SERENITY SPA The new spa that has opened in Bournemouth

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THE SERENITY SPA

The next few pages features the brand new wellness spa, ‘Serenity Spa’, which has opened in Bournemouth, Dorset. It would make a lovely day trip for you, your family and friends since we are now coming out of lockdown.

THE SERENITY SPA

Welcome to ‘Serenity Spa’; the new calming wellness spa situated in Bournemouth, Dorset. The spa has been designed by interior designer Elizabeth Hand. The building has carried out construction since 2019 and opened in May 2021. It has been built during the pandemic and therefore considers all aspects of social distancing and keeping the customers safe is our top priority. The spa currently includes a welcome reception area with a waiting area, three treatment rooms and a yoga studio on the top floor. It also plans to extent it’s build out the front to include a heated outdoor pool that looks over Boscombe Beach.

Short story from interior designer, Elizabeth Hand.

This spa project is a development with a common ideology, with extensive qualitative research, studies and application of psychological behaviours that reflects in the practice in this design. By exploring the healing properties that brings comfort to people under the influence based of science. The key idea in this project is to produce a spa where people can visit post lockdown that gets them away from all the social stresses and anxiety that many are facing. It also focuses on the connection between the mind and body; in other word “sense”. The most significant aspect is to surround things that affects people’s minds. Therefore, my intent in this project is to design a space with natural healing properties, without ignoring the qualities of physical context backed up with an extensive and strong scientific research basis. Numerous studies confirm the health benefits of using healing elements such as plants, well air quality when incorporated in a successful architectural design project, thus the large artificial plant wall. Research shows that it had effective results and statistically significant data. One of the major elements mentioned was the natural physicality. The element of nature, especially natural sunlight, which can not only reduce symptoms of depression and improve an individual’s mood, hence the use of large-scale windows looking over Boscombe Beach. Those windows would be able to create a field of sunlight that would pour into the space where people could sit and absorb the natural light when waiting for their treatment. According to the effects of people’ surrounding on the healing process, it includes many aspects, such as low saturation colour, warm lighting, senses even the arrangement of spatial design, detail onto furniture edge. Therefore, all furniture within my scheme is curved with no straight sharp edges. Although the lighting can be altered it will be set at a warm temperature to create a comforting homely environment. Everything is spaced out into different zones; reception area, waiting area, corridor and treatment rooms so that each customers gets their own unique experience that is kept organised and spacious.

Treatment ROOM

Three identical treatment rooms are found on the first floor of the spa. The treatment room offers a facial using One Ocean beauty products. The spa has collaborated with One Ocean Beauty, an Australian beauty brand that has a partnership with Oceana that supports the protection and preservation of our world’s oceans. This clean and clinically proven beauty brand not only works through cutting-edge Blue Biotechnology but has been scientifically proven age-defying marine actives, targeted to achieve specific beauty and wellness results. They use a high concentration of Marine Actives in their formulas as many as many other unique skincare ingredients harnessed from the sea. One Ocean beauty has also been recognised by many different magazines such as Vogue, Glamour and InStyle that all notice that this brand, “goes out of its way to have not just a neutral but a positive impact on the planet.’’ Here at Serenity Spa, we have 4 different facials to choose from. First is, ‘The Full Works’. This treatment will improve the appearance, tone and texture of your skin. Your skin will look much brighter after being steamed and your blackheads mechanically and manually extracted. You will reap the benefits of dermaplaning too by removing all the dead skin & vellus hair, gentle digital needling will hydrate and plump the skin.

‘Oceans Dawn’ This innovative age-defying facial harnesses nature’s active ingredients

harnessed from the sea, providing a luxurious treatment with high performance massage giving a deeply cleansed, refined and hydrated glow to your skin. A deep cleanse, steam, extract, gentle needling to rejuvenate cells, an advanced marine collagen mask, caviar treatment, along with zone therapy and Chi Yang massage on the décolleté, neck and scalp to dissolve blockages and harmonise the body.

‘Steam Come True’ You will see immediate glowing results with this specialised electrical and calming facial. A deep cleanse using steam, mechanical and manual blackhead extractions, dermaplaning to reveal the glow that hides beneath dead skin & vellus hair. Our gentle digital needling will encourage hydration and plump your skin including your lips & we will promote collagen and elastin production using high frequency. You will receive an invigorating massage whilst the full-face algae mask works its nourishing magic, the facial will finish with our Gua Sha routine including pressure points and calming Icey Globes. ‘Mens Deep Cleanse’ Our signature men’s facial, designed to work on a deep molecular level to purify and decongest the skin. This facial combine technique to revive the skin and give a healthy bright appearance using the benefits of a deep pore cleanse with steam and blackhead extractions, dermaplaning, mask with mini shoulder massage and soothing icey globes.

The design of the spa has been connected to One Oceans beauty as Australian native materials and patterns have been used subtly throughout. Our goal here at Serenity Spa is to give customers a spa experience that doesn’t just look after their skin but their entire wellness. With oil diffusers spread out across the spa and gentle Australian music playing in the background you will feel as though you are on a beach in sunny Aussie, forgetting all of your worries and anxieties.

To find out more about our treatments and costs head to www.serenityspa.co.uk.

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