Highlights
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A good mindset is the key
We are in Savelletri, Puglia, by the sea and among a beautiful, celebrated countryside.
Welcome. I'm Patrizia, the Spa Director of Vair, a word which means "true" in the local dialect.
"A place doesn't exist until it finds its poet".
The conception of Vair was born by simply going along with the soft wave of inspiration the talented designer of this paradise felt.
I'm in love with this place and I know it will fascinate you too. This revolutionary spa is dedicated to life, it wishes you to be able to enjoy your life and offers you local secrets to start feeling the beauty of being alive. Relationships are very important here.We've designed every single treatment by imagining the potential buyer, all different all similar; names are inspired by the local dialect. I confess that I've designed many treatments according to my needs, my Spa-taste, my dreams and I'm really addicted to some of them, others have been designed for different needs but they all have the same DNA. Every product has its own history, is a Made in Italy product and is as natural as possible.
Come and visit us.
U saul jess i jess p'tutt! (The sun rises and rises for everyone).
Patrizia Bortolin
Apri,l 2013
You can be nowhere else.
RESERVATIONS AND INFO: please write to vair@borgoegnazia.com or call
+ 39. 080.2255875
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Peddara: mind and body detox
5 days to shine again
Peddara, shine!
A quiet and glam spa week that can gently bring you back to life and make you shine again. Peddara could give you back feelings like creativity, self-parody, flexibility and happiness. You will achieve a glowing skin, you will feel like talking and dancing, you will start feeling an inner peace, energy and a sense of belonging to the universe. It starts as a cocooning but cleansing week to become then a deep renewal beginning, all in the Vair style that is very attentive to feelings and mindset.A holiday to "polish" your essence. Silence and activity are balanced.
Peddara is the local dialectal name for the North Star and is ment to make you shine again, right when you feel overwhelmed, stressed, empty or in need of silence and happyness.
Peddara consists of my 11 favorite and selected treatments (2 or 3 per day), minimum stay of 5 nights, total costs for treatments 900 euros. Ask for more information, we love Peddara and we'll be really glad to share it with you.
Join the Peddara Club,
Patrizia, Vair Designer
RESERVE:
vair@borgoegnazia.com
Treatments included: Acquann (flotation room) , Kiuv (ritual for the back), Loma Kian(antistress face-head and feet massage), Spirt (Roman Baths) special edition Peddara, Avemmarì (sunset) very special, Mascior (deep massage), Annaskè-aromamassage 40', U Mor (the sea massage), A Bell Bell (a a marvellous and natural facial), Karaut (carrot face massages), an unusual dance lesson with Giuseppe. 5 special Spa gifts delivered in your room will be a small shining sign of your Peddara stay.
Suggestion: book your session with Dr Grassi, our specail nutritionist, passionate expert in Mediterranean Diet.
You can be nowhere else.
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Rejuvenation made in Puglia
U saul jess i jess p'Tutt
Fall 2012. The innovative apulian spa Vair launches a new formula of Spa Retreat to feel and look younger in the local way.
The 5-8-14 days program aims to rediscover the joy of being alive: it seems easier in this region, thanks to the natural environment, the lifestyle and the authenticity of many traditions. Mesterious detoxes, relaxes, regenerates, calms and balances, may surprise you and makes you laugh.
Exceptional therapists in the Rejuvenation Team: not only skilled Massage Therapists and experts in natural beauty but also dancers, musicians, jugglers, psychologists, sport-people, housewives and farmers.
Daily care for body and face using natural and local products like scrub with pumice and juniper, honey, lemon and fig wrap, massages with precious oils like olive, lemon and orange, almond and prickly pear and fresh products from our garden. Wet therapy in the Roman Bath area is generally suggested at the beginning of the experience. After a few days of use of natural products inner benefits start to be felt.
Mouvement is a rejuvenating experience: un unusual lesson local, traditional dances with Giuseppe (Pizzica and Sward-dance) that brings awareness on the power of the look and of the body, some appointments with Antonio our beautiful and creative personal trainer, a walk among olive trees, a bath in the sea together with Dr Grassi (according to availability-in all seasons) and a surprise-lesson with street artists.
Beauty becomes a way to play with vanity, it is change and freedom from our own fixations: Gianfranco an intuitive artist of the hair in a region where women and men are crazy about hair, Dora our therapist-make up artist, Modesto the barber of the village and some loving treatments for hands and feet.
Puglia is served during a dinner led by Dr Grassi, our nutritionist specialized in Mediterranean Diet: talking about food becomes a journey through history, proverbs, science and farmers, and a dynamic dance with present, future and past.
Music and silence are very present and are more powerful than we think: tambourine lessons and a special way of singing with Giuseppe, a session of music therapy with Gianni, psychologist and musician, Vair background music which is sometimes absolute silence.
You can learn: some massage tecniques, some words of the local dialect, some wellness techniques.
You can see: some movies in the Spa Cinema, you can read some books and you can decide to enjoy some time in doing absolutely nothing.
You will share moments with others and spend precious time with yourself.
Please contact me for any information.
Costs of Spa treatments: 5 days 1200 euro, 8 days 1450 euro, 14 days on request.
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Tarant new edition 2013
Plannig to escape? Alone or with your girlfriends? Are you ready to let Vair guide you in this "mysterious" adventure without asking too many questions?
YES? Come to Puglia, this is the most innovative and liberating programme.
NO? The right moment will come.
3 days, ladies only, inspired by the traditional Apulian therapeutic ritual of the Taranta. The "renewal" will be special because it will make you feel beautiful inside and out.
The aim is to rediscover yourself and to find new inspirations for a more satisfying life.
A woman experiences several important moments in her life and you have to recognize the right one to enjoy a programme like this. You'll be surrounded by music- therapy, psychology sessions,yoga, naturopathy, performing arts, Apulian dances and experiences, holistic treatments, lectures, beauty treatments, massages and relaxing rituals performed only for the Tarant Spa.
Sharing with other women is part of the healing process, Tarant-trained therapists (men and women) will stay by your side, a special music will be the soundtrack. Dr Graziana, Tarant Spa Psychologist will call you before confirmation to check the correspondence between the programme and your needs.
The extraordinary beauty of Borgo Egnazia, the suggestive Vair atmosphere, the sea, the Apulian land and its wonders will be the perfect scenario for your change.Tarant Spa: 3 days of treatments, (4 nights stay suggested), starting day is thursday.
TARANT -- “Beautiful to be a woman”
“Women know when it is time to change”
3/4 days at Borgo Egnazia dedicated to women: VAIR gives a new interpretation to the therapeutic rituals of “Tarant”. As in the tradition, the Tarant music, dance and the sharing of values are the background. Your “holiday” will have an Apulian flavourr, treatments will satisfy Spa addicted, the setting will be the magical Borgo Egnazia, with charismatic experts taking care of you. The experience intends to leave a sign. Here you have a sample of treatments that cab ne performed (sequence and contents changes at every edition):
Relax and guidance with psychologist Graziana;
Music-therapy with psychologist-musician Gianni (the real communication is without words);
Pizzica, drums and body language with Giuseppe and Sabrina (rejuvenating)
The Change-massage with Andrea (it changes eyes lights)
Psyco-massage with psychologist-massage expert Claudia (every emotion with its movement)
New and natural body treatments with Dora and Annalisa
Changements always start from hair: session with hair- artist, Gianfranco;
A Bell Bel- face beauty with Raffaella: a romantic journey in Puglia;
Care and culture of food with Dr. Grassi and moments of “popular” sharing;
"Magical" treatment with Stefano, called Sciamano Vair;
Rejuvenation and yoga with Carmine and street artists;
Therapeutic make up with Dora
Sleep, eat and live at Borgo Egnazia.
Only for single woman or that travel with other women.
Patrizia Bortolin
Spa Director
Reservations: vair@borgoegnazia.com
www.borgoegnazia.com
You can be nowhere else.
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Spirt V: roman bath & experience
Spirt V: 2 hours with your Vair therapist.Fresh orange washing, salt scrub, hair mini treatment, myrre butter, ice, detox feet treatment, warm water combined with baths in pools of different temperatures.Beautifully designed by our talented designer, it will also touch your heart as Spa Experience.2 hours 165 euro.Beautiful experience alone, for 2 or for small private parties.Detox, energizing, calming experience for body and mind.RESERVE: vair@borgoegnazia.com -
Relaxed, calm, balanced
Truely relaxing
Relax: it is not a luxury matter, it is not superfluos. It is essential, sometimes urgent. Don't think too much and steal some time for yourself only. Do it now. Enjoy life, have fun, choose good food: that's one of the secrets of this magical region tha you can experience and take home with you.
Choose your question on the bar on the left (Why do you need a spa now?): it's all about relaxation and prevention.
A spa tip if you feel stressed now?
Try LOMA KIAN, The anti-stress massage for face-head and feet, or SPIRT V, the Roman Bath experience, but if you have at least a couple of days, stay at the Borgo, let the building, the people, the sea and the environment heal you. Ask for a suggestion because there are different types of stress and tiredness.
PEDDAR, this is a week for connoisseurs, for sensitive people feeling overwhelmed, misunderstood, empty, annoyed or in need of silence. It starts as cleansing week and becomes then a moment of deep and lasting renewal. It's ment to make you shine again: the name in local dialect means North Star. It'a s star program.
TARANT SPA is a ladies-only area. Innovative and intriguing. 3 days to feel liberated. If the right time for you is now, just read the special section.
VUUT local word for empty, is a short relaxation session guided by the Spa Psychologist, Graziana. She also provides professional evaluation tests to check how you feel.
WALK, walk and walk, you'll be surprised by the incredible positive effects on your mind and body. Among secular olive trees, in this famous countryside, you'll start to get addicted to walking and to help you getting addicted we'll organize at least 2 sessions with the "Walking-trainer". 90' , 50 euros per person per walk.
Have a look to our pictures, relax your body, try not to think, just observe, observe without thinking, design an empty space...
You can be nowhere else.
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Innovative Spa: Pina's video
Tradition, Innovation, Simplicity
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I Muvt: come on move!!!
We have the "same things", you can make the same training you are used to practice, we have a Technogym equipped Fitness room opened 24/24 but... at Vair, we suggest you to add exercises and trainings Local style! Your brain, your mood, your body could need exactly this!
Antonio is our local trainer. Young, professional. He's also a dancer, a singer and he loves his job. He's a professional fitness instructor and able to design a special programme for you only. Saturday and tuesday he leads a class of circuit training in the gym, and he's available for personal training sessions indor and outdoor. Book your daily session in advance. 60 minutes, 90 euro.
You shoul try "Knives dance, Pizzica and Body language": totally enjoyable lesson with Giuseppe, scheduled every week. You could enjoy pizzica and fencing pizzica histories, tambourine, exercises and trainings, use of your expression and of the typical strategies of this fascinating challenge that will turn into an intense and amusing training for legs, arms and back and moreover for your aging-brain.
This programme helps you to feel more active, more self-confident and ready to face new challenges.
90 minutes, 60 euro per person in the class, 200 euro for a unique private 90' lesson (up to 4 persons).You can be nowhere else.
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Don't talk about Diet
Think to your grandmother: would she recognize it as food? If yes eat it, if not avoid it.
Just by pronouncing Dieta Mediterranea you could maybe feel better and "uplifted" or? Do you also see olive trees, sea, red wine? Do you imagine the taste of home made spaghetti with fresh tomatoes and olive oils? Or can you imagine yourself with your hand full of almonds? I'm sure you could add as background some traditional music with your powerful imagination...simply pronouncing the words Mediterranean Diet. All this is still here, in the private houses and in many restaurants of this beautiful part of the world.
Eating habits of the 1960s Mediterranean basin countries populations, who extended the cultivation and the olive trees and grapevines growing, are now masterpieces of the intangible heritage of humanity with Unesco. Apulia is recognized as the region in which the eating tradition is more suitable to this famed eating pattern.
Dr. Agostino Grassi, Dietician, the secretary of "Mediterranean Diet" foundation based here, provides customized advices in order to understand how to scientifically face weight problems, aging, prevention for many illnesses, through the Mediterranean Diet. To understand the great power of our eating pattern, take this lifestyle home with you and your family, you can find tips, information and suggestions in VAIR or book a private consultation with Dr Agostino.Enjoy your life and food: you are in Puglia.
April, 2013
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BAKEL, for connoisseurs
Nothing more than what's necessary
Only Bakel and only at Vair.
Timp is the anti-aging facial, Vair created for Bakel: 5 different types of massages and a show of the award winning cosmetics on your skin. 79 minutes,
Have you ever heard about Bakel? You will...
My name is Raffaella Gregoris and I am the founder of Bakel.
I am a chemist and I personally formulate the products. The idea of BAKEL was born from a simple but innovative concept: to formulate putting inside my cosmetics just what your skin needs and nothing else.
I do an heavy research on the raw materials market trying each time to find the best ingredient in terms of efficacy and quality, I love to work with natural organic ingredients but also with biotechnological ingredients, that in terms of anti-age effects are the best one. It is a choice not to use animal derivates not only because I love animals but also because they can create a lot of problems of allergy.
Bakel has a unique philosophy: 100% active ingredients 0 useless substances. This it means that I put inside my products only ingredients that are able to give a real benefit to the skin. No petrochemicals, no silicones, no preservatives, no colouring agents, no parfum, no PEG, no PPG and all these kind of ingredients. This is a total new way to think at a cosmetic. Every day we think to eat healthy food we must at the same way start to think at what we put on our skin, and to avoid" junk cosmetics" at the same way we avoid junk food.
There are several advantages in using BAKEL: maximum efficacy thanks to its purity, you have only one product for face, eye area, lips and neck, minimum risk of allergy , and fast penetration giving the best results in the quickest time.
During your experience at Vair try our facial, called Timp, designed by the local beauty experts: for every products and step a different massage. And then let us know...
You can be nowhere else.
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Artists in the Spa
You're in Puglia: enjoy your life.
Happy to introduce you a special Team:
Carmine, Sabino and Elena at the Reception; Stefano, Claudia, Veronica, Thomas, Andrea are highly specialized massage therapists; Dora, Annalisa beauty-massage thrapists; Lucrezia is our jolly; Carmine and Alessandra are yoga teachers; Cosimo and Antonio sport trainers; Gianfranco and Maria hairstylists; Graziana our psychologist and more.. some artists are performing innovatibe therapies...
I'm Giuseppe and I was born in Ceglie Messapica, a little city in the middle ofApulia.
My weekly lesson at Vair cannot be missed if you are looking for an healthy way to start feeling younger, if you want to discover how many things you didn't remember about your energy and body powers and if you want to personally experience important parts of Puglia:music, dances and traditions.
I'm an actor, a musician, an author and a director. I'm an expert on traditional musics and dances. I improved my musicbackground at the popular school of music "Ivan Illich" (Bologna).I teamed up with Apulian folk music bands and musicians and I took part inseveral training and learning "pizzica" projects, the typical dance of the Apuliantradition.The history, the expression, the rhythm are the basis of a learning method that,through the theatre, the music, the voice, the space and the body awareness,reaches the dance.
This method not only creates a connection between theseseveral elements, but also towards the partner; and through it, we can understandthe way we are and the pleasure to discover always a new person hidden in oursoul.
I'm here too: I'm Gianni, I'm Apulian, I'm a psychologist, a musician and amusic therapy teacher. The truer communication is a non verbal one."Nu suun Vair" is my programme experience at Borgo Egnazia: there is no needto know anything, to bring or... to say anything. You can find me in Vair Menu.You can be nowhere else.
- photo of band by Andrea Visicchio

