Oviedo, FL Spa and Massage

Jai Michael Barry's massages are as relaxing as the new-age music he loves to create. That's because the founder of Ancient Art Massage & Bodywork, who has recorded three albums and played numerous benefit concerts in his other life as a songwriter, gets the little details right: the massages take place on heated tables and incorporate treatments ranging from ayurvedic aromatherapy to egyptian ear candling. It's also because his repertoire is so broad. Jai can spend a session relieving stress with Swedish techniques, treating head and back pain with craniosacral therapy, or manipulating the body's energy with reiki. He also leads meditation sessions on the night of each full moon.

Sun Cheaters Tanning & Waxing is owned and operated by a licensed aesthetician and medical assistant, who ensures that the studio’s beauty services also promote overall skin health. The staff offers in-studio and mobile airbrush tanning services for all skin types, using eco-certified organic DHA solutions infused with hyaluronic acid, green and white tea, lavender oil, aloe vera, and vanilla extract to moisturize and rejuvenate the skin. For hair removal, waxing specialists rid the face and body of unwanted hair with Satin Smooth cream wax, which works is more effective than hard wax, but doesn’t taste as nice as Oreo cream.

While massages can help alleviate built-up tension, they can also be used to restore muscles to their proper function after injuries or accidents. Specializing in both of these aspects of massage is therapist Renee Antoinette and her highly trained staff, who customize their strokes to carefully stretch out limbs aching from poor posture or one too many Muppet presentations of Anna Karenina. Renee also has training in Eastern techniques, manipulating heads and faces with Indian, Japanese, and Thai strokes that blend stretching with ayurvedic oils and aromatherapy to bring about deep relaxation.

Longwood Healing Center and Spa's specialists use holistic methods to usher their patients toward personal beauty and wellness goals. Acupuncture, hormone therapy, and massage stimulate misaligned body systems to help improve clients' internal maladies. A variety of laser therapies is also available for body contouring and help with smoking cessation by distracting cigarette-delivery cats. Eschewing the use of drugs or surgery, the clinic aims to help visitors live a less toxic, less painful existence while helping them remain looking young.

Dr. Damon Thornton has called central Florida home for more than 43 years. After graduating with honors from Parker College of Chiropractic, he opened this clinic with the hopes of assuaging pain and boosting health in his own backyard. His office specializes in chiropractic care, which differentiates itself from other branches of medicine by seeking to treat the whole body rather than simply squashing symptoms as they arise. A variety of services, including physical therapy and spinal decompression, aims to realign the body’s operating system to alleviate chronic pain and uninstall unwanted Sudoku apps. Dr. Thornton also hopes to fend off health issues before they start through nutritional counseling. In addition to overseeing a lineup of facial and body rejuvenation services, he supervises a team of licensed massage therapists, who treat soft muscle tissues to the revitalizing touch of massage and bodywork.

Jade Salon & Day Spa’s crew of beautification and relaxation specialists pampers clients with facials, massages, waxing treatments, and hair and nail services. Stylists transform tresses among the black leather couches, exposed-brick walls, and large plants of a soothing spa oasis where massage therapists melt muscles the way a flock of baby dragons melts the heart.