massage 101

Massage wonders @ Shana Lacs Spa

Massage has many important health benefits. In fact, massage can help you maintain physical, mental and emotional well being, especially when it is part of your regular wellness routine.

The Health Benefits of Massage

* Massage calms the nervous system and promotes a sense of relaxation and well being.

* Massage reduces tension and anxiety.

* Massage improves blood circulation, which delivers oxygen and nutrients to the cells.

* Massage stimulates the lymphatic system, which carries away the body’s waste products.

* Massage prevents and relieve muscles cramps and spasms.

* Massage therapy can help with pain management in conditions such as arthritis, sciatica, muscle spasms.

Remind yourself of these health benefits if you start to feel guilty about getting massage!

Massage is not a good idea if you have a fever, infections, inflammation, osteoporosis and other medical conditions. If you have any questions about whether a massage would be right for you, ask to speak to a massage therapist before you make your appointment.

In Metropolitan Iloilo, Shana Lacs Spa is a leisure and pleasure haven for those seeking relaxation, an effective relief from stress through their therapeutic spa massage services. Upon entering, Shana Lacs staff will make you feel pampered and special with an ambiance that is both soothing and calming to your tired senses. Travelers and Ilonggo spa lovers often find Shana Lacs as their favorite wellness center and pleasure destination in Iloilo. Likewise, their “weekdays spampering” every Monday to Thursdays, 1 to 4pm offers the best discounted, pocket-friendly spa and facial services. But for sheer rejuvenation, their “Hilot Ilonggo,” based on traditional therapeutic massage of Ilonggos have both cultural and modern fusion of healing stress.

Discover more than leisure and pleasure, rejuvenation and relaxation only at Shana Lacs Spa strategically located at Room 207 Adelina Building, corner General Luna and Jalandoni streets, Iloilo City. For bookings and reservations, give them a ring at (033) 338-3206.

2010 inner zen

New Year Wellness resolution @ Shana Lacs Spa

Wellness is often defined as a condition obtained when a person achieves a level of health that minimizes the chances of becoming ill. Wellness is achieved by a combination of emotional, environmental, mental, physical, social, and spiritual health.

Likewise, massage is one of the oldest healing arts: Chinese records dating back 3,000 years document its use; the ancient Hindus, Persians and Egyptians applied forms of massage for many ailments; and Hippocrates wrote papers recommending the use of rubbing and friction for joint and circulatory problems. Today, the benefits of massage are varied and far-reaching. As an accepted part of many physical rehabilitation programs, massage therapy has also proven beneficial for many chronic conditions, including low back pain, arthritis, bursitis, fatigue, high blood pressure, diabetes, immunity suppression, infertility, smoking cessation, depression, and more. And, as many millions will attest, massage also helps relieve the stress and tension of everyday living that can lead to disease and illness.

With the flourishing of the modern face of massage called spa, wellness enthusiasts and leisure lovers choose to have a spa session once in a while to relieve stress and preserve their youthful glow. But the demanding stressful work and lifestyle nowadays, people need their regular spa massage to rejuvenate, restore balance of their inner zen.

There’s something special waiting for Ilonggo and traveling spa lovers in 2010 at Shana Lacs. The first and only spa center in Iloilo City to offer “Hilot Ilonggo,” their trademark traditional therapeutic massage that combines aromatic oils and healing herbs remains the preferred wellness and leisure destination of Ilonggos. On weekdays from Monday to Thursday, 1-4p.m., they offer pocket-friendly spa and facial services.

Since New Year signifies new life and new horizon to traverse, it’s time to change your lifestyle and maintain your youthful glow by creating a balance in your inner zen through regular spa massage. Thus, you can avoid illness, prevent stress, and become healthy both body and mind. It’s as simple as this in 2010: revitalize, rejuvenate and relax at Shana Lacs Spa.

Shana Lacs Spa is located at Room 207 Adelina Building, corner General Luna and Jalandoni streets, Iloilo City with telephone number (033) 338-3206.

Spa talk

The allure of Shana Lacs Spa comes from its haven-like relaxing ambiance and magnificent spa services

Ellen Sumagaysay Lacson, Shana Lacs General Manager (far right) with her loving husband, Ron Lacson, Shana Lacs CEO (far left) with their prolific staff and massage therapists.

A Definitive Allure of Shana Lacs Spa

The social life of every Ilonggo at these times has graduated into a more fascinating perspective of better change. The moment a person deals on the fluid metamorphosis of healthy living and positive lifestyle, magnificent discoveries start to crop up. Who would think that spa businesses could thrive and flourish in Iloilo Metropolis?

It simply shows how conscientious and cognizant Ilonggos have become in terms of health and fitness. Anywhere one goes there is a conspicuous structure seemingly casting a good and right spell on him. The first instance somebody enters a spa center he/she cannot resist the alluring and captivating fragrance of the spa center.

If a health-conscious individual happens to explore, or go gallivanting around Iloilo Metropolis, he/she better take a quality time to drop by at Shana Lacs Spa and relish the marvelous rich experience. The soothing aroma of herbal essences is real hard to resist. The therapeutic effect creates such impressionable rejuvenating feeling. When one would like to be pampered and detached from the hustle and bustle of the city, he may not be shortchanged when he gives Shana Lacs Spa a try. Kindly tag along as the remarkable and vicarious encounter with Shana Lacs Spa prolific general manager herself, ELLEN SUMAGAYSAY LACSON, unfolds…

What motivated you to go into Spa business?

Ellen: I have always been fascinated with health and wellness programs when I was still in Hong Kong. I frequently visit various spas and massage centers mostly for relaxation and in a few occasions, out of curiosity as well. These experiences inspired me to set up my own spa business. This way, I am not only satisfying my curiosity and my desire to innovate things, but at the same time, I am doing a business close to my heart.

Who are your influential business experts?

Ellen: I don’t have what they call influential business experts. My principle is just to never stop learning for continuous improvement of our services. I read magazines, do researches via books and internet, attend seminars and establish network with good friends who provided me with honest and helpful feedbacks.

Can you please define Spa business?

Ellen: Spa business gives someone wonderful personal rewards. It is an expression of the freedom and creativity that comes with being the owner of the place that provides people the very thing that I myself want to experience like health, happiness, and relaxation.

What are the advantages being a female entrepreneur?

Ellen: Being a female entrepreneur, I somehow create an environment that in men’s world- women rule, LOL (laugh out loud).

Do you have any long range planning before getting into spa business?

Ellen: Yes, I have attended spa workshops and short courses in Hong Kong and in Thailand before coming to the Philippines particularly in Iloilo to set up Shana Lacs Spa which was part of a long time plan.

Can you tell us about your daily mantra?

Ellen: My daily mantra is “everything good and challenging things are blessings from God, so I treasure and learn from them.”

Why do you consider yourself a modern businesswoman?

Ellen: I am a modern day businesswoman because I embrace changes and improvements. I am not afraid to stir up things if it will benefit my business, staff, and my own well-being in the long run.

How do you envision your spa business two years from now?

Ellen: Two years from now, I am still the same, except that I would already have expanded my business and franchised it in a few areas in the region.

(This article was published by Iloilo Events Magazine, November 2009 issue. Interview was conducted and written by Rhys de la Banda Camacho)