Appalachian Training Center For Healing Arts

Much like the original reviewer here, I’ve enjoyed my massages here. The services are good. The staff is friendly and as accommodating as they can be with what they have to work with. This is the only spa I’ve been to that didn’t have heated massage tables or water in the lobby. Yesterday I had a very good 90 minute massage, only to be distracted by shivering. The masseuse was thoughtful enough to put hot stones on my back even though it was not a stone massage. It helped but brrrrr. They are just getting into a new location. It looks as if they are working on the décor. As it is now, the «relaxation room» looks and feels more like a Mexican prison, complete with a glaring florescent light over head. I hope the owner is able to tie all of the aspects of a spa in with his new location. My advice as a consumer would be to bring someone into help with the aesthetics and thoughtful touches. For this to work as a designation spa, it should look and feel like one. The glaring orange and black walls just doesn’t fit the theme for a bridal party. I wish them the best. They have a lot of potential.

GREAT price for a really nice offerring of spa services. Massages are around $ 40 for an hour, which is INCREDIBLY inexpensive given the quality of the massages. They have deep tissue, swedish, hot stone and more. Since it is a learning center, I believe once the students are trained for serving the public, you can get even better deals. Spa services include waxing, a wide variety of massages, facials, yoga classes as well as some nice package deals. They also sell some really nice products and soy candles that one of the owners makes herself. They smell lovely, and are very reasonably priced, picked up a few to go!
So I have a few nitpicky things for the owners (I plan to link them to this). I still think it was WELL worth the price but the experience would have been even more enjoyable and spa-​like with some attention to detail:
Décor includes low lighs, spa colors, nice quiet relaxing music, but the front waiting area feels more like waiting at the dentist office or chiropractors office. It was a little cramped, and it would be nice if that area offerred water or teas to hydrate yourself before and after spa services.
Massage rooms were noisy, by which I mean outside noises bled in constantly. Chatter and laughing from the back room, people in the adjacent spa rooms talking, and employees calling things out quite loudly as they passed by my room. Perhaps some more soft surfaces (murals or draperies) in the halls and rooms would help with this.
Lastly, and a TOTAL nitpick, was that the spa music was on a 10 minute loop, so 5 times during my massage I heard the CD loop over abruptly and start over which made me want to giggle. REALLY, you can’t just buy a whole CD full of music that lasts an hour or more?