Spa Village This book showcases six beautifully designed, culture-rich spas and retreats run by Spa Village, Asia’s top spa brand. It explores the spas, their locales and treatments along with the fascinating history behind their inception. With roots in Ayurveda, Chinese Traditional Medicine, rural herbalism and shamanism, Unani and the practices of forest-dwelling indigenous peoples, each and every spa ritual is an experience not to be missed. Historical analysis of some of the region’s more esoteric practices – Balinese spirituality and magic, the dangers of collecting the elixir in birds’ nests.....more