Moms and Kids Room
JANUARY 2018 | SARASOTA SCENE 51
After a long career in the corporate
sector where she traveled the world,
her goal has become to provide
a different health option for our
community—especially the elderly.
Why not have options other than
taking drugs? With salt therapy,
you keep your clothes on, no one’s
touching you, and you can sit back,
relax, and unplug. Even just the
20 or 45 peaceful minutes of the
sessions allows you to quiet your
mind and de-stress the body, which
allows healing to being with virtually
no side effects.
“Why salt?” you might be asking.
I know that’s what I did when I
salt therapy. But it doesn’t take
is antibacterial, antifungal, and
when I got my ears pierced two or
three years back, the tattoo artist
said to skip the hydrogen peroxide
or alcohol and simply use sea
salt and distilled water. It worked
wonders for my healing process. So
myosapp.com Ryan Swift tells me
“When the micro-particles of salt
land on your skin, it relieves oozing,
itching, and scaling symptoms from
skin conditions such as psoriasis,
believe.
Still, we all know that too much salt
is bad for you. That’s true for eating
table salt, but has nothing to do
with this kind of salt experience. The
difference? Table salt is processed
like crazy and all the good parts
of it are essentially removed. Pink
Himalayan and natural sea salt
retains dozens of trace minerals that
regulate the pH level in your skin.
Heat these salts and they release
healing negative ions, which can
give you that feel-good sense you
might get at the beach or in a quiet
spot deep in the woods.
With the nasty cough going around
these days, plenty of moms are
taking their kids into the special
Moms and Kids room at Salt of the
salt, which is no surprise since they
have 3 ½ tons of it in use there.
The kids play and don’t realize
they’re getting treatment, but the
whole time their allergy symptoms,
coughs, nasal congestion, and
runny noses are getting better.
“I had that cough,” admits
Manoogian, “and so did my family.
Two sessions in the booth knocked
it right out.”
Maybe it sounds a little crazy. But
plenty of people are having good
results. One of Manoogian’s clients
needed allergy shots once a week.
After a period of twice a week salt
therapy, though, she’s down to one
shot a month. Some Massachusetts
insurance companies are now
paying for COPD patients to sit in
salt rooms, and for hundreds of
years in Eastern Europe, people have
been going to salt mines to improve
their breathing.
Yet ultimately, I can really only
speak for myself. After my
20-minute session in the booth and
25 minutes on the bed (I toyed with
the idea of the 45-minute session
in the big main room with the eight
La-Z-Boy style recliners but didn’t
take the plunge), it felt like I’d gone
swimming in the ocean. A whisper
of saltiness remained on my lips
and in my nostrils. Nothing about
it was unpleasant. And I can’t deny
it—I felt pretty darn good.
So consider trying out a pink
Himalayan salt lamp or salt pillow
on your own. See how it works
for you. And if you decide you
want to give it a good faith effort,
come on by Salt of the Earth and
tell Manoogian to give you “the
works.” New client visits are only
$35, she says, and veterans and
"The kids play and don’t realize
they’re getting treatment, but
the whole time, their allergy
symptoms, coughs, nasal
congestion, and runny noses
are getting better."
Salt Bed with Chromotherapy