Nurture your Well-Being: Solstice Day Spa
Spa Showcase Step down into the cool seaside blues, greens, and sandy brown of Solstice Day Spa, on the lower “Spa level” of Puritan Cape Cod’s flagship Hyannis store, and feel the stress slip away. The full-service spa has partnered with Puritan at its 408 Main Street location since 2008; and with the opening this [...]
Fitness Showcase: Willy’s Gym
Heart of the Community There’s more than exercise-induced endorphins to feel good about at Willy’s Gym and Willy’s World Wellness and Conference Center. The Lower and Outer Cape’s iconic health club, in Orleans and Eastham, has become an integral part of the community’s physical and social well-being since Barbara Niggel first hung her neon Willy’s [...]
Peggy Huddleston’s Prepare for Surgery – Heal Faster
Need an operation? Know someone who is scheduled for surgery? What if I told you that there is a way to recover quicker, bleed less, require less anesthesia and have less pain afterward? What if you could leave the hospital sooner? What if you didn’t have to worry about complications? • Sound too good to [...]
Yoga Showcase: Quiet Mind Studio
Finding the Quiet Mind Welcome to the inner and outer sanctuary of Zack Dixon, owner and Iyengar yoga teacher at Quiet Mind Studio. Like stepping into an exhale, all “Ahhhhhh” and tranquility, I walk down the sea-shelled driveway along Duck Creek, into Quiet Mind’s interior space. Good vibes and artist aesthetics pave the way into [...]
Fitness Showcase: Fitness 500 in Hyannis
Stepping into the redefinition of fitness, my jaw drops. This is no “gym,” folks. Not a lick of Formica anywhere, and minus the requisite indoor/outdoor mottled carpet. Fitness 500, located right in the heart of Main Street, Hyannis is completely re-defining fitness. Grounded in wellness and the body/mind/spirit model, this is not the same-old, same-old [...]
Running with God
Two years ago, in October of 2006, when I felt I could no longer live with fatigue, weakness and pain, God suggested that I google post polio syndrome. I called Spaulding Rehab’s International Rehab Center for Polio and an angel, Anna Rubin, answered the phone. After a series of appointments at Spaulding, an MRI, an [...]
Fitness Showcase: The Fitness Revolution
Anti-Gym It seems the world is divided into two camps – gym people, and people who proclaim no matter what, they will never, join one. Well those latter people may have to eat their words and give Fitness Revolution in Orleans a try because it’s not like most gyms, and that’s the whole idea. Two [...]
The Spa at Chatham Bars Inn
The Spa at Chatham Bars Inn (CBI) will rock your world. Outrageous beauty and downright decadent surroundings seduce you into blissful relaxation. It is spacious, luxurious and elegantly radiant. Exclusive without being elitist. The Spa at CBI is open year round and caters to the local Cape community, as well as the guests of the [...]
Dream Retreats for Rest and Renewal
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.– Albert Camus When the solitude of a Cape Cod winter draws you inward, it’s a perfect time to give your spirit, body and mind a chance to renew. Cape and Islanders lead winter retreats ranging from restorative vacations [...]
