8 Fun Spa and Wellness Ideas for You and Your Friends

Near Armstrong Redwoods, this calm oasis offers spa services that promise to make you “feel like a feathery pillow that’s just been fluffed.”

Seasonal: Seaweed body wrap, using seaweed from the Pacific Ocean. 

Signature: Boon Bliss, which pairs a Swedish massage with a facial.

The spectacular, state-of-the-art Fairmont Mission Inn & Spa spans 40,000 square feet, encompassing 36 treatment rooms, and indoor and outdoor pools. Guests come from around the world to experience the baths, which are fed by the resort’s underground natural thermal springs. The healing waters are rich with 24 trace minerals and rise to the surface at 135 degrees, where they are cooled to the perfect warmth for guests. 

Blink, and you might miss this boutique hotel shrouded with ivy, roses, and trees on a gentle hillside in the town of Kenwood. It’s an exclusive retreat with a select number of premium rooms. But this elegant spa is open to everyone who wants to indulge in top-notch pampering. 

Seasonal: The Espresso & Mud Detoxifying Body Treatment begins with exfoliation using volcanic pumice and coffee Arabica, followed by a warm wrap of mineral-rich clay to help smooth, firm, and detoxify the skin.

Talk about a fancy farmhouse. Sophisticated spa rooms glitter with fireplaces, farmhouse-chic decor, and farm-to-table signatures like heirloom apples from the inn’s ranch and herbs grown in the garden.

Seasonal: The Personal Apothecary treatment partners with you and your spa alchemist to create a customized treatment, including a unique and therapeutic palette of oils, butters, and exfoliants for you.

Directed by international skin care expert Dolores de Alba, this spa specializes in facials and body treatments with custom skin care regimes to continue on your own. If you don’t have the entire afternoon, then here you can indulge in an hour-long facial, foot soak, or a power cleanse/power nap/power glow treatment.

Seasonal: The Power Quench is perfect for tired skin, with a 30-minute Hydrate and Plump treatment rich with essential vitamins, minerals, and amino acids.

The lodge’s stone building sits in a stunning setting, overlooking the Sonoma coastline and anchored by an outdoor heated swimming pool and whirlpool spa.

Seasonal: Beach-theme treatments include the warm ocean shell massage.

Signature: Aromatherapy Massage with essential oils of herbs, flowers, and trees to relax, balance, and stimulate the body, mind, and spirit.

For guests who want the intimacy of a bed-and-breakfast with the amenities of a luxury resort, this small family-run home brims with high style and top-notch services.

Seasonal: Try the Trouble Spots treatment, addressing neck, shoulders and legs needing relief, followed by a soothing soak in the heated pool and steam in the sauna.

This beautiful property offers a Kyoto-style meditation garden, a wild riparian area, a field of hammocks, creek-side sand gardens, and massage pagodas scattered inside a peaceful woodland crisscrossed by babbling creeks. Arrive early, change into your robe, and sip tea in the garden.

Seasonal: Slough off dry winter skin with the Ultra Hydrating facial infused with hyaluronic acid and aloe to deeply hydrate, soften and plump the skin.