Healthy minds and healthy bodies

Investigations and activities

SOSE/HSIE

  • Investigate bathhouses in Korea, Turkey, Japan and ancient Rome. How are they similar? How are they different?
  • What kinds of benefits are there in using bathhouses? What kind of issues or problems, if any, might there be?
  • Find out what type of bathhouse culture exists in Australia and what health benefits are linked to them.
  • What do you think Buddhist teachers meant when they declared that baths cleansed the mind, body and soul? What do you think of this idea?
  • Explore how the use of both additives like essential oils and activities such as water aerobics and therapeutic massages help to cultivate a healthy mind and body. Write an advertisement promoting the value of these products/practices to personal wellbeing.
 
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