By Contributor - February 3, 2021
The ultra-luxe hospitality brand is doing its part to combat misconceptions that massage is not suitable for cancer patients and survivors.
A pavilion at the Healing Village Spa at Four Seasons Resort Jimbaran Bay. (Photo: Four Seasons)
Ahead of this year’s World Cancer Day (February 4), Four Seasons has launched a pioneering Cancer Care Massage at its two spas on Indonesia’s Island of the Gods: the recently opened Healing Village Spa in Four Seasons Resort Jimbaran Bay and Sacred River Spa at Four Seasons Resort Sayan outside Ubud. A dozen therapists from both spas recently completed their intensive two-week training process, which was carried out under specialist Christine Clinton and followed guidelines set out by the Standards Authority for Touch in Cancer Care a national benchmark for spas, salons, and therapists in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The training involved massage trials that saw each therapist paired wit