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Five spa trends, from wellness to good food
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Mandarin Oriental’s
“Awaken Facial,” "instead of
focusit^ on the face, incoipo-
rates different massage tech
niques over the upper body to
get the circulation moving,”
said Sharon Holtz, spa direc
tor at the Mandarin Oriental
hotel in Miami. “It really is
relaxit^-”
Canyon Ranch, with resorts
in Lenox, Mass., and Tucson,
Ariz., has long combined
medical care, nutrition and
fitness with relaxation and
pampering. Now Canyon
Ranch is collaborating with
the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio -
to offer health and wellness
programs in areas like weight
control, stress management
and cardiac care. The part
nership includes staff
exchanges, and an executive
health program for CEOs.
• FOOD: Forget “rabbit
food” - raw ve^es and skin
less, boneless (tasteless? col
orless?) chicken breast.
ThdaVs spas are ramping up
their menus.
“(jood spa, good food,” said
David Erhch, director of the
Fairmont Sonoma Mission
hm & Spa in Sonoma, Calif
“We’ve taken spa cuisine to a
whole other level - it looks
good, tastes good and smells
good.” Sonoma’s menu
dii-ected by Bnmo Tison, for
mer chef at New York’s Plaza
Hotel, includes bright-red
beet puree, and thick and fla
vorful gazpacho served with
jewels of cherry tomatoes
speared on a toothpick.
You can even satisfy your
sweet tooth at a spa. Canyon
Ranch serves chocolate chip
cookies, and Mohonk will
have (large!) gingerbread
men for the Christmas sea
son.
• AUTHENTICITY: Spas
differentiate themselves by
evoking regional traditions
and landscapes.
Mil Amo in Sedona, Ariz.,
offers products to scrub and
deanse the body made from
blue com and a succulent
plant called stonecrop, while
an ea^e feather is waved as
part of a ceremony to deanse
the spirit, inspired by local
American Indian culture.
The new Willow Stream
Spa at the Fairmont
Mayakoba on Mexico’s
Riviera Maya uses cacao,
papaya, honey, lime and com-
meal for body wraps, and
com meal and papaya treat
ments for hands.
At Cliff House Resort & Spa
in Ogunquit on the Maine
coast, you can have body
wraps made fi'om Maine
blueberries, wild roses or
juniper berries. Stones fi'om
the nearby Bald Head Cliff
are used in a stone massage,
and warm seasheUs are
applied to the body in a two-
hour “SeasheU Therapy”
treatment.
• MANLINESS: Men com
prise 31 percent of U.S. spa-
goers and 29 percent of
Canadian spa-goers, accord
ing to the Hartman Group
study
About two-thirds of U.S.
men and 49 percent of
Canadian men who visited
spas did so while traveling.
Their top reasons for goir^ to
a spa are to feel relaxed,
calmed and refreshed,
according to the study
“When men are at home,
they don’t necessarily feel
they have permission to go to
a spa,” said Barry, the
Hartman Group spokes
woman. But if they’re stayir^
in a hotel for business, they
may wander down to the ^a
for a massage.
Fairmont Hotels report
that 50 percent of their spa
guests are male at certain
times, like ski season in
Banff^ Alberta, Canada, and
golf season in Scottsdale,
Ariz.
Spas have responded to the
large numbers of male gueste
with gender-specific prod
ucts, and by making their
menus and decor more
appealing to men.
The Lodge at Woodloch, in
Hawley, Pa., which is the first
new destination spa to open
in the covmtry in more than a
decade, "was designed to be
an environment that men
woTold feel comfortable in,”
said owner Ginny Michel
Lopis.
The architecture is reminis
cent of a moimtain lodge,
incorporating stone and wood
with picture-window views of
the forest. There is a private
'lake, golf course, a full bar
Urban planners create
new communities
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
It takes Kiki Wallace one minute to get to work. It’s not by
accident. He built his neighborhood. Prospect New Tbwn, to be
walkable, -with wide sidewalks, narrow streets and parks scat
tered throughout. Most notably, its to'wn center is within five
walking minutes of every home.
Tb create Prospect, the Longmont, Colo., developer worked
with planners AndrEs Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk.
Since its construction, the tovyn has attracted a great deal of
interest in the planning community
“We have people fium aU over the state of Colorado and fium
other parts of the United States and internationally coming to
look at it,” Wallace told Smithsonian magazine. “They’re all
wanting to emulate this type of development.”
Post-World War E-style sifrurban planning assumes that
everyone has a car and wants to use it. 'This model, some urban
planners believe, is what accoimts for the growing epidemic of
obesity heart disease and diabetes.
Now, a growing nxunber of environmentalists, architects and
urban planners, including Duany and Plater-Zyberk, are
putting their minds together to create human-scale neighbor
hoods, where parks, shops and schools are all close enough to
walk or bike to. They are part of the New Urbanist movement,
the most coordinated effort in this cormtry to create these kiuda
of nei^borhoods.
. “New Urbanism is basically a set of principles to get to that
holy grail of a mixed-use, mixed-income, fiflly socially integrat
ed, non-automobile-dependent kind of place,” said Emily Talen,
a professor of urban planning and author of “New Urbanism
and American Planning: The Conflict of Cultures.”
Planned down to the size of the raunbers on the houses. New
Urbanist communities have a striking regularity about them.
The first town Duany and Plater-Z34)erk created served as the
picket-fenced, pastel-tinted backdrop of tiie film “The Triunan
Show.”
If, conversely New Uibanism isn't e(%y enough, head to
Arcosanti, architect Paolo Soleri’s experimental town rising
fium the desert north of Phoenix, Ariz.,
Tb capitalize on space, Soleri took advantage of the city’s chff-
side location to minimize the use of streets and build in three
dimensions, ^e result is an liltra-compact and contiguous
sculptural mElange of tilt-up concrete slabs, high-density hous
ing and work space,'sidewalks and ... beUs. Lots of bells. The
manufactm*e of bronze bells, tourism and workshops support
the design interns who are the main workers and occupants of
the still-nascent dty
Despite Arcosanti’s acclaim as a visionary for creatii^ urban
space (Soleri was honored in July at the 'White House for his
work), it hasn’t yet caught on commercially
New Urbanism emulates many of the qualities of pre-World
War n developments, in part by tacking fiunt porches onto its
Please see URBAN/4B
wi'th tapas, and a dinner
menu - no calories listed -
that offers steak and bison
burgers.
• PUN: Spas shouldn’t only
be about scrubbing skin, mas
saging muscles or lazing in
the sauna. They should also
be fun.
At Loews Hotels spas in
’Ihcson, San Diego and Santa
Monica, Cahf., you can get
treatments based on astrolo
gy readirgs. Is the Aquarian
in you dominated by “air”
qualities like cmiosity and
multitasking, lea'ving you
nervous and ediausted? If so,
Loews “Star Menu” recom
mends “earth” therapies to
help “ground” you - deep tis
sue massage, a desert herbal
■wrap or reflexology
The C)jai 'Valley Inn & Spa
in Ojai, Calif, has an Artist’s
Cottage and Apothecary
where guests can weave,
paint or make a mandala.
The spa has hosted three-
generation families and
birthday parties for all ages
where an art project or story-
teUing brings the group
together.
EYou Go:
PB
RATES: Rates vary Best
deals are group rates, pack
ages, weekdays and offseason
(summer for Southwest, early
spring for New England).
INTERNATIONAL SPA
ASSOCIATION:
http://www.experienceispa.co
m, 888-651-4772.
CANYON RANCH: Tfrcson,
Ariz., and Lenox, Mass.;
http;//www.canyonranch.co
m, 800-742-9000.
CTIFP HOUSE RESORT
& SPA: Ogunquit, Maine;
http://www.cliffhouse-
maine.com, 207-361-1000.
FAIRMONT SONOMA
MISSION INN & SPA:
Sonoma, Calif.;
http://www.fairmont.com,
877-289-7354.
THE LODGE AT WOOD
LOCH: Hawley Pa.;
http://www.thelodgeat-
woodloch.com, .866-953-8500.
LOEWS HOTELS; “Star
Menu” available at Loews in
Tucson, San Diego and Santa
Monica; http://www.loewsho-
tels.com, 800-235-6397.
MANDARIN ORIENTAL
MIAMI: http://www.mandari-
norieaital.com, 305-913-8288.
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