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  • kickboxing

    This technique combines boxing, kicks and martial arts in order to give the body an intense aerobic and toning workout.

  • kinesthetic Awareness

    The self-awareness and sensitivity to body and movement is said to enhance one's balance, rhythm and fluidity in motion.

  • Kneipp Baths

    Germany's Father Sebastian Kneipp founded this natural remedy. Whereas it originally involved dips in the icy Danube, today's Kneipp baths incorporate warm and cold water.

  • Kosher

    The word kosher means proper or pure. In Judaism the term is used to mean what is ritually correct, but is most widely applied to food that is in accordance with strict Jewish dietary laws contained in the Torah. Kosher rituals pertain not only to the type of food that may be eaten, but to the kinds of food that can be combined, and the specific methods of preparation as supervised by a rabbi.

  • Krauter bath

    Based on the German natural remedy, this is a strong, aromatic herbal bath solution.

  • kur

    From the German 'kur', a planned course of spa treatments involving mineral water, mud baths, algae and herbs.

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