Maplewood, MN Spa and Massage

Nourish winter-worn skin with today's Groupon. For $75, you'll get a 90-minute Korean spa ritual at Sabai Body Temple, one of the city's best spas according to Citysearchers, who voted it Best Minneapolis Massage in 2009. The hour-and-a-half experience will cleanse, stimulate, restore, and renew seasonally parched skin.

Correct the creaks, clacks, and uncomfortable transversal twists of a bothered back with today’s Groupon. For $35, you’ll get a one-hour therapeutic massage (a $75.51 value) at Artifex Manuum Spa and Gallery, a soothing sanctuary in the Wedge. Unlike most spas, Artifex doubles as a gallery for locally created arts and crafts and doesn't have a wacky jerboa who's always hopping by to give advice and delightfully misunderstand common proverbs.

The Refinery boosts bodily morale with a bundle of rejuvenating spa treatments, all administered by a professional, experienced staff. With the spa package, serene seekers can pacify all of the body’s fibers, follicles, and subterranean volcanoes, starting with a muscle-mollifying Swedish massage, a 30-minute knead that untangles knotty tendons and reduces everyday and interstellar stress (a $33 value). The pampering package continues with a 30-minute express facial that refreshes skins with a steam, light exfoliation and a customized mask crafted from invigorating Dermalogica products (a $33 value). Hands and feet, meanwhile, find solace in the express mani-pedi, which cleanse, files, buffs, and polishes weary paws for smoother, photo-op-appropriate appendages (a $51 value). The day’s body coddling commences with a professional haircut, a follicular denouement of luxurious shampooing, snipping, and basic styling (a $35 value).

Reflexology is based on the belief that reflex points in hands and feet are directly wired to organs, glands, and endo-wonderthings within the human body. By massaging and applying pressure to the skin gloves and flesh boots, reflexology stimulates the body into self-healing, reducing stress and improving circulation more cleanly and effectively than directly massaging the spleen. Phyllis Schwartz, the founder of Keep in Touch and the daughter of a nurse, started practicing reflexology at the age of 10, and is trained in the Eunice Ingham method.

Owner and proprietor Denny Kemp started his career in styling as one of the first students of Horst Rechelbacher, founder of Aveda. Amid playful depictions of personified planets, a brigade of artistically minded stylists, each with at least five years of experience, spritzes clients with such professional-grade products as Bumble and bumble and the French-developed Kérastase. Clarisonic dual-brush sonic oscillation uncorks pores during facials, and Dermalogica skincare products eschew irritants, artificial fragrances, and laugh tracks. In hair services, stylists smooth frizz with keratin formulas or, through the pinch-braid technique, weave natural hair with extensions while boosting volume.

The licensed massage therapists at Massage Advantage dote on visitors with a slew of custom massage techniques, including Swedish, prenatal, and deep tissue. Armed with warm blankets and a credo to respect patients' privacy, therapists begin each 30- or 60-minute session with a discussion on clients' specific aches and ailments. Therapists can also haul their equipment to office buildings for workplace chair massages that help reinvigorate fatigued employees or stressed-out water coolers during 5–15 minute stints. Each succession of kneads is designed to alleviate stress, muscles soreness, and various medical conditions, such as high blood pressure.