Jakarta, Indonesia’s metropolitan capital is a city of variations and turbulence. The city, which is host to millions of individuals from all across the globe, is a melting pot of cultures, languages, affluence, and poverty. Moreover, it has the heaviest traffic. However, Jakarta is not all gloom as it is also home to some of Asia’s finest entertainment and other amazing attractions.
Residents and visitors have many places to visit, such as art galleries and museums, amusement parks, water parks, beaches, golf courses, and many others. Considering the fast-paced city life, a break for the body, mind, and soul is something anyone living or visiting Jakarta would long for at any given time. Below are some of the holistic health and wellness treatments to find in Indonesia for relief, relaxation, and healing
Spa Treatments
In a metropolis brimming with five-star hotels, Jakarta is the second-largest Indonesian city, after Bali, famed for lavish spa treatments and other holistic health and wellness treatments. When city life takes a toll on you, you can indulge in the finest luxury spa Jakarta hotels.
A therapeutic spa massage, famed for its soothing and revitalizing characteristics, employs various techniques to help you relax muscle stiffness, and ease painful joints, to let go of all your daily concerns. The one-of-a-kind treatments combine ancient Asian healing practices with ancient beauty formulations that use fresh, organic, and other high-quality products to provide healing effects.
Besides the natural ingredients, local Indonesian therapists trained in anatomy physiology, massaging, yoga, and hospitality, blend in warmth and compassion to invigorate, renew, regulate, and calm the body and mind. The head-to-toe luxurious spa treatments include face masks, scrubs, full-body treatment, massage, wraps, hair treatment, foot, hand, and nail care, and reflexology, among many more.
Ayurveda Retreats
Indonesians believe in holistic healing and wellness. Some travelers from many parts of the world visit the country for the same. One of the most popular healing and relaxation treatments is Ayurveda, a retreat offered in several spa luxury resorts.
Besides rejuvenation and detoxification of the body, Ayurveda treatment improves emotional and mental levels. With its origins from ancient India, Ayurveda includes complete body massage using soothing oils that melt away anxieties and stresses. Besides the pampering, which includes facial, hand, and foot massage, Ayurveda explores diet and lifestyle behaviors.
The remedial medicine used for treatment includes a combination of herbs and foods, meditation, yoga, and other body and mind purification programs. The programs take 1 to 21 days.
Urut
If you are visiting Indonesia and the fatigue gets the best of you, you can treat it with one of the country’s most popular traditional massages-Urut. Unlike modern massage treatments, Urut requires a trained and highly professional practitioner known as Tukang Urut, who thoroughly understands the body’s pressure points and anatomy.
Urut treatment focuses on healing specific body problems such as muscle pain, traumas in various locations, nerve and entanglements of nerves. A Tukang Urut can cure these problems with one or more skilled and meticulous massage sessions, using a specific method and something called “inner power” regeneration. The treatment is also easily accessible and affordable.
Thalassotherapy
Do you believe seawater can heal your mind and body and give you the relaxation you so much require? The answer is yes, and if you are visiting, Indonesia, there are several places you can experience the finest ocean seawater healing.
Thalassotherapy, which stems from the Greek word tharassa, is a preventive and curative treatment that uses seawater, seaweed, and other marine trace elements such as iodides, magnesium, calcium, potassium, and sodium.
The treatments include body wraps, underwater massages, and baths. Th different effects of the seawater treatment include pain relief, skin toning, slimming, relief of certain skin inflammations, and detoxification.
Wrapping up
A visit to Indonesia does not have to be about work, tour, and play. You can take some time off to take care of your well-being by using the most natural treatment therapies many Indonesians use. They will leave you relaxed, detoxified, and feeling like a completely new person. One of the good things is that many of the best luxurious hotels in the major cities offer most of these holistic treatment therapies.
