Treating oneself to a massage, like finding a missing couch covered in beloved childhood toys, brings the body back to long-forgotten feelings of comfort. Exercise your favorite muscle memories with today's Groupon: for $30, you get a 55-minute relaxation massage at Body By Design in the North Hills, just minutes from Ross Park Mall (a $60 value).
Owner, operator, and Pittsburgh School of Pain Management graduate Heather Wimbish guides the de-stressing sails of Body By Design, helping to decompress minds and muscles through trigger-point therapy, pain-management practices, and personalized massage treatments. The therapeutic relaxation massage can be customized to best fit the client's needs and favorite state-quarter designs. As muscles yield their aches and stresses to the therapist's gentle hand movements, a complimentary suite of oils and creams further soothe the nose with pleasant aromas. To best tailor your soothesperience, feel free to disclose your body's skin sensitivities, allergies, or aversions to specific fragrances prior to the procedure.
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The Groupon Guide to: Bird Watching
There's nothing more peaceful than spending a day in a forest observing birds feeding their young or building a nest out of discarded pizza crusts. Before you embark on your next bird-spying mission, brush up on the basics:
- Packing light ensures you'll have plenty of space to bring birds home with you, which makes future bird-watching trips as easy as letting them out of your backpack so they can hover around your basement.
- Learn birdcalls to dupe the birds into coming to you. Birds usually won't approach you because the sight of a human reminds them that some of their ancestors once betrayed their avian roots by evolving into featherless, flightless homunculi.
- Binoculars will become your best friend on the trip, as your actual best friend will likely be pricked by a bird's razor-like, toxin-producing stinger. If your binoculars are encased in a tumbled-leather protector, clutching them in a moment of fear will feel no different that clutching your friend, should he or she have been heavily tanned.
- Record your findings using the field guide, either by writing in the margins or ripping out the pages to create a papier-mâché cast of its body.
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