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Medicinal Bath Soaks and More at Healing Spirit by Tavi Meketon
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n the center of the Tucson desert lies an oasis. Healing Spirit is a magical place to regenerate the spirit, connect with the mind and heal the body. An energy can be felt upon entering the space that forces an exhale and allows one to leave the busy thoughts and stress of the day outside the door.
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Owner and operator, Dr. Jasmine May, NMD, greets patrons with a cup of tea and truly embodies the term “healer”. Her passion for providing patients with alternative paths to traditional or allopathic medicine can be seen everywhere in her “heartcentered” sanctuary. This healing boutique features a team of professionals that provide hydrotherapy or soak baths, numerous forms of body work and natural herbs. Based on 12 years of working with plant medicines, May has also crafted her own line of CBD products to target the endocannabinoid system for specific support to pain, anxiety, sleeplessness and withdrawal from chemical substances. She is frequently a last resort for many who have exhausted all options as to what ails them. “I want to give people back their power over their bodies and help them to find their own inner healer,” she says. Many of her clients find May through various methods, but soon realize that they have found a healthcare professional who views the mind, body and spirit as
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one. Her holistic care philosophy includes several alternative modalities, but focuses the Healing Spirit on the power of water combined with medicinal herbs to heal. The use of water for various treatments (hydrotherapy) is probably as old as mankind. Hydrotherapy is one of the basic methods of treatment widely used in the system of natural medicine, which is also called water therapy, aquatic therapy, pool therapy and balneotherapy. May uses contrast hydrotherapy, which allows the body to experience the various physiological benefits of soaking in hot water (104 degrees) and dipping into cold water (32 degrees) for intervals over a period of one hour. The primary goals of inducing the dilation and constriction of blood vessels are to promote responses that may assist the body in stimulating metabolism for weight loss, detox or elimination of waste, and modifying pain from exercise or other muscle strains, in addition to other applications. In the main room, Healing Spirit features two cedar tubs which include ionizer and ozone technology. The large cedar bath can accommodate up to six people for a group experience or celebration, and the cold tubs include a modern bath for plunges and a deep copper claw foot tub for customized herbal and full body soaks. Separate or individual rooms provide privacy for vaginal steams, bodywork and CBD or other herbal scrubs prior to a customized soak.
