Healing Vacations in Hawaii - Big Island Edition
Susanne Sims
284p. B&W
$16.95
Watermark Publishing
www.bookshawaii.net

For those whose lives have become a blur of 24/7 workdays, cell phones, PDAs, Blackberrys, faxes, and emails, a vacation away from the conference room may be in order. To help guide you back to health, wholeness, and happiness, we prescribe a generous dose of Healing Vacations in Hawai`i-Big Island Edition.

The Big Island has become a premier destination spot for holistic spas, treatment centers and wellness spas. Healing Vacations in Hawai`i offers comprehensive information and interviews with the major providers of these spa and holistic experiences.

The first three chapters include a number of essays by different writers focusing on topics such as, "Traditional Native Hawaiian Medicine," "Hawaiian Lomilomi," "The Four Pathways to Health and Wellness," "12 tips for Planning your Healing Vacation," and more. Chapter three specifically covers the Big Island itself, which leads into the area-by-area breakdown of spas, and wellness practitioners.

From Chapter four on, the author covers the island according to specific geographic areas and then focuses on the people and places of that area in short but detailed essays. Each chapter begins with a short section titled "Sacred Sites and Points of Interest," which offers a brief history of the location and some sites to visit, then the chapter moves into the interview profiles of individual healers, retreats and spas. The individual profiles are detailed and included prices, special treatments and contact information.

Healing Vacations in Hawai`i is as comprehensive a volume as one could hope to find -- and particularly valuable if one is planning a much needed escape from a society of stress. Thorough and detailed, this one book will help anyone plan and schedule an entire road to healing.