While it doesn't provide the discomfort and high ticket prices associated with an airport pat-down, a massage is still an effective tool for discovering concealed knives and small firearms. Prove you’re not packing in the most relaxing way with today’s Groupon. For $45, you get a massage of your choice at Sunlight Day Spa in Overland Park (an up to $95 value). You can also use your Groupon toward $95 of other spa services. Either way, you'll also get 20% off your second trip to Sunlight Day Spa's luxurious, spacious environs.

After luxuriating in Sunlight Day Spa's opulent extras—a rose-petal footbath, a relaxation room, comfy robes, complimentary beverages, and hidden loudspeakers that shout at you to relax whenever you look nervous—you'll be ready for your massage of choice. Sunlight Day Spa specializes in Asian massage techniques, displayed to full effect with its Om massage ($80), which uses long connecting strokes and aromatherapy oils to create a positively enlightening level of relaxation. If the Om doesn't cure your body's samsara, a Release massage ($95) will ease pains and chronic tension by focusing on deep muscle and connective tissue. The muscle-melting Hot Stone massage ($95), meanwhile, might bring back happy memories of the stress-free week spent trapped under a volcanic boulder.

Today's Groupon is also good for any massages lasting less than an hour. Make it slightly less likely that you'll hurt yourself at the next bear-wrestling match with Recover ($75 for 45 minutes), a full-body sports massage that combines stretching techniques, joint-mobility exercises, and long, deep strokes. Pre-Natal Relief ($85 for 50 minutes), on the other hand, reduces swelling, back pain, joint stiffness, and other side effects of bringing new joy into the world—getting mothers-to-be past the only time in a newborn's life that will ever cause them to lose sleep.

Those with muscles already sufficiently loosened by dread of the postmodern predicament can use today's Groupon on Sunlight Day Spa's wide range of non-massage services. Opt for a new suit of rejuvenated skin with a facial or microdermabrasion (both $95 for face and neck). Sunlight Day Spa's Infrared Sauna Therapy ($35 for 30 minutes), meanwhile, lets you melt out pain, fatigue, high blood pressure, arthritis, and a bunch of other bugaboos. Sunlight Day Spa also offers a range of treatments specifically for the estrogen deprived, including waxing, skin care, hand details, and golfer-specific massages.

Sunlight Day Spa's ample services, pristine setting, and numerous little luxuries make it a well-chosen venue for that long-delayed girls' night out, as well as an unexpected alternate setting for your next income-tax consultation. Call ahead to make your appointment.

Reviews

Citysearchers give Sunlight Day Spa a near-perfect 4.5 stars, and Insider Pages users give it four.

• From the rose petal foot bath while sipping champagne from a fluted glass, to the one hour full body massage, it was a long overdue treat to myself. The heated sauna chamber released my tensions from a stressful week. On a cold wintery day what better way to ward off the winter blues!? The staff was welcoming, courteous and very professional as well. From the moment I stepped through the doors I felt a sense of calmness. – Odree O., Citysearch
• Finally, a spa with wonderful service, attentive staff AND a beautiful facility. I've had too many massages in basement or cluttered space, so it was a breath of fresh air to walk into the spacious, airy spa. Lucky me, I had a package: a just-the-right-pressure massage, a facial that my skin loved and a sauna visit. – Carrie P., Insider Pages