You choose the wording, and you make it sing!
What is a Staycation? Literally what it says: you stay around or in your locale for your vacation. A Spa Vacation Day or Weekend is a bit different.
It can be an adventure that starts here–online–as you gather information about what you want to experience that’s restorative or says spa and vacation to you (and members of your family if they or someone else is included).
Here are some ideas:
Pampering
Delicious food: depending where you are–Souen in New York City;
Poco Piatti in Perrysburg or Toledo; Nagoya Japanese Steak House
Spa products
Being on a beach, near water, or in nature: Wildwood Preserve in Toledo, Wintergarden St. John’s Woods in Bowling Green, Ohio; Nyack State Park, Rockland State Park or Central Park in New York
Exploring new places like a local bookstore or magical shop like The Happy Badger Trading Portal in Bowling Green, Ohio or East/West Books in New York City, or discovering little nook art galleries like Spectrum in the Toledo Botanical Gardens, the latest show at the Toledo Museum of Art, or something else equally cool and inspiring and maybe inside on hot summer days (such as after strolling through the Crosby Arts Festival). Smelling the roses is a fine way to go.
Something exotic
Going shopping
Seeing a Broadway show or something similar
Visits to local haunts, favorite or new: Try the 577 Foundation in Perrysburg for community gardens and an awesome biodome. There’s also a children’s garden that the fairies adore!
Need directions?
Make your list, and then you invent and intend. You can even try the lens “Give Yourself That Million Dollar Treatment” and ask for a spa vacation. See where it takes you–mentally, physically, energetically, spiritually.
If you’re into spending a little bit on yourself because you’re that worthwhile, you might start by having breakfast at a new little nook that seems exotic. Maybe that’s a Paneras, or Cafe Marie’s, or if you’re in Bowling Green, Ohio, Call of the Canyon.
Or maybe you’ll rise at dawn, pack up your camping gear and head for your backyard or that campground a few miles away that you always intended to visit but never have. Or maybe today’s a visit to the Butterfly House to inspire that butterfly or fairy garden you’ve been meaning to create.
You could literally give yourself a session in a spa or with a practitioner who you know brings heaven on earth, or you could travel to your bathroom, local health food store, or a beauty products haven and pick up some aromatherapy products–candles, bath beads, whatever catches your eye–and, you could also visit your local flower farm or florist or your own garden and use what you have: rose petals, any fragrant flower for a bouquet (or stay outside on your lounger and inhale, relax, visualize, and meditate).
What totally awesome Sex in the City kind of drink comes to mind? Get the ingredients and make one. Or better yet, watch the movie and get re-inspired. Have a Girls’ Night Out. You might even add some get happy entertainment like a fairy or angel reading.
You can also play some inspiring music. Some of my favs include: Enya, Rob Thomas, Yanni, musicals like Hair Spray or Mary Poppins, and classical music like anything Mozart.
I’m listening to Josh Groban as I write this–remembering the rain and the train of thought that says, “After the Rain” Christopher Wheeldon choreography and poetry like Rumi, a night on the town, and later, some moon, cloud or star-gazing.
Hopefully this will get you started and maybe some tunes or books (curling up with a great book is vacation material to me).
Whatever you do, think “enchanted” and you’ll find something magical comes your way, for sure. Don’t forget after your power nap, to open your eyes and ears and heart to receive it!
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