But what is this".
Alone and amazed in the
hydromassage
bathtub , in the dark except for some lines of interesting blue light, the smell of
essential oil
climbing up my nose, I remember the seven
Jacuzzi brothers,
and specifically Candido, who, to relieve the pain of His son, who suffered from
rheumatoid arthritis
, modified one of the hydraulic pumps made by the family business to convert the
bathtub
at home into one that
expelled bubbles.
With this gesture of generosity, he invented an object, the jacuzzi, which made his family a millionaire and immersed bubble fans in tons of good times.
The fact is that I think that the seven Jacuzzi would hallucinate with the bathtub in which I am in right now, where I experience the first phase of a treatment called
Detox Hydroenergetic Cure.
Then there will be a
marine wrap
(phytofangotherapy) on a massaging
water bed
and finally a revitalizing
aquatic lash with a hydrojet.
But we haven't gotten there yet, and for the moment what happens is that I can't believe my
feelings
, so I make a conscious effort to concentrate on them, because the 17 minutes I'll be in this bathtub -whose bubbles run through your body in phases and lift you off the bottom, giving you a magical feeling of
weightlessness
- I always want to remember them.
Because for me these bubbles are pleasure.
So.
As it is.
Although it is true that there are as many ways of conceiving
pleasure
as there are people;
for me it is closely linked to
discovery
.
For this reason, and now I rewind, here I am, two days before my
religious experience
in the hot tub, one night in November, arriving at the exclusive SHA Wellness Clinic like someone disembarking from one of Columbus's three ships in Guanahaní, delivered to the
adventure
although aware of the possibility of finding an obstacle along the way.
The obstacle, ahem, would be me.
For example, will I like the hyper-healthy
food
served at your
SHAmadi restaurant?
Its nutrition, they say, is "balanced, natural and alkalizing, designed according to the constitution and condition of each person to cover nutritional needs, providing all the necessary energy value, promoting health without sacrificing flavor."
Okay, but would I like to eat this healthy for four days?
Whether I like it or not, I'm going to do it, that's why I've come, to give myself one hundred percent to a program called Rebalance whose objective is "to recover general well-being thanks to a learning experience and disconnection in an ideal environment."
At the moment, I am disembarking in this place full of healthy mysteries nestled in one of the most beautiful hills in the province of
Alicante
, on the
bay of El Albir,
next to Altea, and with the mythical Puig Campana on one side of the views.
As I arrive at night, the lobby shines like a polished geode, a premonitory portal to a world that I imagine for the chosen ones, the place where they come to get anti-
stress cures,
quit smoking,
lose kilos
or simply let themselves be pampered for a few days.
The luxury of taking care of yourself at SHA begins by talking
It must be said that no matter how much the SHA is called a
wellness clinic,
its skin is a
five-star hotel.
That is why you are breathless when at dawn the next day you are overwhelmed, in suite 304, by the spectacular panorama of the bay.
Once answered, a morning full of commitments arrives: meeting with the
agenda manager;
advanced preventive diagnosis
with a bunch of
machines
that will measure your body from top to bottom, from the inside out, and find out what proportion of fat, lean matter, bones, water, minerals... is in it;
medical examination with
Dr. Baeza;
nutrition
consultation
with Natalia Restrepo, with whom you will review your habits, your resolutions and your eating nonsense.
All this, before the meal.
Later, in the
Fitness room,
they will do a functional assessment of my body (it turns out that I'm not as rusty as I thought).
Later,
SHA Detox therapy
(an experience, that massage with cupping).
Will I have time to get to know the spa?
Well yes, I find time to dedicate to the award-
winning spa
at SHA, so relaxing that I almost fell asleep playing dead in the pool.
When a day later I have already gone through an acupuncture
session
, the mythical
hydroenergetic detox cure
and the
body Indiba, I
begin to observe that all these treatments, consultations and therapies begin to have an effect on me.
I may not agree with everything I hear, or what is proposed to me, but I confess that all the professionals I have spoken with have given me food for serious reflection on my current
lifestyle
and how important it is to shake it up. and improve it.
Even if you know it, sometimes you need to talk to someone to listen to you... And listen to you.
To your body, come on, that blessed one.
My little glass of cider vinegar
On my last day at SHA I have gotten used to starting
dinner
with a glass of
water with cider vinegar
and ending it with an
apple infusion with kuzu
.
Of course: it still seems miraculous to me that a seitan lasagna can be so delicious, or that after three days without dairy products I don't miss them.
What is clear to me at this point is that I will miss the
Facial Foaming Enzyme
session and the
deep tissue massage session,
in which I am about to propose to the masseuse.
In the end it will turn out that I will be sorry to leave here.
I review what I have experienced, look for connections and understand the concept:
true luxury,
in the end, it is within you.
And it is the people of the SHA -I know, I am getting dangerously close to the cliff of kitsch-, more than the food or the treatments themselves, the ones that teach you to locate it, catch it and not let it escape, a fortune inside that body that it is, at the very least, your best possession.
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