health

Many people think of Thanksgiving as a time to gorge yourself silly on the caloric, decadence of holiday fare. Well, it doesn’t have to be! This year, why not escape nearby to a spa? Many spas offer guests healthy and delicious menus for Thanksgiving – and special holiday packages.

If your Thanksgiving holiday is typically a weekend-long eat-a-thon — leftovers and all — remember that your feast doesn’t need to be all high calorie decadence. We have some tried and true Thanksgiving recipes that are seasonably fall-fabulous and simply deelish! (Plus, seconds won’t leave you in a food coma.)

Spa-nundrums by Milana Knowles Reiki. Let’s face it: It’s one of those spa treatments that make even experienced spa-goers go “Huh?” After all, there’s not even much touch involved; it is based on transference of energy. You are fully dressed, lying on the massage bed, while a therapist places his/her hands gently on your body. […]

From Mii amo’s first cookbook, A Journey of Taste: Favorite Recipes from Mii Amo Spa in Sedona (Chronicle Books), we bring you two of the more than 50 recipes requested by visitors to Mii amo.

This week’s spa recipes are from Dr. Andrew Weil, winner of this year’s Readers’ Choice Visionary Award. He’s been an influential leader in the worlds of spa and wellness, as director of integrative health and healing at Miraval Arizona and more. Selected from his book “The Healthy Kitchen” with Rosie Daley, we’ve paired one traditional recipe, Andy’s Vegetable Stock with a more unique small dish, Cilantro Walnut Pesto to give you a taste of what make him a visionary in healthy living.

Spa Recipes: Salad Sensations

Pair protein with summer freshness and enjoy these salad sensations from two top getaway spas. The Curry Chicken Salad recipe fromGreen Mountain at Fox Run and the Crab and Watermelon Salad with Ginger Gelée recipe from The Phoenician are sure to leave you wanting to eat more salad – and feeling healthy!

Enjoy the sweet taste of summer with a refreshing Pink Grapefruit Champagne Granita, a delicious Visualize World Peach Smoothie and more from 3 top spas.

Global Spa Summit 2008: Ian Schrager Addresses Spa Design (or Rather, The Lack Of…) by Susie Ellis At the 2008 Global Spa Summit, Ian Schrager, who was the keynote speaker for Day One , gave a very inspirational talk. Looking somewhat “hip” himself (although in my opinion a tad older than the age (61) I […]

Our time at Canyon Ranch is coming to an end. Here is my bottom line assessment of how things went for me this visit. I had four treatments – a Cleopatra bath and massage, a Thai massage, an Ayurvedic Bindi and Shirodhara, and a Sisley Facial. All of them were absolutely excellent. In fact every […]

Although I had spent a few minutes in a sand therapy room at Brenner’s Park Hotel in Baden-Baden many years ago, the one here in Wiesbaden was different. As soon as I entered the room, I noticed that the entire floor – all the way up to the edges – was made of deep sand. […]

I’m back in New York after my whirlwind trip to LA. Just a quick recap of that press breakfast and the LA Spa Expo. For the press I reviewed the top 10 spa trends for 2006 that we announced at the beginning of the year. (I decided to give them catchy names this time – […]