Thoughts on turning home baths into spa therapy grade treatments

This last winter I was folding laundry in a cold room early one morning while my body was un-warmed-up. While standing and pivoting on one leg to reach for some clothes out of the basket, I felt a twinge zing up into my lumbar region of my back. It felt like it "went out." It is scary to feel, and hard to believe for many, that it is not an actual disc bulging or slipped out of place.  But 9 times out of 10 we are just in a spasm cycle, that can actually last for days or weeks. 

If this ever happens to you, warm baths help. I like to incorporate Watsu-like jostling and wave motions of the spine and limbs, splashing around in the tub, creating massaging currents of water that swirl around back of the tub and my neck. By laying with my back on the tub floor, and making a gentle salsa-like motion with my hips, an incredible current of water is created, creating waves of unlocking oscillation in my spine. I try to get certain waves to also wash over my chest by how I am controlling the currents. I also like to treat the bath as a Finnish Sauna-type experience, by starting with a very hot bath, for only 2 minutes or so, followed by resting on my bed on top of towels while I sweat, relax, and meditate, followed up with two more rounds of increasing time in the baths with rest periods. Taking the body through cycles of hot/cold hot/cold hot/cold I believe creates a "pumping" effect on the lymphatic and circulatory systems, helping create the conditions for our spasm cycles to release.