Miami Beach, FL Spa and Massage

Angel Orozco is as well traveled as he is knowledgeable—not that the two qualities developed separately. The licensed massage therapist and board-certified holistic health counselor has learned ancient healing techniques from teachers in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and India. Along with his licensed staff, he incorporates those lessons into spa and wellness treatments at BodySense. The result is that the center offers an impressive range of massage styles—20 total in fact—from Thai and postpartum to a honey body massage that exfoliates skin with lemon and caraway-enriched honey.

The rest of BodySense's service menu is a hybrid of Western and Eastern approaches. Acupuncture sits side by side with a treatment that combines medical massage and electrotherapy. Gerard's organic skincare products power facial treatments such as the caviar and soy facials. To help clients control the most important factor influencing their health besides whether or not they're napping in a catapult with a rusty old safety, BodySense creates custom weight-loss programs, which provide participants with nutritional counseling, massages, body treatments, and exercise classes.

Caruna Spa & Wellness Center features a slew of services for the beauty-conscious to preen and revivify. Microdermabrasion, laser hair removal, eyelash extensions, and facials smooth skin and instill a healthy glow; body treatments such as wraps, VelaShape laser body contouring, and vibrotherapy help firm and tone physiques. The staff also administers Botox and Juvederm injections, which smooth and plump facial creases for an appearance as young and dewy as a freshly hatched daisy. The spa's interior boasts an airy modern design by Pepe Calderin, with white spaces accented by splashes of color, and tranquil wall-size murals and soft candlelight in private treatment rooms.

A&S Natural Massage's team of licensed massage therapists and aesthetic experts heals musculature and noninvasively enhances silhouettes through services including laser therapy and body contouring. Within the confines of Salonz Beauty Suites, spa therapists greet guests with a consultation, assessing each client's goals to recommend the best course of treatment. Technicians can then tauten physiques by harnessing radio frequencies, ultrasound, or blow dryers, while muscle masons relieve tensed sinews with modalities ranging from Swedish massage to trigger-point therapy.

When husband-and-wife team Ernesto and Julie set out on their own in 2007, they were gambling on the fact that they could turn a fragile dream into a full business. Their initial lone employee has been replaced by seven in just one year, and the crew bustle through a salon that has the gleaming white expanses of a medical facility, but without the egocentric skeleton models. Patrons, who receive reminder text messages or emails before each appointment, arrive ready to work towards aesthetic goals with products from Obagi, Juvéderm, and Botox and a range of facial services. As massage services lure forth slow exhalations, the staff herald the arrival of new guests with cups of tea.

The massage therapists at My Derma Clinic Day Spa help to massage away cellulite with the noninvasive radial shock-wave therapy of the Cellupulse system. Demonstrated on The Doctors television program, each 30- to 45-minute session deploys sound and pressure waves into the connective tissues that cause dimples to form on the arms, stomach, back of thighs, front of thighs, rear, and most golf balls. The FDA-approved procedure improves skin's appearance three-fold by increasing collagen production, restoring elasticity, and stimulating blood and lymph circulation. Customers who purchase multiple Groupons can opt to treat multiple areas in the same visit, and Groupon customers can purchase future treatments for the same price as the initial Groupon. Treatments typically yield optimal results after 6–12 sessions, with new skin smoothness usually sticking around for 6–12 months.

Conveniently situated in a new facility near 5th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, iDo Holistic Center bolsters patient wellness with an ozonated environment and their house specialty, Japanese shiatsu. Also termed acupressure, shiatsu massages apply manual pressure to key surface points tied to the central nervous system, fostering harmony within the body. Before each shiatsu treatment, therapists empirically examine patients’ appearances, odors, and bodily sounds for signs of disharmony, such as stomach gurgles that mimic blues guitar. Gentle Swedish and more intense deep-tissue massages complete the kneading offerings, which can soothe individuals or relax duos in romantic couples rooms. Staffers can augment massages with treatments such as Japanese acupuncture, which uses finer and gentler needles than its mainstream Chinese cousin, and reiki, which aligns body and mind with healing energy. The onsite herbal sauna, perfumed by Japanese herbs, glows with infrared light as it helps boost oxygen flow by dilating inhabitants’ blood vessels.