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Health and Beauty
Acupuncture, Chiropractic and Massages
Acupuncture and Physical Therapy: 27 years of experience to control pain, stress, migraines, arthritis, pinched nerves, etc. Location: 5401 Collins Avenue,
CU-12, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-866-6911.
Acupuncture Plus: Specializes in alternative medicine that includes a licensed acupuncture physician. Location: 1205 Lincoln Road, CU-12, Miami Beach.
Phone: 305-866-6911.
Aventura Chiropractic Care Center: Takes care of those suffering from back, shoulder and neck pain as well as those suffering from whiplash in auto accidents. Can
also make same day appointments. Location: 20475 Biscayne Boulevard, Aventura. Phone: 305-937-3700.
Baum Chiropractic Clinic. From the onset this clinic sends a very serious message: We care about the condition of your spine and, if you know what’s good
for you, you should too. The staff at Dr. Michael Baum’s chiropractic clinic is not just interested in alleviating pain. The chiropractors want to treat your spine’s conditions and reverse
any damage caused to it. Location: 1175 71st Street, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-864-1419.
Chan Elaine AP: Has over 15 years of clinical experience. Practiced in China, Hong Kong and Florida. Accepts workers compensation and specializes in car accidents,
sports injuries and general disorders. Location: 360 N.E. 167th Street, North Miami Beach. Phone: 305-949-2228.
Oliver Fugmann: An acupuncturist physician, a naturopath, an energetic healer, and a herbalist all wrapped up into one, Fugmann has been practicing Chinese medicine
for 11 years. He still lectures on these sciences all over Europe. However, to get the benefit of his services, you have to visit the Touch spa in Miami Beach. Location: 1000
Lincoln Road, Suite 240, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-673-5133.
Jay M. Holder: Does acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, chiropractic and ear acupuncture. Location: 975 41st Street, Suite 500, Miami Beach.
Phone: 305-534-3635.
Massage By Design: specializes in acupuncture and prescribes herbal prescriptions and diet therapy. Location: 100 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone:
305-532-3112.
Meridian Health Care Center: Dr. Amy Chen, certified in acupuncture and herbology, offers treatment to stop smoking, control pain and help weight loss. Location:
333 41st Street, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-673-1060.
Dr. William Moyal: For 17 years, he has practiced chiropractic medicine and helped people who experience various kinds of physical traumas re-achieve a healthy state
of being. His philosophy is to find the root of the problem and understand its causes rather than merely reduce the pain temporarily. Location: 940 Lincoln Road, Suite 311, Miami
Beach. Phone: 305-531-2933.
Rosenkranz Chiropratic Therapy Centers: Dr. Bruce Rosenkranz uses electrical stimulation, traction machines and good old fashioned chiropractic twisting to make his
patients feel straighter again. Location: 960 41st Street, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-531-6299.
Surfside Pain Control Center Inc.: Dr. Vera Vasershteyn offers traditional acupuncture, homotoxicology and EDS. Free consultation. Location: 260 95th
Street, Surfside. Phone: 305-861-0078.
Cosmetic Services and Surgery
Apex: Features Dermabrasion, the only proven method to rid your skin of wrinkles, large pores, uneven skin and moderate acne. Best of all, you’ll be able to go right
back to work or resume your regular activities in just one hour. Location: 446 41st Street, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-534-7255.
Aventura Center For Cosmetic Surgery: Run by Dr. Sam Gershenbaum, the Aventura Center is a state-of-the-art facility with on-site surgical suites, overnight after
care, and a full service day spa. The experienced staff also provides services such as face and neck lift, breast surgery and reconstruction, nose cosmetic surgery, tummy tuck, eyelid
surgery, facial implants, reconstructive surgery, botox, collagen, hair restoration, etc., etc. Location: 2954B Aventura Boulevard, Aventura. Phone: 305-933-1838.
Greater Miami Vein Clinic: Offers laser treatment, sclerotherapy and surgery for spider veins, reticular veins and all types of varicosities. The clinic also offers
permanent hair removal, Photorejuvenation, Botox, facials, microdermabrasion, LPG Endermologie and nail and body treatments. Location: 1072 Kane Concourse, 96th Street,
Bay Harbor Islands. Phone: 305-293-1309.
Just Peels: A medical esthetician specializing in physician formula glycolic
facial acid peels. Helpful in combating aging (wrinkles), acne and sun damage. Location: 1045 Kane Concourse, Suite 210, Bay Harbor Islands. Phone: 305-898-3984.
Modern Therapy: Specializes in the use of human growth hormones (HGH), the latest rage for people hoping to turn back the aging clock. Location: 1680 Meridian
Avenue, Suite 612, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-695-8929.
Dr. Martin Zaiac: Dr. Zaiac, a board-certified and licensed dermatologist, is a master of purified botulinum toxin type A…a/k/a Botox. A safe procedure used
cosmetically for the reduction of facial lines, Zaiac has performed the procedures on models, celebrities, professionals and socialites in offices in Aventura, Mount Sinai and Alexia’s Day
Spa in South Miami. Location: 4302 Alton Road, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-532-4478.
Gyms and Personal Training
Bally Total Fitness: The latest in gym equipment, cardiovascular machines, steam rooms and in-door pools. Plus an assortment of exercise classes. Location:
3455 N.E. 207th Street, Aventura. Phone: 305-931-3181.
Body 2000: The folks here use “the newest in fitness technology” to promote muscle stimulation. This place uses Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS)
electrodes to zap your nerves (thus blocking pain) and your muscles. Managers claim these sessions will tone your body and assist in shedding pounds. Really. Don’t believe? Check out the
website at www.MyBody2000.com or pay them a visit and chat. Location:
1444 Alton Road, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-531-6113.
Crunch: Has an extensive inventory of free weights, state of the art cardiovascular and circuit machine
equipment of every form that are wired to the internet and unique exercise classes such as Bosu Bootcamp, Brazilian Maculele and Cardio Striptease. Location: 1259 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-674-8222.
Crystal Beach Fitness: Like most gyms, Crystal Beach has its free weights and its circuit training machines.
Unlike many gyms, however, Crystal Beach Fitness has a pool, a Jacuzzi a steam room and its being right by the beach. Location: 6985 Collins
Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-865-9000.
Darren Buckner’s Black Belt Academy: Will teach people of all ages in the art of
cardio kickboxing, karate, tae-kwon do, yoga and self confidence. Location: 529 41st Street, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-672-1350.
Gold’s Gym: South Florida’s largest gym chain, the facility offers aerobics, step, pilates, yoga, kickboxing, state-of-the-art exercise machines and the
all-important free weights. Membership includes “travel privileges” in 650 Gold’s Gyms spread throughout the Planet Earth. Location: 17050 Collins Avenue, Sunny Isles Beach.
Phone: 305-945-7570.
Gold’s Gym South Beach: Has its free weights and state of the art machines and classes. The South Beach gym also has a full service juice bar, a health cafe,
sundecks, and a “muscle beach” area on the roof. Location: 1400 Alton Road, Miami Beach; Phone: 305-538-4653.
Harbor Fitness: Besides offering latest in exercise equipment, Harbor Fitness has a contingent of personal trainers, physical therapists and, for patrons
who pulled a muscle or who are more in the mood to be pampered, massage therapists. Location:1086 Kane Concourse, Bay Harbor Islands. Phone: 305-865-4144.
Idol’s Gym: The “original gym” of South Beach, Idol’s Gym has now opened up shop in a gentrified stretch of
Biscayne Boulevard in Miami. Both gyms boast a wide range of free weights, cardio machines and interesting exercise classes. And, because the management of Idol’s South Beach takes the
motto “No Excuses” seriously, the Lincoln Lane gym is open 24 hours on weekdays. Location: 715 North Lincoln Lane, Miami Beach; 55th
Street and Biscayne Boulevard, Miami. Phone: 305-532-0089 (Miami Beach) 305-751-7591 (Miami).
Kung Fu Connection: Sifu Gus Rubio III teaches the traditional 1,500 year old
form of Northern Shaolin kung fu and other martial arts. Location: 1330 N.E. 125th Street, North Miami. Phone: 305-895-8326.
Larry North Fitness of South Beach: Situated inside of the Roney Palace Resort, Larry North possesses the
latest in cardio-equipment and machines, free weights and a wide array of aerobic classes. Members also have a choice of exercising inside or out thanks to an outside gym near Roney’s
pool. Members also have full access to the rest of the Roney’s amenities. Location: 2301 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-695-0021.
Master Sang’s Tae Kwon Do and Martial Arts Center: Sang Koo Kang is a seven time champion of the Sunshine State Tae Kwon Do Championship, a 6th Degree
Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do, considered a “master” at Muay Thai boxing and other fighting styles. Classes for children and adults. Location: 7128 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach.
Phone: 305-861-7166.
Miami Beach Martial Arts: Gives self defense instruction for men, women and children. Also includes kickboxing aerobics. Location: 923 41st Street,
Miami Beach. Phone: 305-673-2467.
Normandy Gym: Bored with ordinary workouts? Danny Hawk’s Normandy Gym will seek to enhance your endurance and motivation through boxing, cardio
kickboxing and body sculpting. $10 classes available as well as personal training. Location: 1145 71st Street, Miami Beach. Phone:
305-865-8570.
Olympia Gym: Owned by Peter Cicale, this gym offers free weights, machines, exercise classes and yoga, and an army of personal trainers. Location: 20335
Biscayne Boulevard, Aventura. Phone: 305-932-3500.
Pilates Miami: The owner of Pilates Miami, Kevin Bowen, equipped his studio with essential Pilate equipment and apparatuses. He also has a trained staff that is
prepared to give private one-on-one sessions and group sessions for those interested in learning about Pilates. For the really committed, Pilates Miami also teaches how to become a
Pilates instructor. Location: 3936 North Miami Avenue, Miami. Phone: 305-573-4430.
Physique Transformations: Run by Jeff Seidman, Physique Transformations will try to help you become physically fit in just 12 short weeks in
Seidman’s 3,200 square feet facility. Not bad for thrity-five bucks. Location: 1420 Alton Road, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-672-8580.
South Beach Iron Works: This gym offers 50 classes per week,
including yoga, aerobics, abdominal workouts, and much more. A full-time technician is on hand to make sure that the serious dead lift machinery and the latest high tech aerobics
electronics are always functioning at their best. Plenty of parking. Tourists can bring a hotel key or hotel receipt for a special daily rate. Location: 1676 Alton Road, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-531-4743.
South Florida Boxing: Filling the void left by the departed Fifth Street Gym, South Florida Boxing provides members with instruction in boxing aerobics, kick-boxing
aerobics, technical boxing, submission wrestling, amateur boxing instruction and even professional boxing instruction. Location: 715 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone:
305-672-8262.
Health Services
Advanced Dentistry of South Beach: The office specializes in laser bleaching, a process that brightens the dingiest of teeth in just one hour. Dr. Steven Roth is
also expert in other areas of the art of reconstructive dentistry, including re-alignment and fixing chipped and otherwise damaged teeth. The office also has access to a pair of “virtual
glasses” enabling patients to relax and watch a movie. Location: 1688 Meridian Avenue, Suite 414, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-534-7338.
Aventura Hospital and Medical Center: Recently underwent a $130 million expansion and now has a 26-bed emergency services department, two intensive care units, 10
new operating rooms and a six story, 815-space parking facility. Location: 20900 Biscayne Boulevard, Aventura. Phone: 305-682-7000.
Beach Dental Center: Dr. Georgia M. Hernandez offers complete dental care such as crowns, cosmetic bonding, bleachings, laminate veneers, cleaning, fillings, implant
surgery, root canals, dentures and extractions. Location: 1370 Washington Avenue, Suite 201, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-532-3300.
Dentaland Dental Centers: Does cosmetic dentistry, bonding, whitening, dentures, crowns, bridges, extractions, implants, gum therapy, root canal and complete oral
surgery. Location: 19501 Biscayne Boulevard, Aventura. Phone: 305-935-1400.
Dr. Escoto and Dr. Mantovani: It happens – people get their teeth chipped or knocked out in accidents or, in
some cases, by other people. Fortunately, Dr. Maria Escoto and Dr. Alberto Mantovani are experts in all the new advances in aesthetic dentistry. Location: 2895 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-535-2225.
Dr. Alex Farshcian: Call him a visionary, call him radical, but Alex Farshcian believes that arthritis can be properly treated through Ligament and Joint
Regeneration and Nuevogeneration therapy (a.k.a. LaJRan) where a serum of naturally produced growth stimulants is injected into an affected area inducing “natural regeneration…of
ligaments, tendon fibers, cartilages and joints, reversing arthritis and improving mobility.” Location: 9573 Harding Avenue, Surfside. Phone: 305-866-8384.
Impact Rehab: Robert Murdocco practiced physical therapy at Mt Sinai hospital for eight years before going to business with his occupational therapist wife,
Jacqueline. Impact Rehab treats patients with arthritis, recovering from surgery, afflicted with knee and hip pain, and also those who suffer from back pain, neurological impairment,
Parkinson’s and acute pain. Location: 523 41st Street, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-672-2992.
Mount Sinai and Miami Heart Institute Medical Center: Each of this hospital’s campuses has fully operational emergency rooms staffed by board certified physicians.
The center has the only ER medical residency program in South Florida and their ER’s are among the few equipped to handle Hazmat emergencies. The staff is also actively involved in
disaster planning for Miami Beach and Miami-Dade County. Forty thousand patients are treated in the center’s dual emergency rooms every year. Location: 4300 Alton Road, Miami Beach.
Phone: 305-674-2600.
Parkway Regional Medical Center: Provides medical and surgical services, ER, maternity, pediatrics, a healthy heart center, rehab, spine and pain institute, wound
care clinic and psychiatric services. Location: 160 N.W. 170th Street, North Miami Beach. Phone: 305-651-1100.
Drs. David and Irwin Roth: A non-surgical process, ortho-vision, or computerized corneal
molding, helps reduce nearsightedness. Another bonus: unlike laser surgery, ortho-vision is reversible. The Roths also do laser surgery as well as contact and eyeglass fittings, so they
should know. Location: 138 N.E. 2nd Avenue, Miami. Phone: 305-374-5127.
Arnold M. Sheir: Offers free consultations and un-free teeth cleaning, bleaching, bonding, implant reconstruction, etc. Location: 17971 Biscayne Boulevard,
Aventura. Phone: 305-931-5252.
South Beach Dental: Located in Decoplage, Dr. Luis A. Sanchez’s practice offers the latest in technology, including computerized anesthesia, which Sanchez says,
“Puts patients at ease and makes a once difficult injection more comfortable.” He also offers computerized radiographs which give the patients 50% less radiation. South Beach Dental
offers financing and perks such as early appointments and valet parking. Location: 100 Lincoln Rd. #CU7, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-532-6977.
South Shore Hospital: Possesses a 24-hour urgent care center, is home to the University of Miami’s Comprehensive Pain and Rehabilitation Center and has a
comprehensive immunology center. Location: 630 Alton Road, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-672-2100.
Stanley Meyer’s Health Clinic: Non-profit full service clinic that provides a wide-range affordable health care. Location: 710 Alton Road, Miami Beach.
Phone: 305-538-8835.
Sun Bridge: A rehabilitation center where patients receive ongoing healthcare assessments from trained staffers. Sun Bridge offers IV Therapy, therapeutic
activities, hospice care, respite care, wound care, respiratory services and intensive rehabilitation. Sun Bridge also offers recreational activities, field trips and religious services
for patients. Location: 42 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-672-1771.
Ileana Ramudo-Townsend: Well-versed in the study of periodontics (the branch of dentistry concerned with diseases of the bone and tissue supporting the teeth) and
implants. Location: 1370 Washington Avenue, Suite 201, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-532-3242.
UMCare Miami Beach: Run by the University of Miami School of Medicine, its mission is to bring “family health care to the Beach.” Offers both routine and
urgent care to people of all ages, immunizations, physicals for everything from camp to employment and immigration, laboratory testing and even minor surgery. Location:
460 41st Street, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-243-5002.
Salons
Brush: A full service hair salon specializing in hair services and hair
extensions. Also offers a $75 package for an hour facial, Paraffin treatment, back massage and blow dry. Carries Redken products. Location: 900 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach.
Phone: 305-534-7815.
By The Ocean: Opened two years ago by Alex Gomez, this full-service salon specializes in the latest beauty techniques such as glycolic acid facials, hair
extensions, micro-derma abrasion, Brazilian bikini waxes and a wide array of other specialized services. Open 11 hours a day, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and staffers also provide hair and
massage services for several prime hotels on the Beach—and the occasional Hollywood-type celebrity. Location: 1200 Ocean Drive, Suite 103, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-532-1023.
Face Maker Salon: A selection of packages is available – all of which can be customized to better meet customers’ needs, including bridal packages, fruit and herbs
pedicures and manicures, massages, hair removal, etc. Make an appointment for Millie, the salon’s medical facialist. On Mondays you can get laser hair removal,
collagen, and Botox from the salon’s resident medical doctor. Location: 5225 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: 305- 861-1255.
Gerard Rossi Salon: After conquering Beverly Hills and New York with his salons Gerard Rossi brings his talents to Miami-Dade. A full-service salon, Gerard Rossi
also includes a day spa and a gift shop. Rossi himself meets with each of his patrons on an individual basis to figure out what would best compliment them. Location: 1160 Kane
Concourse, Bay Harbor Islands. Phone: 305-866-7939.
Hair Masters: For when you want to look your best without bankruptcy, Hair Master Unisex Salon is the place to look up. Location: 1428 Alton Road, Miami
Beach. Phone: 305-532-6173.
Hair 2000: The folks at Enigma do manicures, pedicures, nail repair, make-up applications, semi-permanent
lashes, unisex shampooing and haircuts, coloring, facials and hair removal. Location: 9540 Harding Avenue, Surfside. Phone: 305-861-8889.
Hannah and Her Scissors: A former colorist at New York’s Pipino Buccheri Salon, owner Hanah Lasky and her staff provide hair colorings, shampoos and stylings as well
as manicures, pedicures, waxing and more. Lasky, who has been publicized in national beauty magazines, also has her own line of hair products. Location: 451 41st Street,
Miami Beach. Phone: 305-673-1445.
Manolo International Hair Salon: Owned by Manolo Ruiz, a stylist who has worked with Enrique Iglesias and Sophia Vergara, Manolo International offers services such
as hair coloring, highlights, cuts, manicures, pedicures, facials, body massages and waxing. Manolo also markets a complete line of beauty and spa accessories and products. Location:
2189 N.E. 123rd Street, North Miami; 1166 Kane Concourse (Level 2), Bay Harbor Islands. Phone: 305-893-1022 (North Miami), 305-891-7128 (Bay Harbor).
Pino Leo Lina: Owner Gonzalo Perez has been involved in the salon business from the day he was born. Using experience gathered by himself and his family (who own
salons in Argentina and Uruguay), he created a full service salon and spa specializing in hair, make-up, extensions, facials, waxing, manicures, pedicures and massages. Location:
9466 Harding Avenue, Surfside. Phone: 305-867-5371.
Richard & Company: Founded by Richard Braverman this salon performs shampoos, shapes, cuts, color and
conditioning. Other services include facials, manicures, pedicures, waxing and professional make-up application. Location: 17830 West Dixie
Highway, North Miami Beach. Phone: 305-935-1788.
Salon L’ Estetica: For the last 10-plus years, Dov Grossman’s salon in One
Turnberry Place has been a magnet for stylists and nail technicians from all over the world. “It’s not often that you visit a salon where stylists speak English, Spanish, Hebrew, French
and Portuguese, but our mix of stylists make my business unique,” Grosman says. Customers also know that Dov “only hires great people.” Location: 19495 Biscayne Boulevard, Aventura. Phone:
305-933-0400.
Some Like It Hot: Located inside Brownes and Co., Some Like It Hot is an all-purpose salon offering skin care, massages, manicures, pedicures, unisex hairdressing,
hair removal, etc. Location: 841 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-532-7752.
Steve’s Hair Design: Steve Esteban Hernandez has assembled an experienced staff who know the ways of hair coloring and highlighting. This full-service
salon has also perfected other hair dressing arts, pedicures, manicures, make-up and skin care. Steve’s Hair Design also carries over two dozen top of the line professional salon products
and is the exclusive Miami Beach carrier of Guinot skin care items. Location: 765 –17th Street, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-672-3547.
The Salon at Turnberry Isle: This salon specializes in hair, but features a number of other services including
manicures, pedicures and special occasion makeovers that have made this salon and spa renowned all over South Florida. Also owned by Dov Grossman, the renowned salon owner who strives to
make sure his customers are pampered and to hire employees who can provide ideal hairdos or makeovers. Location: 19999 W. Country Club Drive,
Aventura. Phone: 305-933-1100.
SuperCuts: The place for both sexes to get their hair affordably cut and styled. No appointment needed. Just pop in. Location: 6784 Collins Avenue, Miami
Beach; 1364 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: (North Beach) 305-865-6333, (South Beach) 305-531-8575.
Van Michael Miami Salon: Besides the talented beauty masters found at Van Michael (including owners Gina Derry and Leslie Munsell) this full-service salon is the
only place in Florida to find thermal reconditioning, a way of straightening hair invented by the Japanese. Thermal reconditioning has been touted as the ultimate way of eliminating curls
in this day and age where straight hair is all the rage. Location: 1667 Michigan Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-534-6789.
Spas
Aqua: Located on the penthouse floor of the Delano, the Aqua Bath House offers Biologique Skin Care treatments, Eve Lom, massages of various forms, specialized body
services, guided meditations, wet body treatments, body baths, manicuring, pedicuring and other spa packages. Location:1685 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-674-6100.
European Spa: Offering a variety of packages that include therapeutic whirlpools, oxygen steam bath, aromatherapy treatment, full body massage, deluxe facials,
manicures and pedicures, scalp treatments, nourishing masks, healthy lunches, hot stone therapy, body wraps, mineral water, something called endermatherapy cellulite treatment, oxy-brasion,
etc. Location: 9575 Harding Avenue, Surfside. Phone: 305-867-0100.
Fontainebleau Hilton: Home to a world-acclaimed spa, the Fontainebleau is now offering service packages. For just $160 there’s the
Tropical Escape Package that includes a 25 minute Papaya Mango scrub, a 50 minute Piña Colada Wrap and a 50 minute custom cleaning facial. There is also the Rejuvenating Package that comes
with a 50-minute deep tissue massage, a 50-minute anti-aging facial, a manicure, and lunch for just $180. Location: 4441 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-538-2000.
Nirvana: A 20,000 square foot spa in North Beach that has four different steam rooms: an all-cedar Russian steam room with Platza and aromatherapy treatments (the
only one of its kind in the United States, according to the management), a Turkish Hamam steam room, a Lavendar Aromatherapy steam room and a Finish Sauna. Nirvana also has facilities that
include a huge communal Jacuzzi, Swiss showers, a fully-equipped gym, etc. Location: 8701 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-867-4850.
Ocean Point Beach Resort and Spa: Services include pool side massages in an Oceanside cabana, several forms of message therapy (including Swedish, Shiatsu,
Hot Stone, Aromatherapy, Pre-Natal and Tiki Torch), rain forest body scrubs, reflexology, herbal wraps, facials, steam room and sauna. If that isn’t enough, Ocean also has a full service
salon and state-of-the-art fitness facilities. Location: 17375 Collins Avenue, Sunny Isles Beach. Phone: 786-528-2500.
Spa of Eden at the Eden Roc Spa: 55,000 square feet in size, the Spa of Eden offers massage, aromatherapy, scrubs and facials. Eden also has an
Olympic-sized lap pool, a state-of-the-art gym, basketball, squash and racquetball facilities, Lifestyles Wellness sessions on the beach and Florida’s only indoor rock-climbing wall.
Location: 4525 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-531-0000.
Touch, Skin & Body Care Studio: Esthetician and owner Gigi Noriega set out to create a holistic center that
can heal the mind, body and spirit all in one session. Offers the services of an acupuncture physician, a naturopath, a herbalist, a male massage therapist, a female massage therapist, a
nail specialist, a platoon of estheticians and Noriega herself. All products used are natural and often created on the premises. Location: 1000
Lincoln Road #240, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-673-5133.
Williams Island Spa: A 27,000-square-foot facility that has been frequented by celebrities, sports personalities and other high-profile individuals. Features the
latest cardiovascular and strength training equipment, personal trainers and classes and programs under the watchful eye of licensed or certified instructors. Plus a 60-foot indoor lap
pool, steam rooms, saunas, whirlpools, and a full-service hair salon. Location: 5300 Island Boulevard, Aventura. Phone: 305-937-7860.
Waxing and Tanning
South Beach Body Waxing Co.: This establishment has developed all sorts of waxes sure to remove the most stubborn of body follicles while, at the same time, not
damaging the surrounding flesh. Location: 1352 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-531-3130.
Tan V: All about tanning at this state of the art facility. And better yet, after receiving your first tanning session, the second one is free for the
first time artificial tanner. No appointment necessary. Location: 844 Alton Road, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-672-0767.
Uni-K-Wax: Among the services offered include women’s body waxing, men’s body waxing, women’s face waxing, men’s face waxing as well as women’s special packages and
men’s special package. By using the “European Wax System,” the staff of Uni-K-Wax can remove hair from any part of the face or body at a fraction of the cost of honey wax via a safe and
gentle process sure to leave the skin “soft and silky smooth.” Location: 771 17th Street, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-531-7777.
Yoga
Bikram’s Yoga College of India: Daily classes for beginners and those further along the yoga path.
Location: 1330 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-534-2727.
Synergy: Gaia Budhai, October Rose and Mariano “Mano” Ardissone have assembled a team of yoga masters from all
over the world who hold classes and workshops. Among them: sessions for expectant mothers (Pre-Natal Yoga), those seeking to get in shape (Power Yoga), beginner classes and classes for
those seeking to be yoga masters themselves. Location: 435 Española Way, Miami Beach; 8701 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: (Española Way) 305-538-7073, (Collins Avenue) 305-866-1650.
Zab Sang Institute: Chufei Tsai has studied Taoism, Chi Gong and Buddhism from renowned figures in Asia. Now in South Miami, Tsai and instructors of the institute
seek to enhance lives “through spirituality, study and action” and offers classes such as “Inner Feng Shui” (a ten-week training course on how to achieve internal balance) and “Mother of
Pearl” (a seminar designed to address the “inherent capabilities and gifts of the female.”) Location: 7215 S.W. 72nd Street, South Miami. Phone: 786-268-1548.
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