Spiritual Bathing: Healing Rituals and Traditions from Around the World
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (544 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1587611708 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 182 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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In SPIRITUAL BATHING, best-selling authors Rosita Arvigo and Nadine Epstein explore this lost art and its fascinating history, with information on where sacred baths are currently offered and easy recipes to create bathing rituals in your home. Since ancient times, people have engaged in spiritual bathing—a soothing and restorative practice that rejuvenates the body, mind, and soul. Spiritual baths promote health and have been proven to aid in the treatment of anxiety, grief, insomnia, and depression. Rich with luxurious rituals as well as simple, practical remedies, SPIRITUAL BATHING will help you discover a sense of balance, vitality, and pleasure in your daily routine.An exploration of the lost art of spiritual bathing for promoting healing, rejuvenation, and well-being.Filled with prescriptive recipes for preparing sacred baths at home using water, plants, and ritual.Includes more than 75 stunning photographs from 15 cultures around the world.. Derived from various regions and philosophies—Shinto, Buddhist, Wiccan, Mayan, and others—most of these baths require only water, a simple ritual, accessible plants and herbs, and the desire to nurture your spirit
. ROSITA ARVIGO is a naprapathic and holistic physician who has been using spiritual bathing techniques in her healing work for more than 20 years. She resides in San Ignacio, Cayo, Belize.NADINE EPSTEIN is a writer and artist whose articles have appeared in the New York Times, Smithsonian, a
Soothe your soul Peter Uys In this interesting book, the authors investigate the religious significance of water and the art of spiritual bathing in various cultures and through many time periods. Spiritual bathing is an ancient practice with great health benefits, especially in the treatment of stress-related problems such as depression, anxiety and insomnia.The book includes examples from the Aztec, Buddhist, Incan, Mayan, Shinto and Wiccan traditions and offers practical information on creating one's own ritual baths at home by usin. Beautiful! chris This is a beautiful book! Spiritual baths are a beautiful tradition, and this book is both a sweet cultural and historical introduction to this practice as well as a recipie book for administrating your own bathing ritual. I couldn't rate the book higher.. "Important book on healing with water." according to Perri Z.. Important book on healing with water. Rosita is one of this world's greatest current healers from the ancient ways. Do consider this book if you love this topic.
From Publishers Weekly Arvigo and Epstein, authors of a previous book on contemporary uses of the Mayan tradition, offer an intriguing historical-cum-spiritual tour of world religious traditions involving water, its ritual use and spiritual significance. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. They review 15 cultures' selected beliefs and rituals, some more successfully than others. Practical applications in home ritual are commendable but sometimes strained. While flower baths can be easily done at home without special accessories, a bather will need a fairly large garden for regular baths and, f