Rejuve - The Spa at The Lalit Group of Hotels

Rejuve - The Spa, The Lalit’s signature brand is present at InterContinental The Lalit, Goa, InterContinental The Lalit, Mumbai, The Lalit Grand Palace, Srinagar, The Lalit Ashok, Bangalore, and The Lalit New Delhihttp://www.thelalit.com/. Rejuve spas will also be available at properties of the group that are still under development. These include Bekal (Kerela), Kolkata, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Noida, Amritsar and Dehradun. And, and, Rejuve spas at Thailand and Dubai are also in the fray. At its Udaipur property, The Lalit Laxmi Vilas Palace, the spa is all set to re-open shortly.
Besides the regular salon services, what the brand also offers are yoga, a “patented” (you heard that right) color healing technique for body, mind and soul rejuvenation besides regular aroma, Ayurveda, herbal and natural therapies. Offered at Rejuve spas are pure essence of herbs and essential oils with healing colours and crystals for balancing the body’s energy centres (chakras). These are patented treatments that combine full body exfoliation, body massages and nourishing facials, while also using colours and crystals to clear stagnant energy.
Listed below are two signature treatments (a host of others are available too) that are offered at Rejuve

• Rejuve Aroma: Mandarin experience

Enhanced by vibrant Carnelian crystal to release stress, toxins and fatigue, this particular aroma treatment lasts for two hours, 25 minutes, and includes a shower, tamarind and cane sugar scrub, followed by a deep tissue massage and a gorgeous facial. Just in case you’re still recuperating from the amazing experience, the therapist also gives you that much needed “me-time” with Rejuve Signature tea for company. At Rs 4,500 ($90), this could be a good way to survive the summer.

• Also recommended strongly is Rejuve’s color therapy where Pam Mehra, a well-known “New Age therapist” personally gives you her signature colour therapy. These are systematic and balancing treatments, developed by her for holistic relaxation and rejuvenation of the mind, body and soul and aim at opening and thereby balancing the chakras too. While “The Emotional” therapy uses red and pink color crystals, rose and chamomile aroma oils along with soothing music, the ambience, complete with flickering light of the candles, helps in relaxing and balancing emotions, thereby opening the first chakra of the body. Then there’s also "The Peace" color therapy which uses shades of blue crystals, lavender and sandalwood aroma oils to help bring peace and harmony to the mind while also opening the fifth chakra of the body. The therapy takes 40 minutes (for each therapy) and costs Rs 2,000 ($40).
  Watch out for this space. In the next few posts, we’ll bring Pam Mehra to talk to us about color therapy and how it works for our body.
  Till then, listen to your breath and relax.
• $1=Rs 50
• Picture courtesy: the Lalit

Summer packages at Soukya, Bangalore

The Indian tourism ministry, on its website http://visitindia2009.incredibleindia.org/ has begun advertising a lovely spa centre from Bangalore. Called SOUKYA Indian Holistic Health Centre, http://www.soukya.com/ it has announced its 2009 wellness packages for tourists.
A Basic Ayurvedic Rejuvenation programme for 21 days, complete with accommodation, food (vegetarian cuisine which also includes fresh, organic herbal drinks), daily consultations and dietary advice, treatments, yoga programmes implemented twice every day, along with complimentary use of recreational and swimming pool facilities, costs Rs 15,812 per day.
Other programmes at the Soukya centre include Shareera (Body) treatment that concentrates on weight loss using Naturopathic hydrotherapy, Yoga and Diet Simple Ayurvedic package. (Rs.19,057 per day for a 14-day treatment) There’s also SUNDAR (Beauty) treatment that spread over 15 days this treatment offers over 66 different therapies that include natural Ayurvedic products which are anti-ageing. Additionally, guests are also given mud and herbal packs. (Rs 19,942 per day).
The most expensive treatment is Shakthi (power) treatment that’s designed to rejuvenate and soothe and calm the nerves through specially designed Ayurvedic revitalising treatments besides mud packs, reflexology and even acupressure. This is ideal for corporates and foreign tourists who obviously don’t have much time on their hands. Spread over just seven days (the minimum time you have to spend at Soukya, the programme offers as many as 42 treatments for a price of Rs 27,022 per day.

Actually, for those of you planning to travel to south India, where a plethora of spa treatments are available anyway (*beware of touts and unclean places that pass off as spa centres) it would be a good idea to make Bangalore your base, try out Soukya treatments and then proceed to different destinations. Better still, round off your India holiday with a trip to Soukya and the luxurious treatments that it offers.

*Soukya package rates (excluding taxes) valid from April 1, 2009 till September 30, 2009.
* Meals served are primarily vegetarian. Low fat, low salt and very little spice.
* No smoking and alcohol allowed on the property
* Select treatments cannot be done on women when they have their menstural cycle
* Cash, cheques, debit and credit cards (Visa, Master and American Express) accepted