Watertown, MA Spa and Massage

Help relieve your body and mind with today’s side deal: $50 for a $100 craniosacral therapy session at JP Healing, located just outside Boston.

Being acknowledged feels good. That’s why owner Rosaline Lowe strives to personally greet each customer who enters her spa. It's just one of many personal touches that await clients who come in for one of Rosaline's much lauded facials, during which detailed consultations help the skincare expert indentify the particular needs of each complexion. For dry, aging skin, she may recommend an organic blueberry-and-honey facial, which plumps fine lines with moisture, while patients with uneven tone may see her pointing toward the oil-thwarting powers of kojic and lactic acids, which can help fight breakouts and discoloration.

Rosaline's uncanny ability to pinpoint the ails of differing skin types stems from a lengthy career that includes training at Edith Serei Academy in Canada, and more than 23 years at the helm of Rosaline SkinCare & Spa. In addition to personalized pampering, Rosaline and her staff also dish out shea-butter body wraps, waxing strips, massages, and the spa’s own line of all-natural cosmetic products.

Mount Auburn Club strives to be a one-stop shop for fitness, wellness, and recreation. Members can sweat as they cheer on their favorite infomercials in the cardio theater, plunge into the salt-filtrated lap pool, or practice their tennis strokes out on 11 indoor and outdoor courts, which were featured on the Tennis Channel. Professional fitness instructors pump upbeat music for more than 90 group fitness classes each week, from Les Mills classes such as BodyPump to spinning and Zumba. The mind/body classes include five styles of yoga, tai chi, and ballet barre. Joint-friendly aquatics classes take place in the four-lane, 75-foot-long lap pool overlooking the gardens and deck. Swimmers can recover in the whirlpool after practicing their synchronized doggy paddling.

The club's personal trainers help members map out fitness plans centered on achieving their personal goals. After they've worked out on equipment such as TRX Suspension Training bands or BOSU balls, exercisers can head to the café for one of Chef Julio's healthful creations or submit themselves to the spa team’s capable hands for massages, facials, and other pampering treatments.

Nine out of 10 older brothers recommend that the best way to alleviate bodily pain is to punch some other part of your body. Today's deal gives you a more effective alternative: for $45, new clients get a one-hour massage at Sollievo Massage and Bodywork in Cambridge (an $80 value). You must redeem your Groupon within five months. Call ahead or go online to schedule your appointment.

Balanced Health’s team of benevolent manipulators spreads its skills across several massage modalities—including deep-tissue, sports, Swedish, prenatal, oncology, and shiatsu —to release tension and rehabilitate stress-induced injuries. The hands of an experienced therapist glide across backs like a swan ice-skating across a pond, drawing stress away with every stroke. Opt for a Swedish massage to bask in firm, measured pressure that unfurls knotted tissues and refolds them into origami kittens that paw lovingly at muscles long after the hour ends. Alternatively, a therapeutic sports session stretches soft tissue and outfits joints with factory-fresh pairs of Air Jordans.

The licensed massage therapists at Bliss Massage Studio begin each treatment by lathering muscles, limbs, and shoulders with Lotus Oil lotions and oils (and using a nut-free oil for clients with allergies). It's an important step, since the oils help the therapists knead away stress with light-touch Swedish strokes and relieve pain with the more focused pressure of deep-tissue massage. The massages are a convenient way to escape from the pressures of work or school, especially since the studio offers 30-minute lunch-break massages and isn’t located in the center of the barren Siberian plain.