Destination of the Month: Skaná: The Spa at Turning Stone Resort
All over the globe, the spa industry is booming, and today’s savvy travelers are seeking out the best each destination has to offer. From old-world European mineral hot spring “cures” to modern day spas featuring the latest technology, it’s all just a plane ride—or mouse click—away. Every month, we profile one of our favorite spas, and whether international or domestic, each one is out of this world.
Skaná Spa is a spacious 33,000-square-foot state-of-the-art spa, salon and fitness facility located within the Turning Stone Resort & Casino, a 17,000-acre resort, gaming, entertainment and golf complex that is an enterprise of the Oneida Indian Nation. It offers all the healthy living amenities and services of a destination spa, with the added appeal of three championship golf courses, a casino, showroom and 5,000-seat entertainment complex featuring top performing artists. There is something for everybody at Turning Stone, including spa lovers!
Skaná Spa is a sanctuary where soothing treatments, unparalleled service and modern amenities combine with ancient American Indian healing traditions to promote inner peace and harmony— thus the name Skaná, the Oneida word for “Peace.”
Skaná’s spa treatment menu features a myriad of unique therapeutic massages and bodywork, as well as skincare treatments, of all which use nature’s healing herbs, leaves and flowers. Based on the benefits of time-honored herbal earth remedies and water therapies—as confirmed by modern research—with today’s technological advances in skincare and bodywork, Skaná’s spa treatments offer a truly rejuvenating experience that promotes good health and brings mind and spirit in perfect harmony.
A state-of-the-art 10,000-square-foot Fitness Center is also a feature of Skaná, with an indoor pool for laps and aquatic classes, cardiovascular training machines, plus an exercise studio with special cushioned flooring for daily group and private fitness and relaxation classes for all fitness levels. Outdoor activities include scenic sunrise walks and daily yoga and Tai Chi classes on the property. In winter, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing are led by skilled staff members. The property also features three championship golf courses (Turning Stone was recently selected to host the opening round of the PGA Tour’s 2007 Fall Series) and a weather-resistant year-round Golf Training Center staffed by PGA teaching professionals.
One of the most unique features at Skaná Spa is its traditional American Indian Sweat Lodge. Guests have the opportunity to experience a Sweat Lodge ceremony held in an authentic sweat lodge with a traditional fire pit. Skaná Spa’s Sweat Lodge experience features storytelling, drumming, chants and prayers that have been used for centuries as a way of spiritually cleansing body and soul.
Skaná Spa is co-ed with treatments and activities for men, women and children at least 17 years of age. Open year round, the facility is smoke-free, alcohol-free and cell phone-free. Located in Verona, New York, Skaná is just 25 minutes from Syracuse Hancock International Airport and 90 minutes from Albany International Airport. It is a 45-minute flight or four-hour drive from New York City.
For more information about Skaná: The Spa at Turning Stone Resort, please call 800-771-7711 or visit http://www.skanaspa.com.
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