Costa Rica Dreaming, The Harmony Hotel & Spa
Luxury meets laid back at Harmony Hotel, a low-key yet glamorous eco resort in Costa Rica, cradled on the ocean’s edge in the sleepy Pacific Coast village of Nosara,
where you may spot Susan Sarandon sipping a raw green smoothie beside
you at the coconut palm-roofed raw-bar, just a few steps away from the
chlorine-free, salt water pool.
Fit surfers as well as weekend
wave warriors make up much of Harmony Hotel’s clientele and deep-tissue
massage to ease those tired surfed-out muscles such as the intriguingly
named “Octopus Massage,” where four hands work their expert magic on
you, are bestsellers at the hotel’s Healing Centre and Spa.
Ostensibly,
you cannot go wrong with anything on Harmony’s Spa menu, especially
since ingredients such as the fresh papaya, avocado and bananas
utilized in the whole body skin-fitness treatments such as “Banana
Bliss” and “Papaya Delight” are grown right on the hotel property and
laced with essential oils harvested from a Costa Rican perma-culture
farm. And if you want to push your spa sustainability sensibilities,
you can also harvest you very own scrub-loofah from the loofah plant in
the spa’s herb garden, and après treatment, take it home.
Expect not just to connect to, but tango in tune with your natural rhythms at the Harmony Spa.
Harmony Hotel: Room Rates from $135/night
Massage rates from: $90 - 90 minutes, $75 - 60 minutes
Body Treatments: $75 - 90 minutes
All prices in $USD.
The Harmony Hotel and Spa, Costa Rica
~Insiya Rasiwala, Spas of America
Insiya
Rasiwala teaches vinyasa yoga and writes about wellness, health and the
sustainable lifestyle in Vancouver, Canada. You can check out her blog
on the sustainable yoga lifestyle at yogue.wordpress.com.
