Auburn, ME Spa and Massage

After performing therapeutic bodywork treatments for five years, certified massage therapist Rachel Larrivee felt inspired to create an upscale alternative to massages at day spas and chiropractic offices. That inspiration grew into a setting stocked with innovative equipment, premium skincare products, and upscale linens. Within the studio, Rachel kneads away tension with Swedish, deep-tissue, and stone treatments, while making expectant mothers more comfortable with body pillows and prenatal techniques. She also lends her services to corporate or private settings with chair massages and softly whistled lullabies.

An Aveda-concept salon, Element Day Spa pampers clients with high-quality, natural products in a soothing environment. Show appreciation for your noggin's natural winter cap with a hair spa treatment ($50), which lavishes rich, luxurious oils onto the scalp during a relaxing massage, then swaddles strands with a warm towel to facilitate shine absorption. The health-boosting service, followed by a style-boosting blow-dry with hydrating treatment ($25), will keep your follicles feeling loved and your loved ones feeling your follicles until you feel justified charging them a petting fee. Professional makeup application ($35) will add the finishing touches to your refurbished façade by highlighting your best features and camouflaging warped wooden paneling. Before you leave, appease your skin's incessant demand for at-home mollycoddling by using your $10 voucher for Aveda skincare products.

More than 10 facial options and 7 massage modalities highlight Element Day Spa's service menu, which promises treatments that erase the signs of aging and chase away stress. Located near area ski resorts, natural light floods the lobby and private treatment rooms, where it illuminates MD Formulations massage and spa products that cleanse skin, ease muscle tension, and lip-synch lullabies to inner ears. Unwanted hair gets the sticky boot with waxing services for the brow, limbs, and bikini area, and nail services color digits with long-lasting, UV-cured Shellac polish. Stylists can customize cuts to every face shape or add vibrancy and texture to newly sculpted coifs with hair color, frosting, gloss, or spackle. After their treatments, clients can leave the spa laden with bareMinerals cosmetics and versatile Miche bags from the onsite boutique.

Stacy McCain, help patients to maintain healthy, pain-free lives with non-invasive chiropractic care. Sufferers of stiffness, low back pain, or migraine headaches may reap the benefits of thorough chiropractic examinations, which send the doctors sleuthing over spinalscapes in search of bulging disks and stuck-on “Kick Me” signs. The treatments emphasize progressive rehabilitation, a method which allows doctor and patient to work together to track the effectiveness of treatments.

Relaxation blooms in every season at Sunflower Grace, where licensed therapist Christine Wilke calls upon her training in massage, polarity, and Japanese Reiki to pamper minds and bodies with a variety of healing services. Christine’s nimble hands spoil backs and shoulders with soothing strokes that release tension at specific pressure points. Polarity therapy blends massage with proper nutrition and exercise to repave internal energy pathways and settle disputes between bickering minds and bodies. During Japanese Reiki treatments, Christine enlists invisible energies and gentle, non-invasive techniques to combat stress, stimulate internal healing, and extract loose change lodged between shoulders.

When Laurie Granger graduated from massage school in 2004, a surprise awaited her at home. Her husband, Steve, had converted their one-car garage into a three-room spa, which she soon christened Heaven's Door. Today when clients show up to the aptly named spa, Laurie whisks them away to a greeting room where they can warm their feet by a pellet stove as she asks about their massage preferences. She tailors her strokes to these tastes and delights in hearing praise for her gentle touch. "I couldn't ask for a more rewarding profession than this," she confesses.

All of Laurie’s massages include 15 minutes in a private hot tub, which unwinds muscles with its soothing jets. From there, a door opens directly into the private massage room, where Laurie further eases tension with unscented lotions and a heated table. A sauna in a separate building promotes a healthy sweat that helps the body flush out toxins and spirit animals unfit for housebreaking.