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Making a splash; The latest trend in spas is 5,000 years old.(Great Jones Spa, New York)
Byline: Sarah Brown
Until you've been beaten senseless with oak branches and flung into a pool of mind-numbing arctic water, you don't know what it's really like to go to a spa. I do know, as I found myself on the receiving end of such pampering one Saturday night.
Originally, to spa was to bathe. The acronym SPA is believed to come from the Latin salus per aqua, or "health through water." Virtually every culture (but ours) has a long-standing bath tradition. But don't be fooled: Baths aren't really about bathing, or sitting in a tub, per se. They're choreographed rites and rituals: soaking, steaming, cold-plunging, and, perhaps most important, just ...
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...never sleeps, it's not surprising that New York has a dearth of truly tranquil escapes...moment and old dive bars. The Great Jones Spa blends in quietly, its frosted glass...spa a cathedral-like feel. At Great Jones, spa director Donna Creagh has created the...
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