The Restoration Journey

The Soaking Journey

1. Pre-Activity

Prepare for your Soaking Journey with intention. Drink plenty of water, fill a water bottle, and enjoy a nutritious snack at home or at the Barefoot Grill.

Start with a Contrast Bathing Circuit

Repeat the Contrast Phase up to 3x for optimal benefits. For more information on Contrast Bathing, visit our Soaking Guide page here.

Enjoy the moment as you ready yourself for a therapeutic, water-based wellness experience.

  1. Warm Soaking (5-10 Min.)
Relax and set healing intentions for yourself while your body focuses your healing energy inward.

 2. Hot Soaking (5-10 Min.)
Be mindful of your body’s temperature and consider a half-body soak to keep from overheating.

 3. Cold Soaking (1 Min.)
Take deep breaths to fill your lungs with fresh mountain air. Pause to enjoy the plentiful sights and sounds of nature that surrounds you.

Optional Practice:
Fully submerge your head just prior to departing the cold pool for an invigorating experience.

Stretch with Aqua Yoga

Aqua Yoga is one of over a dozen wellness activities included with your stay. This one-hour water-based wellness class infuses joint and muscle stretches with the healing properties of our mineral-rich hot spring waters.

  Warm Soaking (5-10 Min.)
Acclimate your body.

3. Post-Activity

Nourish with a Vitality Tonic and Snack

Visit the Canteen and Barefoot Grill to grab a nutrient and vitamin-packed wellness mocktail and snack. Following a strenuous activity, your body needs Amino Acids and Vitamin B to replenish glucose, glycogen, and other recovery cofactors.

Dr. Coplin recommends a Broth like a Bieler’s Broth, packed full of plant-based nutrients, minerals, and vitamins.

Recommended Resort Option: Bieler’s Broth | Available at the Barefoot Grill.

Roll & Recover Wellness Activity

Our complimentary Roll & Recover class is the perfect way to ease muscle and joint tension.

  Warm Soaking (20-40 Min.)

Long warm soaks harness the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of our mineral-rich waters, speeding up metabolic recovery and improving blood circulation.

 Cool Off in the Mountain Air (10 Min.)

Take deep breaths to fill your lungs with fresh mountain air.

Eat a Nutritious Dinner.

Focus on magnesium and iron-rich proteins paired with leafy green vegetables.

Recommended Resort Option: Kale Cranberry Salad – Add Chicken Protein | Available at the Barefoot Grill.

Day 2

4. Post-Activity

Start with Aqua Yoga

Unwind with a Massage at The Spa

A massage can help with improving circulation, encouraging lymph node drainage, and easing strained muscles.

  3. Warm Soaking (20 – 40 Min.)

 Cool Off in the Mountain Air (10 Min.)

Complete your Restoration Journey with a River Walk & Stretch Wellness Activity

Our River Walk & Stretch wellness activity provides you with an opportunity to stretch your muscles, preventing injury and increasing flexibility, while enjoying the natural beauty and biodiversity of our unique geothermal wetlands.

5. Reflection Phase

Research has shown that a regular practice of gratitude can help regulate stress, lower blood pressure, and improve sleep.

Dr. Coplin promotes gratitude as a powerful tool that can be incorporated into daily habits. “It is said that the grateful mind cannot feel negative emotions. When we are actively focused on the sensation of thankfulness, appreciation, and embodying the impulse to return kindness, ie.e feeling gratitude, not only does our mental health improve, but so does our physical health.”

Join us for a Guided Gratitude Ceremony  |  4PM Daily at the Mother Spring

Complete your Soaking Journey with a Gratitude Ceremony at the Mother Spring. Use this moment to allow yourself to take in the awe-inspiring vision of the Mother Spring. Connect with your feeling of gratitude for the healing you are here to receive and have experienced throughout your Soaking Journey.