Wellness Concept
Nature
Motion & Nutrition
- Morning & Afternoon group motion classes
- Workshops on posture & exercise
- Local Products
- Healthy Cuisine
- Nutritional Labeling
- Cooking Lessons
- Specialists advice guests how to live with healthy options
- Walking Paths & Hiking
- Biking
Motion as a way of happiness
Here at Polychnitos Thermal Springs we care about your health and happiness. Start your day with body stretching or yoga as part of your wellness time. Or enjoy our functional exercises classes in the outdoor gym. We offer daily exercise classes which will boost your pilates and mood. Our Motion Program changes accordingly the seasons and days of the week. So you have to take care for special activities taking place. There’s always something going on at Polychnitos Thermal Springs.
- Analysis – Diagnostics on posture and efficient motion
- How to use the outdoor functional equipment (group or personal
- Morning group exercise courses (yoga poses sunrise, body stretching, walking)
- Afternoon group exercise courses (functional exercises, yoga poses sunset, mat based pilates)
Nutrition – Find the right way
Fresh & Local
Indulge into our cuisine which enhances the island recipes with local herb flavors. Polichnitos grandmothers will share with you their philosophy concerning the tasty and healthy local food. According our philosophy, our dishes have to be fresh, healthy and Greek. According also to our wellness mentality, we use organic and locally grown ingredients whenever is possible!
Fresh fruits for your juices and vegetables for your salads have been harvested from trees growing in our botanical garden. For us, to understand your wellness and dietary choices is the key to success. We feel very proud of our “Polychnitos Kitchen”. Here we prepare for you healthy meals to enhance your wellness experience.
Commnunity
Culture-Education-History
Actions that have been planned
- Installation of an information hub (using a touch screen) where visitors can learn about the history of the area and the thermal springs
- Sharing an annual calendar of local and on-property events for the guests to participate in
- Setting up workshops with locals to teach the guests how to paint, make food or learn clay art
- Connection of visitors with community projects such as building a church, cleaning beaches, harvesting fruits from the trees, etc.
- Development of 3 solvable structures which will be used for:
- 1. Meeting events (up to 12 people)
- 2. Special events (birthdays etc.)
- 3. Conference days where doctors, scientists, locals, etc. will talk about a topic as concerning longevity, local herbs, treatments, how to cook healthy food, etc.
The Waters
Chemical properties:
The waters (at the exit of Polichnitos towards Vatera) in the hot springs facilities, spring from many places within the earth, through volcanic primary and secondary porous rocks. Free-flowing water that evaporates, staining the bottom red due to growing thermophilic bugs (algae). Their temperature is between 67°C and 92°C (in the baths is between 42°C and 44°C) and they are considered one of the warmest in Europe.
Based on their physicochemical composition, the thermal waters of Polichnitos are classified in the group of chlorinated springs. The water is clear, odorless and enriched with natural radon radiation 15 – 25 MACHE units, with oxycarbonates, chlorides and sulphates of calcium, sodium with free carbon dioxide, with iron compounds, magnesium, manganese, oxygen and very small amounts of iodine and bromine.
Therapeutic properties:
The springs, in terms of their healing properties, are comparable to those of Wiesbaden, Germany. In addition to their relaxing properties, are suitable to heal chronic forms of rheumatism, arthropathies (chronic conditions, degenerative and deforming), rhizoneuritis, chronic spondyloarthritis, back pain, deformities and post-traumatic injuries of the skeletal system.
In fact, due to the beneficial effect of the thermal stimulus (= water temperature) and the buoyancy of the bather's body (= reduction of body weight with better movement "almost without" pain), the chemical-osmotic effect of the salts and mainly of sulfur is achieved (it prevents the action of hyaluronidase which destroys bone and articular osteochondral surfaces).
The thermal waters also help to deal with chronic diseases of the gynecological cycle, such as inflammatory diseases of gynecological origin, fallopian tube dysfunction - dysmenorrhea, female sterilization.
The circle of therapeutic properties, however, does not end here, but extends to endocrine dysfunctions (due to the rejuvenating effect of radon), peripheral vessels related to circulatory failure, gouty arthritis, secondary skin diseases, extrapulmonary tuberculosis, chronic inflammatory diseases of the upper respiratory tract and in gastritis mainly dyspepsia, which can be hypochlorhydric with hypotonia and gastric atony.