Castro Valley, CA Spa and Massage

The holistic practitioners at Narayan Wellness incorporate alternative health and wellness methods into everyday life by crafting custom treatment plans that address each client's individual needs. Clinical services use chiropractic and physical-therapy techniques to straighten spines and revive lame limbs, and massage therapists blend invigorating Eastern modalities such as shiatsu and Thai yoga massage with popular Western-style massages that may incorporate deep-tissue techniques or direction by John Ford. When they aren't nurturing physiques and teaching students during wellness classes and retreats, Narayan's experts work with athletes and sports teams to prevent injuries and improve performance, and help plan and design wellness facilities for businesses and rehab centers.

Situated inside the Dublin Holiday Inn, Spa Bella Day Spa combines spa treatments with hotel luxuries such as an indoor pool, hot tub, and exclusive restaurant services during spa parties. Signature skincare services nourish complexions with Jean D'Arcel European cosmetics. Herbal-soaked linen body wraps, Dead Sea mud masks, and skin-purifying treatments beautify bodies while also ridding them of toxins and regret about offending a police horse.

Like fingerprints, snowflakes, and boy bands, no two skins are exactly alike. That’s why Sumbody & Sumtime Spa's staff custom-blends products using organic ingredients that hail from the very planet we roam upon. Founded by Deborah Burnes, who authored Look Great, Live Green, the spa's signature line of products soothes the hair, body, and nose with natural and locally sourced ingredients. And when Burnes says "natural" she means it. "People tell us every day that they've tried everything on Earth," says Burnes, who quickly turns the question around: "Have you tried the earth itself?" Using elements such as clay, charcoal, sea salt, and honey, she concocts all-natural formulas that she says bring out the best in her clients' skin.

Before she could treat other women’s bodily ailments, Taylor had to learn to care for her own. She was training as a dancer and learning to deal with the impact of both physical pain and mental stress on her body. She noted that massage had a remarkable ability to encourage her body's natural chemicals to reduce stress, improve mood, and even ease pain. Inspired to provide hands-on care to other women, she enrolled at the San Francisco School of Massage and Bodywork, training in Swedish, deep-tissue, and trigger-point therapy. Her specialty, however, quickly became prenatal and postpartum massage. Today, she regularly works with expectant and new moms, and can even attend labor, delivery, and stork flyovers. She exclusively works with women in her standard massages as well, and takes pride in a sense of intuition that helps her customize each massage to each customer.

Founded by a duo of passionate aestheticians and massage therapists, La Spa Petite is a Europe-inspired spa that treats clients from head to toe with a full menu of services. They revitalize faces with peels, facials that use Janssen Organics products, and crystal-and-diamond-microdermabrasion treatments that help clear the face of old skin cells and clear pores to make way for fresh oxygen. The aestheticians also hone in on bodies with enzyme body wraps and salt-glow treatments that blend sea salts and oil to help improve circulation. Specialists perform reiki treatment, which works to balance the body, mind, and spirit through energy transfers much in the same way a banker balances a checkbook by placing it on a string that perfectly bisects it. The staff also includes certified massage therapists who relax clients with seven different modalities including Swedish, deep-tissue, hot-stone, and lymphatic massage to purge the body of toxins.

The experienced team at Le Soma Clinique Day Spa specializes in refreshing bodies with European–inspired services and products such as the botanically derived Yon-Ka Paris line. The staff’s credentials include certification in mytonology, a microcurrent treatment designed to tone facial muscles, and the spa’s massage therapist—who is also a personal trainer—uses her knowledge of anatomy and five different modalities to coax tension from backs and limbs. Waxing and spray tans prepare skin for beachcombing as anti-aging facials and seaweed wraps ready clients for high-school reunions held underwater.