Activating your breath plays a crucial role in meditation, movement, and relaxation, and is a powerful tool for managing stress and enhancing performance. By cultivating mindful breathing, we can unlock physical and mental benefits, from calming the body to improving endurance, mental clarity, and overall well-being.

Blue Spaces enhance urban environments by supplying the natural element of water. They improve air and water quality, support biodiversity, and provide concentrated healing. Blue Spaces also bring forth opportunities for recreation, relaxation, and social interaction, contributing to a higher quality of life and making cities more livable and resilient.

Healing from Crohn’s disease brings me back to my days of traveling. With the freedom of wellness, I feel inspired to make destination goals and Hamburg, Germany is the first on the list. A quick research this weekend opened up several spas and float centers that I would like to relax in.

Los Angeles, CA

The Spa Palace is a 24 hr hydrotherapy spa in the K-town area of Los Angeles, CA. There is separate spas for men and women and a co-ed area with therapy rooms, resting areas, and a restaurant. I wasn’t planning on doing a spa review but I’m glad I checked this spa out, I highly recommend it.

A sugar scrub exfoliates, removing dirt, dead skin cells, and a stale layer of skin. I had sugar packets that I never use so I thought I’d whip up a sugar scrub that I learned from working at a women’s hydrotherapy spa. With a self-love meditation, it’s easy, satisfying, and rejuvenating for a fresh new you.

A towel meditation draws healing benefits from nature therapy, meditation therapy, energy therapy, beauty therapy, hydrotherapy, and sauna therapy. Simply lay in the sun, protect your skin, stay hydrated, and activate cod mode.

From traditional uses in spas to medical discoveries, a bouquet of Eucalyptus provides many physical, mental, emotional, and environmental benefits. Something so simple as putting Eucalyptus leaves in your shower helps with respiratory, skin, and muscle health and can protect you from harmful bacteria. It's like a really beneficial decoration and it happened to be beautiful, plentiful, store-bought, safe, and simple, how charming is that?

Naps, waves, and surfers. The southern California coast is a wonderful spot to rest, meditate, and enjoy hydrotherapy from the immense beauty of the Pacific Ocean

Los Angeles, CA

Grand Spa in K-town, a 24-hour women’s only spa, great for soaking, sweating, and rejuvenating for the new year. Before the spa, I stopped by Porto’s and the Griffith Observatory with Stirbee.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Seattle, WA
With 15 minutes in a 157° F infrared sauna and 1 minute in a 45° F cold plunge, I feel like I discovered an advanced spa treatment that cleared my depression, erased my shoulder pain, and brightened my complexion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I’ve noticed that my thoughts differ when I meditate in a sauna vs an ice room. In this meditation, I visualize going through different spa spaces, tuning into my body, and sharing subtle characteristics in tension-releasing, mental shifts, and energetic qualities.

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.