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Venelle Salon and Spa in scenic Park Slope is a perfect example of the modern Spa experience, offering services from Botox to Bridal Hair. They also provide an extremely broad range of massage and bodywork. With a staff of highly trained practitioners, they can provide services from ultramodern sports medicine to the esoteric, including 5,000 year old traditional Thai Massage, performed on imported traditional hand woven mats. This range is indicative of the changing place of massage in our culture. Massage has gone mainstream in a big way. Most of us can remember when massage, and the ‘Massage Parlor’, was both a dirty word and a euphemism.
Today, massage is as varied as it is acceptable. Venelle Salon offers therapeutic, Swedish, Shiatsu, Deep Tissue, hot stones, and a unique array of traditional and modern Thai modalities, not to mention special deals for couples and groups and packages including other salon services. These services also represent the broad range of situations that bodywork fits into in our modern, and often hectic, lives. Whether on a date or as a part of a holistic childbirth regimen, rehabbing an injury or preparing for an important business meeting – I know one Hollywood screenwriter who religiously gets his ‘game face’ bodywork before every big pitch meeting!
Along with respectability, the level of training and the competence of the massage staff has skyrocketed. High end but affordable spas like Venelle have the luxury of sorting through a huge talent pool, selecting for talent and specialty. But the arts of bodywork are still young and dynamic, discovering new methods and rediscovering and importing amazing new techniques from all over the world. Who knows what will come next from the skilled hands of your bodywork practitioner? The point is not that massage has shed itself of its previous stigma, but that along with such services as body waxing, facials, and the old standybys of hair styling and nails, another powerful pampering arrow has been added to the salon’s quiver.
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