Practical details
Date: Sunday 7th December 2025
Time: 18:00 – 19.30 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 for free and unlimited access for our membership.
Drawing on their vast combined experience and their passion for their topic, Prof. Jonathan Paul De Vierville and Janet Abbott 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. Paul and Janet will look at how this practice can be experienced at home, not just in a spa retreat.
We all look forward to meeting you on the day. Please share this event with friends and on social media - it is open to all.
Presenter Bio(s):
Jonathan Paul de Vierville
Director of Spa Cultures and History
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
Integrative Health Researcher | Director of Mineral Water Language | Somatic Practitioner
For more than four decades, Janet Abbott has been a pioneer in the study of integrative health, fascia resonance, and the healing intelligence of water. Her work bridges somatic awareness with environmental wellness, exploring how the body’s subtle electric field communicates with the mineral languages of the Earth.
Janet’s practice combines site-specific massage, gentle therapeutic touch, and coherence restoration through breath and diaphragmatic balance. Since 2000, she has founded several nonprofit associations dedicated to research and education on the therapeutic use of mineral waters for drinking, soaking, steaming, and healing with clays and muds.
As Vice President and Director of Mineral Water Language for the Balneology Association of North America (BANA), Janet leads programs that investigate geothermal and mineral waters across the United States and internationally. Her fieldwork has taken her to Florida, New York, Texas, California, Hawaii, New Mexico, France, Spain, Mexico, and Cuba.
Janet’s research reveals how aquifers act as tuning forks for the planet’s electric field, mirroring the fascia’s own resonance. She teaches that mineral waters can restore coherence, balance, and harmony within both the body and the Earth.
“The power of water is far-reaching. Mineral waters are known for their wellness, hygienic, and therapeutic benefits. In their warmth, we find renewal—of body, balance, and being.”
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