Ste. Anne’s Spa
1009 Massey Rd, Grafton
888-346-6772
steannes.com
Discover why Ste. Anne’s Spa has been voted the #1 Spa in Canada by Spa Finder magazine. The staff at this lovely country castle (90 minutes from Toronto) meet top spa standards, and provide an atmosphere that’s warm and welcoming.
All-Inclusive Spa Packages
You’ll find a full range of spa treatments from hot stone massages to reiki. View the wide menu of spa services here. Choose a spa treatment package for a full day, all-inclusive visit – or treat yourself to an overnight stay relaxing for a few days, a week, or longer. Ste. Anne’s overnight spa packages include meals and use of Ste. Anne’s pools and other facilities. Explore Ste. Anne’s historic estate with walking trails. Make a stop at the Tranquility Garden. Taste excellent cuisine featuring the spa’s garden herbs and vegetables in season. Check into a beautiful, rustic room at the main inn – or a spacious spa cottage that can be shared with groups of friends. In the warmer months, you can enjoy a dip in the spa’s large, spring-fed pool.
Healing Hydrotherapy
Year-round, try your own healing hydrotherapy in the spa’s fieldstone grotto area. It offers two pools heated to 90-95 °F, a thermal spa at 102 °F, and the “Yukon Plunge” cold pool at 60-65 °F. Reset your core by moving from hot to cold, and doing your own circuit all over again.
Northumberland Heights Wellness Retreat & Spa
795 Northumberland Heights Rd, Cobourg
905-372-7500
northumberlandheights.com
Escape to Northumberland Heights Wellness Retreat & Spa where east meets west through a unique offering of spa and wellness therapies. Just 15 minutes north-east of Cobourg, you’ll find tranquility and country comfort in this completely renovated two-storey lodge.
All-Inclusive Spa Packages
Nine-to-five day spa packages are featured here, as well as customized packages for overnight stays. International spa treatments include rich body scrubs, detoxifying body wraps and luxurious facial treatments. Whether staying for the day or overnight, you can explore Northumberland Heights' nature trails and pick from the chef’s daily menu. Enjoy high tea, as well as yoga, pre-booked chef sessions or access to the outdoor hot tubs. If staying overnight, you’ll check into a spacious room with patio and comfortable furnishings, some with large whirlpool baths and tempered glass fireplaces.
Ayurvedic Spa Therapies
Ayurvedic therapies are performed by an experienced eastern medicine therapist who uses warm oils and massage techniques to balance mind and body. Some to choose from include: Shirodhara (warm oil flow and head massage), Padma Abhyanga (warm oil foot massage); Udvartana (full body massage with herbal powder paste); and Kizhi (full body massage using warm herbal pucks, lightly pounded to relieve stress). These treatments are selected and customized to assist your current health and focus on wellness goals.
Fieldstone Spa
8488 Smylie Rd, Cobourg
905-375-9984
fieldstonespa.com
Located on the rural outskirts of Cobourg, the fieldstone farm house (circa 1800s) is just one part of your spa escape. Fieldstone Spa is also noted for its year-round, private outdoor treatment areas and relaxation pods, which enhance the spa’s organic approach to wellness.
All-Inclusive Day Spa Packages
Fieldstone offers day spa packages. Choose a half-day of therapy with an essential organic pedicure, facial and 30-minute relaxation massage. Or treat yourself to a full day of ultimate pampering with a warming hands treatment, signature pedicure, organic facial, 60-minute relaxation massage, plus lunch. Warm up in Fieldstone’s outdoor hot tub and/or cedar barrel sauna to complete your visit. (Overnight accommodations can be booked offsite.)
Fresh Air Experiences for Two
Indulge together with a private outdoor cedar sauna experience, a 60-minute relaxation massage for two in the couple’s suite, and finish off with lunch to share. In winter, you can book lunch in your own private “igloo”, complete with faux fur blankets, charcuterie board lunch and chocolate dipped strawberries to share, plus a fireplace to keep you cozy. There’s also a fire pit outside your igloo so you can make s’mores. In the warmer months, enjoy quiet time in a restorative bell tent, kept cool inside – with a private outdoor deck for lounging. Other packages include a 60-minute massage in Fieldstone’s private gazebo or outdoor massage pavilion.
Shantee Healing
45 Mill St S, Port Hope
905-800-0638
shanteehealing.com
Shantee Healing, located in a two-storey century home in Port Hope, provides day spa wellness therapies. It also offers a salt cave made from six tonnes of Polish pink healing salt.
Holistic Day Treatments
Shantee Healing is easy to spot with its exterior brick painted in lavender. Accessible parking is just outside. Inside you will discover a welcoming reception area, unique retail products, private therapy rooms, and a hand and foot detox lounge. Workshops and day-long retreats are popular at Shantee Healing. Owner, reiki master and personal empowerment coach Jas Dhillon partners with other holistic practitioners. Private treatments are also offered here, ranging from 30 to 90 minutes. They include spa facials, reiki energy healing, reflexology, massage therapy, singing bowl sound therapy, and soul and path intuitive guidance. (Overnight accommodations can be booked offsite.)
Halotherapy Salt Cave
Salt caves are noted to provide health benefits to people of all ages and are becoming increasingly popular. Halotherapy can help to breakdown mucus and congestion, reducing inflammation, disinfecting airways, clearing sinuses and lungs. Speleotherapy can promote healing by isolating external stimuli and connecting you back to nature.
The carefully-constructed salt cave at Shantee Healing is located on the ground floor. It offers many dimly lit salt lamps, gentle music, both a HEPA and UV air filtration system, an iodine water cascade to maintain elevated levels of humidity, and halogenerator to grind down pharma-grade salt and disperse it.
Mindful Meridians
210 Willmott St, Unit #5E, Cobourg
289-252-1876
289-252-1876
Mindfulmeridianspemf.com
Four holistic therapies are found under one roof at Mindful Meridians – a modern, wellness-based business tucked in a small plaza in Cobourg. The separate treatments of flotation, reiki, Pulsed Electromagnetic Field therapy, and hot/cold therapy can be explored here. The reported benefits include reduced anxiety, reduced joint/muscle pain, improved sleep, and/or improved circulation.
Float Your Troubles Away
Flotation therapy, a world wellness trend, is offered in a flexible fashion (for all levels of “floaters”). In a private room, you can float in a spa-style bathtub filled with water, and almost 1,500 pounds of Epsom salt to provide buoyancy and relaxation benefits. You can close the lid to create your own cocoon-style pod – or keep it open and leave the lights and/or music on, it’s your choice. Feeling a little claustrophobic or just want a little more space? Try the Deluxe Suite – a float room that's great for those of us who want to spread out and float freely.
Get the Pulse on Energy Fields
Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields (PEMF) is a gentle, alternative therapy that uses certified PEMF equipment to create a pulsing magnetic field on the area(s) being treated. In terms of energy flow using human hands, you can book a separate Reiki session from Meridian’s Reiki practitioners.
Sauna Then Plunge
At Mindful Meridians, a Fire & Ice session is the combination of using the elements of hot and cold to help improve wellness. You will have access to their infrared sauna and a cold plunge tub to try your own “Nordic Cycle” experience. (Bring your bathing suit.)
Nourish Boutique Spa
727 William St, Cobourg
905-377-0627
Nourishspa.ca
Located in Cobourg, Nourish Boutique Spa is a certified Eminence Green Spa, offering a wide range of day spa services. (Overnight accommodations can be booked offsite.)
Day Spa Services
In two hours, you can undergo a “Tranquility” custom organic facial, hot oil scalp massage, and “Replenish” foot & leg treatment. A dry brush will be paired with a cooling, organic sugar scrub to exfoliate your hands and feet and encourage lymphatic drainage. Hot towels and a hydrating mask help replenish moisture while you undergo a scalp massage. A hot stone foot and lower leg massage complete the treatment. Or choose a full body hot stone massage. Want something new? Try their “Organic Fire & Frost Facial” with a contrast of cold (ice globe) and hot (stone massage) to exercise the skin on a cellular level. See other day spa packages here.
Clean Thinking
Nourish’s Eminence Green Spa certification received in 2018 means that organic skin care products of the same name are used. To maintain this certification, the spa conserves energy and waste, and runs its day-to-day operations with a commitment to the environment. Nourish is also proud to give itself the hashtag RidiculouslyClean. This applies to both the spa’s stringent cleaning techniques, and use of bio-degradable cleaning products.
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