Watch and learn how the priest Sebastian Kneipp narrowly escaped death and became a world famous ‘herbalist’ and ‘water doctor’.

One of the oldest systems of natural healing in the world uses hot and cold baths and showers to increase your vitality, balance hormones, beautify skin, tone muscles, clear your mind, and vitalize your nervous system, lymphatic system, and circulation. It quickly brings you a sense of wonderful aliveness, and all the while it is dissolving, transporting, and clearing rubbish from your body and psyche. The father of all water therapies was Father Sebastian Kneipp, the Bavarian priest who first made us aware of water’s healing power. “When used appropriately,” he said, “water and herbs can cure almost every disease.” He established Bad Worishofen in Germany in 1897, a center where people all over the world came to be healed by special ice cold baths, walking barefoot in the snow, and other simple but powerful methodologies that are celebrated to this day. I first learned the secrets of water healing in my early twenties after spending many years in a state of ill health thanks to my being raised on a terrible diet. It had been based on huge bowels of breakfast cereals piled high with white sugar, horrid fast foods eaten at 5 am in truck drivers’ cafes throughout America, and a lot of other junk. No wonder I was unhealthy. However, what I learned from the generosity of some brilliant British and European doctors who practiced natural medicine turned my entire life around. This was how I came to work in, write about, and teach natural methods of healing. It is also how I came to visit Kneipp’s centers for hydrotherapy, which still continue to thrive, especially in Germany. In many ways the most important of all I learned was how powerful healing with simple water techniques can be for improving your life at any time. Let me share with you one of these techniques. Do try it and let me know how you get on. There are many more, but let’s begin with this one. Thanks to water's chemical and bioelectrical properties, and to your body's physiological and energetic responses to them, water therapy is a superb method for cleansing, energizing, and restoring great functioning to any tired or aging body. The technique of using alternating applications of hot and cold water is called “Contrast Hydros.” If you have not yet experienced the turn-on it offers, you have a real treat ahead. After a workout, athletes use hydroelectrics in the form of contrast baths and showers to strengthen the body, prevent muscular damage, and eliminate aches. Contrast hydros not only help clear wastes and vitalize but also bring nutrients and oxygen to areas of your body that need them and balance your energies, helping to protect you from stress-induced damage. Apply hot water to your whole body for three or four minutes in the form of a hot bath or shower. Follow with 30 to 60 seconds of cold water. Repeat the procedure three times. The application of cold water needs to be just long enough to make blood vessels constrict. This can take place in as little as 20 seconds. Cold water triggers your sympathetic nervous system to energize while hot water intensifies parasympathetic activity for relaxation. The combination of the two makes you feel great. It’s important that you start slowly, increasing the length of your exposure to hot and cold water gradually. If you have a separate bath and shower you can use the bath for one temperature application, the shower for the other, moving back and forth. During the summer, make your bath cold and your showers hot. During the winter, reverse this. Like any natural treatment, contrast hydros need to be followed carefully and wisely to get all the benefits they offer and to make sure no harm is done. You will probably find at first that a plunge into cold water or a cold shower is a shock to your body. Soon this will turn into an experience of total pleasure. It is always the first cold application that is the hardest. The biggest barrier to getting into cold water is a psychological one. Once you leap this hurdle you’ll find yourself eagerly looking forward to your daily treatment.

https://lifespa.dornbracht.com/en-us/health/kneipp | Regular, targeted applications of water have a positive effect on your body and your mind. Sebastian Kneipp was one of the first to recognise that hydrotherapeutic treatments improve wellbeing and he developed the Kneipp Cure that bears his name and which the German UNESCO Commission has now included in the German nationwide intangible cultural heritage inventory. The aim of Kneipp's naturopathic treatment was to maintain and restore human health. The content and application of Kneippism is based on five pillars: the health-enhancing power of water, proper nutrition, medicinal plants, exercise and a balanced lifestyle. The aim of the holistic Kneipp therapy is to achieve harmony between body, mind and soul. https://lifespa.dornbracht.com/en-us/health/kneipp #dornbracht #interiordesign #health #wellness #lifespa #interiordesigner #interiordesigners #design #spa #hydrotherapy #kneipp #watertherapy #luxury #interiorarchitecture #reducestress #nostress #sleepbetter #relax #fitness #wellbeing

“Nature has provided us generously with everything we need to remain in good health!" Sebastian Kneipp Watch this video to understand the life philosophy of Kneipp.

Der kalte Knieguß, einfach zuhause durchführen. Die regelmässige Anwendung wirkt nachhaltig gegen kalte Füsse, stärkt das Immunsystem und hilft bei schweren Beinen, Krampfadern und wirkt noch dazu entzündungshemmend. Wer der Schnupfenzeit also aktiv begegnen will, sollte den kalten Knieguss in seinen Tag einbauen. Ein gesunder Tipp von unserem Partner dem Kneippianum. Am eigenen Leibe getestet hat diese Anwendung Manuela Schrecke, Eure Ansprechpartnerin bei Kneipp.