Eco–luxe Spas

Costa Rica's Eco–luxe Spas

Harmony Hotel in Nosara
By Insiya Rasiwala

Luxury meets laid–back at Harmony Hotel, a low–key yet glamorous eco resort, cradled on the ocean's edge in the sleepy Pacific Coast village of Nosara, where you may spot Susan Sarandon sipping a raw green smoothie beside you at the coconut palm–roofed raw–bar, just a few steps away from the chlorine–free, salt water pool.

Fit surfers as well as weekend wave warriors make up much of Harmony Hotel's clientele and deep–tissue massage to ease those tired surfed–out muscles such as the intriguingly named "Octopus Massage," where four hands work their expert magic on you, are bestsellers at the hotel's Healing Center and Spa.

Harmony Hotel

Ostensibly, you cannot go wrong with anything on Harmony's Spa menu, especially since ingredients such as the fresh papaya, avocado and bananas utilized in the whole body skin–fitness treatments such as "Banana Bliss" and "Papaya Delight" are grown right on the hotel property and laced with essential oils harvested from a Costa Rican perma–culture farm. And if you want to push your spa sustainability sensibilities, you can also harvest you very own scrub–loofah from the loofah plant in the spa's herb garden, and après treatment, take it home.

Expect not just to connect to, but tango in tune with your natural rhythms at the Harmony Spa.

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