Somersworth, NH Health and Fitness

Jody and Bjorn Turnquist opened 3 Bridges Yoga with the philosophy that yoga should warmly embrace practitioners of all skill levels. As a result, they offer Vinyasa-style classes for beginners and advanced yogis. The Turnquists and other certified instructors teach postures and breathing techniques in a room heated to 75-80 degrees with lessons that focus on basic postures and alignments in addition to more intensified bending. With sun streaming through expansive windows and spilling out onto cork floors, their studio lends itself to a practice more peaceful than swimming through a pool of warm chamomile tea.

Sacred Movement Yoga's owner Kristina turned to yoga to relieve the stress of too much weight, debt, and coffee and found that her stresses melted away in the face of a burgeoning yoga practice, inspiring her to share her life-management tool with others. Along with a team of experienced instructors, Kristina leads three levels of Vinyasa-style yoga classes, guiding students through sequences of athletic poses, connected by continuous, balance-testing movements and breaths. During dance-infused fitness classes, instructors use a ballet barre to stabilize students as they perform dynamic, ballet-style movements to sculpt lean muscle. Sacred Movement's resident massage therapist performs reiki, traditional massage, and Thai-yoga treatments for patrons seeking further treatment for physical, emotional, and spirit-animal-related tension.

Pamela Gerry became a registered nurse in 1975, but, for the duration of her career, she's been passionate about natural healing. After she spent time studying with the world's expert holistic healers, her husband survived a battle with squamous-cell carcinoma by relying solely on natural treatments, and she became convinced of the body's ability to heal itself. Her primary goal at Health Lyceum is to help patients attune themselves to what's going on inside their bodies, which she does through a variety of services, including consultations to build better health and colon-hydrotherapy treatments that flush out stubborn waste and ease constipation.

Though they flock to her for relief from their chronic aches and pains, licensed acupuncturist Jessica Peck knows that her patients sometimes have a difficult time around needles. The effort she has taken to mitigate these pretreatment jitters exemplifies her uncommon empathy. Her acupuncture rooms are notable for their wealth of household creature comforts, from the floral sheets that adorn each bed to decorative touches such as antique lamps and Victorian-era massage chairs. As these calming accents send patients into a state of profound relaxation, Jessica calls upon her expertise to restore harmony to the body’s internal systems with needles strategically placed along energy pathways. When she isn’t soothing headaches, sore muscles, or other maladies with acupuncture, Jessica sets minds and bodies at ease with cupping and other holistic therapies.

Apple Hill Golf Club entices golfers of all abilities with a 27-hole tapestry weaved into rolling, New Hampshire woodlands. The club’s 18-hole course meanders across 6,184 yards of wide, bermuda grass fairways and bentgrass greens flanked by ponds that come into play on more than half of the holes. Those looking to hone their short game can tee it up on the nine-hole, par 3 course, an 800-yard layout that duffers can complete in an efficient 45 minutes, enabling them to squeeze in a session before dark or in time to drop off their 9-iron at soccer practice.

During the summer, PGA professional Steve Lundquist utilizes the multifaceted grounds to host a junior golf academy, which grants pupils free play on the par 3 course throughout the season. Along with a wide selection of clubs, balls, clothes, and shoes available for purchase, the club’s pro shop curbs appetites with fresh sandwiches, drinks, and hot dogs that can be braided together to form fully functional putters.

Championship Course at a Glance:

• 18-hole, par 70 course
• Length of 6,184 yards from the farthest tees
• Course rating of 68.6 from the farthest tees
• Slope rating of 124 from the farthest tees
• Three tee options

Upon graduating from chiropractic school together in 1998, Doctors of Chiropractic Drew and Scottie Rae Lawrence pursued two very different professional paths. Drew, a preferred team chiropractor for the WNBA’s Tulsa Shock and world-class MMA fighters, relied on his training in nine different chiropractic techniques to tend to spines. Scottie Rae used her focus in anatomy to head women’s weight-loss and exercise facilities.

Today, the husband-and-wife duo oversees HealthSource of Tulsa, a clinic where Drew and Scottie Rae both perform chiropractic adjustments and weight-control treatments, including hCG injections and removing all the carbs from bread. Their cosmetic treatments include laser cellulite reduction, a process that uses laser light to contour bodies and shape curves, and in their spa, a licensed aesthetician performs body wraps and microdermabrasion.