receiving
Old Colony Professional Center
caves that mimic the beneficial air in salt benefits. While most visitors are
adults, children as young as a few
the mines.
1111 Old Colony Lane
months
have
come
to
the
spa.
Williamsburg,
VA 23185
In addition to treating respiratory
Supervised
by
their
parents,
children
757
229
1022
issues, Polish and Himalayan salt air
www.WilliamsburgSaltSpa.com
therapy helps reduce high blood pres- can spend a fun-filled 45 minutes
sure. And with the onset of allergy playing in the cave while receiving
in focus...
Williamsburg
Salt Spa
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