'You put on a body mask and then just soak in a tub, you're obviously going to feel the state of relaxation and bliss from it, but also you're going to get the benefits from the heat driving the products in farther and deeper for hydration and detoxification.The spa has an online website as 'Spa Montage' since the change of ownership by the Montage as of July 1st although I was told that the employees of the previous spa were retained. 'Any time that you can find to do a really great exfoliation and a really great body mask will work, whether it's the dry brushing or you're using like a salt scrub in the shower,' she advised. Holzworth suggested stocking up on my favorite body scrubs and masks. How could I re-live the pure luxurious bliss I felt in Maui in the comfort of my own home in New York? But then again, a trip to Hawaii each month isn't feasible either. I left in complete bliss until I returned to my room and reality began to set it: There was no way I could go back to New York and book a regular massage after this experience.

The soothing music from outdoors coupled with deep forearm pressure felt like the equivalent of dozing off to your favorite ASMR. Using her forearm, fingertips and palms, she applied firm pressure to loosen all tight zones, starting with my neck and shoulders before making her way down to my lower back. She asked me where she should focus her attention, and as a writer who's almost always hunched over her laptop, my neck and shoulders needed all the love. The massage therapist must have realized how tense I was from the reflexology portion of the massage because for the next 60 minutes, her movements replicated the kneading massage chair you sit in when you get a pedicure. I woke up when it was time to wash the product off and was directed to an outdoor shower attached to my hale. 'You can address a lot of concerns on the entire body with just that one area, so it also allows the massage therapist to really see where the tension is so they know where they need to focus.' Next, my massage therapist dry brushed my entire body upwards 'to stimulate the lymph to move through your body and really pull out the toxins, which helps you to recover quicker.' Moving up the body, I was then covered in a mud mask mixed with green, white and red algae oils, and then wrapped in a cocoon using a blanket-and then peacefully knocked out.

'The foot is a map of the entire body,' Holzworth explains. The first part of the Maui Maluhia is reserved for reflexology, basically a super-calming foot massage. 'His grandmother passed down to him and you have to do it by certain phases of the moon in order to get the best benefits of each of those plants-they all have a different cycle within them.' 'The gentleman who makes it forages all of these plants and ferns from the islands, and then he distills the plants into this beautiful oil,' Holzworth continued. When I walked into my hale, I was given the option of choosing one out of four Pohala Oils, which are 'locally sourced and use kukui nut or coconut oil as the base oil,' Holzworth said. The Maui Maluhia treatment, along with the other treatments offered at Spa Montage, embrace Hawaiian culture and traditions alongside European spa culture influence. Each spa treatment at Spa Montage is performed outside in a private hale with chirping birds and the crash of the ocean's waves providing the soundtrack-just the tranquil respite this New Yorker needed. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playĪfter walking through the eucalyptus-scented spa building, I changed into a robe and was instructed to wait in tiny hut for my massage therapist.

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