August is Dive Month at Travaasa
As summer comes to a close, Travaasa celebrates Dive Month. Dive into the last month of Summer and plunge into something new as the sun sets on your summer vacation. Take advantage of the adventures surrounding you before Fall approaches and live each day to the fullest during Dive Month. Fitness: Dive into Pilates for a stronger torso and increased core stability, which creates greater range of motion, stronger, more controlled movement and a leaner, more toned physique. We are on our feet a lot and most of the time we do not pay attention to it. Learning how to use our feet with proper mechanics is essential for their health and the other joints above, including your back. Going deeper into our feet, massaging them, learning good mechanics and...
Celebrate Man Month with Texas BBQ Ribs
What’s manlier than Texas BBQ? Perfect for Man Month and summer, this recipe, from the purist school of Texas BBQ, will have everyone begging for seconds. Take two or three racks of baby back pork ribs and give them a nice seasoning with Kosher salt and Black Pepper. With a paring knife, slice between each bone on the back side of the rack to sever the thick connective tissue binding the rack together. Place in smoker and smoke for about 5 hours (This time may need to be adjusted depending on temperature. The real test is being able to pull the bone away from the rib meat while having the rack remain intact). The key is to have the smoker going at a slow smolder without flames. We use Oak to smoke our ribs, but Pecan wood is also a great wood to smoke...
The Western Sky: An All-New Men’s Treatment Room
In honor of Man Month, there’s a new treatment room in Austin, especially designed with men in mind, called the Western Sky. Not only does the Travaasa spa offer a separate men’s spa brochure, but it also features the exclusive Men’s skin care line, Organic Male, a results driven line designed to address the unique issues men have with skin care. What makes the Western Sky so amazing? The wood that lines the walls is reclaimed Douglas fir from an old elementary school in Texas. The wood trim, although plain, is reclaimed loblolly pine from an old library in Texas. The fiber optic sky represents a Texas sky, with the constellations Leo, Capricorn, Little Dipper, Sagittarius, and many more. The Western Sky has a bar in the room that is...
The Secret to a Beautiful Garden: Nurture
With flowers springing and bird songs filling the air, summer is right around the corner. Your garden has been on hiatus all winter long and is probably ready for a little more TLC before the heat wave of the next few months appears. Nurturing the plants you love is time sensitive, so here are a few tips on keeping your garden pretty and disease-free: Avoid compressing the soil by making sure its dry, as damaging the soil could harm the rest of the garden. Weeds pop up as fast as the temperature rises, so be sure to tackle those pesky things first. Start a garden journal, which includes information on planting dates, seed types, and weather changes. By drawing where the plants are this year, next year’s harvest will mimic what worked and what...
6 Ways to Stay Healthy and Active on Your Beach Vacation
With the anticipation of summer, a beachy vacation under the hot sun with great friends is becoming a reality. The perfect ocean-side vacation wouldn’t be complete without some fit activities to coincide with that vigorous workout schedule you maintained all winter. Here are some tips to stay active and healthy while drifting into the sunset along the coastline. 1. Juicing is an incredible way to maintain a healthy lifestyle while relaxing on the beach. Travaasa Hana offers Juicing 2.0—an interactive way to gain the skills to juice on your own while incorporating local fruits and vegetables and learning to create a tasty drink that you can integrate into your everyday diet. 2. Accompany your early morning juice with a sunrise hike along the coastline to...
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