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How relaxed do you feel right now? If you’re tired, stressed, achy—or just can’t remember the last time you gave your body, mind, and spirit a much-needed break—take a deep, cleansing breath and thank your lucky stars that you’re in Santa Fe. The City Different reportedly boasts more massage therapists per capita than any other city in the United States. Whether you want to de-stress, detoxify, or simply sink into divine bliss, you’re in the right place!

The only problem with such an abundance of massage options is that just deciding where to get a massage can add even more tension to your...

Monday, May 26, 2008
by Hillary Welles • SantaFe.com

La Familia Medical Center is Santa Fe’s community health center serving Santa Fe since 1972. We provide comprehensive medical care to everyone, with special emphasis on the uninsured. All services are offered in English and Spanish.

La Familia Medical Center is a community health center providing high quality comprehensive medical, dental, and health education services to everyone, with special emphasis on the under served. These services are affordable and culturally sensitive and are delivered in a manner respectful of patient’s privacy, rights, and dignity, regardless of their...

At Dr. Richard Parker’s Dental Design Studio, you can expect a comprehensive range of services and a commitment to excellence that surpasses that of average dental offices. With the development of remarkable new materials and equipment – and a surge of scientific research – we are able to provide our patients with a superior level of dental care, delivered efficiently and comfortably.

The Dental Design Studio team remains current on the most recent developments in dental technology, continually expanding our already broad range of services to remain on the leading edge of the art and...

Once upon a time I though Holistic Healing was a marketing ploy for hacks dispensing essential oils. That was BMC: Before My Conversion. I have a traditional doctor, a “western doctor,” as they become known once you understand the difference between a prescription and a manifestation, but he’s just there for physicals and the very occasional round of antibiotics. For everything else there’s an alternative therapy. Holistic Healing in a nutshell is all about treating the whole person. It’s also about energy; moving it, circulating it and releasing it. You just have to go outside and stand in...

Friday, April 18, 2008
by AnnMarie McLaughlin • SantaFe.com

You’re standing in the grocery check-out line, staring robotically at the covers of People and the National Enquirer and it’s verging dangerously on dinnertime when suddenly the child in the cart just ahead lets out a banshee wail so high-pitched it pierces your fillings. The mom is saying, “You have to let the nice lady have the box of popsicles so she can put them in the bag;” the child’s screams now resemble the shrill intensity of a car alarm. Ignoring you and everybody else around her, the mom resolutely tugs while the child holds on for dear life to the ripped open box, a...

Wednesday, November 1, 2006
by Gail Snyder • localflavor magazine

Since its earliest inception, Santa Fe’s yoga community has evolved and expanded by leaps and bounds–or maybe we should say stretch by careful stretch, pausing to breathe into each increment. Rima Miller, of Yoga Moves, one of the originals on the scene, has personally witnessed its phenomenal growth.

“A lot of teachers have been around since the early ‘90s and before,” and she ticks off a litany of the names: “Steven Norvell, Gail Ackerman who founded White Iris Studio, Deborah Bristow, Michael Hopp who began the Community Yoga Center, David Riley, Dorothy Tanoux, Tias Little and myself.”

Wednesday, November 1, 2006
by Gail Snyder • localflavor magazine

Given that we Santa Feans are challenged by lack of proximity to a major airport hub, it’s comforting to know that a little piece of Japan is just up Artist Road. No passports, layovers, or jet-lag required–Ten Thousand Waves spa and resort is painstakingly true to Japanese design aesthetics, while also incorporating local elements throughout.

Before Duke Klauck was the owner and visionaire behind the Waves, he was a student of the Japanese language and a devotee of hot tub and hot springs culture. He bought the Waves property, formerly Rancho Elisa, in 1981. In order to raise the money to...

Wednesday, March 1, 2006
by Candace Walsh • localflavor magazine