Thai Spa

As Thailand now seems to be the Spa capital of Southeast Asia, it’s own logical that there should be a coffee table book to showcase what the Kingdom has to offer. My dear friend Chami Jotisalikorn has just launched her Thai Spa Book, published by Periplus and distributed in Thailand by Asia Books.

Feel-good therapies and natural healing are the lifestyle mantras of the new millennium. Asia leads the way in the back-to-nature market, reviving many of its ancient techniques and treatments that have been handed down from one generation of women to the next. The book focuses specifically on stress-busting therapies from Thailand; running the gamut from the many types of Thai massage and meditation, to full beauty treatments, facials relaxing baths and scrubs, healthy tonics and much more. All are offered with recipes at home, and specific treatments are outlined for specific ailments (sun-burn, dry split hair, tired eyes and so on). All are designed to soothe, nurture and calm, and with superb, full-colour photography using many of Thailand’s hot faces and shot entirely in Thailand’s super-deluxe spas, the book is guaranteed to seduce both the mind and the senses.