The perfect compliment of a delicate shortbread cookie enhanced with a touch of Peppermint Candy Canes. This recipe is a must try for any Cookie Lover…

Candy Cane Short Bread Cookies

1 C Butter Softened

½ C Sugar

2 C All purpose Flour

2/3 C Pecans

2 T Crushed Candy Canes

Combine butter & sugar and beat on medium speed till creamy. Reduce speed to low, add flour, pecans and crushed candy cane pieces.  Shape in balls- 1 inch apart. Bake for 18 to 20 min. or Untill very light on bottoms and set. Cool Slightly. Do not over Cook. Roll in Powdered Sugar while still warm. Drizzle melted White Chocolate over the top of the cookie and top with Crushed Candy Canes while Chocolate is still warm.

Chakra Balancing

For an incredible Chakra Balancing Experience, take advantage of our March Madness Special 2012 for a limited time at this special price. Have you ever had one of those days where you felt a little off? Perhaps this feeling went on for an extended period of time. Relief could be as simple as having a Chakra Balancing Bath Treatment at New Image Day Spa. Balancing your Chakras improves your health and well-being, physically, mentally and emotionally.

Chakras are energy centers, which are like wheels of light located all over our body.  We have seven major ones located along our spine from its base to the crown of the head. Each Chakra is represented by a color of the rainbow -  red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.

• Crown Chakra - Top of Head - Violet
• Third Eye/Brow Chakra  – Above & between eyebrows  – Indigo
• Throat Chakra - Base of throat - Blue
• Heart Chakra - Center of chest - Green
• Solar Plexus Chakra - Just above navel - Yellow
• Sacral Chakra - Just below navel - Orange
• Root/Base Chakra - Base of spine - Red

Each chakra spins in a clock wise motion with a specific vibrational frequency. The Chakras absorb energy that comes from our thoughts, feelings, physical health issues and outside environment and feed this to our body.   Chakra balancing is a bit like spring-cleaning the Chakras and fine-tuning them.  Each Chakra is associated with different body parts, emotions and life areas.

• Root Chakra - Survival, Security, Energy, Trust, Power to achieve
  Part of body - Skeleton, Legs, Bones, Spine, Large intestine
• Sacral Chakra - Feelings, Self-awareness, Self-love, Creativity
  Part of body - Kidneys, Bladder, Sexual organs, Reproductive system
• Solar Plexus Chakra - Personality, Self-respect, Self-confidence
  Part of body - Digestive system, Small intestine, Skin, Nervous system
• Heart Chakra - Love, Compassion, Sharing, Forgiveness
  Part of body - Heart, Chest, Lungs, Arms, Hands, Circulation
• Throat Chakra - Creative self-expression, Communication, Inspiration
  Part of body - Throat, Neck, Nose, Mouth, Teeth
• Third Eye Chakra - Intuition, Understanding, Insight, Realization
  Part of body - Eyes, Ears, Base of skull, Nervous system
• Crown Chakra – knowing, wholeness, perfection, enlightenment, unity
  Part of body – Upper skull, Skin

There are different methods of balancing the Chakras.  At New Image Day Spa, we assist your body in bringing balancing to your Chakras from a combination of muscle testing to establish which area needs specific focus and then we add colored lights, Balancing Music & Meditation, Essential Oils and a specific bath mix blend, all of which contribute to the proper healing vibrational frequency of the specific Chakra that you personally are experiencing imbalance and/or dysfunction. Balancing offers very positive results – improving your health and making you feel good. It truly is amazing and will give you a health benefit.

Contact us for details at 801-475-7733. Or email Michelle at michelle@newimagespa.com

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Hydrotherapy is the use of water in the treatment of disease. The use of water for therapy has been around for hundreds of years, as far back as the ancient Greeks and Romans, and forms an integral part in many traditional medicine systems.

By most definitions, the word “spa” stands for sanitas per aqua, meaning “health through water.” “I believe that you must have water therapies “Hydrotherapy”, to offer authentic spa services.” says New Image Day Spa’s Owner, Michelle Solum. A true Day Spa will have treatment rooms—including Vichy shower, Scots hose, soaking or hydrotherapy tubs, steam bath with specialty showers or a cold plunge, and body wrap treatments. To make the water therapy services we provide more effective we provide colorful aromatherapy sensory escapes where guests can either enjoy customized therapeutic exfoliation and bath treatments or do-it-yourself  body scrubs with fragrant products that are rotated according to the season.

Water also has a hydrostatic effect and has a massage-like feeling as the water gently kneads your body. Water, when it is moving, stimulates the touch receptors on the skin, increasing blood circulation and releasing tight muscles and lessening the body’s sensitivity to pain.

Our bodies are made up of about 70 percent water, so any treatment that includes water is always beneficial. By stimulating the blood and carrying waste products away from the cells, hydrotherapy helps nourish cells, bring oxygen and promotes regeneration of tissues helping the body to heal from sicknesses or physical injuries.

Our Vichy Shower has seven adjustable shower jets to caress your body under an invigorating waterfall. The therapist adjusts the pattern; placement and temperature of the jets to achieve whole-body water massage treatment. When all 7 jets are on, there is about 50 liters of water a minute flowing over your body, producing in many people a sensation of floating on water. The effect of so much water movement on your skin is to increase the blood circulation, hydrate the skin and sooth the nervous system, enabling your body to balance and your muscles to relax.

During the Vichy Shower treatment, you lie on a padded table, with the shower jets above you. The treatment is particularly effective during a body scrub or following a body wrap, to circulate the recently absorbed products through your system, producing enhanced benefits.

Imagine taking a sensory vacation by having an Ultimate Exfoliation, an 1 ½ hr treatment that includes being drizzled with warm rain showers and features a full-body exfoliation using our exclusive “Island Escape Soufflé Scrub” with fresh coconut, tropical lime infused fine sea salts mixed with whipped tropical butters that provide the ultimate exfoliation and full body massage at the same time.

Specific benefits from regular Vichy Shower treatments include:

• Increasing the benefits of products recently absorbed by your skin
• Reducing toxins and waste, dramatically increasing the elimination of waste, thus assisting detoxification
• Stimulating the skin drawing blood to the surface
• boosting the immune system, allowing it to function more efficiently
• Hydrating your body through your skin, improving skin and muscle tone
• Reducing your stress response through skin nerve stimulation
• loosening tense, tight muscles and encouraging relaxation
• increasing the metabolic rate and digestion activity
• improving the function of the internal organs by stimulating their blood supply

Hydrotherapy gives your body valuable time to return to balance, improving its functions, decreasing the effects of stress and allowing you to return to optimum health. To improve your life quality we recommend you have regular treatments every 2 to 8 weeks, depending on your general and specific conditions.

Resources:

• Hydrotherapy, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health.

• Hydrotherapy Theory and Technique”; Patrick Barron; 1995
• “Modern Hydrotherapy for the Massage Therapist”; Lippincott; 2007
• Medicinal Benefits of Hydrotherapy: Water Therapies Improve Arthritis, Depression and More http://hydrotherapy.suite101.com