Greece, NY Spa and Massage

LifeSpa and Salon is a full-service spa and salon located inside select Life Time Fitness centers.

After a 36-year career at Kodak and a subsequent attempt at retirement, Andy Arnold returned to school and became a licensed massage therapist to help others rest and relax. Today, Arnold brings over 20 years of bodywork experience to his massage sessions, which take place amid the lilac walls of Katherine’s Therapeutic Massage. Andy also caters to the elderly with his specialization in geriatric massage and his paranormal ability to sense the birthdays of grandchildren without consulting a calendar.

Body in Balance’s licensed massage therapist, Nancy Pigno, has experienced recovering from a chronic pain condition. This process, along with her belief in the natural healing powers of the human body, moved her to study massage therapy, somatics, and dance to help others recover from their own maladies. Nancy now brings 17 years of experience to her bodywork sessions, the same number of years as the ideal massage. During these sessions, she applies her background as a college professor and a choreographer to fully understand and treat each individual and his or her unique therapeutic needs.

C. Raksha Elmer believes that in order to balance and restore a person's health, all that's required is the touch of human hands. In her 20 years as a massage therapist, she has used her own hands combined with her gift for intuition in order to soothe her clients from the outside in. The therapist also flaunts expertise from formal education at the Florida School of Massage, self-study, and hands-on experience in her own practice and as a volunteer for the crash-test dummies’ union. With her help, many clients have found relief for such ailments as anxiety, slow circulation, and migraines.

For more than a decade, Carol Kennedy has explored the potential of massage therapy, eschewing the idea that massage is a mere luxury in favor of a staunchly therapeutic paradigm. When she isn't continuing her education, she massages clients in two quiet, calm settings. Inside her St. Paul Boulevard office, plum-colored walls and wooden bookshelves surround clients as they lie next to a faux fireplace adorned with a red-and-white tapestry. Her Perrin Drive location is inside a stately two-story house, where Carol rubs elbows with two chiropractors. She kicks off each massage session with a brief health assessment before she employs a medley of techniques—including deep-tissue massage, trigger-point therapy, and hot-stone massage—to mend muscles burdened by stress or by their overly ornate shoulder pads.