Aosta valley wellness holidays

Your Aosta valley wellness holidays can take place in a comfortable three or four star hotel in the mountains in an Alps ski resort like La Thuile, Champoluc, Cogne. Here you can count in wellness treatments, to be combined with many sports in the mountains in winter and in summer: hiking, skiing, snowboarding, trekking by horse, and so on in the famous Gran Paradiso National Park. The wellness treatment offered by the Aosta valley wellness holidays in Italy are: aromatherapy, cromotherapy, Turkish baths, sauna, yoga, emotional showers, lymphatic drainage massages. It’s possible to count on chocolate massages, candle massages, cinnamon and blueberry face masks!

Aosta valley thermal spa resorts:

• Saint Vincent: the thermal resort of Saint Vincent is located in the Alps and its altitude is of 575 meters. Here a famous casino was opened in 1948; many jet set members met here. A thermal source was discovered in Saint Vincent in 1770; its therapeutic waters are cold, of the alkaline- sulfate- bicarbonate type. They are useful to cure digestive and liver disorders and they are given under the form of therapeutic drink. Thermal spa treatments are refunded by the National Health Service in every region of Italy.
• Chocolate massage: the chocolate massage isn’t just suitable to slow down your body ageing process thanks to the presence of cocoa butter. This ingredient is famous thanks to its protective, anti-oxidant and soothing properties and it’s also suitable…to cure cellulite! Cocoa contains caffeine, which helps the fat burning process; it also contains tannins, known for their slimming, toning and remineralizing effects- The chocolate massage is also useful to cure stretchmarks, as cocoa butter “repairs” them very effectively.
• Lymphatic drainage massage: the lymphatic drainage massage is one of the “classics” of anti-cellulite massages. Thanks to it, liquids in excess are “guided” towards lymphatic vases; this occurs thanks to the therapist’s slow and delicate movements. If well performed, the patient feels the need to empty his/her bladder; this means that the human body is already purifying itself. The lymphatic drainage massage is also useful in case of capillars fragility, as they are “helped” to transport more lymph, as they “break” when they can’t transport enough of it anymore. This massage is very useful as a rehabilitation treatment, before or after surgical operations, lightening the lymph nodes “load”; it’s also suitable in case of venous insufficiency, acne, sinusitis and chronic colds.
• Pinda Swed ayurvedic massage: this massage is performed thanks to silk “sacks” filled up with therapeutic herbs, oils, herbs brews in which rice was boiled as well. They are successively heated in milk or oil. The small sacks are 8, prepared according to the patient’s dosha (energetic pole). They are suitable to rejuvenate and to purify your skin, thanks to the heat. This kind of massage is used in case of locomotor apparatus and nervous disorders, water retention, contractures.
• Honey and salt body scrub: the various kind of scrubs are very useful to clean up your skin deeply, preparing it to receive the successive beauty treatments. After a scrub, your skin is more receptive and the various treatments active principles are better absorbed. The salt scrub is a very good anti-cellulite cure, as salt absorbs the liquids in the human body thanks to the osmosis process. Moreover, salt is an excellent natural deodorant; honey has soothing, anti-bacterial and moisturizing properties.