‘LETTING GO’: THE NEW PROGRAMME OF LEFAY RESORT & SPA LAGO DI GARDA

Throughout history, humans have focused on fighting and controlling life, without reflecting on the importance of stopping to observe, and going with the flow.

Holding on to things, concepts, people, does not create space within you, but rather weighs you down and prevents you from experiencing new events. To observe not passively, but as an explorer, abandoning the concept of warrior and control over things, will bring a sense of renewal and confidence. Being filled with thoughts leaves no room to embrace new things and creates a blockage, the stagnation of our vital energy,’Qi’.

Classical Chinese Medicine uses the term ‘Ming’ (meaning destiny or a spiritual mandate from heaven), which means being able to fully express your personality. Everyday life, full of stimuli and challenges, takes you away from your true self and makes you lose confidence in yourself. ‘Letting go’ means to be ‘free to be yourself’.

The Lefay SPA Method Scientific Committee presents ‘Letting Go’, a brand-new programme linked to one’s individual emotional state. The programme features activities focused on breathing, reopening your senses and rediscovering yourself – bringing you back to the deeper meaning of the ‘here and now’ and lightening your heart, which is the source of everything. The stages of ‘Letting go’ are:

I. Let down your defences. The Prima di Vera ritual helps breakdown defences, preparing the body to listen. The “energising” action of brushing performed along the meridians allows vital energy to flow freely around the body.

II. Focus on your breath. Breathing is the first thing a new-born child does. Through conscious breathing exercises in the Energy and Therapeutic Garden you will focus on the ‘here and now’, bringing a sense of calm and eliminating negative thoughts.

III. Open your senses. Il Volo dell’Angelo massage is a journey of “Self” in which different senses are stimulated – touch, smell, hearing, sight. Activated with music, sound and touch the treatment is designed to help you listen to your inner voice. Lefay SPA therapists will guide you through the garden helping you pick local herbs and aromatic plants for use in your own individual recipe that you will cook together with our chefs that day. A moment to get reacquainted with the ingredients and get your ‘hands dirty’ again.

IV. Return to wonder. Experiencing Lake Garda in a new state of awareness helps to relieve anxieties and tensions. The excursions are designed to take you to viewpoints in which to appreciate the natural landscape. Dinner at the Gramen restaurant makes you rediscover your connection with nature, where land and water meet.

V. Feel free to be yourself. Here you find self-confidence and spontaneous self-acceptance again, freed from mental filters. Water Shiatsu reconnects you with water, the element which makes up a large part of you. In the evocative atmosphere of the salt-water pool for exclusive use, an ancient massage technique is combined with the benefits of water, creating a kind of dance.

Discover all the details of the ‘Letting go’ programme here.