Vietura Aesthetic Lifestyle: Weight and see

The minute you step into the reception area, a certain calm embraces you and you forget the mad rat race outside. Then you notice the lush tropical foliage covering the wall behind the reception desk. Fact is, every room in this place has a vertical garden. Crowning the garden is what looks like a gaggle of humongous bubbles. Amid this snug and warm setting, you’re offered a mind-boggling menu of choices: Coffee, tea or a detox drink? Or how about an Ultralipo, a slimming massage, a stem cell facial, an oxygen facial or a smile makeover?

Of course, you’re in Vietura Aesthetic Lifestyle, Sofitel Philippine Plaza’s new beauty and wellness institute.

Some fast facts: True to its name (vie means life and tura means nature), Vietura combines aesthetic procedures with integrative medicine and lifestyle coaching. It offers 100-percent non-invasive procedures matched with gradual progressive treatments. There are three consultation rooms, nine treatment rooms, two doctor’s rooms, two colonics rooms, two intravenous (IV) rooms, and one dental room.

Beauty minus surgery

At Vietura, the key treatment programs are: Vietura Natural Facelift and Contour (to iron out the wrinkles on your face and maybe some kinks in your life), Body Sculpting with Weight Management (because less is more), Anti-Aging Therapy (for better inner well-being and fewer wrinkles), Longevity (to live the best possible life you can while looking great), Skin Vitality (oh, what a peeling!), The Art of Detox (zap the toxins out of your body and maybe the toxic people out of your life), and Dental Cosmetics (so you can flash your pearly whites and glow and glow).

But Vietura is not just about treatments but also about nutritional counseling, cosmetic dentistry, and life coaching.

Dr. Mary Jane “MJ” Torres, who heads the Vietura team of experts, says, “At Vietura, every patient is carefully assessed as a unique individual by a personal consultant who then devises a holistic regimen best suited to the client’s particular issues and desires.”

Sofitel Philippine Plaza general manager Adam Laker puts it pat: “It’s a high quality service to enhance and improve our client’s lifestyle. It is for the person who understands that the path to greater confidence isn’t dramatic change. It’s a long-term holistic approach that results in a more natural glow and prompts friends to ask, ‘Where did you go on vacation?’ Instead of ‘What surgeon did you just see?’”

Resonax: Body sculpting to the max

So, let’s weight and see. Ever heard of Resonax? It’s Europe’s non-surgical technology for face contouring and body sculpting, and it’s offered at Vietura.

Here’s more (or should I say less) about Resonax: It introduces electrode doses to the body to hasten the process of dissolving fat and help tighten the skin. Combined with lipotherapy, it effectively sculpts specific body parts like the waist, abdomen, thighs, and the face. It also helps in the collagen remodeling of sagging skin on the face, and treats acne, scars, and cellulite.

“There are even men who come to us to have their tummies reduced,” says nutritionist Agnes Tumaneng. “And there are those who have tried other programs but with no success. Here, we promise results.”

For instance, with the Lipocryo machine, a client lost 6.7 lbs. in two weeks.

“We do have a lot of happy clients, a lot of success stories,” Agnes shares. “But you can’t just rely on treatments, that’s why we have our nutritional management program that consists of five phases. Every client is given a nutritional assessment — there’s no one-size-fits-all.”

Agnes even has a diet for obese women who want to get pregnant. “We try to improve their eating habits.”

The diets are prescribed by Vietura’s highly competent team, which includes a doctor. For those with medical problems, the team creates an eating plan tailormade for them. “These diets are all doctor-approved,” Agnes stresses. “We have doctors here for those with thyroid, hormone problems.”

Diet to make you zzleep

Agnes adds, “We were able to create a weight management program with a food plan. For instance, we were able to help a lady who works in a casino and has sleeping problems because of her work hours.”

Swelling with pride, Agnes relates how this lady client won her bruising battle with the bulge: “I gave her an eating program where her first meal is right after she wakes up, which is her heaviest. Her dinner is before going to sleep. She started three weeks ago on this program and she’s already lost eight pounds — and counting!”

Surely, with this aesthetic lifestyle, you have nothing to lose but your stubborn unwanted pounds as you welcome a life of wellness.

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For more information on Vietura, call 551-5555 local 5000; e-mail info@vietura.com or visit www.vietura.com.