KAANAPALI, Maui -- The Hyatt Regency Maui opened a $3.5 million spa
here called Spa Moana, offering massages, body wraps, skin scrubs
and a program of wellness seminars.
The spa has 11 treatment rooms in a 9,000-square-foot building
facing the beach.
Starting in September, the spa will offer two wellness programs,
which will alternate every month: Hawaiian Health & Healing and
Welcome to Wellness with Elaine Willis.
Lyons Naone, a native of the Hana area of Maui, which happens to
be one of the most traditionally Hawaiian areas of the state, will
be one of the regular speakers presenting Hawaiian health
workshops.
"I haven't read a lot on healing, I haven't gone to school for
it and I don't have a certificate, but my grandma was a healer and
I have been practicing herbal medicine since I was 11," said Naone,
who recently quit a job with the U.S. Customs Service to return to
his healing roots.
"Hawaiian medicine is about well being in the body and mind --
how you eat in moderation, how you exercise in moderation and how
you rest, relax and enjoy pleasure," said Naone.
"When people come to me for healing, I work on those things.
Lifestyle changes must come from within, and I like to heal through
education."
The wellness program also will feature Elaine Willis, who will
offer five workshops. Changing Your Mind, Changing Your Body offers
inspirational stories about how people have overcome disease; Turn
Stress Into Success illustrates how unrecognized chronic stress can
lead to mental and physical disorders and how to avoid that; A Life
Plan for High-Level Wellness offers information on attitudes,
nutrition and fitness, and For Women Only and For Men Only explore
wellness issues related specifically to the sexes.
The spa also will offer a number of body treatments, including
massages; facials; scrubs; wraps; polishes; baths; hair, face and
skin care, and yoga and exercise classes.
In addition to the old standby spa treatments, the Hyatt spa
offers such specials as kukui nut reflexology (a hand and foot
massage using nuts from the kukui nut tree -- Hawaii's state tree);
couples massage instruction; a ginger body wrap; body scrubs using
different coffee blends, application of lotions that make the skin
look tan and scalp massages.
There also is a new fitness room.
To use the locker room, which has a steam room, sauna, hot tub
and showers, and the fitness center, the cost is $15 a day for
hotel guests and $25 for others.
To use just the fitness center, guests pay $5 a day.
Prices for treatments run from $20 for an eyebrow shaping to
$205 for a seaweed skin treatment, massage and bath
combination.
Guests who pay for treatments don't have to pay to use the
locker rooms.
Reservations for treatments are suggested, and the spa requires
a four-hour cancellation notice or the guest will be charged in
full.
Hyatt Regency Maui
Phone: (800) 554-9288
Web: www.maui.hyatt.com