Massage in Coronado

Owner Jodi Ketchum has spent a decade helping clients unwind with Tuina bodywork and therapeutic massage. At Lotus's Los Angeles location, she exclusively practices Tuina, an ancient form of Chinese massage that has helped restore wellness reportedly since 2300 BCE. At her San Diego location, Ketchum joins with other wellness and Oriental medicine practitioners to guide guests through yoga classes, Tuina bodywork, massage, and acupuncture. Both locations are airy and bright, a concept that runs throughout the facilities and is evoked by plants, large windows, and light hardwood floors. Customers can schedule appointments online or, after studying yoga at the center, shape their bodies into letters that spell out appointment requests.

When Kate Danta opened P.B. Yoga & Healing Arts, she envisioned more than a simple yoga studio. Her holistic health center would offer both Pilates and yoga classes that explored different types of practice along with a range of wellness services such as massage and acupuncture. Kate is a holistic health practitioner, a massage therapist, and a yoga instructor with 30 years of experience, herself, so she was in a unique position to make her dream become reality. Rather than doing everything herself, Kate assembled a staff of certified massage therapists, naturopathic healers, and yoga instructors to add their knowledge of Svaroopa, Kripalu, and Kundalini yoga to the studio's repertoire.

Visitors to the holistic studio can choose to better their bodies and minds by choosing to attend classes or visiting one of the staff's variety of physical and spiritual healers. During yoga sessions, instructors lead students through guided relaxations, breathing techniques, and yoga poses to help clients build flexibility and relax deep spinal muscles. Pilates mat classes are taught by an experienced instructor who sold her thriving studio in order to move to San Diego and join the staff at PB Yoga and Healing Arts to challenge clients' muscles with small isometric movements, which work to improve posture and protect the back by building strength throughout the core. The studio also has a Pilates Specialist whose background includes the New York Ballet Co. She works one-on-one with the help of the Gyrotonic equipment and the Pilates Reformer. The studio's on-staff licensed acupuncturist specializes in sports medicine, and can relieve chronic pain by carefully placing needles in strategic points along the body. Clients can achieve spiritual balance with visits to a Sunday morning meditation class facilitated by an ordained Zen Buddhist monk, Tenshin; who also teaches the Tai Chi classes. The center also offers sessions with an on-staff practitioner who can deliver both psychic readings and spiritual counseling to help clients reach inner peace.

It takes experience to earn a spot on Advanced Massage Therapeutics’ staff, and its current team has the certifications to prove it. Nationally certified and licensed therapist Melissa Silberman kneads stress from tight muscles with techniques gleaned from more than eight years of experience in clinics and spas. Danielle Vreeland, a California-state-certified therapist, completed 1,000 hours of training before earning the title of staff therapist. The spa puts as much emphasis on its amenities as its staff. Therapists gift each client with a cup of tea or bottle of water during their visit, and conduct each session on memory-foam tables and head rests that conform to clients’ bodies and remind them of the date of their fist kiss.