Values 2

African

Living Spa

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Gibb’s Farm

One’s personalized path to wellness is created by the healers who embrace some or all five of these values to some degree throughout the course of one’s treatment.

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African Living Spa Offering

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:

Engare Naipusa
(water with milk, food, or medicine)

The African Living Spa honors the healing power of water in all its forms. In the Maasai language the power of a water’s source is called engongú engare. The local healing tradition views a positive source of pure water as one of the main requirements of a healing place. Rarely taken alone, water is typically mixed with milk, food or medicine. Pure fresh water prepared in this way offers the traveler healing sustenance as well as simple refreshment.

OCIMUM SUAVE TEA
During the massage in the cottage fresh leaves from the phyto-medicine collection simmer in Ngorongoro well-water boiled in the bathing room fireplace. Offered in the course of each treatment, this soothing, detoxifying Ocimum Suave tea is sipped directly from a traditional calabash gourd. This plant is one of many that have been documented by SANAA Artist-in-Residence Riziki Kateya (drawing right). The leaves are picked fresh and boiled.

Water is also offered as a cleansing, healing medium in the following African Living Spa treatments.

FOOT SOAK
Treatments offered in the privacy of one’s cottage start with a foot bathwater filled with garden flowers and aromatic oils that are custom prepared from our source in East Africa. This honors the Maasai belief that feet are the vital vehicle that carry one on one’s journey through life and so should receive special care.

For treatments conducted in the traditional healer’s dwelling Engishon Supat, the Eucalyptus Globulus tree’s leaf is used in place of garden flowers. The same tree provides the supports for the dwelling, infusing the atmosphere with a bright, gently cleansing aroma.

BATHS
Offered after massage treatments a bath allows time to relax and allow your senses to drink in the intoxicating floral aromas from the gardens nearby. Enjoy the cleansing and liberating force of one of nature’s greatest healers - pure water. Bask in the sunlight, soak away stresses and strains while peacefully integrating your experience. Feel good knowing that the bath water is heated and charged with healing energy from the sun and recycled to irrigate gardens.

SHOWERS
Suspended from the trees of the cottage’s outdoor bathing area, or the ceiling beam of the indoor shower area the home crafted vichy-like shower is the perfect refreshing rinse after a coffee scrubs or Olkaria clay mud treatments.

ENGORNO MILK
Freshly made warmed milk oil from the Gibb’s Farm dairy is applied over the body and limbs to relax and uplift the senses while deeply moisturizing the skin.

MILK TO DRINK
Occasionally medicine is mixed with milk or soup to improve its absorption. Oloodwa medicine is boiled with milk to sooth its effect, especially for young people and those needing strength.

Ocimum Suave, Riziki Kateya, off-set lithography from water color original in the Sanaa Gallery collection.

A Commissioned Sanaa work.

Sustainability

Participants

1. Igishu Oor Ingera Wealth in children & cows
2. Engare Naipusa Pure water with milk
3. Engishon Personal retreat for health
4. Engop Sidai Fertility of the land
5. Engai Spirit of the place

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