Hyatt Grand Champions Resort, Villas & Spa
Indian Wells, CA 92210
How it rates
Rating : * * *
New and noteworthy: Renovations in the last two years have included remodeling guest rooms and adding 23 luxury villas and an upscale restaurant, plus the $80 million in improvements to the adjacent municipal golf course made by the city, which include
Rain the Salon and Day Spa
CranioSacral Therapy: Discover Healing in A Gentle Touch
Candi Sparks, Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT #3465) for Rain the Salon and Day Spa participated recently in the CranioSacral Therapy workshop offered by The Upledger Institute, Inc. of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, an innovative healthcare organization that offers continuing education courses to medical professionals worldwide. This technique has been taught internationally and to be able to offer these services to the Monroe area is a big plus. CranioSacral Therapy was developed by osteopathic physician John E. Upledger in the early 1970’s.
CranioSacral Therapy is a light-touch approach that helps alleviate [Read more →]
Get in the game
Your Day, Etc.
COST: Membership fees are customized to each client.
FITNESS FACTOR: 4.5 stars
FUN FACTOR: 4 stars
It isn’t often that I stumble upon a completely unique fitness experience, but I did last week. I checked out Your Day Extraordinary Transformation Center, a new gym and spa rolled into one very awesome building.
Your Day was created by Day Adeogba (brother of former Atlanta Falcon Siddeeq Shabazz), who is one of the most enthusiastic gym owners I have ever met. Actually, he would be mad at me for calling him a “gym” owner. He refers to his gym as the “stadium,” members are “athletes,” and he and the other trainers are “coaches.” When you come into Your Day, you’re practicing and training to get better at the game of life. How? By getting fit and healthy and having six-pack abs, you will inevitably be a better employer, parent, friend, spouse, etc. (Well, I don’t know if the six-pack abs actually help, but Day let me feel his, and that made me a happier person.)
This concept isn’t a new one—if you’re healthy and balanced, it makes sense that you’re able to [Read more →]
Cool-as-a-cucumber spa treatment
Cool-as-a-cucumber spa treatment
If this is the way we could keep cool all summer, then we say bring on the heat!
Daireds Salon and Spa Pangea in Arlington now offers a delicious-sounding Thai Honey Cucumber Facial. We haven’t tried it yet, but here’s how the spa describes what happens during 60 minutes of what sounds to us like spa heaven: “Thai honey and freshly squeezed lime juice are combined and applied during a 15-minute facial massage . . . the acid in the lime juice naturally exfoliates and lifts up the dead skin cells. After the honey and lime massage, the face is cleansed with warm towels, and a mask of fresh cucumber slices are applied to the entire face, neck and decolletage to cool and tighten the skin, reduce any skin irritation and replenish moisture. The cucumber mask remains in place while the esthetician massages the hands, arms and scalp. The facial concludes as the cucumber slices are removed and a toner is applied again, followed by a moisturizer and sunscreen.”
The facial costs $95 and is available year-round, by appointment.
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Aesthetician Bianca Cypser spent about six years working at spas before opening her own: Complexions Skin Care Spa and Boutique in Gulfport. Two years later, she has a steady clientele. We caught up with Cypser, 27, recently. Two years ago you had a good job, at the prestigious Don CeSar resort in St. Pete Beach. What made you venture out on your own?
I always knew I was going to have my own business. I really believe the mind is a powerful thing, and I knew this was going to happen. . . .
I found out that the Don spa was going corporate, and that’s a totally
Day of beauty much more than skin deep
CYNTHIA SALTER-LEWIS
41, Monroe
Accomplishment
Cynthia Salter-Lewis, medical director of ReNew Med-Spa in Manalapan, donated a day of beauty for women residing in the Babyland Family Violence Program of Essex County. Salter- Lewis paid for round-trip transportation for the women to come to her spa, giving them a choice of multiple services including a facial, massage and a catered lunch.
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Virtual Dolphin Therapy
Being landlocked by the desert doesn’t stop spa-goers at La Quinta Healing Arts Spa in California from enjoying the motion of the ocean. The Palm Springs-area holistic healing center offers Virtual Dolphin Therapy, complete with a vibrating table, an above-head plasma screen featuring swimming dolphins and the sounds of echolocation piped through headphones. Clients further feel the ocean-friendly vibe by clutching a stuffed vibrating dolphin to their chest during the service.
Gondola Massage
It should come as no surprise that the most romantic city in the world would be the home of an über-enticing spa treat. At Casanova Spa at Hotel Cipriani in Venice, Italy, relaxation-seekers who can’t get enough of the city’s sights can set sail with a Gondola Massage, performed in a private nook in one of Venice’s alluring lagoons.
