halotherapy

Halotherapy is relaxing in an environment saturated with pink Himalayan salt, also known as a salt room. In halotherapy, the warmth gives off trace amounts of salt particles, enabling potassium, calcium, and iron into the air to treat the lungs and skin and relax the muscles. Glowing amber salt rooms can be found at a hydrotherapy spa, a studio spa with a backlit wall made of salt bricks, or a cave made of pink salt boulders.

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Hugh Spa

Los Angeles, CA

A women’s only spa in K-Town, Los Angeles, Hugh Spa is cute, cozy, and pretty. Go during nonbusy hours like a Wednesday evening, and you’ll practically have the place to yourself. In the wet spa, they have a steam room, salt hot tub, and a mugwort tea bath. In the dry room, they have an oxygen room, clay room, cold room, magnet infrared room, and salt room. There are also rest areas, eating tables, and vanities.

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Gardena Women Sauna

Gardena, CA

Women-only spa in Gardena, CA with a hot tub, warm tub, cold tub with salt, steam room, and cedar sauna. Upstairs, there is a clay room, jade room, and mud room. Also a dining table and a living room with Korean ladies watching goofy Korean shows.

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Century Spa

Los Angeles, CA

10/10 spa in K-town. A spacious hydrotherapy spa with extreme temp tubs, a cedar sauna, a eucalyptus steam room, and another steam room lined with hot stones. A Jim Jil Bang with more therapy rooms: a clay room, a cold room, a stone room, and a gold room. A two-level driving range, a full gym, and a Korean restaurant. It’s clean, tasteful, and an excellent recharge after the 2024 Conscious Life Expo.

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CJ Grand Spa

Northridge, CA
Time in the hot tub, steam room, cold plunge, and lounge, is my favorite type of spa night. I was so relaxed in this women’s area that I forgot to check out their co-ed therapy spaces: clay room, salt room, ice room, and jade meditation room.

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The Many Benefits of Salt Therapy

What is Halotherapy? Why is floating in Epsom saltwater so beneficial? And what does drinking Pink Himalayan saltwater do for the body? Here, I've researched the many wellness uses of salt, highlighting its mineral properties to understand how it can improve digestion, muscle, skin, respiratory, bone, brain, and heart health.

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Meditated in a Salt Cave

Santa Barbara, CA
The floors of Himalayan salt crushed under my feet as I explored the underground cave of pink boulders. For the 45 min salt cave experience, I laid back, listened to the meditative music, and calmly inhaled the room’s fine salt particles. I couldn’t decide whether to keep my eyes closed to zone out or look around as the amber light was just as soothing.

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Wi Spa

Los Angeles, CA
Wi Spa is a co-ed 24-hour Korean spa with four floors. The ground floor is the check-in, gym, and men’s spa. The second floor has multiple lounge areas, a restaurant, and five therapy rooms. The basement is the women-only spa with three pools, a steam room, a cedar sauna, a lounge, and a beauty shop. Don’t forget to check out their rooftop deck on top.

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Crystal Spa

Los Angeles, CA
The Korean culture’s got it right when it comes to spas. Crystal Spa also has a Mud Room, Salt Room, Cool Room, Cedar Sauna, Steam Room, pools, and more. After a sleepless night, I tried this place out and felt well-rested and calm with super soft skin.

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New Years at the Grand Spa

Los Angeles, CA

The square footage at the Grand Spa is a bit smaller than other Korean spas in Los Angeles but its cozy vibes make up for it. With its futuristic lighting, great wet spa, and cozy reclining chairs, I feel like I‘m visiting a rich aunt who has everything. It’s perfect for easing tension and welcoming positive energy for the new year.

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Halotherapy at Aqua Float

Happy Valley, OR
Imagine sitting in a full body massage chair that's situated amongst glowing Himalayan salt bricks where you breathe in a fine dusting of pure ancient healing salt to restore your respiratory system.

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Infrared Jade Sauna Cocoon at FLOATWELL

Vancouver, WA
It’s not really a sauna, it is a vibrating platform in a warm cocoon lined with jade stones, red LED light therapy and Himalayan salt particles. After 30 minutes, I came out feeling rejuvenated and grateful for FloatWell’s women-owned values.

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Descanso Garden Spa

Tujunga, CA
Descanso Garden Spa has really nice staff. The women’s spa has a steam room, cedar sauna, hot tub, cold plunge, and lounge. The upstairs community space has many therapy rooms. There are several nap rooms, a salt room, a cold room, a germanium room, an oxygen room, and a room of yellow soil and charcoal, all perfect for meditation.

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