Los Lunas, NM Spa and Massage

Cloud Nine's hour-long Custom Massage is a hybrid muscle mediation that fuses Swedish, shiatsu, joint mobilization, and deep-tissue massage. The massage incorporates moist heat paks to allow the deeper work needed to relieve tension hiding inside bone caves. For those who can bear to let chocolate rest on their mug without offering their face to trick-or-treaters, Cloud Nine's 45-minute Organic Chocolate Masque feeds the skin antioxidants and gently exfoliates using organic cocoa powder. Cloud Nine's hour-long Twinkle Toe Salt Scrub drowns your oft-neglected floor pounders in a warm bubbly foot soak, massages out stress points, and douses them with nostril-arousing aromatherapy.

Hermosa Massage's licensed muscle manipulators aim to release the curative potential of massage with each customized session. Owner and handmaster Lauri Norton has specialized in treating pain with medical massage techniques and Chinese meridian therapy since 1984. As such, Hermosa’s massages dig deeper than just simple relaxation in order to address traumatic injury, as well as chronic pain caused by physical exertion, an unbalanced posture, and attacks by ghosts of heavyweight boxers. At the beginning of each appointment, clients can team up with a therapist to design a kneading regimen that will ease tension resulting from recent deadlines, performance reviews, or wisdom teeth layoffs. During each massage, sinew soothers cull strokes from various traditional styles including Swedish, deep tissue, and medical massage. Each 30-, 60-, or 90-minute treatment strives to restore the body's natural ability to heal itself by increasing circulation and opening up subsidiary clinics in outlying appendages.

Dedicated to promoting physical and emotional balance through therapeutic treatments, the staff at The Desert and Sky mitigates muscles with a variety of massage techniques. During hot-stone massage sessions, smooth, flat heated stones are strategically placed on areas of the body to alleviate deep-rooted tension and make tissue feel more limber than a sunbathing gummi bear. This fiber warming primes muscles for relaxation, improving circulation and allowing therapists to apply greater pressure for more effective kneads. In addition to relieving stress, heat therapies can help increase energy level. Nip anxiety in the bud before it causes you to sweat actual bullets by unwinding under the skillful supervision of a massage therapist.