"You can address a lot of concerns on the entire body with just that one area, so it also allows the massage therapist to really see where the tension is so they know where they need to focus." Next, my massage therapist dry brushed my entire body upwards "to stimulate the lymph to move through your body and really pull out the toxins, which helps you to recover quicker." Moving up the body, I was then covered in a mud mask mixed with green, white and red algae oils, and then wrapped in a cocoon using a blanket-and then peacefully knocked out. "The foot is a map of the entire body," Holzworth explains. The first part of the Maui Maluhia is reserved for reflexology, basically a super-calming foot massage. "His grandmother passed down to him and you have to do it by certain phases of the moon in order to get the best benefits of each of those plants-they all have a different cycle within them." "The gentleman who makes it forages all of these plants and ferns from the islands, and then he distills the plants into this beautiful oil," Holzworth continued. When I walked into my hale, I was given the option of choosing one out of four Pohala Oils, which are "locally sourced and use kukui nut or coconut oil as the base oil," Holzworth said. The Maui Maluhia treatment, along with the other treatments offered at Spa Montage, embrace Hawaiian culture and traditions alongside European spa culture influence. Each spa treatment at Spa Montage is performed outside in a private hale with chirping birds and the crash of the ocean's waves providing the soundtrack-just the tranquil respite this New Yorker needed. "When that treatment was created, we wanted to create something where guests can completely relax it's an all-encompassing treatment where we're hitting every sensory."Īfter walking through the eucalyptus-scented spa building, I changed into a robe and was instructed to wait in tiny hut for my massage therapist. ![]() To reserve a poolside daybed, please call (808) 662-6600."Maluhia is a state of mind, a state of silence, of peace," Jennifer Holzworth, director of spa and retail at Montage Kapalua Bay told.
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