Refresh: Spring Cleaning from the Inside Out
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.
For $45, you get unlimited access to the therapeutic waters, which is a circuit of three pools, a eucalyptus steam room and an infra-red sauna. The largest of the pools is the central one, which is filled with warm, bath-temperature salt water and boasts jets, underwater lights and a waterfall (we like to sit with our ass hovering over the warm lamp bulbs while water cascades over our shoulders). The antioxidant rich hot green tea pool is a favorite, too, and it more than makes up for the brutality of plunging into the icy cold-water pool (which, admittedly, feels fantastic once you leap out after 60 seconds). The atmosphere is remarkably unpretentious, so even after a couple circuits and a lounge by the pools sipping an ayurvedic tea and noshing on a little bar of dark chocolate, you won't feel like you have to complain about how hard it is to find good help these days just to feel at home.
If your looking for a little more hands-on attention, invest in the Body Bake & Beyond ($195), which starts with a soothing exfoliation body wash and scrub with the spas custom made eucalyptus-mineral body scrub, followed by a slathering in their wild-seaweed glacial mud (both products are available in their gift shop). While you bake under infra-red lamps, you get a scalp massage and a shampoo (or hair sex, as our lady friend calls it), a facial mask and the whole thing is finished off with a full application of body lotion.
There are other choices of scrubs and muds, too, they all smell great, so you can't really go wrong. You'll feel softer and smoother and lighter on your feet, but possibly too blitzed to operate heavy machinery. Proceed with caution.
sources: Eye Weekly, Damian Rogers, April 27, 2006
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