Ocala, FL Spa and Massage

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.

James M. Scholes, the lead staffer at Amache Day Spa and Wellness Center, has trained for more than 1,200 hours in massage and body treatments. His services may enhance athletes’ performance or ameliorate injuries, including knee injuries and eyelash entanglements. Scholes treats aches with a variety of massage modalities—helping to release accumulated muscular tension with deep-tissue massage, and rejuvenating the corpus with relaxing strokes and an application of heat during Swedish massages with hot stones. In addition to massages, Scholes issues body treatments such as a Dead Sea salt exfoliation treatment, which removes defunct cells and leaves bodies smooth and glowing.

Licensed massage therapist Marcy Lynne Allen understands clients face a daunting task in carving out free time, so she helps them out by scheduling most of her appointments for the evening and weekend. Working out of the Blakely House, she tailors each session with differing modalities, drawing largely upon Swedish and deep-tissue techniques. With the long, gliding strokes of Swedish massage, Marcy applies light to medium pressure, relieving tension while also stimulating circulation and lymphatic movement. She then targets areas of chronic pain with deep-tissue work, excavating tension and valuable rubies buried in muscles' deepest layers.

Along with a license in massage therapy and a certification in personal training, Julie Hollwedel has practiced chiropractic techniques for more than three years. Julie is trained in medical massage, active isolated stretching, deep-tissue work, and structural energetic therapy. Her wide range of expertise allows her to combine different techniques when catering to the needs of each client. She also offers relaxation, therapeutic, prenatal, and hot-stone massage to relax and balance the body. Additionally, she sloughs off dead skin and living dead skin with salt scrubs, nourishes appendages with paraffin treatments, and delights olfactory systems with aromatherapy as supplements to massage sessions.

The stylists at Sands Salon revamp patrons’ manes using bowls of hair dye and gleaming scissors. They also add pops of color to fingernails during manicures and remove unwanted fuzz with warm wax.

Pampered Touch Therapeutic Massage’s licensed massage therapist, Valen Burke, seeks to relieve stress, alleviate pain, and help the body heal via soothing massage therapy. She employs various degrees of pressure with smooth, gliding strokes to work tension from tissue and promote relaxation. Gentle kneads loosen tightly tied muscle knots, and heated stones warm melt away soreness. A variety of massage modalities cater to the particular malaise of clients such as expectant mothers, couples, sore athletes, and overextended mascots.