New Year, New You At New Advertiser Ascension Wellness in Des Moines

Now’s the time of year that we all think about improving our health in one way or another. Our new Advertiser, Ascension Wellness Center & Healing Day Spa and its owners Sonia and Jason Morton told The Waterland Blog that their health spa is “the perfect way to start the new year, with a new you.”

He and Ascension’s practitioner/owners offer a full menu of alternative health care.

“We’ve got massage, acupuncture, hypnotherapy, meditation, skin care, and Aqua Detox”, explained Jason.

Aqua What? Turns out this is just about the best thing since sliced bread in the alternative health field. I had a treatment last month, and all I can say is: “Prepare to be blown away! Prepare to be be shocked and amazed!”

Aqua Detox is a revolutionary way to detoxify, re-balance and re-energize your body. One of the few Aqua Detox foot spas in Southwest King County is available in Des Moines at Ascension Wellness.

Turns out that Jason discovered this amazing machine in search for relief from the side affects from his cancer drug and steroid treatments for Rheumatoid Arthritis. Like most of us in chronic pain, he’d tried many treatments before Aqua Detox. He found these treatments so powerful and helpful, that he bought the machine and started using it on his own patients at Ascension Wellness.

He tells Waterland Blog that “I’ve seen it help people with Diabetic Neuropathy (no feeling in feet) get feeling. Detoxifying also helps boost the immune system. It’s a great idea for post surgery recovery by removing anesthetics from the system. I’ve even got a few female patients who’s thinning hair is regrowing.

Research has shown the the benefits of receiving treatment have had increased:

• Vitality
  

  Ascension Wellness Center & Healing Day Spa owners Sonia and Jason Morton

• Circulation
• Energy Levels
• Organ Energy
• Sense of Well Being
• Nutrient Absorption

My detoxification was amazing. In 40 minutes the water went from clear to GUNK. Like the worst Gunk ever! It was painless. Unless you count seeing what comes out of your body through your 4000 pores in your feet, painful! And the foot rub at the end was incredible. From their website:

Aqua Detox works with a few different principles. The first is that of fluid exchange. Example.. My wife has a nose ring. When it got infected she was told to soak her nose in Warm (body temp) Sea Salt water. After a few minutes your cells recognize the salt water as part of you and starts pushing toxins out and absorbing in the cleaning salt water. This is a therapy that people have used for years………The water in the footbath (or bath) becomes an extension of the water in the body, from which it is separated by nothing more substantial than a thin membrane – the skin.

The second process is that of Electro Ionization. Everything in the world is either positively or negatively charged. After soaking your feet for a minute or two (to open the pores) we turn on the machine which places 2 amps of electricity into the array (the array is the white piece in the middle of the footbath). Every other minute the array switches from positive to negative placing the ions where the body can take advantage it. This stimulates the body to discharge toxins. (Many of the Detox machines don’t have this feature).

Following a treatment, the body will continue to detoxify for up to 72 hours. (I was still tingling a day after my treatment). To maximize your detoxification experience, Jason recommends a total of 3 treatments over the course of 9 days, or a treatment every 3 days, then a Maintenance program. First treatment is $50 and following treatments $45.

Jason and his wife Sonia started Ascension Wellness a few years back. She’s a massage therapist, and is quite well known in the Des Moines area for her healing touch. They added Aqua Detox three years ago. Jason is the ‘detox man’, teaches meditation and is a hypnotherapist. They call their practice a “Healing Day Spa.”  As opposed to Day Spas that treat the outside of the body, thier’s treats the inside. Other wellness practitioners housed here include massage therapists, a real Chinese acupuncturist and an Esthetician. Their services are $70 per session.

Turns out Jason’s a Des Moines native, a former Soap Opera actor, a football player and a well-traveled Professional Paint Ball Player. With a lifelong interest in meditation, Jason started learning meditation techniques at Des Moines’ Dolphin Book Shop back in the 1980′s.

Jason wants to remind our readers that in 2010, they should think about “giving an experience, a healthy experience,” for those gift giving occasions. Ascension Wellness has gift certificates available online to print or to email and at the Spa.

You can find Jason and the staff of Ascension Wellness at 805 South 219th Street in Des Moines, online at http://www.ascendwell.com/ or via phone at 878-WELL (9355).

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