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"Get away for a day"
Source: Chatelaine.com, June 2008
Bet you didn’t know that getting blitzed with the girls could be healthy and inexpensive? Centrally located and surrounded by hip restaurants, body blitz is the country’s first authentic water spa for women. For under $50 you can spend the day luxuriating in the spa’s therapeutic waters catching up with the girls. READ FULL REVIEW
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"Get spoiled"
Source: Toronto Life, June 2008
First-class pampering at cut-rate prices: Hippocrates, who discovered the healing powers of seawaters after inspecting its magical effects on fishermen’s hands, would approve of the therapeutic waters at body blitz. Begin your $35 spa day by wading through the mineral-replenishing 38-foot centerpiece pool with its 24 hydrotherapy jets, handcrafted limestone waterfall and unrefined salt from the Dead Sea. READ FULL REVIEW
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"Best Detox Spas"
Source: Flare.com, January 2008
If time is of the essence, and a weeklong getaway is simply not possible then head to Toronto’s body blitz spa. A quick little day pass gives you access to their warm sea salt pool, hot green tea pool and cold plunge pools, as well as their aromatherapy steam room and showers. READ FULL REVIEW
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"Soak it up"
Source: Wish Magazine, March 2008
The body blitz water spa is a great place to go with your girlfriends and get naked, have fun and relax. I like the water treatment – you go into the mineral springs, then freezing cold water, then the sauna and then the steam room. READ FULL REVIEW
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"City Survivor"
Source: Toronto Life, April 2008
Yasmin Warsame – Toronto’s supermodel picks the 10 things she can’t live with out. 1. Body Blitz Spa. I get the body mud treatment ($140) and in the winter, the exfoliating treatment ($90) because my skin gets dry. But best of all are the pools, filled with therapeutic waters. READ FULL REVIEW
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"The soothing touch"
Source: WHERE Magazine, January 2008
Recharge your batteries in luxury with revitalizing treatments from the city’s top spas. Body blitz spa ~ For melting your troubles on a crisp fall afternoon, there’s nothing like sliding into a bubbling pool of warm water. The journey at this women-only aqua-therapy spa doesn’t end there. READ FULL REVIEW
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"You’ll be thankful the spa offers memberships"
Source: LOULOU Magazine, March 2007
Based on the age-old practice of water therapy, body blitz is the city’s only women-only water spa and boasts three pools (warm sea salt, hot green tea and a cold plunging pool), an aromatherapy steam room and an infrared sauna. Aside from the pools, body blitz’s menu includes mud and massage treatments and scrubs… READ FULL REVIEW
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"Indulgences: the healing power of water"
Source: sugarshockbeauty.com, April, 2008
This weekend, I had the pleasure of partaking in some long-overdue time with my girls. But instead of opting for the usual brunch or shopping excursion, we hit body blitz, a therapeutic water spa in Toronto. This isn't any old spa … READ FULL REVIEW
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"The perfect spaaah!"
Source: Alive Magazine, September 2007
The body blitz spa in Toronto is all about healing with water. Their “get blitzed! therapeutic waters card” allows you five visits—with the sixth free—for about $200. Use it yourself or share with a friend. The card allows access to various mineral pools … READ FULL REVIEW
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"Self Improvement: 9 Steps to a New You"
Source: National Post, August 2007
Fall is quickly approaching. Sad, but true. Soon the days of lazily lounging on patios will be far behind us. Instead, we’ll be cooped up in our offices, noses back to those grindstones. But don’t despair! There are ways to prepare for the end of summer, and the months ahead. READ FULL REVIEW
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"Urban Spa: A Woman’s Quest"
Source: Health Source Magazine, July 2007
Visiting the spas of Italy, France and Germany became a habit that Canadian entrepreneur Laura Polley just couldn’t get out of her system – she knew she had to bring this spa uniqueness to Canada. READ FULL REVIEW
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"Best spa in the city"
Source: NOW Magazine ~ Best of Toronto 2006
Body blitz took Toronto spa culture to a whole new level this year with its luxurious water bath circuit. Pools are spiked with sea salt and green tea, and a dip is usually followed by a spa service... READ FULL REVIEW
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"Soaking in the city, spa treatments sure to delight"
Source: Anne Dimon, Ontario Travel Discoveries ~ Winter 2006/2007
Except for spa-centric Scottsdale, Arizona, Toronto 'takes a bath' to no other North American City when it comes to spas. In the King Street West neighbourhood, the for-women-only Body Blitz Spa is a contemporary take on a traditional ritual. In this newly spiffed-up former warehouse, Asian scrubs meet the European bathing concept... READ FULL REVIEW
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"Body Blitz Spatastic!"
Source: http://suite101.com Mary Luz Mejia, Dec 2006
Women in Europe and Asia have been "taking the waters" for centuries in their quest to detoxify, relax and promote well-being. Sleek, impeccably clean, and wonderfully welcoming, the Body Blitz Spa... READ FULL REVIEW
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"Splish, splash, she was taking a bath"
Source: Toronto Life-2006 Edition
Splish, splash, she was taking a bath-in a pool of 104-degree green tea? That's just one of the decadent treatments on offer at this stylish downtown spa... READ FULL REVIEW
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"Hen Party"
Source: Toronto Life-2006 Edition
Ladies looking to stage a stagette party can take the waters at Toronto's Body Blitz, Canada's first Urban Water Spa for Women... READ FULL REVIEW
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"Refresh: Spring Cleaning from the Inside Out"
Source: Eye Weekly, Damian Rogers, April 27, 2006
One of the few spas in Canada that focuses specifically on the health benefits of hydrotherapy, Body Blitz is the perfect place to hang out with a girlfriend for a few hours to catch up over a good shvitz... READ FULL REVIEW
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"Spa Heat"
Source: Where Magazine-February 2006
Why not try raising your body's core temperature with a trip to the spa? By applying heat directly to the body, the warmth penetrates from the outside in... READ FULL REVIEW
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"Remedial Action-Don't throw a hissy fit-blow off steam at a spa instead"
Source: Flare Magazine-November 2005
On the verge of any nervous breakdown, I often lose it on my boyfriend (sorry, babe). That's when I hightail it to the spa, and I'm not alone: 66 percent of us who go spa-trekking go to de-stress. Welcome Body Blitz... READ FULL REVIEW
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"This may be the best I've ever felt in my life"
Source: Now Magazine, Andrew Sardone, February 2006
Nothing will boost your poor creaky bod out of its February blahs like Body Blitz's body bake and beyond treatment... READ FULL REVIEW
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"You'll end up feeling cleansed and rejuvenated..."
Source: http://www.sweetspot.ca ~ November 22, 2005
We all know water is good for us. 'Drink More Water' has been on our resolution list since we partied like it was actually 1999. But did you know what soaking in it could do for you?... READ FULL REVIEW
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"As a working mother it was exactly what I needed!"
Source: http://www.sugarcainentertainment.com ~ November, 2005
From body scrubs, facial treatments and massage there is something on the menu for every type of woman. But do you dare share your blitz?... READ FULL REVIEW
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"Urban Oasis"
Source: FQ Magazine ~ Holiday 2005 Issue
Although it draws inspiration from the centuries-old traditions of Asian and European bathhouses, Toronto's Body Blitz Spa tempts weary women with a truly modern concept - a downtown water spa... READ FULL REVIEW
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"Bath Time"
Source: Daphne Gordon, Counter Culture, Toronto Star ~ November 24, 2005
Counter Culture has been blitzed. And we lived to tell the tale. After dipping a (perfectly pedicured) toe at a brand new women's bathhouse called Body Blitz, set to open to the public this weekend, we're a convert... READ FULL REVIEW
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"Talk of the town"
Source: Tralee Pearce, The Globe And Mail, Globe Toronto Section ~ November 26, 2005
Floating in the soothing, bubbling, warm saltwater pool at the women-only Body Blitz water spa, it's hard to imagine the place was born out of another kind of steam... READ FULL REVIEW
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"Time to drop the towel, women's spa proposes"
Source: Siri Agrell, National Post ~ Wednesday, November 23, 2005
The former offices of Eye Weekly have been transformed into a surreal chamber of bouncing light and softly falling water. Circular chandeliers hang above the pools, and the sand-coloured cement floors radiate their own heat.... READ FULL REVIEW
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"Modern and urban for Canadian women"
Source: http://www.discoverspas.com
The minute you walk through the door you will feel like you have left the city behind and entered an urban oasis." Body Blitz goes above and beyond breaking the mold of the traditional spa.... READ FULL REVIEW