Is your 2015 starting off with less of a bang and more of a blah? Did spending all that time gorging yourself on holiday treats while avoiding the usual cycle of yearly family drama leave you stressed and slovenly? There’s no shame in admitting that sometimes, all of the holiday hoopla can leave you feeling a little blue. If this sounds like you, we’ve got the remedy for your post-holiday slump!
Duross & Langel: In the heart of the Midtown Village, you’ll find our favorite shop for self indulgent bath products and beauty treats. They have everything: from deliciously scented hand-cut soaps made from fruit and nut oils, to deeply hydrating olive oil moisturizers, to antioxidant rich, cellulite blasting coffee scrub. This adorable boutique will help you to create an in-home spa with ease – the perfect way to pamper yourself! Call us crazy, but we just can’t stop talking about their LOVE soy candles, each named after one of Philly’s neighborhoods. Boathouse Row smells like water, Washington Square smells like flowers, and, of course, Lemon Hill smells like fresh lemons!
* Hand & Stone Logan Square: If you’re feeling a little tense from the stress of the season, the massage therapists at Hand & Stone – located next to Whole Foods on 20th and Callowhill – will knead out those knots and dissipate any tension you’re feeling with their amazing massages. Their hot stone massage is perfect for the chilly winter months! If your skin is also looking a little drab and in need of a quick pick-me-up, Hand & Stone offers three different kinds of peels (glycolic, salicylic and lactic), in addition to microdermabrasion and facials that will instantly give you back that holiday glow. If you’ve never been before, new visitors can get an hour massage for their introductory rate of only $49!
Blissful Yoga: Located just across the bridge in New Jersey and well worth the ride, Blissful Yoga offers the most revitalizing of yoga classes, guided meditation classes, reiki sessions and chakra balancing sessions. On Saturday, January 31st Blissful Yoga will be hosting a half-day winter retreat with yoga and sound meditation, community gathering and a spiritual concert featuring two-time Grammy nominee 13 Hands for only $40! Buy your tickets in advance to avoid paying more at the door. You’ll feel breathtakingly blissful in no time!
Bikram Yoga Philadelphia: If you’d prefer an uber intense, calorie-blasting type of yoga that will help you slim down to your pre-holiday bod, Bikram Yoga (located between 15th and 16th on Sansom Street) is where you need to be. In their 90-minute classes, you will be talked through a series of 26 postures, starting with the standing series and moving onto the floor around midway. Nothing – we repeat, NOTHING – feels as good as walking out after finishing this invigorating class. Don’t take our word for it. Try it out with their introductory special: $30 for an entire month of yoga! Just in time for your new year’s resolution.
Philadelphia Community Acupuncture: Located in Mount Airy, Philadelphia Community Acupuncture offers sessions on a generous sliding fee scale (recommended donation is anywhere from $15-35). When you walk into the studio, choose any available recliner and get comfortable while you wait for one of their amazing practitioners, Erin or Billy, to come over and begin your session. If you’ve never had acupuncture done before, here’s what to expect: They’ll insert a few very thin, painless needles into choice spots on your body, and you’ll magically doze off until you feel ready to re-enter the world. Acupuncture is an incredible holistic treatment for anxiety and stress, pain, fatigue and basically anything that ails you. To celebrate the New Year, Philadelphia Community Acupuncture is offering a 5-for-$65 special throughout the month of January! Be sure to ask about it at the front desk.
* Hand & Stone Logan Square is one of Philly PR Girl’s awesome clients.
