LifestyleWhether it's traversing the relatively cosmopolitan “urban free-for-all” that is Bangkok, with its trendy malls, urban wellness centers and posh fitness centers, or perhaps traversing the wild trails outside city limits, explore activities to suit your lifestyle.
Boasting a handy downtown location close to Phrom Phong BTS skytrain station, Let’s Relax offers a variety of relaxing spa treatments, which will leave you feeling completely refreshed and reinvigorated.
You can choose a 'dry' Thai massage, with or without a fresh herbal ball, or a Swedish massage, which is carried out with a combination of aromatherapy oils. Skin detox
Let’s Relax offers six body scrub treatments, which offer individual benefits aimed at repairing the damage caused by overexposure to the sun.
Turmeric and salt scrub applications, which can reduce prickly heat and breakouts, are followed by a cooling yogurt preparation that can really invigorate the skin tissue. In contrast, the black sesame and honey is said to suit dry and sun damaged skin.
Gourd is ideal for individuals with sensitive skin, while orange provides natural AHA, which promotes whitening. Coffee is used for the sake of detoxification and as an anti-cellulite treatment.
Choose from an aloe vera or yogurt wrap featuring perfumed white clay. The aloe vera wrap comes highly recommended as a refreshing tonic for damage caused to the skin by the sun, based on its regenerative properties. Therapeutic hot stones
The heat generated by Let’s Relax’s signature Aromatic Hot Stone Massage (2,000 [US$58] baht for 90 minutes) is really calming following a period of overexposure to the sun's rays.
To begin with, you will be asked to lie on your front as six hot stones are applied to your back, which is first covered with a towel. The heat along with the weight of the stones can really penetrate your back muscles, providing a deep, relaxing experience.
While large stones are rested upon your back, smaller ones are slid back and forth rigorously on the backs of your legs in tandem with an application of aromatic oil. Known as ‘warming the stones’, this prevents the stones from feeling too hot against your skin, while warming the oil applied by the spa therapist.
Relief for drivers
Stones are tucked between your toes, which can help ease tense muscles
in that area of the feet, which can be particularly pleasant for
drivers, or those seeking to relieve pain encountered when walking.
Subsequently, seven larger stones are used in the process of massage
for reflexology, which can provide a great deal of relaxation, as well
as stimulating blood circulation within various parts of the body.
When it’s time to turn over, six stones are laid out in two vertical
rows on the surface supporting the back. The largest of all the stones
used in this treatment are then placed vertically across the stomach.
Two other large stones are then placed underneath your shoulders.
The weight of the stones and the therapeutic heat that emanates under
your back and shoulders, as well as along the center of your stomach,
can help flex your spine and relieve backache, or muscle tension within
the upper part of the body.
All the best
The key to the Aromatic Hot Stone Massage is stable heat from the
stone, the application of the oil, as well as the skillful, rhythmic
massage of the therapist.
And when it comes to careful preparation, in terms of the size and kind
of stones used, the pure refined herbal oils, or the skills of the
therapists, Let’s Relax certainly provided some very positive first
impressions.
For further information on this, or any other treatments, call Let’s Relax on Tel: +66 (0)2 662 6935.
Transport connections: Train: Simply head for Exit
1 when disembarking at Phrom Phong BTS skytrain station, and head for
Sukhumvit Soi 39. Take a taxi or tuk-tuk from in front of the soi,
which is home to Let’s Relax.