MOUNT DESERT ISLAND — From going to the gymnasium to losing a few pounds and consuming higher, a brand new yr gives a brand new alternative to get well being habits in test.
To supply assist all through the journey, native wellness companies spoke to the Islander about their companies and methods to show these New 12 months’s resolutions into wholesome way of life decisions.
Bar Harbor’s Tree of Life Day Spa that includes Salon NaturELLES is providing new companies that embody eyelash extensions, microneedling and different therapeutic practices, together with cupping – a suction created on the pores and skin with the appliance of heated cups.
Resulting from COVID-19 restrictions, the spa had suspended practices that concerned shut contact with clients, resembling facials, however these choices are actually again.
“A coloration, lower, make-up and eyelash extensions assist put your finest face ahead throughout this complete disaster,” stated day spa supervisor Philip Payne.
The day spa’s sister enterprise, Acadia Faculty of Therapeutic massage, may also offer one-hour massages on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays carried out by college students at a reduced price from February by way of April.
“Our companies present a discount of stress and anxiousness, which helps enhance your personal well-being,” stated Payne. “We’ve all been by way of so much throughout the previous couple years, so it’s an effective way to recharge and make issues a little bit higher.”
Tree of Life Day Spa is just not the one native enterprise providing new wellness companies. Vacation spot Well being Proprietor Sheridy Olson stated the downtown Bar Harbor facility is providing new diet applications, facials and retreats which are particularly geared towards selling a wholesome way of life. Vacation spot Well being operates The Claremont Lodge’s Botanica Spa in Southwest Harbor and has plans to function wellness companies at The Bayview Lodge in Bar Harbor.
The Yellow Home Inn Mattress & Breakfast is one other facility that has been internet hosting wellness retreats. Effectively + Wander Retreats co-owner Jena Younger hopes the Bar Harbor bed-and-breakfast’s new expertise will give individuals a chance to deal with their minds and our bodies.
“It’s significant to carve out time for your self; to take issues a little bit bit deeper than you’ll for those who have been simply sitting by a pool at a resort,” stated Younger. The Effectively + Wander Retreat’s rest experiences provide mindfulness walks, meditation and yoga lessons.
Final yr, Britt Hulbert additionally started a full-time yoga service with the institution of her enterprise, BH Yoga Canine Studio. Other than instructing yoga by way of her on-line studio, Hulbert says that she has been busier than ever doing private coaching and instructing spin lessons in individual on the Mount Desert Island YMCA. She stated that her purchasers nonetheless put on masks whereas they work out in individual.
“Yoga is for everybody and the phrase yoga is such an enormous rainbow of many issues. Mindfulness is admittedly yoga. It can higher your life,” she stated.
Downeast Pilates proprietor Linda Homer of Southwest Harbor now additionally teaches Pilates lessons nearly. “It demonstrates to the mind easy methods to transfer your physique in a sensible, efficient and environment friendly means,” stated Homer about her lessons. With most of her lessons now occurring by way of Zoom, Homer instructs purchasers to get within the right positioning to do workout routines earlier than she guides them by way of actions that interact all of their muscle tissue.
Along with retreats and wellness companies, Jen Harry has been providing meditation lessons along with her enterprise, Acadia Mindfulness Adventures.
“It’s an amazing COVID-safe useful resource for each our neighborhood and for guests, which is necessary to be identified for people who find themselves coming to the island which are searching for issues to do,” she stated.
The outside expertise consists of an preliminary dialogue about mindfulness, aware strolling, consuming and a aware go to to the ocean the place Harry teaches purchasers to make use of all 5 senses for staying engaged of their mindfulness practices. She plans to wrap up the journey with a dialogue about how individuals can use mindfulness practices of their on a regular basis life.
Editor’s observe: Philip Payne is the husband of a Mount Desert Islander worker.
Wellness service suppliers
(Whereas not a whole listing of space suppliers, contact data for these included on this story are listed under.)
Tree of Life Day Spa that includes Salon NaturELLES
108 Cottage St., Bar Harbor
(207) 288-5551
Acadia Faculty of Therapeutic massage
108 Cottage St., Bar Harbor
(207) 288-8222
Vacation spot Well being
124 Cottage St., Bar Harbor
(207) 288-3121
Yellow Home Inn Mattress & Breakfast’s Effectively + Wander Retreats
5 The Subject, Bar Harbor
(207) 288-5100
www.yellowhousemaine.com/well-wanderer-retreats
BH Yoga Canine Studio
15 Deer Run, Bar Harbor
(207) 266-6256
Downeast Pilates
101 Major St., Southwest Harbor
(207) 229-3732
www.facebook.com/Downeast-Pilates-108909659293
Acadia Mindfulness Adventures
(207) 801-1107
www.acadiamindfulnessadventures.com
Ninah Gile, an MDI native, covers the city of Bar Harbor. She is glad to be again in Maine after incomes a bachelor’s diploma in San Diego from the College of California.
