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Article: AHHH! STATE SPAS CAN HELP YOU RELAX.(LIFESTYLE)(ROADS TRAVELED)(Column)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- March 24, 2007
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Byline: MARY BERGIN
One of the biggest surprises, when visiting Tucson's Canyon Ranch in 2003, was that a basic Swedish massage was the most popular spa service.
Why pay all that money, I asked, to get something good but basic? Our tour guide shrugged. "We're not trendy," she said, but more concerned with "empowering people to take care of themselves."
The former Arizona desert dude ranch, which in 1979 helped give birth to the nation's destination spa movement, started out as a fat farm - a place to toil while losing weight. Now the emphasis is on mind-body balance and wellness, a sign of changing and gentler times.
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