Spa-Experience

The Spa at The Breakers Palm Beach / Florida Spa Resorts / Guerlain

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Spa at The Breakers Palm Beach constantly raises the bar to deliver exceptional spa experiences that pamper and revitalize its guests, with an evolving menu of offerings that encompasses a number of new treatments.

 

Three new signature services include: the couture of customized massages known as the Personal Retreat, the Orchidée Impériale Facial featuring Guerlain’s just introduced age-defying skincare treatment, and Golf Pilates – the innovative fitness program that specifically addresses the needs of golfers.

 

Personal Retreat

 

Now among The Breakers most highly requested spa services, Personal Retreat is a customized massage that incorporates various therapeutic techniques – deep tissue, sports, aromatherapy, reflexology or stone — that are tailored to the individual’s needs and preferred time frame. Whether one desires blissful relaxation or to alleviate muscular tension – or both – the master therapist will expertly deliver a highly personalized massage experience. Guests only need to advise how much time they have, anywhere from 50 to 120 minutes.

 

Orchidée Impériale Facial

 

The orchid - the newly heralded ‘beauty flower’ with anti-aging properties - continues to bloom in the science of skin care. Its burgeoning fame is due in no small part to Guerlain, whose seven-year probe of the plant’s extraordinary molecular extract ultimately yielded Orchidée Impériale. This remarkable product, which features an extract concentrate that reduces wrinkles, smoothes and firms skin, is the basis of the Orchidée Impériale Facial, featuring Guerlain’s highly effective and exacting facial massage.

 

Golf Pilates

 

This golf-specific fitness training session is conducted in a one-on-one format. Finely tuned golf pilates fosters total body conditioning by integrating the entire form into all movement patterns, just as optimal golf performance requires. It restores muscle balance by lengthening tight muscles for flexibility, strengthening weak muscles, enhancing stability, and increasing strength and power – ultimately to improve the bio-mechanics of one’s golf swing. Initially, a Golf Pilates specialist evaluates the golfer’s posture and movement patterns to determine where imbalances lie.

 

The resort features 36 holes of championship golf, including the Ocean Course and The Breakers Rees Jones Course; 10 tennis courts, a 20,000 square foot luxury spa; a breathtaking oceanfront featuring luxurious beach bungalows for daytime rental and Mediterranean-style beach club with a half-mile of private beach; a comprehensive Family Entertainment Center, an extensive program of family and children’s activities, and a variety of water sports.

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Acupuncture Facelift / Pavilion Spa, Cincinnati, OH / Day Spas OH

 

 

 

 

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Shari Hettesheimer is trying something she’s never done before. “I don’t mind the number of candles on my birthday cake, I just don’t want to look or feel it,” laughs Shari. She is blessed with a great complexion, but she still would like to smooth some of the lines that 60-years have created.

 

 

“I have friends who have had the Botox injections and I hadn’t convinced myself that was the way to go,” said Shari.

 

 

Instead — she’s trying acupuncture.

 

 

“Acupuncture isn’t about putting needles in the body, it’s about doing something,” says Jennifer Walther-Liu, acupuncturist at Tri-Health Pavilion Spa and Integrative Health and Medicine Center.

 

 

Jennifer says acupuncture, often used on the body, can also help frown lines, crows feet and that tell-tale furrow between the brows. She says it also helps sagging skin, facial discoloration, even acne.

 

 

“Everyone including myself has just been blown away,” admits Jennifer.

 

 

During the procedure, Jennifer doesn’t only put acupuncture needles around Shari’s face. She covers her entire body — head to toe.

 

 

“If things are not well inside of us, it will reflect outwardly,” explains Jennifer.

 

 

She says the needles contain no medication. They are instead designed to increase circulation.

 

 

Help the body — and she says it will show up on the face.

 

 

She takes about ten minutes for the acupuncture application, then lets Shari rest for 20.

 

 

5 weeks and ten treatments later, we catch up with Shari again at her home in Symmes Township.

 

 

“A friend of mine who sells cosmetics, she kept looking at me and said, “what have you done to yourself?,” she said.

 

 

Shari admits she’s thrilled with the results.

 

 

“I had this permanent, perpetual scowl on my face and it’s gone. A lot of the lines on my face, around my lips and my eyes have either diminished or gone away totally.”

 

 

Shari also says she needs less moisturizer because her skin isn’t as dry.

 

 

But the best part for Shari was not her beauty, but her health.

 

 

“Most of my life, as long as I can remember, I have suffered from headaches from the dull, nagging to the full-blown migraine. Since the second treatment, I haven’t had a headache at all. And for me, that is wonderful!

 

If you try an Acufacial, you’ll go two times a week for five weeks. Typically the cost is around $2,000.

 

Jennifer said the results will last between one and three years.

 

Compare that to Botox, which is between $250 and $500 depending on where you go. Botox will last between four to six months.

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Qua Spa / Las Vegas Hotel Spas / Destination Spas

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Did you know that Las Vegas is one of the best cities in the U.S. for spas? Most of the big hotels on the strip have a spa or two, but there are a few that are better than others. The therapists and spa attendants in the best Las Vegas Spas are well-trained and often from other areas, coming to the Strip to work their magic on your weary body. Here are a few of the top Las Vegas Spas:

 

Destination Spa Salon

 

This full service spa and salon is located in the Las Vegas Sahara Hotel. The Destination Spa offers dozens of relaxing treatments, everything from Swedish massage and European facials to body wraps and hot stone massages. As it is also a salon, you can get pedicures, manicures and makeovers, as well.

 

Spa Orleans

 

You can find this spa inside the Las Vegas Orleans Hotel and Casino, where you´ll find tranquility and peace. The mission of Spa Orleans is to provide that one of a kind experience where you will be treated like royalty for a day, pampered, massaged and beautified.

 

Rio Spa

 

The Rio Spa, inside the Las Vegas Rio Hotel, features the latest in relaxation techniques and massage therapy. Each treatment is designed to refresh your body as well as your mind and is a wonderful place to recuperate after a long journey. The adjoining salon offers hairstyling and cuts as well as the usual beauty treatments.

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Leading medical experts agree that breath awareness and conscious breathing can be successfully applied in the prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery of numerous health conditions. Massage therapists who incorporate elements of conscious breathing into their sessions will promote their clients’ ability to experience more dramatic, healthful results than those who receive massage alone.

 

A human can survive several weeks without food, several days without water, but only a few minutes without air. Every cell in the body requires a continual exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide to function properly. Breathing is this mechanism of exchange, feeding and cleansing the body’s cells with a continuous cycle of intake and exhaust. Breathing function can be impeded by restrictions in the air passages due to illness, injury, chronic weaknesses or blockage by foreign objects such as dust or mucus. Tense muscles, poor posture, tight clothing or emotional stress can also restrict breathing.

 

The two classifications of respiration are chest breathing and abdominal breathing. The distinction is in what muscles are used for breath inhalation and exhalation:

 

1. Chest breathing is when we solicit the upper chest muscles to open up the rib cage. This results in shallow breathing, where too little air is drawn into the lungs. Consistent chest breathing results in poorly oxygenated blood, prompting the heart to pump harder to feed the body’s cells with oxygen. Upper chest breathing fills only about one quarter of the lung’s capacity. Emotional stress is a common cause of rapid, shallow chest breathing and can be addressed by integrated bodywork techniques.

 

2. Abdominal breathing does not indicate filling the abdomen with air, but rather using the muscles in the abdomen, sides and back of the lower torso to permit the maximum lowering of the diaphragm, fully expanding the chest. When the lungs can be filled, up to eight times more air is recruited per breath than chest breathing. This increased air volume allows for greater blood oxygenation without stressing the cardiopulmonary system, optimizing cellular nourishment and waste removal.

 

When we breathe fully and deeply, the belly, lower ribcage, and lower back all expand on inhalation, drawing the diaphragm down deep into the abdomen, and retracting upon exhalation. The vertical movement of the diaphragm combined with the horizontal movement of the belly, ribcage, and lower back during abdominal breathing helps detoxify the inner organs, promote blood flow and peristalsis, and pump lymph more efficiently through the lymphatic system. Each of these benefits mirror the goals of massage therapy. The combination of the two is an ideal union for enhancing health. Efficient abdominal breathing is supported by the following factors:

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Proper posture – Good posture allows the chest muscles to expand with minimal effort. Slouching forces the weight of the upper chest onto the abdomen. Poor posture demands more energy for respiration than when the back is straight and relaxed.

· Refraining from overeating – Overeating can extend the stomach to press on the diaphragm, hindering its movement. This restriction limits abdominal breathing.

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Relaxation – When we are tense, our muscles naturally contract. In addition to feeding the pain cycle, muscle tension inhibits abdominal breathing. Focusing on muscular relaxation allows for greater chest expansion while conscious abdominal breathing also helps relax muscles.

 

Helping a client learn abdominal breathing will directly benefit overworked scalenes and shoulder muscles that have been working too hard to lift the ribs. However, when instructing a client, make certain that your directions are not misinterpreted. Some new students of abdominal breathing overemphasize the new pattern, losing the ability of the chest to expand. Not only should the belly expand on the in-breath, but the breath should then continue up past the costal arch, expanding the ribs as well. Since many deep breathing techniques exist, look for one that is most congruent with your style. Here is one exercise to get clients breathing the right way:

• Have your client lie on their back comfortably.
• Place their hand on their stomach, just below the belly button.
• Take a deep breath in through the nose, and then hold it for a moment.
• Slowly exhale, through the nose.

When the client thinks all of the air is expelled, instruct them to open their mouth to let the rest out.

 

Massage focusing on the chest area and abdominal muscles can relax the muscles used for conscious respiration, paving the way for clients having difficulty with breathing exercises. Practitioners must be patient and communicative with their client as changes to breathing patterns are attempted.

 

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Fashion Trends / Pure Products / False Eyelashes / Liposuction

 

 

 

 

 

 

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How should they wear their hair? What color should they smear on their lips? In which gadgets, potions and even surgical procedures will they wistfully deposit their hopes of eternal youth?

 

 

More than 500 image makers from 13 countries - makeup artists, artificial-tanning experts, wig designers and even plastic surgeons - weighed in on these questions at Madrid’s annual beauty fair, Look, earlier this month. They are the people and products that govern women’s grooming rituals and often shape their most intimate aesthetic aspirations.

 

 

Cameron’s new collection, dubbed Pure, is only one of many beauty trends in store for the image-conscious consumer.

 

 

In the realm of everyday hair, for instance, multinational salon giants such as Vidal Sassoon and Toni & Guy have news for women who diligently straighten and streak their shoulder-length locks: That Jennifer Anniston look is out, out, out.

 

The operative style is somewhere between a 1960s Andy Warhol and the bobbed look of Posh Spice Victoria Beckham. Anthony Edge, international artistic director for Toni & Guy in London, calls it “expensive-looking hair.”

 

 

“What we see for the next year are bolder, stronger shapes, more bobs and a lot more width,” he said, while flipping through photos of the new Toni & Guy collection, which features lots of bangs, wig-inspired split-levels and one asymmetric, tilted bob that looks like a tipped beret. “

 

Posh hair also translates to fewer blond highlights - just full heads of rich, uniform color. Vidal Sassoon’s palate this year is inspired by the gold, red and green tones in the paintings of Gustav Klimt.

 

 

Makeup, meanwhile, is moving in the same dramatic direction as hair with the resurrection of the 1940s sophistication of Audrey Hepburn and Lauren Bacall, according to representatives of international brands such as Make Up For Ever.

 

That means bright red, well-defined lips are back, along with eyeliner and dark, matte eye shadows. And anyone who feels nostalgia for their mother’s makeup table will be happy to known that a new generation of false eyelashes has joined the mix, but they are applied as extensions in half-hour salon sessions, and they are supposed to last two months on the lid.

 

 

The country’s 900 state-certified plastic surgeons perform about 500,000 tummy tucks, facelifts and other procedures a year, more than any other country in Europe, according to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. The industry is among the five largest in the world along with the United States, Argentina, Mexico and Brazil. Europe’s Botox leaders are France and England, however, according to the Spanish Society of Aesthetic Medicine. Spain ranks third, although the injection rate is swelling as quickly as some celebrity lips.

 

 

This year, however, many of the star developments in body-perfection technology do not involve an operating table - including a “non-surgical nose job” technique, Rinolook, touted by a Madrid-based surgeon.

 

 

Liposuction also faces competition with a method called “vacuum-therapy,” and, indeed, it looks like something that escaped from a Hoover commercial. It works by wielding a glorified vacuum over flabby thighs and buttocks, moving cellulite to places where it will supposedly break down more quickly, according to the technician at one demonstration on a woman with no noticeable bulges.

 

 

Another innovation is the do-it-yourself facelift with an Italian device called the iLift. It resembles a cellphone that you rub on your skin and eliminates wrinkles using the same ionization technology that surgeons use to remove scars, according to the 21-year-old company sales representative, Nuria Linares.

 

“I used it for acne,” she confided.

 

 

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The “Highland Fling” at the award-winning Kohler Waters Spa in Kohler, Wis., and new Chicago location opening in March is designed to be as restorative as a rousing Scottish dance.

 

Beth O’Reilly, senior communications specialist, thinks the treatment’s fragrances of coffee, mint and chocolate are great for mid-winter because they “wake any sleepy senses.”

 

If that’s not enough, the flings of warm buckets of water under a Vichy shower should do the trick.

 

Spa deal

 

Transportation not to a specific location, but to a better state of mind, is suggested by the “trip to zen” treatment at the Spa at the Inn at Bay Harbor

 

The 80-minute treatment features a body scrub, a mud mask and massage scented with lemongrass and mandarin orange — aromatherapies designed to clear the mind and increase well-being.

 

Best of all, spa-goers can remain calm knowing they’ve scored what Public Relations Manager Erin Ernst calls one of the inn’s best deals ever.

 

The Spa Freedom 555 package, offered through April, costs $555 for two nights’ lodging and two breakfasts for two people. But it also gives all $555 back to guests to spend on the spa treatments and products of their choice.

 

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Mitchell’s Salon & Spa / Ohio Day Spas

 

 

 

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Add a mimosa, a plush robe or a new haircut, and relaxation is inevitable.

 

Sounds divine, doesn’t it?

 

Now imagine that you don’t have to pay for it.

 

Plenty of companies reward their clients and employees this time of year. But some lucky ones - many of them women - get a day at the spa for their hard work.

 

Nyria Acosta-Pearl, a manager at Sia Spa in Kenwood, said the parties are popular with corporations and drug companies. And in addition to the superficial benefits, she said the spa days can be a boost for workers.

 

“We’re always concerned about first impressions,” Acosta-Pearl said. “I think people are more conscious of what they look like, what they feel like.”

 

One division of Frost Brown Todd law firm has been taking clients to Mitchell’s Salon & Day Spa for seven years. The entire firm started treating female clients to spa parties two years ago, said Kim Mauer, an attorney in the commercial real estate transactions division.

 

“Our women clients love it,” she said. “We use it for a thank you for work they’ve sent during the year.”

 

About a decade ago, Mauer and a banker friend lamented that they’d have to take up golf, a traditional corporate pastime.

 

The pair decided a holiday shopping trip would be a fun and productive outing for busy professionals.

 

A few years and a few different malls later, the trip became a day at Mitchell’s. Now Mauer’s division hosts 75-80 women - many of them from out of town - over two days before Christmas.

 

“It’s just such fun to spend time with our clients in a more relaxed setting,” she said.

 

Shannon Wenstrup, the spa event manager at Mitchell’s, said Frost Brown Todd was among their first clients. And in the seven years she’s held that position, the demand just keeps growing.

 

More law firms - along with corporations, doctors’ and dentists’ offices, and banks - book parties each year.

 

That day of relaxation - catered to suit the clients’ needs, both spas say - comes as a reward for plenty of hard work.

 

Philip Ponicsan, commercial business manager with Ford Fleet Operations, uses the spa day as a part of a Monte Carlo weekend he hosts for seven winners of a two-month sales event each year.

 

“Every year I do this, I don’t have to push these guys to sell,” Ponicsan said. “Their spouses push them to win it.” (There have been female winners, but there are fewer women in the fleet division, he said.)

 

Mauer agrees that the spa day is “a powerful incentive.”

 

But spa day is a time for everyone to relax. “I have been known to threaten to remove cell phones,” she said.

 

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La Spiaggia Spa / Madison CT Day Spas / Eye Lash Perm

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A local spa uses some tiny rollers for perms — for your eyelashes.

 

Eden Burns often finds herself in the middle of performing an eyelash perm at La Spiaggia Spa in Madison. She uses tiny rollers that stick to the eyes and glues lashes to the roller.

 

Video: Tiny Rollers Glue Together Lashes

 

“We start with a clean lid, and we just stick it — nice and gentle — right above your lash,” Burns said. “We’re just going to do this a section at a time to make sure we get them all on there evenly.”

 

Then, she applies three rounds of chemicals that are similar to the solution used to perm hair. Eden and Rebecca Deotte said eyelash perms were a part of their training, saying the process is completely safe.

 

“It is safe. We’ve never had a problems in three years,” Deotte said. “If (customers) are nervous, we just give them a washcloth so they can hold it near them. We kind of introduce it to them a little bit more, let them smell it, let them see it, and that way, they are a little more comfortable.”

 

The entire process takes about a half hour.

 

Depending on your eyelash cycle, the perm lasts between three and six months and costs about $30.

 

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Spa Gift Certificates / Holiday Spa Gifts Trend

 

 

The holidays are fast approaching and the latest gift trend is giving friends and family the opportunity to experience something new and exciting. According to Deloitte’s Annual Holiday Survey, gift cards and certificates will top the Holiday gift sales charts for the fourth year running; and one of the fastest growing sectors is Experience Gifts such as travel and spa treatments. These Experiential Gifts combine the convenience of a gift card with the added benefit of promoting a healthy lifestyle.

 

 

People enjoy Lifestyle Gifts. Experience Gifts are fun and promote a healthier, more active lifestyle; plus, they offer people the opportunity to do something they have always dreamed of doing, or a service that they would not take the time to do for themselves.

 

 

Great examples are cooking classes, dance lessons and Spa treatments. Purchasing a spa gift certificate on line is easy.

 

 

No matter which Experience Gift you choose, it’s sure to get them off of the couch. Getting exercise dancing, or relaxing during a spa service, it is all a great way to start off a healthier New Year.

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