Spa Finder, a company that compiles spa directories and publishes Luxury Spa Finder magazine, is forecasting sleep as a top spa trend for 2007.
The spa trend started in 2003, when Spa Toccare opened at the Borgata with 15 treatment rooms and quickly became booked two months in advance.
Religion's complex history includes discipline and even denial of the body, so Rivera says what's new in the spiritual spa trend "is the element of pampering".
The home-spa trend has led to some design humdingers in recent years (remember the Scottish rain showers?), but this might take the cake.
The Mandarin Oriental's VIP Spa Suite, which goes for $1,050 per three-hour block and has its own private steam room, Jacuzzi and fireplace, is the most visible symptom of another trend: spa suites, which are opening up all over the country.
It is one of the hottest trends in spa, medical and corporate wellness.
Blind masseurs, known throughout Asia to be excellent therapists because of their heightened sense of touch, are becoming a trend for spa and wellness retreats worldwide.
If your dog has gotten in on the nail art trend, the spa offers "pawdicures", with dog safe nail polishes and even little diamond appliques, attached to each nail.
Susie Ellis, president of Spa Finder, says this trend coincides with an uptick in men visiting spas, and an uptick in women on the links.
In what the International Spa Association calls a key 2010 trend, spas are offering a menu of sampler treatments to entice newbies in these tighter times.
