THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS
February 10, 2022 - February 16, 2022 • 19
Resort & Travel
Plan a self-care getaway By SHERYL NANCE-NASH Special to the AmNews
Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, Farmington, Pennsylvania Valentine’s Day is all Nemacolin, tucked in the about love. Make this countryside, is about deyear about self-love. Show compressing. The Holistic yourself some TLC. You’ve Healing Center and Woodbeen working hard, likely lands Spa are destinations taking care of everybody in themselves. Hot-stone else. Do you. Pamper yourmassages, whole body self with a weekend jaunt cryotherapy sessions, CBD all by yourself. Do as much massage, float therapy, or as little as you like. and services like the Ritual Relax, exhale, reset. Happy Facial, a five-phase session, Valentine’s Day! where full body balance is achieved by embracing The Inns of Aurora, and incorporating the five Aurora, New York earth elements. Treatment Head for the Finger begins with a ceremonial Lakes. The setting alone at herbal smudging, a relaxing The Inns of Aurora will do back exfoliation and bronze you good. It’s crested on a Kansa-wand massage treathill with views of Cayuga ment on back and face. An Lake. Get what you need enzyme facial exfoliation is Get what you need at the followed by the application Spa at the Inns of Aurora. of a gemstone infused gold Gurney’s Seawater Spa (Photo courtesy of Gurney’s Montauk) The 50-minute Wholeness masque to firm and restore Healing is a balancing and restorThe Lake House on Canandaigua, soothing lymphatic masque. Luxuriate suppleness. The finishing touch to this ative session. The therapist uses Canandaigua, New York with a warm shower and enjoy euca- experience is an invigorating scalp light, gentle contact to clear the Their Willowbrook Spa is the spot to lyptus oils and a cooling ocean lotion massage. Refresh further ice skating, major joints of the body, and then spoil yourself. The spa setting is ideal, to complete your full body massage. doing yoga or wine tasting. encourages balance between the it’s creekside and you walk through chakras (energy centers). Or try the spa’s private garden and enjoy Reiki, energy healing for relaxation lake views. You’ll get some Zen even FEB 24-26 | 2022 and stress reduction. You can stay before you get treatments like the in your comfy clothes on a massage Deep Sleep, which is designed to calm table while a Reiki Master uses light mind and body with a slow rhythmic touch to help your body heal itself. touch, scalp massage and sleep-inKeep the good vibe going with hy- ducing tea and tincture. The 90 mindrotherapy circuits, a facial and utes of bliss incorporates a Biomat to enjoy a cup of tea by the indoor balance the body’s energy centers. fireplace. Then there’s sunrise yoga, meditation, the rink at the lake and dependGurney’s, Montauk, New York ing on the day, maybe a whiskey and Some things are worth waiting wood burning session where you’ll for. The Seawater Spa at Gurney’s have a flight of house-selected whiswon’t reopen until March, but de- key while creating wood burning art. layed VD gratification is fine too. The renovated spa was designed Hilton Head Health, Hilton Head, with the help of Alonso Balaguer South Carolina Designs, the creator of the infaMaybe you want to venture beyond mous Aire Ancient Baths in Man- the Empire state. That’s cool. It will hattan. The 30,000 square-foot spa likely be a bit warmer in Hilton Head. will make you feel like you’re in a The Hilton Head Health resort is steps Roman bathhouse. Relax in eu- from the beach too. Walk the miles calyptus-infused steam rooms, a of paths among 800 acres of mossThree nights of incredible music by bassist, vocalist, traditional dry sauna and bath- draped oak trees, palms, lagoons and and songwriter Meshell Ndegeocello inspired by house-inspired pools. Want more? see what wildlife you encounter. The influences from jazz drummer Max Roach, to writer There’s a fitness and a yoga studio. ocean is its own healing magic. Spend your time there doing yoga, and activist James Baldwin, and a curated evening of Piaule, Catskill, New York meditation, and of course, Indigo music by Ndegeocello favorite, The HawtPlates. You will definitely be getting away Spa, with treatments like the Healfrom it all here. Snuggle in a private ing Ocean Escape, which promises to For $10 off your ticket, use code AMSTERDAM cabin where Mother Nature is at her awaken your senses, open your lungs finest with mountains and forests. as you inhale the East Coast air in this at checkout. The spa awaits. Go for the hot pool Red Flower ritual that exfoliates, hyPhoto credit: Charlie Gross and mineral plunge. Contemplate drates and releases muscle tension. IN-PERSON & LIVESTREAM TICKETS ON SALE NOW! your next smart move in the sauna You can’t go wrong with a treatment and steam room. Fall asleep during that begins with a sea mineral salt exSYMPHONYSPACE.ORG | 95TH & BROADWAY | 212.864.5400 a massage. foliation to smooth skin, followed by a
