Spa owner Ada Barak uses California and Florida King snakes, corn snakes and milk snakes in her treatments.

Barak gives a snake massage treatment, where she lets loose the reptiles on the body of customer Liz Cohen, at her spa in the northern communal village of Talmey El’Azar Feb. 1, 2007. She said the treatments were inspired by her belief that once people get over any initial misgivings, they find physical contact with the creatures to be soothing.