Take a Tour of Exhale Spa

The moment you step inside an Exhale Spa “urban oasis” you’ll feel miles away from the chaos. Exhale’s mantra is to revive and restore, and we think we could all use a little more R&R in our lives. Exhale takes you into a sanctuary of wellness and they’re treating everything from the mind to the toes. Luckily, Exhale has brought these havens to cities all over the country. Come along as we take a quick jaunt to all the Exhale locations, and click here to book a relaxing $50 Spa Week treatment at a location near you!

Now, take a deep breath and exhale. Let’s take a look at the gorgeous spas and workout studios:

Exhale Atlanta

Escape the hustle and bustle of the “Midtown Mile” at exhale Atlanta. Located on the seventh floor of the Loews Atlanta Hotel, this retreat offers a large mind body gym with top of the line cardio and weight equipment. An expansive spa area accommodates individuals and groups alike for face, body, and nail therapies. Guests enjoy use of the detoxifying coed hammam, well-amenitized changing rooms, sauna, and steam rooms, and complete their visits with a stop in the perfectly-stocked wellbeing boutique.

Exhale Boston – Back Bay

Centrally located in the city’s renowned Back Bay neighborhood, exhale’s original Boston flagship is an escape for Boston residents and city visitors alike. Guests relax and revive across the space, enjoying an inviting lobby lounge and fully-stocked boutique, zen-inspired spa therapy rooms, well-amenitized changing rooms, a dramatic temple-like yoga studio, and a light-filled Core Fusion studio.

Exhale Boston – Battery Wharf

Situated within the Fairmont Battery Wharf, exhale’s second Boston flagship is the destination for wellness on the waterfront. A full schedule of Core Fusion and yoga classes are taught in two inspiring studio spaces. Guests enjoy views of the water from several of the light-filled therapy rooms, including the couples room. A detoxifying coed hammam, calming zen lounge, relaxing sauna, and well-amenitized changing rooms complete the restorative experience.

Exhale Chicago

Exhale Chicago enjoys a top location in the heart of Chicago’s historic Gold Coast. Guests relax and restore in the eucalyptus steam room, zen lounge, and changing rooms, which offer private daily lockers, showers, and grooming amenities. The location’s wellbeing boutique stocks an assortment of workout and skincare products.

Exhale Dallas

Centrally located next to the Hotel Palomar, exhale’s Dallas flagship is this southern city’s destination for wellbeing. An expansive suite of spa therapy rooms accommodates a full menu of face and body offerings. Guests begin and culminate their restorative experiences in fully appointed changing rooms featuring private daily lockers, showers, and a eucalyptus steam room.

Exhale Stamford

Embrace wellness on the waterfront at this mind body studio location in downtown Stamford, CT. A luxury training gym encourages guests to enhance their routine with use of superior cardio and weight equipment. Fully appointed changing rooms and a thoroughly-merchandised wellbeing boutique add both comfort and convenience to each visit.

Exhale Miami

Perched on the sun-filled floors of the dramatic EPIC Hotel and Residences in downtown Miami, exhale Miami is the ultimate wellbeing destination for spa and fitness. The flagship location has Core Fusion and yoga studios which afford guests dramatic city and water views. An expansive mind body gym enhances the workout experience, and a full floor of spa therapy rooms caters to individuals and groups alike. A detoxifying hammam, hip zen lounge, and infrared sauna are enjoyed by guests both before and after class and spa.

Exhale Santa Monica

Nestled within the luxurious Fairmont Miramar Hotel and Bungalows, the intimate exhale Santa Monica studio and spa offers the perfect Pacific coast getaway for hotel guests and LA residents alike. The space boasts a full menu of spa therapies, with many available poolside as well as in-spa. Guests relax before and after class and therapies in the quiet lounge or in the well-amenitized changing rooms, which feature a steam room, sauna, lockers, and showers.

Exhale NYC – Upper East Side

Located in New York City’s Upper East Side overlooking prestigious Madison Avenue, exhale’s original location features a dedicated yoga studio and two Core Fusion barre studios, allowing for an unparalleled daily class schedule. The spa amenities are equally robust – guests enjoy multiple therapy rooms, a peaceful zen lounge, and lockers stocked with robes and slippers in fully-amenitized changing rooms. This soothing space showcases the true exhale experience.

 

Exhale NYC – Meatpacking District

Situated within the Hotel Gansevoort in Manhattan’s vibrant Meatpacking District, this intimate boutique location offers guests the perfect sampling of the exhale experience. A Core Fusion studio hosts a full schedule of exhale’s original barre class in addition to yoga classes. Calm the mind and body before or after class or therapy by relaxing in the over-sized herbal steam room or one of three unique hydrotherapy pools.

 

Exhale NYC – Gramercy

Tucked away inside the chic Gansevoort Park Avenue hotel, exhale’s newest Manhattan location brings the best in fitness and spa to travelers and NYC residents alike. Guests can experience a Core Fusion or yoga class in the glass-walled studio overlooking Park Avenue South. An intimate mind body gym rounds out the wellness offerings.

Exhale NYC – Midtown

 

Situated on Central Park South just across from Central Park, exhale’s flagship Midtown location is the perfect New York City respite. The space features a sanctuary-like yoga studio and a skylit Core Fusion studio. An expansive spa wing accommodates facials, massages, waxing, and acupuncture, and two dedicated nail rooms provide the best in manicures and pedicures. Large, well-amenitized changing rooms offer showers, private lockers, steam rooms, and luxe, private label products, which can be purchased from the location’s fully-stocked wellbeing boutique.

See the full list of Exhale Spa Week locations with their contact information.

Emily Giffin’s Where We Belong: Teaser!

We got the priviledge of getting our hands on the next Emily Giffin book and once I did I couldn’t get my hands off of it! I read it cover to cover on a roundtrip flight. I even had the flight attendent say, “Ooh is that the next one? How is it?” So, how was it? Here’s my quick teaser for Where We Belong.

Marian Caldwell is a thirty-six year old television producer, living it up in Manhattan. She seems like the perfect version of how I’d like to see myself; the New York City dream. She has the perfect boyfriend that reminds me of Big from Sex and the City – only likeable. But Marian’s life isn’t as perfect as she portrays. One night Kirby Rose, an awkwad eighteen-year-old girl (a girl I more easily relate to) is the blast from the past that Marian thought she had left there. From the moment Kirby enters her picture perfect life, Marian’s life forever changes.

Of course, like any good Emily Giffin novel, there is more than one story. The chapters alternate from Marian’s first person account to Kriby’s. From Kirby’s point of view, the encounter throws her into a world of self discovery and acceptance. She is forced to grow up and find out who she is. Something everyone has at some point struggled with.

The story of the two women and their disconnected connection is both heart-felt and real. It’s a tale of life, love and the past and what happens when they all meet. It left me evaluating where it is that I belong. Also, I immediately called my mother.

In addition to loving her new book (on shelves July 24th), we loved hanging out with Emily at the 2012 Sping Spa Week Media Party. And besides her time, she’s also letting us borrow some of her favorite things, and we’re giving them away! There is STILL time to enter for your chance to win a prize package worth over $2,500 – all hand picked by Emily herself!

 

Giveaway: We’ll Trade You More Spa For Your Spa Stories

We hope you haven’t fallen too badly into a post-spa depression (PSD) because Spa Week Spring 2012 has officially ended. But cheer up buttercup because the spa-rty isn’t over yet! There’s an after party going on and you’re invited! The celebration continues with hundreds of spas extending their #50dollartreatments. We’re also inviting you to share your spa stories, because what better way to relive your spa experience than by taking a walk down memory lane (or a soak, scrub or massage down wellness gain)? Reliving your spa treatment could also do more than take you back to that euphoric place, it could get you back to the spa – for free!

We bet you shared your experience with family and friends but now WE want to hear! Whether you went for a microdermabrasion that you had to Google before you booked, or you left behind some unwanted years during an anti-aging treatment, or just if you got firmed, wrapped, polished, soaked, massaged, Botoxed or detoxed… we want to know all the steamy details!

THE CONTEST

Tell us about one of your $50 Spa Week experiences. Photos and videos are encouraged! But not mandatory.

Your story can be as short as two lines with a photo, or as long as 400 words describing your decadent spa day in full. Or – if you have a blog of your own, you can post about it on there and send us the link. Be sure to include the name of the spa, the city and state, and the treatment(s) you received. You may submit more than one story. Stories MUST be from Spa Week Spring 2012.

THE PRIZE

The top 5 favorite blog-worthy stories will be published on Spa Week Daily, and each of the 5 winners will receive a $50 Spa & Wellness Gift Card by Spa Week to put towards their next spa visit!

Gift Cards are redeemable at 5,000+ spas nationwide, all year-round, and never expire.

DETAILS

DEADLINE: Sunday, April 29th at 11:59 PM EST
SUBMIT TO: daily(at)spaweekmedia(dot)com with subject line: MY SPA STORY

Do not write your story in the comments section of this post. Winners will be notified via email. All submissions are subject to being edited and published on Spa Week Daily.

Giveaway: What Do Wine & iPads Have in Common?

Nothing really. Although you should demonstrate caution when operating an iPad while consuming wine, in particular the intoxicated use of Facebook, Twitter and any form of instant messaging. (Friends don’t let friends drink and use social media.) But the one thing the two do have in common is that our ingeniously delicious 2012 Spring Spa Week wine sponsor Rioja Wine wants to give away one! Whether you’ve been whining for an iPad or could just use some wining and dining, Rioja wants to help!

Rioja offers nothing but a truly inspired collection of wines and they also want to offer a lucky winner the choice of a Rioja Wine Dinner for 2 or an iPad2 (I have one and its name is iCan’tLiveWithout and I take it everywhere).

Enter to win!

Rioja wines are aged at the refinery so you don’t have to wait to enjoy them, and thank goodness because we enjoyed several bottles (tons) at the Spa Week Media Party last week. Guests flocked to keep their glasses bottomless and Rioja poured wine all night.

 

Extreme Bride Weight Loss

Of course every bride wants to look her absolute best on her wedding day. There’s the standing up in front of all your family and friends in white, the photo evidence that may outlive your marriage and that dream dress that you just HAVE to fit into which you may have optimistically ordered a size (or two) too small. But how far would you go to make it fit?

You’ve heard of cleanses and detoxes, but by way of a feeding tube? The New York Times recently released an article featuring a relatively unknown and controversial new weight loss plan that brides-to-be are choking down. The diet uses a tube that goes through the nose and down the esophagus into the stomach to provide all nourishment, with no carbohydrates, for 10 days, supplying around 800 calories a day. Body weight is lost quickly, at times alarmingly quickly, through ketosis, the state in which the body burns fat rather than sugar.

While the side effect may be weight loss, a lot of other side effects come with a diet this extreme. “Any extreme low-calorie diet is associated with side effects, kidney stones, dehydration, headaches,” said Dr. Louis Aronne, the director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Program at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. “If you lose muscle mass and water, what’s the point of that?”

This bridal accessory costs $1,500 for 10 days, which includes a screening and the equipment. There’s also the price of having to wear the tube in public. We think that trying on your final fitting with a tube down your nose seems unpleasant and won’t warrant the same joyful tears you would hope for.

For women looking for a healthier quick slim down try the following #50dollartreatments that won’t leave your bridal party questioning your mental state.

Adara Spa in Boston, MA

  • 50 Min Arasys Slimming Treatment
  • 60 Min Sudatonic Slimming Wrap

Cleansing Concepts in Westbury, NY

  • 60 Min Cleansing Concepts Exclusive Fit Body Wrap

Revive Spa in Duluth, GA

  • 45 Min Slimming Infrared Body Wrap with Cucumber and Green Tea Eye Treatment and 30 Min Reflexology Treatment with Sea Salt Foot Scrub and Aromatherapy
  • 45 Min Slimming Infrared Body Wrap with Cucumber and Green Tea Eye Treatment

Selah MediSpa & Wellness Center in Katy, TX

  • 60 Min Vibration Light Therapy Session with Dry Infrared Sauna

Spa Belle Vie in San Francisco

  • 90 Min Detox Body Slimming Wrap

The Beauty Clinic in Las Colinas, TX

  • 90 Min Aloe Vera and Seaweed Slimming Body Wrap

The Chocolate Day Spa in Costa Mesa, CA

  • 50 Min Arasys Ultimate Effortless Work-out Treatment

Vida Emanuel European Day Spa in Beverly Hills, CA

  • 50 Min Cellulite and Body Slimming Treatment

Wrapped In Wellness in Dallas, Ft. Worth, & Houston

  • 120 Min Express LA Slimming Wrap
  • 90 Min Sudatonic Infrared Weightloss Wrap

Yin Beauty & Arts Spa in New York, NY

  • 60 Min Lipo-Slimming Therapy or Infrared Pressotherapy Water Retention and Cellulite Reduction Treatment