Canada's First Urban Water Spa for Women
- Body Blitz -
Health by Water…Get Blitzed!
Opening November 2005
Toronto, ON - Early one Friday morning, Laura Polley
(president of a film finance company) attempted to book a Shiatsu
massage appointment for the same day. After hours on the phone to
various local spas and relaxation facilities, she was informed that
the therapists were "not in today" or that all appointments
were booked weeks ago. Frustrated with the current selection of trendy
facilities and disappointing treatments for busy urban women she called
one of her four sisters, Rena Polley, and expressed her dream to build
a women's facility in Toronto offering the best treatments from her
extensive travels around the world.
Having visited Bathhouses and Spas in places such as:
Italy, Australia, Germany, Amsterdam, all over the Caribbean, Los
Angeles, New York and more, Laura decided to "take the best qualities
from all my experiences and fuse them into one place." Taking
the centuries old tradition of bathing or 'taking the waters', SPA
is an acronym for "Salus per Aquam" or "health through
water". After thorough research, Laura also discovered that there
wasn't a single facility in Ontario that offered the newest trend
in spas - health by water. She knew she had to bring this age-old
tradition to Toronto and make it modern and urban for Canadian women.
With that, Body
Blitz was born and will soon be unveiled to the public in November
2005. Situated in the heart of downtown Toronto, Body Blitz, a women's
only urban water spa will be housed in a century old warehouse space
on Adelaide St between Spadina and Bathurst. The space is over 10,000
square feet with brick walls, heated cement floors and a wooden beamed
ceiling. As Rena says, "The minute you walk through the door
you will feel like you have left the city behind and entered an urban
oasis." Body Blitz goes above and beyond breaking the mold of
the traditional spa. Not only do they offer treatments unique to Canada
(based on Asian Bathhouse principles), they will also hold 30% of
all appointments each day for same-day bookings for women who are
too busy to predict free time in advance; giving women the chance
to call on a Friday morning and be in a treatment room that afternoon.
Body Blitz offers the first water therapy pools in Canada
including: a warm sea salt pool (98 degrees), hot detoxification tea
pool (102 degrees), cold dunking pool (50 degrees), steam, infrared
sauna, as well as body treatments of scrubs, muds and massages that
can be mixed and matched for individual preference. You can access
the waters only, or include them with your treatments. Body Blitz
will also offer a Juice/Tea Bar based on the properties of the treatments
(Ruth Brown from Juice for Life/Fresh as consultant).
Prices range from as low as $35 for the waters alone
to under $200 for 'The Works' - an hour and a half tip-to-toe thorough
scrub and massage. All treatments will use products made exclusively
for Body Blitz and allow women to select their own scrub or mud from
our unique mud and scrub bar. "We're over stimulated in this
world. I want to relax in the waters, get a treatment, not TALK to
anybody while it's being done, feel great and get out. It's simple,
but I just couldn't find it here. I'm not a SPA expert, just a regular
woman who needed a good treatment and couldn't find it…"
www.bodyblitzspa.com
- 471 Adelaide Street, between Spadina and Bathurst. 416.364.0400
