Hit pause on life and treat yourself to a relaxing afternoon at one of Iowa’s small-town spas. These locations feature a strong focus on health, wellness and rejuvenation but in a calm rural setting with affordable prices.
Holistic Health - Manning
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Located on Main Street Manning and owned by a local veteran, Holistic Health offers an impressive collection of services that prioritize healing and rejuvenation. The friendly and knowledgeable staff will help you select the service that best suits your needs, from massage therapy, facials, acupuncture and Reiki healing to red light therapy, hydromassages, steam showers, sauna and halotherapy (dry salt therapy). The spa’s float tank, a lightless and soundless tank filled with 750 pounds of Epsom salt and body-temperature water, allows you to effortlessly and mindlessly float. Check out the spa’s Holistic Care Packages to discover an affordable combination of treatments.
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Salu Sauna & Wellness Spa - Decorah
Between its outdoor recreation, charming downtown and the Salu Sauna & Wellness Spa, Decorah is what some might call a “self-care sanctuary.” With a mission of making health and healing services more accessible, Salu offers luxurious infrared saunas in private rooms that also include medical-grade color light therapy, halotherapy and cold plunge. You can also request an individualized wellness plan from the friendly staff.
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Salt + Light WellSpa - Independence
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A hidden gem in Independence, Salt + Light WellSpa boasts a modern holistic approach to recovery of the mind and body. Take a moment to yourself in the customized float suite, which features body temperature water infused with over 1,200 pounds of Epsom salt and a starlit ceiling. After your float, extend the relaxation by sipping water, tea or a WellBar beverage at the Recovery Lounge. Other suites include the hot+cold relax suite, which combines the benefits of infrared sauna, cold plunge and red-light therapy, or the halosauna suite that merges an infrared sauna with halotherapy. You can also book a solo Recovery Lounge appointment complete with compression therapy and restorative massage.
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Luna Rae Spa & Wellness - Cascade
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With skin care, massage therapy and healing services, Luna Rae Spa & Wellness in Cascade offers approaches to all aspects of health. Book an appointment for a relaxing facial customized to meet your needs, or a full body massage to soothe your mind and release tension in your muscles. Explore more treatments with packages like the 90-minute massage & energywork combo, which focuses on both the physical body and subtle energy fields of aura and chakras, or the 60-minute Hampichakuy-Shamanic healing session, which introduces you to a healing ceremony from Peru that clears your energy field and creates more balance.
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Grand Falls Spa - Larchwood
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Lose track of time at the Grand Falls Spa in Larchwood, where every treatment of 50 minutes or longer includes full access to the spa’s amenities. Book a customized massage (stone, deep tissue and sports massages are available) to enjoy benefits like stimulated circulation, released tension and enhanced relaxation, or facial and body treatments. Then grab a free glass of champagne (for adults only) and take your time enjoying the spa’s complimentary amenities like an infrared sauna, indoor and outdoor pools and Whirlpool hot tubs plus Vichy-style showers.
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Vitalistic Health Spa - Glidden
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Stop at Vitalistic Health Spa to rejuvenate your body, mind and spirit – in more ways than one. Offering a gentle approach to natural wellness, this small-town spa in Glidden boasts a float pod that protects the users from all stimuli, a halotherapy salt room that resets the respiratory system, an infrared sunlight sauna that detoxes the body, Reiki energy healing sessions given by a certified Reiki master and more.
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KS Massage & Wellness - Mount Pleasant
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KS Massage & Wellness offers a wide variety of services in Mount Pleasant to help you relax, recover and rejuvenate. Book a Swedish, therapeutic, deep tissue, sports or hot stone massage or a cupping therapy appointment. Or relax inside the dry infrared sauna. For non-traditional treatments, test out the spa’s biomat therapies, which use amethyst crystals and infrared rays to increase healing, detoxification and rejuvenation, or acoustic biomat therapy, which uses music to stimulate your nerves, skin and muscles for relaxation.
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