Practical details
Date: Sunday 7th December 2025
Time: 18:00 – 18.30 UK time. Check your timezone here
Presented by: The Balneology Association of North America (BANA) 501c3
Speakers:
Professor Jonathan Paul de Vierville, Director of Spa Cultures and History
Janet Abbott, Director of Mineral Water Language
Title: The Gift of Water: the healing relationship between fascia and the tradition of the spa.
Suitable for the professional and the layman/woman alike.
Please note that ticket availability will continue until 30th December. Access to the recording will be available until January 5th 2025. Thereafter the recording will be uploaded to the Members’ Area.
Paul and Janet will be outlining for us the five key points of the significant and healing relationship between the fascia and balneology and balneotherapy.
THE WATERS: Hydration is fascia’s primary nutrient
TREATMENTS: Fascia’s primary medicine is breathing, movement and contrast temperatures
REST: Vital to restore and rebuild fascia post treatments
MEMORY: Fascia’s physical, psychological and enlightening body intelligence.
RHYTHMS OF WELLNESS: Our return to fascia as the “time-keeper of health and wellbeing practices.”
Questions and conversation will emerge. We look forward to meeting you.
Presenter Bio(s):
Professor J. Paul de Vierville.
I am an elder Earth Human in my eighth decade of life.
A husband of fifty+ years and father of forty+ years, previously a son, grandson and brother and now an uncle, grandfather and godfather.
A life-long-learner, both student and teacher and now a retired Professor Emeritus of The Humanities, Behavioral Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies of American, Western, World and Planetary Histories, Cultures, Civilizations and cosmologies, having taught in these areas for three decades+.
A retired Depth, Analytical and Archetypal (Jungian) Psychotherapist, Professional Counselor and Advanced Clinical Social Worker. Former Owner/Director of Alamo Plaza Spa at the Historic Menger Hotel and The San Antonio Institute for Natural Therapeutic Services.
My areas of interest, research, speaking, listening and writing are: Poetic Oneirics (Poetry in/of/by/and from Dreamings as well as OTHERS: (Other-Than-Human Existential-Realm-Species).
Also, Consciousness Studies, Processes, Activities, Wonder and Awe. I am particularly interested in experiential Real-Time Realities of Soul, Psyche and Anima Mundi, including personal/individual, social/ cultural, global/civilizational, planetary/cosmological Realms: All of these which are visibility being seen and invisibly related to in what is currently manifesting worldwide as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) when often viewed through the lenses and integrated fields of EXSO-Studies.
Other areas of interest, studies, research and experiences are Balneology and Spa Cultures, especially with their cocreative and regenerative wellness, health and healing wholeness. Balneology involves the arts, sciences and cultures of The Earth’s Mineral Waters: Drinking, Inhaling, Steaming, Sweating, Showering, Bathing, Soaking, Mudding, Sunning, Resting, Sleeping and Dreamings…
Janet Abbott
Janet Abbott has studied, practiced and taught for over four decades with integrative health and wellness systems in various states across the US, including
Florida, New York, Illinois, Vermont and Texas. Her focus is using hands on massage and therapeutic touch to integrate fasciae resonance tuning and
coherence restoration.
Janet is Vice President & Director of Mineral Water Language with the Balneology Association of North America (BANA) 501c3, an organization that
supports the research, information and education of medicinal springs. She has conducted geothermal mineral waters research in Florida, New York, Texas,
California, New Mexico and Mexico, Cuba and Spain.
“The power of water is far-reaching; mineral waters are known for their wellness, health, hygienic and therapeutic benefits.” “Mineral waters can be transformational.”
With her experience with waters and health regimes, her main goals are to inform, educate and raise awareness of the benefits found in mineral waters for drinking, soaking, steaming and peloids for wellness systems.
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