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The African Living Spa provides professional guidance on a journey of discovery that begins with an appreciation of how  the indigenous values of this powerful place manifest as          transformative treatments experiences by connecting you with:


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The importance of dairy products as a major source of precious sustenance is witnessed by watching Maasai women make prayers and offerings by sprinkling milk in three directions as they chant ……


“Injoo iyook engera,

Give us children.

Injoo iyook ingushu,

Give us cattle.

Iye akekisilig”

Our hope is with you always.” 


With such a prayer, Maasai women may sprinkle milk in three directions, the North, South, and East.  The West which is where the sun sets, is used only for placing a curse, as it is the place of darkness and death. (see note)

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The process of healing and discovering greater wholeness in one’s life at African Living Spa is strongly based on a philosophy of caring for and connecting with all aspects of indigenous life including and honoring the local understanding of what is essential for maintaining a healthy life. 
 


Today, the Maasai are the holders of this knowledge in north Tanzania and south Kenya. For the Maasai the essentials of healthy existence revolves around children, cattle, sustenance, fire, fertility and the Spirit which pervades everything.       


Empowered by centuries of practice, the African Living Spa healers’ remedies are drawn from these five powerful intrinsic values that have been skillfully guarded and handed down for generations.  With insight into the challenges raised by modern living they have integrated them into transforming, personalized, healing experiences that are offered in a variety of settings  - authenticity contributing to the remedy.  The following is not a menu from which you can select, it offers insight into the philosophy and treatments that support the healing  journey created with the guidance of a personal healer:

 
Ingishu Oor Ingera (wealth in children & cows) Children play a very important role in the community looking after their elders’ health by massaging their feet and bodies, tending the family’s livestock and by performing many other duties that honor their parents and grandparents. In an evening after the day’s work children often joyfully wash their parent’s feet before easing the fatigue of the day by walking on their backs. The Maasai keep a multitude of cows which provide food and livelihood for the entire family. Their children carry the responsibility of caring for the animals, a task that demands skill and dedication. This job is vitally important and a major step for children to accept on their path to adulthood. SPA MASSAGE MATERIALS MADE FROM FARM MILK African Living Spa uses traditional milk oil from the farm cattle in each massage treatment. The oil is made fresh each day in its own traditional calabash (container made from a gourd) container. The oil is made by boiling milk, then placing it in a large calabash to mature for four days. The oil separates and is skimmed off as the milk ferments. Because the smell of fermented milk may not be agreeable to the Western nose, the African Living Spa uses the oil that naturally separates after just one day.  Smoke from a small burning branch of the Olorien plant is used to clean the calabash after the oil preparation which leaves a sweet, clean scent that lingers in the next batch of oil. Maasai children will drink cow’s milk oil for strength and warmth; it can be mixed with engorno, a traditional medicine for sore throat. Engoro is also used to massage a sore stomach or applied to the skin to make it moist and smooth.  Maasai Massage All treatments offer a full-body massage to reduce muscle fatigue and prepare the body for further treatment care. The African Living Spa uses freshly-made milk oil or, for those who prefer a non-animal product, Cape Chestnut tree oil blended with select essential plant oils from North Kenyan nut trees which provide an exotically pleasing scent. Cape Chestnut oil is more locally known as Yangu oil. It naturally offers protection from the sun’s harmful rays and its high content of essential fatty acids and antioxidants together with its mild aroma makes it a popular choice in African skin care.  The importance of dairy products as a major source of precious sustenance is witnessed by watching Maasai women make prayers and offerings by sprinkling milk in four directions as they chant while milking the cow before they are released for the morning. As she does not know which direction they shall choose upon leaving the paddock, she will wish for safety for each direction:  Engilepunoto Engolong The sun raises. Enkakenya engai ai nanyokie injoo iyook Ingera naningiho nabolo lukunyu naaningi menye ongotonye ninjo metubulu toongaiki ag’a ang’a nemetii Orgella toolayok ondoyee. Torripo Eng’a ai Oomasaa ainei. With the red colour of the morning I pray give us children who are respectful to both of their parents and let them grow up in our hand with long life, without discrimination both boys and girls. Protect the family and their properties. Tigila ilowarak ilala iloojukutukie olosipa kutukie Break the dangerous animal teeth whom may covet our livestock and our children who are herding cows.  Kihomi Etetene Kopikopo The prayers for the pathway to the right: lngishomitie Naamnyak naimi ingera neimu ngishu taretoki Iyook too Ikoitoi naarida naatii lngumok nekidolo wenemikidolo Engai ai tamayana pee kiimi teserian neshukunye temnyani mikiata olikai lekiserem lemeye tajapa iyook tokitikiti inono Engai ai naataegolono! This way is blessed with the paths of our cow and children who safely cross in and out with Enkai’s help. Protect these paths to avoid dangerous things and may they go out safely and come back safely. Protect the young boys watching over the cattle, please protect them all.  Kihomi Ekedinye Kopikopo Etetene The prayers for the pathway to the left: Indalo shin Naamnyak naimi ingera neimu ngishu taretoki Iyook too Ikoitoi naarida naatii lngumok nekidolu wonemekidolu Engai ai tamayana pee kiimi teserian nekishukunye temnyani mikiata olikai lekiserem lemeye tajapa iyook tookitikiti inono Ooi Engai ai naataegoloin! This way is blessed with the paths of our cow and children who safely cross in and out with Enkai’s help. Protect these paths to avoid dangerous things and may they go out safely and come back safely. Protect the young boys watching over the cattle, please protect them all.  Edoyoroto Engolong Endeipa Engai, The sunset in the evening, Edoyoroto Engolong Endeipa Engai, ai atasaya naashukoki enashe amu kitorripo tenateipa kaatomono tenebo wedama nekitorripie ashukokito enashe Naaninye pee kitorripo tenebo Omasaa ainei pookini Ingishu, Ingera, olosho lai kiomonito iyee torripo Iyook. Aingilita Aasai iyee pee piirip iyook Ominepu Iyook Oloog’ani lekakenya! The prayers at sunset after the cows returned safely in evening time; I pray often, because you are the protecter of all of my livestock and my eyes who are the young boys and girls harding the cows and goats this afternoon. Thanks again for returning them safely this day. Enkai is with us, we ask no others. We shall pray when the color is once again the red color of morning. With such a prayer, Maasai women may sprinkle milk in four directions, the North, South, East and West.


  1. ✓Treatments

  2. ✓Five Values

  3. ✦ONE

  4. ✦TWO

  5. ✦THREE

  6. ✦FOUR

  7. ✦FIVE

  8. ✓In Residence


  1. 1. Igishu Oor Ingera            Wealth in children & cows

  2. 2. Engare Naipusa                Pure water with milk, medicine, or food

  3. 3. Engishon                           Personal retreat for health

  4. 4. Engop Sidai                      Fertility of the land

  5. 5. Engai                                 Spirit of the place

Note:  “Maasai”,  Tepilit Ole Saitoti, Carol Beckwith  (1985)

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