Raj, Maharishi Ayurveda Health Spa

Split into separate 6,000-square-foot (557-square-meter) wings for men and women, the Raj, Maharishi Ayurveda Health Spa has ten treatment rooms and two herbal steam chambers. (As prescribed in Maharishi Ayurveda®, the head and brain are not exposed to heat in the specially designed steam chambers, which allow the head to be kept cool with coconut oil applications.) Ten resting rooms that include a bed, writing desk, and private bath are available for post-treatment relaxation, in addition to private hotel rooms. The spa also has an 800-square-foot (74-square-meter) fitness center and yoga studio. Spa treatments focus on prevention, maintaining youthfulness and vitality, and weight loss, when needed. The spa also offers treatments for chronic fatigue, obesity, cancer recovery, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, hypertension, depression, anxiety and stress management, fibromyalgia, infertility, diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease.

The Raj develops a customized program for each client through the Maharishi Ayurveda Pulse Assessment, an ancient technique using three fingers on the pulse at varying pressures to determine imbalances, toxins, and blockages in the body. During a private session, a Maharishi Ayurvedic health expert will use this information to make diet, exercise, and lifestyle recommendations, as well as create a personalized Maharishi Rejuvenation Treatment Program. Programs usually include yoga classes, organic meals (a vegetarian diet is recommended during treatments), and two to three hours of treatments daily. The signature treatment, called the pizzichilie, is a whole-body treatment consisting of an herbalized oil bath that begins with a four-hand massage. Multiple streams of continuously flowing oils bathe the body while the massage continues. This treatment is designed to detoxify the deep tissues of the body while nourishing body, mind, and spirit. Other treatments such as shirodhara, a warm stream of oil applied to the forehead, and abhyanga, a four-handed herbal oil massage, are available. The ingredients used are also determined during the private initial wellness consultation and pulse assessment. Upon leaving the Raj, guests receive a final pulse assessment and post-treatment recommendations, which are meant to help continue the positive effects of the treatment when guests return home.

The most deluxe program is the Veda Intensive Program (VIP) (ten days minimum), which extends the basic rejuvenation program with Vedic Sound Therapy, scientifically proven to restore balance within the body through Vedic sound wave vibrations, and treatments with prescribed oils from India that must be ordered 30 days in advance. The Transcendental Meditation® program teaches an extensively researched stress-management technique. The technique reconnects the mind and body and restores and maintains balance through the development of higher states of consciousness. As part of its holistic health program, The Raj offers instruction in the Transcendental Meditation® program, a simple technique that can profoundly improve physical health, according to hundreds of published, international scientific research studies from hundreds of universities throughout the world, and which is prescribed by doctors worldwide. The Transcendental Meditation® technique is one of the most ancient, most effective, most researched, and most widely practiced systems of meditation available in the world today.

• Non-Surgical Treatments
• Cellulite Treatments
• Microdermabrasion

• Traditional Medicine
• Sleep-Health Consultation

• Complementary Alternative
• Ayurvedic Medicine

• Massages
• Aromatherapy
• Ayurvedic
• Deep Tissue
• Hot Stone
• Lymph Drainage
• Reflexology
• Scalp
• Shiatsu
• Swedish
• Thai

• Facials
• Acne/Deep Cleansing
• Custom
• Men's

• Body Scrubs
• Fruit Scrub
• Salt Scrub

• Body Wraps
• Algae/Seaweed
• Cellulite
• Mud
• Slimming

• Hair/Nail Services
• Eyebrow and Lash Tinting
• Makeup Instruction/Application
• Manicures
• Pedicures
• Waxing

• Water Treatments
• Hydrotherapy
• Thalassotherapy

• Other
• Sunless Tanning