Mannnn! I just spent the last three months at my full time job and planning an event. I also spent the last three weeks working 7 days a week--five at the ad agency I work at and the last three weekends at the festival I come in to produce the youth area. After spending hours in the sweltering heat running my area at the festival until 9/1, I needed a trip to the day spa after all that work. So, I went to this Korean Day Spa not too far from me. I've been there before but I don't go often because...well, I don't have it like that right now. lol Note, I said "right now".
Anyway, I valet parked and went in there for my 4:30 appt. I selected the "Goddess" treatment which is head to toe pampering. The cashier rang me up and asked me to go take a shower then get in the jacuzzi while I wait for my treatment.
This is a FEMALE ONLY spa where Asian ladies & other ladies walk around butt naked partaking in pure relaxation and tranquility. Nothing at all sexual, just everyone being free. So, I take a shower and proceed to the hot tub. I leaned my head against the concrete edge as the jets of warm water began to relax my tired muscles. I closed my eyes and breathed deeply letting everything go and thanking God for each opportunity and the knowledge & wisdom he has bestowed upon me.
After about 15 minutes, this big, burly Korean woman called my locker number, 17. She had the build of a Sumo wrestler wearing large, black panties and a black bra. I got out of the water and walked over to the massage area. She told me to lay down on my stomack then she began to scrub my body with a rough loofah glove and some kind of seaweed concoction. She was so strong, it hurt like hell. It felt like she was rubbing my skin off. But I endured the pain because I knew it was removing dead skin cells from my body. And since I got real tanned over the past few weekends, I have started peeling on my back & chest. She scrubbed me from head to toe, front and back. All kind of dead skin was on the washing table I was lying on. Next, she began dousing me with buckets of warm water. After she rinsed me off, she asked me to go take another shower to rinse off. I did and returned to the table.
The Sumo Queen dried me off with a warm towel and slathered all kinds of aromatherapy oils on my body. She used something that smelled like Eucalyptus, then another that smelled like Sage, massaging every inch of my body. Damn, her hands nearly killed me it was so hard but I took it like a woman because I had so much tension built up, I needed someone to get rid of it. And she did. Shortly afterward, my body began to melt, I stopped thinking, and just floated, breathing slowly and deeply in a state of relaxation.
After an hour, she asked me to turn over again and massaged the front of my body. She put a hot, steamy towel on my face for awhile. Then she gave me a cucumber facial with a cucumber eye mask. She finished my facial with a 20 minute Lavender oil and moisturizer massage.
Next, she poured tea tree oil in sections of my scalp. She began to massage my scalp, pushing strong into my cranium. My scalp was tingling and I fell into a deeper state of relaxation. Jung then shampooed my hair right on the table. She ended the treatment with rubbing moisturizer all over my body.
Oh my God, I felt so relaxed, sleepy, peaceful. Jung helped me up, put a robe on me and handed me a tip envelope. She told me to go to sleep. As I walked to my locker, I looked at a green marble-like floor that some women were laying on. I never laid out on it before so I wanted to see what the big deal was with laying on this floor. I spread out a towel and stretched out on the marble using a small pillow for my head. The marble was heated like the temperature of an electric blanket. Wow! It felt sooooo good. Especially since Jung had also put some kind of menthol oil on my back & shoulders so when I was on that marble, the heat penetrated into my muscles soothing me even more.
What an awesome day at the spa! I totally forgot about everything. Now back to work at the ad agency tomorrow.
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