As vice chair of the Global Wellness Institute Salt and Halotherapy Initiative, I am excited to welcome new members Ryan Dodson and Beata Jirava. Our Salt and Halotherapy Initiative group brings together sharp minds and dynamic personalities from the spa and wellness industry who are passionate about the power and potential of salt therapies. Ryan and Beata are great additions, and I look forward to working with them.

Ryan Dodson serves as CEO, CPA, CFE, and Franchisor of The Salt Suite, a franchisor in the Halotherapy/dry salt industry. Dodson’s goal is to bring salt therapy to more people and help franchisees realize their dreams and goals.

Beata Jirava is CEO of Breathe Salt Wellness, a salt therapy clinic and spa. Jirava’s mission is to create global restorative impact at the cellular level by combining a series of modalities including Pulse Electromagnetic Frequency, Dry Salt Therapy, Live Blood Analysis, Iridology, Acutherapy, Full Body Toxicity and Hormonal Testing for both humans and animals.

The Salt and Halotherapy Initiative investigates the effects of salt therapies and provides guidance to businesses and spa practitioners who want to understand and best utilize salt therapy to benefit their clientele.

Other members include initiative chair Steve Spiro, CEO & Founder, Global Halotherapy Solutions, member Kim Hanna, Founder & Creative Director, Mindfull Solutions; Co-Owner & Strategic Director, Sukhino Float Center & Salt Cave; President, Float Conference; and member Erin Lee, Projects Director, Dröm UK Ltd & Founder, UK Halotherapy Network.

If you have any questions about our work with the Global Wellness Institute or questions about salt therapy, please reach out to me. I would love to talk to you –

​Ann Brown, Himalayan Source partner, Saltability founder and Exploring Salt & Halotherapy Initiative vice chair

Provide wellness and help clients feel comfortable when returning to spas. Himalayan salt is considered the purest and most beneficial salt ever discovered on earth, containing 84 naturally occurring minerals that detoxify the body, reduce stress, improve circulation, increase energy and boost moods at a biochemical level. 

Our award-winning Himalayan salt panels feature 100% pure hand-carved Himalayan salt that when warmed in a dry sauna are believed to reduce oxidative stress in the immediate surroundings, creating a relaxing, healing environment for guests.

Have an empty treatment room? Add a Himalayan Salt Pod to add wellness benefits and immediately turn it into a revenue generator! See ROI in less than 10 weeks.

While spas and wellness centers are working on re-opening, take this opportunity to add a NEW Himalayan salt pod or upgrade to a Himalayan salt sauna. Keep reading to learn more!
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Are you ready to take your spa to the next level? Contact Rachel Williams via email or by phone at 1-888-576-3525, ext. 7.

Salt pods start at $13,500 and include 64” x 84” salt wall  (bench not included). Contact us for info and other sizes available with 2, 3 or 4 glass walls.

​A Himalayan Salt Sauna Retro Kit creates a clean, pure, bacteria-free environment that detoxifies and replenishes the body! Add warmed Himalayan salt bricks to your sauna — only $2,500 with our easy-to-install kit.

"Our guests love the sauna experience even more with the stunning salt wall backdrop.”
— Lee Zimmerman, Owner, Rush Creek Lodge, Yosemite

In the spa industry, we are always looking to innovate, improve, and focus on how to bring the greatest benefits to our clients. Ann Brown, co-founder of Himalayan Source, shares how Himalayan salt and halotherapy offer smart COVID designs for spas with contactless therapy and antibacterial options that best support clients and staff in “Safely Salty,” her recent article in DaySpa magazine. Ann stresses that now is the time for spas to focus on delivering wellness, safety, and the ultimate spa and massage experiences through private halotherapy and 100% pure Himalayan salt. Read Ann’s complete article on page 52 of the March 2021 issue.

We’re thrilled that our private halotherapy experience for underutilized treatment rooms is recognized on ISPA’s 2021 Innovate Awards ballot in the category of business practice! For this year’s awards, applicants were asked to submit business practices that demonstrate creative changes to their business protocols or offerings as a result of the pandemic for this respective category. We are proud of the development of our private halotherapy room as a way for spas and wellness centers to adjust their offerings and expand revenue while mitigating COVID risk and safely welcoming guests.
 
Himalayan Source: Renovation of underutilized treatment room into a private halotherapy room — Developed in response to the pandemic, Himalayan Source’s private halotherapy experience minimizes contact and delivers multiple modalities — halotherapy, infrared heat therapy with gemstones and more. The experience turns underutilized treatment rooms into salt therapy rooms to maximize wellness and revenue. Intentionally designed for use by one person at a time, the experience combines far infrared heat therapy with the benefits of Himalayan salt to create a luxury healing experience with a particular focus on supporting respiratory health with minimal human contact.
 
Are you an ISPA member? Please vote for Himalayan Source in the business practices category before Tuesday, March 9 at 5 p.m. EDT. You can vote for up to two entries in each category (check out the nomination for our sister company Saltability in the same category!). Members received an email invitation from ISPA with a custom ballot link to submit an Innovate Award ballot. If you did not receive a ballot, email ispa@ispastaff.com to request one.

Himalayan Source’s Himalayan Salt Panels have been recognized Best Spa Decor in this year’s 2020 Product Awards by Spa & Wellness MexiCaribe.
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Himalayan Source salt panels feature 100% pure hand-carved Himalayan salt in specially designed salt frames with a variety of salt and frame options to fit any décor in spas, offices and residential and sauna space. The panels feature hand-carved Himalayan salt, created when the ancient Primal Sea, where scientists and scholars believe all life originated, was dried up by energy from the sun. 
 
​Warmed Himalayan salt is believed to reduce oxidative stress in the immediate surroundings, creating a relaxing, healing environment for guests. It is also ideal for adding to a sauna where dry heat activates the Himalayan salt blocks, transforming them into ionizers. Himalayan salt panels can be easily incorporated into day and resort spas, wellness and fitness centers, massage therapy treatment rooms, businesses and homes to create a clean, pure, bacteria-free environment that detoxifies and replenishes the body.
 
Himalayan Source salt panels and other top quality Himalayan salt concepts can be found at top spas including across the world including Langham Place, New York, New York, Jewel Grande Montego Bay Resort & Spa, Jamaica, The Biltmore, Miami-Coral Gables, Florida and Fisher Island Club.
 
“The addition of Himalayan salt panels to a spa, sauna or fitness or wellness center is simple, easy to incorporate, and so impactful for better health. We are grateful for Spa & Wellness MexiCaribe for this recognition as best spa décor,” says Ann Brown, co-founder of Himalayan Source.
 
Spa & Wellness Mexicaribe is a quarterly industry magazine for spa enthusiasts and industry professionals across Mexico, Caribbean and Latin America. Spa & Wellness Mexicaribe provides up-to-date information on global and national spa trends, news and events, products and services, and new product launches.
 
Himalayan Source is a collaboration in salt and design between Saltability and Touch America.

Our Himalayan Salt Panels make it easy to add healing Himalayan salt to any massage therapy practice, wellness center, day spa, destination resort, holistic health care practice, fitness center, luxury hotel, salt room business or home.
 
Choose the panel or wall that fits your space and budget:

• Himalayan Salt Wall — Save $2000 PLUS Complimentary Gemstone LED Healing Mat and Guided Meditation
• Himalayan Salt Panel — Save $500
• Diamond Salt Panel — Save $200

Order a ½ or full Himalayan salt wall and save $2000 on a halogenerator* purchase PLUS receive a complimentary gemstone LED healing mat AND guided meditation, turning your treatment room into a revenue-generating, Private Halotherapy Experience for less than $10K!


*Halogenerator is sized for a 10x12” treatment room, 90 to 150 sq. ft. This is a limited time offer.

​Himalayan Source now offers Himalayan salt panels in diamond shape — battery powered for convenient use and installation.

Pre-fabricated panels with wood trim — choose from white, black, natural wood or custom paint color (for additional fee).

Warmed Himalayan salt is believed to reduce oxidative stress in the immediate surroundings, creating a relaxing, healing environment for guests. 

Created when the ancient Primal Sea, where scientists and scholars believe all life originated, was dried up by energy from the sun, Himalayan salt replenishes the body with 84 naturally occurring minerals to boost wellness. ​

Himalayan Source now offers Himalayan salt panels in diamond shape — battery powered for convenient use and installation. These versatile, illuminated panels are the perfect addition to any massage or spa treatment room, waiting room, meditation space or anywhere you want to add beauty and enhance wellness!

These beautiful, diamond-shaped panels feature hand-carved Himalayan salt created when the ancient Primal Sea, where scientists and scholars believe all life originated, was dried up by energy from the sun. Himalayan salt replenishes the body with 84 naturally occurring minerals to boost wellness.
 
Warmed Himalayan salt is believed to reduce oxidative stress in the immediate surroundings, creating a relaxing, healing environment for guests. It is also ideal for adding to a sauna where dry heat activates the Himalayan salt blocks, transforming them into ionizers.
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A recent study has confirmed the benefits of halotherapy, offering new support for dry salt as a wellness treatment. Results of the pilot clinical study run by Dr. Cindy Hollenbeck, a biochemist, showed improvement in lung function across all study participants. Her work, “Effect of Halotherapy on Peak Expiratory Flow (PEF) and Forced Expiratory Volume in 1-second (FEV1) in recreational athletes above the age of 40 - Pilot Study,” adds to the body of research about halotherapy’s effect on respiratory health, skin health, athletic performance and general relaxation.
 
There have been many clinical studies in Europe and Russia, where halotherapy is not only supported but accepted as more than a wellness treatment. Continued studies in the United States will help bring this same level of understanding to our market.
 
The study, conducted between February and July 2019 at a spa and wellness facility in East Lansing, Michigan, measured changes in the amount of air exhaled in a forced breath. Dr. Hollenbeck focused on recreational athletes age 40 and older, nonsmokers who exercise at least three days a week and were not current halotherapy users. Participants received a dozen 25-minute sessions of dry-aerosol halotherapy twice a week over a six-week period.

Dr. Hollenbeck, a biochemist who founded the World Halotherapy Association and serves as WHA president, shares two images from European studies showing the lung bronchi before and after salt therapy. These images should be posted in every halotherapy treatment room!

Halotherapy is taking on steam in the United States and is fast becoming an accepted alternative to help provide symptomatic relief of breathing and skin conditions. Halotherapy is a safe modality, backed up by more than 50 years of research in Europe and a revolutionary delivery process (the halogenerator) that makes it easy, affordable and effective for consumers to improve breathing and overall health in a drug-free, natural way.

Helping spas and wellness centers envision new ways of doing business in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Himalayan Source announces a new, private halotherapy experience for clients that minimizes human contact while delivering multiple therapy modalities — turning treatment rooms into salt therapy rooms that maximize client wellness and business revenues. Himalayan Source’s new concept will be piloted by Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa in Delray Beach and is expected to launch June 1, 2020.

Designed for use by one person at a time, Himalayan Source’s private halotherapy experience  combines far infrared heat therapy with the benefits of Himalayan salt to create a luxury healing experience with a particular focus on supporting respiratory health with minimal human contact. Designed to be added to any treatment room, the private halotherapy experience may be offered as a standalone treatment with no therapist commission needed or as an add-on/upgrade in conjunction with a facial or massage.

“We designed this private halotherapy experience to help clients feel comfortable returning to spas,” said Ann Brown, co-founder of Himalayan Source. “During this time of high anxiety because of COVID-19, it is crucial that we support guest health and wellness in our community. This grounding, healing salt therapy experience allows spas to offer wellness in an environment that minimizes risk for clients.”

During the private halotherapy experience, a client or member benefits from true halotherapy while enjoying the soothing view of an aesthetically pleasing, glowing Himalayan salt wall. Breathing in pharmaceutical grade particles of salt from a halogenerator, he or she relaxes on a massage table that provides far infrared heat therapy combined with gemstones, pulsed electromagnetic field therapy (PEMF) and LED light therapy. Guided meditation to restore body, mind and spirit rounds out the experience to provide total rejuvenation and recentering.

“Safety has always been a top priority at Hand & Stone. As we prepare to reopen and our guests return for some much needed relaxation, we are thrilled to offer them extra peace of mind with this new halotherapy service offered by Himalayan Source,” said Katherine Chenier, owner of the Delray Beach Hand & Stone franchise that is piloting the new concept.
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Combining expertise in Himalayan salt therapy and understanding of ergonomics, human engineering and kinesiology, Himalayan Source offers a full line of Himalayan salt concepts to complement any spa or wellness space. Clients include the Langham New York, Jewel Grande Montego Bay Resort & Spa in Jamaica, the Biltmore Miami-Coral Gables, Gaylord National on the Potomac and more.