9. What is Prescriptive Aromatherapy?
Prescriptive Aromatherapy is the use of individualized essential oil blends tailored to your own body's needs. Each oil has its own unique effects. Blends of these oils enable the aromatherapist to change the response to what is stressing the body, what causes the body to react negatively, and to ease the body into balance so it responds positively. It is not just the smell of the oils that affects the body. Essential oils absorb through the skin and mucus membranes to alter cellular metabolism.

10. What can I expect at my first aromatherapy session?
During the in-house treatment, while the client lies on the treatment table, an oil blend is applied to the body. Depending on the complaints presented, the application targets the areas needed -- to concentrate on the problem and enhance the body's response. Treatments last from one to one-and-a-half hours.Take-home blends support and prolong your in-house treatment results. Take-home blends are applied by you where and when you like. Many find that they feel so much better that they make in-house treatments a habit.

11. Is exercise training appropriate for seniors?
Absolutely! In fact, one of our personal trainers, Lee Taylor, is committed to a low-impact "soft" approach to fitness based upon his extensive work with mid-life adults like your self (and himself). Age, inexperience, gender, and even special physical needs or problems are no obstacle to exercise training. Seniors can achieve all of the health and fitness benefits that younger individuals gain from proper exercise training. Medical research has even found that resistance training has been found to help seniors strengthen muscles enough to quit using walkers and even wheelchairs. Much of the atrophy/weakness of the muscles that is associated with aging is actually the result of inactivity, not aging.

12. Will exercise training help my lower back pain?
Research has found that abdominal muscle endurance was lower in those subjects with 'lordotic' posture and in those with lower back pain. This suggests that the type of posture and/or the lower back pain are related to a deconditioning of the abdominal muscles. The researchers also found that the 'sway' posture was the most common and more highly related to lower back pain. This study further supports the idea that abdominal muscle endurance, inparticular the ability to hold a fixed position with stability, and correct posture, are related to lower back pain. Such findings reinforce the inclusion of abdominal-strength exercises and re-education of posture in lower back pain treatment.