COVER STORY JUNE 2007
Fonteverde Natural Spa Resort
a true spa treasure hidden in southern tuscany
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FONTEVERDE LAUNCHES THE NEW "MEDITERRANEAN LINE"

Mud, oil and honey treatments from the Romans tradition

Oil as the element of life. Generally known as a delight for the palate and inexhaustible source of good health for its well known therapeutic properties. Honey, with its emollient properties, a skin ally with regenerating effect.

Fonteverde has re-discovered these as essential elements of natural Beauty. Extra virgin olive oil, rich in precious properties, moisturises and protects the skin thanks to essential fatty acids as linolenico, K, A, E, D vitamins and phenolic compounds, it is a very good anti-oxidants and helps to fight free radicals.

The Egyptian used the oil as an anti-wrinkle, the Phoenician called it "the liquid gold", the Greek's athletes used it to relax the muscles while the Romans were used it every time after their Thermal sessions to strength their bodies. From Roman tradition, Fonteverde realized the new treatments of Mediterranean Line, dedicated to the skin using natural products and thermal water combined with the precious active ingredients of the Fonteverde skin care products. Thermal mud and thermal water increase the skin absorption.

Fito-mediterranean thermal bath: Personalized thermal bath with medicinal plant extracts with draining effect on circulation, a skirt purifier effect, excellent for the respiratory apparatus.

Mediterranean Body: Draining and energizing body massage with a special agave bristle brush, a compress of olive oil mixed with thermal water and essential oils to relax the body. Detoxifing treatment ideal for peripheral circulation and skin thanks to its moisturising, antioxidant and firming properties.

Mediterranean Face: Regenerating, anti-oxidant and moisturising facial treatment thanks to a combination of extra virgin olive oil, honey, thermal water, mud and lemon juice drops. Honey does not alter the acid pH of the skin and protect the hydrolipid film. Suitable for all skin types.

New treatments will be added to the Mediterranean Line and a whole area of the Spa will be dedicated to this new line
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FONTEVERDE, MUSICAL THERAPY TO FIGHT INSOMNIA

Personalised melodies based on individual cerebral frequencies

Adequate relaxation is the golden rule for staying young and fit. The chaos and stress of everyday life often compromise the quality and quantity of our sleep, making it, in some cases, pathological. Fonteverde Natural Spa Resort has added Music of the Brain to its already extensive range of "Medical Spa" services, an innovative and effective method enabling one to rediscover the pleasure of sleep, fight stress and to manage one's emotive susceptibility. It is a technique which uses musical therapy to restore equilibrium to the mind and body, and of all the world's thermal spa centres.

"Music of the Brain", perfected in the 1990s in Russia by Doctor Levine of the "Centre of Sleep Disturbances" is a scientifically proven technique. It harmonises and regulates cerebral waves by making the patient listen to a personalised musical sequence especially created according to the said patient's cerebral frequencies. Those who have to fight insomnia, anxiety, temper tantrums or other problems linked to emotional susceptibilityon a daily basis can request their very own "music of the brain" prescription.

At Fonteverde, this therapy is performed by a doctor and initially requires the compilation of a questionnaire in order to provide information on the patient's health, quality of sleep and life in general. The next stage is an electroencephalogram (which is not diagnostic because it is only carried out on four points on the head) to detect cerebral frequencies and to record any disharmonies. The charts and graphs obtained from this process are encrypted and sent to Russian laboratories, where a team of experts uses complex algorithms to decode them into musical notes which compensate for the previously revealed disharmonies. In a few days, the results will be made available on a CD containing two tracks, one activating and the other relaxing, and you will be able to begin your very own musical treatment, with made-to-measure posology. If the customer is still a guest at the hotel complex, the therapeutic CD will be delivered there, otherwise it will be sent directly to the customer's home. Listening to the CD with one's own "music of the brain", over a period of around six months, will generate immediate benefits for the organism, making it possible to reduce intake of traditional medicines. Subsequently, it will be necessary to update the CD.

A little piece of health, relaxation and equilibrium, the main principles of the spa baths, to take home with you, for an extended and long-lasting wellness experience. Such an experience will accompany customers long after they return to the routine of everyday life.

The method also has positive effects on women in the final months of pregnancy: testing has shown that musical therapy, carried out from the seventh month onwards, can facilitate childbirth and reduce time spent in labour.

© SPA MANAGEMENT JOURNAL - JUNE 2007