New in Hong Kong: massage technique that purportedly aids fertility

For more than a year, Shoshana Weinberg had tried different ways to get pregnant - from drinking raspberry tea to consuming an alkaline diet (and having precisely timed sex, of course) - but nothing worked. Then, one day, through a friend, she heard about Dana Amelia, a centenarian healer living in a small Mexican village on the border with Belize.

Weinberg, then 33 and working as a spa consultant in Mexico, paid a visit to Amelia. The elder woman massaged Weinberg's abdomen using a traditional Maya technique that had been passed down through her family. At the end of the treatment, she tells Weinberg: "This month there'll be no blood."

True enough, in February 2008, Weinberg was pregnant with a boy.

A couple of years later, now living in Hong Kong as Asia-Pacific senior spa director for Four Seasons hotel, Weinberg longed for another child. Yet again, she had trouble conceiving. By chance, one of the hotel's therapists, Erlinda Enaje, also knew the massage technique that Amelia had used on Weinberg. It had been passed down through Enaje's Filipino family through the generations.

Weinberg had the massage again, and that month she fell pregnant with a girl.

Convinced of the efficacy of the treatment - a few others have also conceived after getting Enaje's treatment - Weinberg has officially introduced the massage to the Four Seasons Hong Kong's Spa menu: the 90-minute Heritage Healing Treatment.