Slithering Snake Massage

Maybe I've been living under a rock (like a snake) but I just heard about this wild spa treatment in which snakes slither all over your body giving you a massage! At Ada Barak's Carnivorous Plant Farm spa in Isreal, she has an $80 treatment where snakes are your masseuse. It is claimed to relax away muscle pain and treat migraines. A reporter at TIME magazine received such a treatment. It is at first described as somewhat stressful as "it coughs up a half-digested mouse, leading me to assume that the snake is as queasy about giving me a massage as I am about getting one.) When Barak plops a writhing tangle of snakes on my belly, their first reaction, and mine, is panic. They race away in six directions, and she patiently plops them back, braiding them together to slow their getaway."

But then, as the "panic subsides" the focus goes to the snakes on the skin and the patient leaves feeling relaxed. Maybe it's the taste of "death" that so soothes the body. Having live animals whom many fear, to slither over your body may help people face the fear and open up to the peaceful side of snakes - making them feel accomplished.