Face Food: DIY Firming Avocado/Cucumber Masque

Feed your face…but not through your mouth, even though this DIY spa recipe, like many, sounds so good that you could very well just eat it up. Food that is good for you to eat can often be just as nourishing when applied topically to the skin, too, so we asked Adrian Bryce, founder of [...]

How to Feng Shui: Bring Nature Home To You

By Debra Duneier Some of the happiest moments of our lives are spent outdoors. We all have recollections of these experiences—a blazing sunset, the scent of the ocean air, animal life encountered on a stroll through the woods, the view of a pastel sunrise from a mountaintop, a golden harvest moon or the fleeting glimpse [...]

Aid Digestion with Aromatherapy: Plus DIY Recipes

From calming the mind and relaxing the muscles to uplifting your mood and improving slumber, aromatherapy can be a powerful tool. We talked to Kamalaya Koh Samui Wellness Sanctuary & Holistic Spa in Thailand and Huntington Spa’s  Chuan Body + Soul Traditional Chinese Medicine corridor at the Langham Huntington in California, about how aromatherapy can [...]

5 Tips for DIY Couples Massage This Valentine’s Day

We asked two massage therapists what their top five tips are for giving your main squeeze a spa-style massage at home. Miriam Benatti, licensed massage therapist at Euphoria Spa , and Edan Harari of Kinetic Massage Therapy, share the key elements, many of which go hand in hand, in making your special gift of massage [...]

Health & Balance: 5 Juice & Smoothie Spa Recipes

We love spa juices and smoothies for their healthful content and tasty nature. Here, we’ve rounded up a few of these types of recipes from CHI Spa at Shangri-La in Vancouver, and Kohler Waters Spa in Kohler. Named after the Chinese word for energy, chi, the recipes from CHI Spa are just a few that [...]