Allow yourself to be touched by the wisdom of the distant past at the AFRICAN LIVING SPA at GIBB’S FARM, where travelers to Tanzania can find their path to true personal wellness through the ancient healing traditions of the Maasai.

Drawing from over 50 different indigenous plant-based medicines, a team of traditionally trained healers, led by third generation Maasai healer Ole Labiki Menyegera, has developed a range of innovative remedies for travelers visiting GIBB’S FARM. After a consultation with the resident healer, health treatments are prescribed based on the individual needs of the traveler.

Treatments chosen by the healer include Engorno Milk Massage, Floral Foot Soak, Olkaria Clay, Coffee Scrub, Oljingai Heat Revival, Olorien Hot Wood Treatment, and Maasai Massage. The African Living Spa’s highly personalized approach to alleviating individual wellness issues draws its healing energy from the world of nature. Local medicinal materials are freshly gathered, harvested, and prepared by hand, giving each treatment the added enhancement of the traditional healer’s personal energy and individualized attention.

The Maasai are, from birth to death, immersed in a culture of holistic preventative medicine, and it is not uncommon for Maasai to reach the age of 100. Maasai traditional healing is based on a philosophy of caring: caring for children, land, and cattle to bring wellness, long life (Engishon), happiness and closeness to Engai (spirit-God).

The African Living Spa experience carries each visitor into the essence of these core Maasai healing principles~ inspiring a healthy lifestyle that is cultivated with care and intention.

Living Spa healing does not take place in a single structure with meandering treatment rooms. The Living Spa concept is rooted in the Osero Forest Clinic, a health facility established at Gibb’s Farm to provide both indigenous and Western allopathic health care for the Farm’s employees and their families.

The Living Spa experience for travelers is amplified by the various places where guests can choose to have their treatments. Ranging from the farm cottage fireplace massage bed to the cow-skin on the floor of the indigenous healing hut, all are meaningful spaces in meditative environments.

Treatments can be experienced in the blissful comfort of one ’s private farm cottage – a true Sanctuary for the Senses, in experientially designed indoor and outdoor spaces: by the cozy living room fireplace; on the verandah overlooking the Ngorongoro Forest; or in the garden vishy shower.

Alternatively, one may choose to experience a truly indigenous healing session, in the traditional earthen and thatch Engishon Supat (House of Life), using only traditional methods and materials. or under the healing branches of the Oreteti Tree at the heart of the Ngorongoro Forest. After the treatment a light meal is offered in solitude, with medicinal teas specially prepared by the healer. Fill your senses with famous Gibb ’s Farm food, fresh from the farm, under the healing branches at the heart of the Ngorongoro Forest.

The African Living Spa is a truly all-sensory journey, one steeped in the ancient traditions of East African restoratative traditions – a memorable healing experience occurring in nature, with nature, naturally.