Matthews, NC Spa and Massage

The certified wellness gurus at Om Spa Chiropractic foster softer muscles, straighter spines, and purer visages through an array of holistic health-spa services. During the 50-minute signature massage, a trained therapist generously coats dermises in essential oils before customizing massage modalities, focusing on neuromusculoskeletal, to evict tension and soreness from corporeal cages and release them into the wild. Therapists book private rooms for an extra 20 minutes to ensure a full 50 minutes of kneading and that they have enough time to swap noodling tips with patrons.

The family-owned Rhanes Spa offers its clients an abundance of holistic facials, massages services, and other aesthetic and relaxation treatments. Its diverse service menu includes traditional spa and salon services, from Swedish and deep-tissue massage to reflexology and tanning, which is useful when your baseball mitt’s been in the garage all winter. It also pairs these classics with inventive offerings such as the Bellanina face-lift massage, an all-natural means of releasing tension in the face to lessen the appearance of fine lines, as well as sugaring—an alternative to waxing—and Alpha heating treatments that help detoxify the body.

Owned by former San Diego Charger Clinton Hart and his wife, Kelli, The Brick House Salon & Spa welcomes visitors into a 1920s-era home built with the spa's namesake slate-gray brick. From this homey setting, a team of beauty experts takes a detailed approach in each hair, skin, and massage service they perform. Sleek black salon chairs cradle heads of hair and the bodies that love them as stylists snip and sculpt locks into face-flattering arrangements, and a fireplace-furnished room across the house stocks colorful bottles of styling products for at-home care. Upstairs, aestheticians perform facials that evict dirt and restore youth better than Disneyland's construction company, and massage therapists melt away tension with focused, customized strokes. Tired feet can traipse downstairs to the dedicated mani-pedi room, where nail specialists soften and refine digits before crowning them in colorful standard or long-lasting Shellac polishes.

Owner Hj. Mooryati Soedibyo has a right to call her spa the Taman Sari Royal Heritage Spa—she is, after all, a princess of the Javanese royal family. She grew up in the royal palace surrounded by servants and beauty experts who performed traditional jamu, or herbal-medicine techniques, and spa services for her family. Inspired by these remedies, she began selling herbal products from her home in 1978. Soon, burgeoning demand pushed production from the house to the garage, and then to a full-fledged factory. But her aesthetics empire, like the tuning of instruments before performances of “99 Bottles,” is only the beginning. Soedibyo opened her authentic Javanese spa spa to share the wisdom of her family’s royal spa treatments with international clients.

All therapists are trained at the spa’s own School of Spa Therapists in Indonesia. Upon graduation, they perform exotic treatments including lulur body scrubs, volcano body wraps, pampering packages, and Balinese massages, which use flowing strokes and gentle compressions. After treatments, clients can relax in the dry sauna or whirlpool tub or sip loose-leaf tea from 50 regions around the world. Holistic jamu products are also available at the spa to help naturally soothe minor maladies.

Massage therapist and personal trainer Doug Core soothes tension-laden muscles and minds with an arsenal of restorative services. He is proficient in a diverse range of techniques and modalities, including Swedish massage, sports massage, neuromuscular therapy, and a penetrating deep-tissue massage that unties muscular knots like a yarn kite in a windstorm. Though many in number, all of his therapeutic services share one goals: to provide long-lasting relief from chronic pain and tension.

ToweBella Salon's team of mane tamers revitalizes locks inside their tranquil salon. Using professional products such as Pureology, Onesta, and Alterna Caviar, the strand specialists revamp hair with cuts and styles, add splashes of tint with coloring services, and smoothify tresses with keratin treatments. Nail technicians lull hands into pampered slumbers with manicures that use avocado oil and an exfoliation treatment, leaving paws as soft and smooth as a velveteen rabbit doling out pickup lines.