French term
ouvrez les portes
Respirez profondement le soin d'arome puis appliquez 5 gouttes sur le visage et le cou par mouvements circulaires descendants.
1 Ouvrez les portes
Placez l'extremite des doigts dans le creux claviculaire, a la base de votre cou et effectuez une pression douce sur les ganglions, la ou vous sentez la pression sanguine. Expirez en meme temps
2 Activez le drainage
Placez votre index et votre majeur en ciseaux (phalanges entieres) de part et d'autre de vos oreilles et appuyez doucement en expirant
3 Evacuez les toxines
Posez les mains... etc.
Obviously, no doors are really being opened here, but I can't for the life of me think of how to express this "preparatory" stage without sounding ridiculously corny.
Any ideas are more than welcome.
TIA
May 26, 2008 15:46: Emma Paulay changed "Field" from "Social Sciences" to "Other" , "Field (specific)" from "Human Resources" to "Cosmetics, Beauty"
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Proposed translations
open or loosen up the passageways
You haven't mentioned what the object of the treatment is I think - 'passageways' something of a generic term (lymph, blood, sinus, respiratory...and indeed, pores!)...
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Note added at 16 hrs (2008-05-27 06:34:09 GMT)
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Hm, you say skin care - but more specifically? (dry? dull? oily?)
opening up (to)
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sueaberwoman
: Ah...Sorry, I meant: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh...
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Thank you. Good vibrations!
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B D Finch
: Widely used in yoga: http://www.yogabelle.co.uk/yoga.php?belle=Yoga Holidays; news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/7376254.stm
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Thank you.
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open the glands
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Flowery? ell then try this one: Blossom out/open
open the pores
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Jean-Claude Gouin
: I'm inclined to think that "portes" is a typo; it should read "les pores" ...
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Hebat-Allah El Ashmawy
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prepare to... receive/welcome/embrace
Awaken your senses?
portals
Source: The Canyon Ranch Guide to Living Younger Longer (book).
"This technique opens the portals of the lymph, so that it can..."
active release
Open the doors of your senses
This translation is more in that register, and so MIGHT be acceptable to the sort of perople who wold but these products?
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aromatherapy skin care products, rather than aromatic? Aromatherapy is a fairly well known holistic therapy in UK, and skin care products linked to this would sell in those sort of circles.
| Thanks bookwormkt. The product has already been named Aromatic Care in English, so I'm stuck with that :-) |
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