Hawaii Spa Association

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  • Ayurveda and Beauty

    Heidi Lenz, Hawaii’s Expert Holistic Esthetician and one of Hi-Spa’s newest members wrote an amazing article last week about how holistic methods and Ayurveda can help steer your skin to the real health and beauty without injections or surgeries. Now she’s back again to expand on the amazing word “Ayurveda” and how it fits in to beauty and wellness.

    The Ayurvedic traditional views of holistic healing fit very well into the modern models of holism. Total health of the individual encompasses the physical, emotional and spiritual. Ayurveda is known as a “science of healing” and has been practiced for over 5,000 years in India. All Ayurvedic treatments focus on the causes of imbalance rather than the outward manifestation.

    In Ayurveda there are three subtle energies which are known as Pitta, Vata and Kapha, commonly referred to as doshas. Kapha is responsible for all forms of matter, Vata is responsible for the force and direction that they move, and Pitta is for transformation. All life forms have these qualities and Ayurveda’s purpose is to bring these energies into harmony and balance.

    Physical health, self-care, as well as inner qualities contribute to Ayurvedic beauty. As Maya Taware put it in Diet and Beauty (Japan Publishing), “the three parts of beauty are like a scale-one side holds the alankaras, or external ingredients, while the other holds the gunas or internal ingredients. The act of balancing is the third aspect, or rasa…..This is magic, and beauty in its fullness.” In order to bring out one’s true beauty you will have to discover your own prakruti, which is your essential constitution – this is the blend of subtle energies that make up “you.” It consists of your body type and temperament.

    An initial consultation will help you discover your prakruti and this will guide you on how to take care of yourself and bring forth your own unique, natural beauty.

    Heidi has 35 years of experience in the health field, and can draw upon a well-balanced and full spectrum of modalities that encompass a wide range of natural treatments. She is dedicated to providing her clients with safe, innovative, natural and modern treatments and products, as well as a firm believer in self-care. Sacred Journey Healing Therapies is located at Ka’ala Healing Arts Building on Oahu. Call/text 808 954-1032 for information.

  • I Am A Spa Genius

    Join us for an effective, interactive, time efficient workshop to help you solve your most challenging spa problems

    Limited seating available, please RSVP by calling or replying to this email by May 10th with your choice of time. Sincerely, The Spa Genius Team Mary Ronnow, Sierra Mead & Lieren Pearson

  • Energy Leadership by Shawn Hallum

    Remember seeing this on our Events page?

    “Ready to access the next level? Want to elevate employee satisfaction scores? Need help turning ideas into action? Join Hi-Spa’s Education Director Shawn Hallum for a complimentary webinar to learn more about how energy and your awareness of it can help you to achieve your goals. Click the link to RSVP for this free life-changing event.”

    That free life-changing event happened last month, and we know a few of you missed this complimentary opportunity…so Education Director Shawn Hallum is giving you a taste of what was discussed during that enlightening webinar! (We know, he’s pretty great.) If you missed last month’s event and want to know what topics were tossed around, go ahead and click the link below and get all that juicy info.

    CLICK HERE FOR ENERGY LEADERSHIP VIDEO

  • DIY: Chemical-Free Spa Day At Home!

    One of our newest Hi-Spa Members, the American College of Healthcare Sciences, has some amazing best-practices on how to pamper oneself in the most nourishing ways possible. If chemical products aren’t your jam, but every local spa facility in your area seems to use nothing but, then this article is for you.

    Here’s a sneak peek at what the American College of Healthcare Sciences has to say in their latest article:

    – Essential Oil suggestions

    – Physical Relaxation Techniques

    – How to prepare ingredients in advance (and which ones)

    – An All-Natural Facial, broken down step-by-step

    – More self-care tips to wrap up your DIY Spa Day

    We’re so excited to have ACHS as part of our growing community, and we hope you enjoy their article!

    CLICK HERE FOR ACHS ARTICLE

  • August is Wellness Month!

    “Wellness month is the perfect time to try that crystal facial, lounge with girlfriends at that beautiful resort, try that chic and healthy restaurant down the street or go take that beach hike… this is the time! You and your friends can discover exclusive deals and unique events throughout August Wellness Month right here.” – Live Love Spa

    We couldn’t have said it better ourselves! As Wellness Professionals or even just enthusiasts, nothing comes before taking oh-so-special care of ourselves in the best ways we can, so it just makes sense to attend the local event that happens only twice a year in the Hawaiian Islands.

    Live Love Spa has taken the Wellness Industry by storm, and if you haven’t participated yet, now is your chance! It’s never to late to take that first step toward making your wellness goals a reality, so if you’re curious and want to learn more or have already been to a LLS event and can’t wait to go again, click the link to find out how to join the party.

    More Info: https://livelovespa.com/wellness-month/

  • HydraFacial Boost Event!

    Aloha! You and your team are invited to our one day event in Maui! Please make sure to register all who want to attend in order to reserve your space!

    See you then!

  • Beginnings from Rosa Say

    The wonderful Rosa Say gives us some excellent advice this Spooky Season, read below to hear her words of wisdom!

    Aloha mai kākou, and Boo!—Happy Halloween! Let’s talk story. This week, I’m focused on BEGINNINGS, and how well we do them as Alaka‘i Managers. November arrives tomorrow, and it’s a fortuitous time for us to be circling back to ALOHA as our value-driver and best influencer of the winter season. This Hāpu‘u pulu ‘i‘i is just like your Aloha Spirit, tightly curled and regal— and ready to uncoil its abundant promise. —What is the Aloha Spirit? It’s you!

    Ho‘ohana Conversations

    “The great thing about value immersion, is that you don’t lose yourself in it —by the very nature of the values’ ethos, what actually happens, is that you will find more of yourself.”

    When you work within the practice of value alignment, aligning what you believe with what you actually do at work, the values you have chosen are sure to influence you. After all, values are behavior-drivers. Ka lā hiki ola for example (Chapter 19 in Managing with Aloha, “the dawning of a new day”): Within my own years of practice, Ka lā hiki ola has taught me to be rather obsessed about any and all beginnings as a strategic business focus. I talk about it in my newest essay for Ke Ola Magazine’s November/December 2019 issue, and I’m feeling very good about it as a way to prep us this winter in advance for the new year to come.

    The essay is titled The Aloha Spirit in Business. <—that link will take you to my website for a sneak peak. On November 1st, you can look for the print edition in the November/December 2019 edition of Ke Ola Magazine at Hawaii Island newsstands, or visit my index at KeOlaMagazine.com.

    Excerpt…This [focus on beginnings] is the real, in-the-trenches, every day way we bring the Aloha Spirit to business. We sweat the details, and we pull apart the myriad of systems, processes, and functions we’re embroiled with, to see them as the person-to-person relational interactions they can be, interactions which get people to feel the Aloha Spirit was what they’ve experienced.

    The “stuff of business” needs to be thought of first and foremost, as interactions where the Aloha Spirit literally comes out to play. One’s Aloha Spirit is a natural people-pleaser. It helps people discover who they innately and humanly are both inside (‘ha’ by nature of their spirit and breath of life) and outside (‘alo’ and in presence, demeanor, and expressed interaction with others). —click for more… 4-5 minute read with the tangible examples of this framing

    Postscript: This has been a busy October of workshops! Did you get homework? If you are a new subscriber, we prepped for this transition to our beginnings in these 2 previous newsletters: On Finishing Well, and The Good Receiver. Mahalo for joining us, and welcome to our Ho‘ohana Community!

    Rapid Fire Learning is our month-end practice: Learn about it here, and skim the index of examples I have published.

    Coming soon: Ho‘omaha for Say Leadership Coaching

    …and for this weekly letter. A head’s up for you on my calendar scheduling: Every year, I temporarily shutter my business Say Leadership Coaching over the winter holidays to devote my full attention to ‘ohana, my family. You may already know it as my annual Ho‘omaha sabbatical: Ho‘omaha Makahiki Kākou <—2016 explainer. This year it will be a little bit longer: my Ho‘omaha sabbatical will run from Thanksgiving week through the end of January 2020. My last weekly letter to you in 2019 will be on November 21st, and they will return to your inbox on February 6th, 2020. (Your subscription remains active unless you unsubscribe.) These won’t be holidays-as-usual, as there are a couple of family projects I must devote my full attention to, and I will also be in ‘immersive edit mode’ on another book I’ve been drafting. I don’t want to say too much about it yet, for I know I need my Ho‘omaha time to clean it up and forge through with the better writing a full-blown book project requires. I love doing these weekly letters, but truth is the week-to-week deadline commitment can interrupt the momentum of the other writing I do for Ho‘ohana Publishing, especially when my business commitments ramp up, which is a good problem to have, as I love my work. Ho‘omaha takes all my ‘can’t write’ excuses away, yet family still comes first, so wish me smooth sailing as I write, edit, write, and edit so’ more. What’s planned for your holidays? I do hope you can ho‘omaha a bit as well.

    “In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” — William Blake

    Let’s Take 5: Curated Reading Links

    These are the recent reads-on-the-web related to better work by better humans which have got me thinking…

    Don’t conflate fearlessness with bravery.”

    1. How to ask your mentors for help, Derek Sivers 2. How the “World’s Best Female Chef” Daniela Soto-Innes Is Changing Kitchen Culture, Here Magazine 3. Good managers have learned a LOT from good parenting, and I love these tips: 6 Ways to Raise Brave Boys, Outside 4. Robert Twigger notes, “We live in a one track world but anyone can become a polymath.” Master of many trades, Aeon. “Our age reveres the specialist but humans are natural polymaths, at our best when we turn our minds to many things.” 5. Who are the movers and shakers today? WIRED25: Stories of People Who Are Racing to Save Us, Wired features 25 Makers and Mavericks. “Humanity is facing thorny problems on all fronts. These folks are working to solve them—and trying to avoid the unintended consequences this time.”

    Quote sticking with me lately:

    “The difference between a beginning teacher and an experienced one is that the beginning teacher asks, ‘How am I doing?’ and the experienced teacher asks, ‘How are the children doing?’” ― Esme Raji Codell

    Have a great week, we Ho‘ohana Kākou,

    Rosa

  • Circadia Joins the Hi-Spa Ohana!

    nother powerhouse joined the club last month and we couldn’t be more excited! We want to give our warmest welcome to Circadia and their whole team; we’re glad you hopped on board!

    We asked their representative Lu Marquez-Costigan to give us a brief overview of their company, so read below to learn more about your newest Hi-Spa Member.

    Circadia is a professional skincare brand based on the skin and body’s natural circadian rhythms. Chronobiology, the science of defending skin from environmental damage during the day, and stimulating internal repair mechanisms during sleep is at the core of our concept.

    Circadia’s formulations combine pure botanicals, stem cells, second generation vitamins, and innovative peptide technology to achieve optimal skin health and beauty. Our specialty treatment products utilize these technologies to address a multitude of skin conditions, including aging, acne, dehydration, pigmentation, and rosacea.

    The corporate headquarters are established in the roiling hills of rural Pennsylvania where founder Dr. Pugliese began his medical practice and early research on the physiology of human Skin. Circadia by Dr. Pugliese has a rich history and bright future. Dr. Peter T. Pugliese, age 91, remains a strong, influential voice in the science of aging. Michael Q. Pugliese, 3rd generation CEO has earned a distinguished reputation as an educator in the field of skin science, and an innovator in product development. Under his leadership, the brand has grown to achieve international recognition and distribution.

    And a quick peak of what new items Circadia is bringing to the table. Thanks for joining the team Circadia, and if you’re curious click HERE to learn more about this amazing brand.

  • Happy New Year from Hi-Spa!

    Dear Hi-Spa Members,

    I am writing to convey my very best wishes and sincere thanks to all of you as we wrap up an eventful 2019 and shift our momentum into the next calendar year. The past 12 months have been marked by noteworthy achievements and change. As we reflect on the past year, I believe that we have many reasons to feel enormous pride in our accomplishments, and to look forward with enthusiasm at this next year with Hi-Spa.

    Just a few outstanding examples: Last April we enjoyed the Healing Event on Oahu; in May we launched a leadership webinar by S. Hallum; in October we welcomed Spa Buzz Maui & the Managing with Aloha Seminar by Rosa Say, and we ended the year with our November Hi-Spa Gratitude Event on Oahu! And to kick off the new year with the inertia from 2019, just last month the Hi-Spa board participated in a Wellness Expert Panel at the Live Love Spa event in Maui. It was an incredibly high honor for all of us, and a wonderful opportunity to briefly showcase this amazing non-profit we call the Hawaii Spa Association.

    Between all the events we had this past year, Hi-Spa’s goals continued to evolve to meet the demands of a growing, changing spa-wellness community of members. I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to Monique Jutila (Hi-Spa Vice-President) and owner of Pilates-Fitness Fluid Motion Maui Studio for her huge contribution to Hi-Spa. She is stepping down to invest more time in her growing business, however she will always be connected to Hi-Spa! We also want to congratulate Jennifer Holzworth, Montage Director of Spa as our new Hi-Spa Vice President! Meanwhile, we have the Hi-Spa Secretary position open. If any of you is interested in being part of Hi-Spa board please give us a call, as President I’d love to review the responsibility with you personally.

    This is a great Spa Association, thank you for being part of it and thanks so much for helping to make the past year so memorable. I invite you to join me in anticipating what we will accomplish together in the year to come.

    With very best wishes, C

  • Work Out Loud by Rosa Say

    Aloha mai kākou, Let’s talk story. This week, let’s talk about one way the ‘me’ of Ho‘ohana becomes ‘we.’ How does the deep work you do, get introduced to your business’s Language of We?

    Ho‘ohana Conversations

    One of the questions I’m fond of asking business owners these days, is if they’re bringing any freshened perspectives to the beginning of the 20s—what are the New Year’s/New Decade’s resolutions they’re entertaining, specifically for the workplace?

    An answer I often hear, has to do with “deep work,” and that owners want their people to dive into the true essence of their missions and visions, being less distracted by the unimportant. In short, they want more focus on the “blood and guts” of what their chosen work’s discipline is all about.

    Oddly, I’m also hearing that these same people want to do away with most of their meetings; they see meetings as time sinks, and as a significant part of the distractions they battle.

    This argument is largely lost on me, for I love meetings. You read that right. I love meetings.

    Listen, I hate bad meetings as much as everyone else does. However I’m a raving fan of good meetings.

    Good meetings are great discussions. In a good meeting, a meeting of the minds happens; bright minds engage and challenge each other, they entertain useful questions and they seek clarity and synergy.

    We all want “deep work” rather than work that skims the surface of issues without resolving them. We want work that progresses in meaningful ways. Yet we have to stop and ask ourselves, how that deep, meaningful, and progressive work actually happens in our organizations.

    It happens when it engages a workplace in its entirety.

    In a good meeting, people work out loud. People share what they’ve been working on: Individual efforts which have chipped away at deep work’s pockets find their fit in the big picture of cumulative work—mission-busting work. People discover ways they can collaborate, ways they may have missed seeing before. People work for the good of the whole, and gain more understanding on why they might have to ‘kill their darlings.” In other words, they focus.

    Don’t be too quick to dismiss your meetings. Ask instead, if you need to reframe and restructure your meetings so they become more useful to you, as this stage where individual work begins to work out loud—work is shared, explained, questioned in a useful way, integrated into larger efforts and expands from individually deep, to collaboratively expansive.

    As a good guideline, meetings should be 10% administrative—think ‘moderated’—and 70% devoted to discussion. The final 20% should be for the decision-making of follow-up, and coming to agreement on what happens next as a direct consequence of the meeting just held.

    Deep work is great. Deep work shared and integrated is even better.

    Related Reading:

    — On deep work: Here’s how Cal Newport, author of Deep Work, Rules for Focued Success in a Distracted World, defines “deep work;”

    “Deep work is focused, uninterrupted, undistracted work on a task that pushes your cognitive abilities to their limit. The best ideas and the most meaningful progress come from deep work, not shallow work. —Shallow work answers emails, produces reports, and flits from meeting to meeting. —Deep work creates breakthrough business ideas, exposes new research questions, and solves complex problems.”

    — In our Aloha Archives:

    People will often lament that meetings are boring, useless, time-sucking sacred cows, yet let’s get real about this: If true, the meeting itself isn’t the problem, because meetings don’t give themselves. The problem is us, as the meeting givers and takers we are. The good news? It’s a very easy problem to solve. We just need to approach it as skill-building, with the added benefit of culture-shaping communication improvement. Set the goal: “I will be a better meeting planner and giver, and I will be a great meeting participant and follow-up champion.”

    Read more here: Giving Meetings: From “Have to” to “Get to” Pair it with this: Managing Basics: The Good Receiver

    How will you make an impact in the next meeting you attend? Have a great week, we Ho‘ohana Kākou, Rosa

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