<p>Either one you’ve had, or one you dream of having. </p>
<p>I’ve always seen pictures of people submerged in a mud bath, but I don’t know if that would be first on my list. Bliss does a great massage where they also put each foot in this heated paraffin booty – your feet emerge as soft as the day they were born.</p>
<p>Who has a favorite spa treatment? Do you always make a trip to the spa when you’re on vacation? Anyone ever had a massage outdoors by the ocean?</p>
<p>I never go to spa. Hot tub is good enough, but I can live without. Anyway, all sound like boring experiences, I like to be entertained.
I absolutely cannot have massage, which is unfortunate. It is one of the causes of my vertigo, which takes few weeks to get rid of after onset. Not pleasant experience at all. For the same reason, many other activities are out, like yoga, boat, cruise, gardenning, house cleanning…</p>
<p>I had a great massage in an open-air room halfway up a mountain, looking out on the ocean, so almost the kind you were describing, Classof2015. It was incredible.</p>
<p>My whole family loves massages and facials (got DH hooked on them a few years ago) and we try to get one in on our vacations. Doesn’t always work out, but when it does it is always our favorite day of the trip.</p>
<p>I’m not a big spa fan but I absolutely love having a pedicure. I treat myself once a month and it’s heavenly.</p>
<p>I am not a massage fan, for some reason. I suffer through sports massages for injuries- maybe that’s why I’m not so big on “relaxation” massages. My dentist does the hot paraffin hand treatments and I love the feeling but hate the smell. My husband loves massages. I think I might like the mud-thing.</p>
<p>I love massages but never have time for them, except when I’m visiting my mother in MI. There is a woman there who is incredible. A few years ago, I had a problem where one hip was messed up. Sitting cross-legged on the floor, one knee would be really high because my hip would not allow the leg to open. I thought the problem was in my hip joint. I visited my mother and went to the massage therapist. As an afterthought, I mentioned this, saying that I didn’t think it was in her area. She said, hmmm, let me see. She put her hands in a couple of places and when the massage was over, told me to sit cross-legged. My hip was cured! She also did a lot of good for my frozen shoulder. On one trip, she suggested that I come back and have a massage from another person there. This woman did a very strange massage, unlike anything I’d ever had. It was not pleasant but somehow I knew it was what my body needed. When it was over, I felt as if she’d taken 10 years off my body. Unfortunately, next time I was in MI, this woman had left.</p>
<p>I know what MOWC means, I have deep tissue massages and they are painful. However they work so I suffer through cause I feel so much better afterwards.
For relaxing though, I like to have a facial and parafin treatment on my hands & feet. & a scalp massage. :)</p>
<p>I’m way too ticklish for a massage but I spent last weekend at a fancy spa hotel and had a facial and manicure. The facial was great - lots of accupressure type massaging and pressing around my eye sockets and temples. And it was supposed to be an “age-defying” facial - not quite sure if that part worked. The manicure was also excellent and included the hot paraffin which was weird but pleasant.</p>
<p>I like hot wax and skin buffing for my hands and feet. </p>
<p>I’m also partial to Swedish massage for specific problems. It hurts like heck but it seems to work for me.</p>
<p>Swedish massage and pedicures. Skin buffing pedicures especially during the summer.</p>
<p>Peabodie – that sounds great! </p>
<p>All this talk about pedicures is reminding me to get one. I do love the chair that massages your back while your feet soak in the hot sudsy water…</p>
<p>I’ve seen sports massages offered – kind of glad I didn’t get one – but I think they are probably very effective if you exercise the same muscles a lot.</p>
<p>I don’t like frou frou massages, but I do like a good therapeutic/sports massage since I have a bad back, bum knee & plantar fasciitis. My chiropractor has 2 excellent massage therapists. </p>
<p>For a spa treatment, I like a deluxe pedicure with the paraffin wrap.</p>
<p>and I once had a salt glow (scrub down with sea salt) that I didn’t exactly enjoy, but it was so nice to have zero dead skin on me afterwards. Great at the end of the winter.</p>
<p>I have never had a pedicure but am ending 6 months in a cast in a couple of weeks and have decided to treat myself to a pedi. You guys make it sound great. </p>
<p>Have had a variety of massages and find they make me too sore. So love a scrub and wrap at the end of winter.</p>
<p>I was never a fan of massages until I had a hot stone massage. Oh my God. Total relaxation – and it takes a lot to get me there!</p>
<p>I had my first massage about five years ago and it was a hot stone massage. i liked it but now I go for Therapeutic massages. They are supposed to be an hour but my massage therapist usually goes about 75 minutes. She is gifted at finding the knots in the muscles and coaxing them out.</p>
<p>I also love pedicures. Th place that i have been going uses hot stones in their foot and leg massage. Love it! I’ve never had a paraffin hand treatment. i think I need it. My hands are like turkey claws.</p>
<p>I have a massage once every six weeks or so. Pedicure (my place does a GREAT spa pedicure) every six weeks or so too. It’s my little indulgence and I think it is well worth it!</p>
<p>Momofwildchild, I want your dentist!
“My dentist does the hot paraffin hand treatments”
Mine is great, but he’s more into flossing, bleaching and TMJ.</p>
<p>I am laughing at the thought of a dentist offering a hot paraffin treatment! Mine offers nothing but dental procedures, cleaning by hygienists, and flouride treatments for my kids!</p>
<p>I have never had a manicure or pedicure. I would hate someone doing things to my nails, and my feet are not well groomed enough to take into a salon for a pedicure!</p>
<p>I’ve tried them all, mud, grape, swedish, hotstone, outdoor massage, etc… but I have one massage therapist that is very good, not deep and painful, but deep and relaxing.
I hate pedicure and manicure, just don’t have the patient for waiting, and I can’t stand the smell.</p>
<p>It’s actually the hygienist. She has you do the wax dip and puts the warm mitts on you and you keep them on while she does the teeth cleaning etc.</p>