WHAT IS THE CONCEPT BEHIND OUR WELLNESS CENTRE?

If you are a chef, you want to open a restaurant. Not just any restaurant but the best restaurant on the face of the earth. Your baby, your creation. From plates to menu, window dressings to salad dressing, your fingerprint. You search out location, design the floor plan, review details with contractors, hire support staff, create menus. Every detail right down to the "thank you" as your clientele walk out the door. All in the hopes that individuals can and will experience what you have to offer.

Our journey is not too far off. We wanted to open a Wellness Centre. Not just any Centre but the best Wellness Centre this side of the Mississippi (we will conquer the west next). Our baby, our creation, our fingerprint. We are not chefs of the wellness industry but two individuals who, although both believing in the same end result, come from two distinctly different backgrounds. One who spent a lifetime in health care, dealing with the body, educated, degreed, certified, with a belief that stress can be managed and to some degree resolved through healthy life choices. The other an individual that has learned through spiritual growth and meditation that the mind is as important as the body when it comes to wellness. So together we created our MINDANDBODY approach to wellness.

We sought out a location that was easy to get to, off the beaten path but a short walk away. Large enough to accommodate our vision but inviting enough to provide sanctuary. Somewhere that would allow each of our modalities to offer a physical enhancement to a certain part of the body while relaxing the mind. Not one big rolling gym with endless treadmills but calm, relaxing rooms. 

Our Himalayan Salt Room is great for any respiratory ailment from stuffy nose to COPD to all points in between. It is also great for dermatological issues, eczema, psoriasis, seborrhea. A natural moisturizer. The Flotation Suite can ease sore joints and muscles, provide relief to headaches, migraines, concussions and jet lag and help with sleep issues. And our LED Light Stimulation Therapy Bed, our MOAB (mother of all beds) is scientifically proven to help with chronic pain, deep muscle fatigue, helps the body detox and is available in an anti-aging face panel and portable "take home" units.

"But wait, there's more". We also realized that the mind is in need of healing too so we designed each modality to be as easy as possible. When the mind is calm the body becomes relaxed, and in this state the body follows the mind. And it doesn't get any more relaxed than lying down.

Our Himalayan Salt room is as easy as sitting in an anti-gravity chair, lie back, relax and breathe. 45 minutes of rest, napping or meditating. The Flotation Suite is basically a big tub where you lie back and float in the warm Epsom salts water. Not many can avoid letting the mind go nowhere and nowhere is a glorious place. Our LED Bed is a warm panel of LED lighting that heals the body and invites calm. And the overall Centre was designed with a calm, relaxing, airy feel to allow all of our clients the oasis of tranquility missing in today's world.

Our physical, mental and spiritual MINDANDBODY approach to wellness. 

SO WHY A WELLNESS CENTRE?

Welcome to the first of what we hope to be many interesting and engaging posts about who we are and what we do. The best place to start is why we choose to open a Wellness Centre. Our story is as follows...

As the saying goes, "when life gives you lemons you make lemonade". So when life presents wellness you open a Wellness Centre. WHAT?

Life puts us where we go because, well, we belong there, it is our path. Sometimes in life we are thrust into a situation with no apparent reason as to why we are facing such a situation. Other times we can see it coming but still can't change it. It usually isn't until long after that we see the reason why. Sometimes we may not like the reason but we see it none the less. More times than I can mention here did I find myself asking, "what is going on, why is this happening to me"? It happens because that's life. Kind of a simple, stupid answer but that's the answer. No matter how hard we try or how well we prepare something, somewhere is going to pop up and cause anything from discomfort to full blown stress. Relationship problems, financial challenges, illness or death. Everyone everywhere is tasked from time to time with a life challenge. Depressing huh? But hang in there, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

Since we can't change life or what may or may not happen we are best to learn how to deal with it. It's all about how we react. Many were never taught how to deal with life's problems and by the time we got caught up in them we were way past the parental learning parts of life. I remember Geography, History, Math, even Physical Education in school but never Stress 101. Granted my schooling occurred many years ago but I don't think there are many courses being offered that teach us how to deal with life. "Mama never said there would be days like this". So we react. Sometimes cool as the proverbial cucumber, others not so much. It's the not so much times that cause the angst. But in our defense we do the best we can without knowledge of what to do.

The outcome of our reaction usually manifests itself in some sort of stress. Sometimes temporary, sometimes long term or permanent. It can cause changes in eating and sleep habits, anger issues, addictions or the taking of life, ourselves or others. Generally there is not a good outcome to unmanaged stress. Thinking about stress can be stressful. And as mentioned earlier, no one is immune from it. In today's world it's all around. So we either avoid it (wouldn't that be nice) or learn how to deal with it.

It took me 60+ years of countless experiments to try and find a remedy for stress. Reading and researching and experimenting and failing to finally come out the other side with some clarity. A relief from stress.One that requires patience and vigilance and practice and will teach me how to deal instead of reacting. Or at the very least provide an avenue to beat back the stress for an hour, a day, a week. We all choose our path to wellness, that we can control. So when life presented wellness to Lisa and I we opened a wellness centre. We can attest that it works in our personal lives. Our MINDANDBODY approach to wellness that encompasses physical, mental and spiritual well being... Revitalize - A Sewickley Wellness Centre.