Newsletter & Specials
April Special
Start with a geranium and honey foot saok while your hands are enveloped in warm paraffin, followed by a cool lavender salt scrub for your legs and feet. Then relax with an hour deep tissue massage. $115
Add to this refreshing combination with a custom facial for $80
May Special
Start with a detoxifying salt foot bath followed by an exfoliating and invigorating full body lime & coconut salt scrub. Then enjoy your choice of an hour deep tissue massage or custom facial.
$150
Enjoy both the massage and the facial for $235 (this makes an excellent Mothers day treat).
Mother's Day Special
Care for the lovely mother in your life by giving her the gift of relaxation. Her treatment will start with a mandarin and green tea foot soak while her hands are treated to a 15 minute hand massage. Next, she'll be swept off her feet by a heavenly 20 minute foot massage followed by a 45 minute Swedish full body massage. Then we'll refresh her beautiful skin with a daydream facial. $150
Simple Nutrition
an exerpt from "Principles for Healthy Eating" by Peter Borten LAc - The DragonTree’s Acupuncturist and Herbalist
Often our clients, families, and community ask, "What should I eat in order to be healthy?". While there is no single diet that is ideal for everyone, there are some basic principles that everyone can use to choose healthful foods. The simplest, most universal principle of nutrition is to eat whole, vital, unprocessed, unrefined, high quality foods.
How do you know if a food is whole, vital, unprocessed, unrefined, and high quality? For every food you eat, consider these 5 question:
- Is it whole - in the form nature made it?
Example: Whole grains vs. refined grains or flour; raw honey vs. refined honey; raw oils and sweeteners vs. refined oils and sweetners.
Refinement diminishes nutritional value and turns many whole foods into simple sugars.
- Does it still have the vitality of a living thing in it (or has it gone through processing that destroy the "life" in it)?
Example: Fresh vs. canned foods; raw vs. pasteurized foods
All canned, jarred, and pasteurized foods have been cooked in the process of preserving them, rendering them biologically very "dead". Consequently, they also possess little "vitality" and diminished nutritional value. Each processing procedure takes our food one step further away from its original form. It’s easy to sense this vitality in fresh fish, as opposed to, say, canned tuna. Fresh vegetables and meats, even when cooked, can still retain a good deal of their nutritional potency.
Regarding pasteurization, certain raw, store bought foods carry a small risk of microbial contamination. This could be a concern for babies and those with very weak immune function, in whom there is a chance of infection. Recently, the FDA banned the sale of unpasteurized juice, so no store-bought juice is raw anymore unless it is made on the premises. Rather than purchasing pasteurized and canned foods, we encourage you to make these foods yourself (soup, juice, etc.) or get them fresh from your local suppliers.
- Was it prepared with natural methods, if available?
Example: Cold pressed oil vs. solvent extracted oil
- Is it high quality?
Example: 7-Eleven vs. Farmers’ Market
- Is it actually food (or something made in a lab)?
Example: Tea vs. Coke
In the past century, our diets have mutated to contain a whole new category of modified and synthetic foods that human bodies never before encountered. ( The term "foods" is used very loosely here.) This list includes margarine and other hydrogenated and partially-hydrogenated oils, artificial colors and flavors, refined sugars and super-sugars like high fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, vitamin-fortified-refined-grains, preservatives, and more. These substances should be avoided except as a rare "treat".
Eating whole, vital, unprocessed, unrefined, high quality foods is a beautiful way to start on a path of healthy eating. It is one of several key principles for healthy eating and digestion, but it stands out as one of the easiest to remember and most important.
Eat well, be well. We look forward to seeing you soon.
— The Dragontree
