Wiki glossary-terms
Resort/Hotel Spa
The Resort / Hotel Spa category is available to those persons, firms, corporations or other business entities that operate a spa within a resort or hotel providing professionally administered spa services, fitness and wellness components.
Mineral Springs Spa
The Mineral Springs Spa category is available to those persons, firms, corporations or other business entities which operate a spa offering an on-site source of natural mineral, thermal or sea water which is used in professionally administered hydrotherapy treatments.
Medical Spa
The Medical Spa category is available to spas that have a full-time licensed health care professional on-site, which is further defined as a health professional who has earned a degree of Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) as defined by the AMA. All applications are reviewed individually and international standards are taken into account when applicants from outside the U.S. apply for membership.
Destination Spa
The Destination Spa category is available to those facilities with the primary purpose of guiding individual spa-goers to healthy lifestyles. This lifestyle transformation can be accomplished by providing a comprehensive program that includes spa services, physical fitness activities, wellness education, healthful cuisine and special interest programming.
Day Spa
The Day Spa category is available to those persons, firms, corporations or other business entities which operate a spa offering a variety of professionally administered spa services to clients on a day use basis.
Club Spa
The Club Spa category is available to those persons, firms, corporations or other business entities which operate a facility whose primary purpose is fitness and which offers a variety of professionally administered spa services on a day use basis.
Do-In (Daoyin, Doa-In, Tao-In)
A Chinese system of prescribed physical exercises or movements performed in a medtiative state.
Aerobics
A series of rhythmic exercises. performed to music, based on increasing oxygen intake to stimulate heart and lung activity and burn fat.
Search specific aerobic offerings for more information (i.e. Barre,  Interval Training, Cross Training, etc.)Â
Dyad
Counseling sessions with two people as between a mentor and a student, or between a therapist and a patient.
Challenge Activities (Ropes Course)
A series of activities, sometimes on or close to the ground and sometimes built on utility poles or trees. Each activity has established goals and objectives to create focus and a deliberate set of outcomes.