Indigenous Rituals
With its wind-swept coastline and world-class fairway, the Pebble Beach resort in Monterey, California, is a natural draw for golfers, celebrities, and others accustomed ...
Applying oil to the scalp has been recognized as a powerful ritual throughout history. Moses’s brother Aaron, of Old Testament fame, was doused with oil, signifying ...
By the second day of my vacation at the luxurious Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur, California, I was still experiencing the chronic anxiety and irritability I had gone ...
The World of Jo Malone recently unveiled the Kohdo Wood Collection—two limited edition fragrances created as modern interpretations of Kohdo, the ancient Japanese ...
According to Dave Tomlinson, LMT, CST-D, an instructor for the Upledger Institute in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, the craniosacral system, “is the environment ...
I didn’t have a name for it back then. I just knew it felt good. When the stress of New York City got to be too much, I’d head to the Lower East Side, to Chinatown, ...
Around the world, diverse cultures have embraced physical and spiritual cleansing through the practice of sweat lodge ceremonies. In Alberta, outfitters are offering ...
Vancouver-based Sherina Jamal draws upon her Indian and East African heritage plus local and global natural ingredients for her Ancient Secrets spa products. “My ...
This scenario and others like it, take place weekly in every village and city of Morocco and other Islamic countries. Known as a hammam, these locales are a series ...
As part of my spring body polish, Amy, my spa therapist, gently scrubs my road-weary body with sea salt, essential oils, and flecks of blessed thistle that she ...
A temazcal is a traditional Aztec sweat lodge, a small adobe, brick, or stone hut that is filled with intense heat and steam to detoxify the body, while the building’s ...
