Explore Santa Fe: Health / Fitness / Spas

How relaxed do you feel right now? If you’re tired, stressed, achy—or just can’t remember the last time you gave your body, mind, and spirit a much-needed break—take a deep, cleansing breath and thank your lucky stars that you’re in Santa Fe. The City Different reportedly boasts more massage therapists per capita than any other city in the United States. Whether you want to de-stress, detoxify, or simply sink into divine bliss, you’re in the right place!

Fourteen men marching casually through the Rio en Medio trail, where a few brown and yellow leaves still cling to the trees.

Conversation topics range from whether Tina Fey and Sarah Palin might be the same person to the species of plant life —“Hey, John, are these dewberry leaves?” At one point, two men debate the merits of wearing metaphorical lenses that “wipe away society.”

Weeks before Anytime Fitness opened its doors to the public on July 17, the 24-hour, seven-day-a-week gym already had 200 members.

Santa Fe hair stylist Hector Amézquita is one of dozens of people who signed a two-year membership contract several months ago and he’d been biting at the bit to begin working out.

“I’m not a morning person,” said Amézquita, who operates his own hair studio on Guadalupe Street. “Sometimes, I’m not finished with clients until 8 or 9 p.m., when other gyms are closing down. Unlike some people who tell me they’re tired by 9 p.m., I have a lot of energy at night. That’s a great time for me to work out.”

During an 11 p.m. wor...

There are three types of exercisers in this day and age. The first one is the person that is at the gym everyday and looks at exercise as their first love. The second type is the person who goes to the gym at the beginning of the year to start their New Year’s resolution and only lasts a few months. The third type is sitting on their couch not reading this article. People who exercise say that they do it for various reasons, from feeling good, to weight loss, health reasons or because their doctor said so. If you ask most of them if they enjoy it, the majority would say no! Most of us exercise because we have to. As a personal trainer, I have worked with many people who say they would n...

SFCC Thinks Johnny Martinez Has a Story Worth Telling

As Johnny Martinez ordered a cup of hot tea at the DeVargas Center Starbucks, a woman sidled up to him and said, kiddingly, “John the Babe!” He looked a little sheepish and said, “Her sister was my high school sweetheart.”

At 49, John P. (“Johnny”) Martinez is a long way from high school. And back in 1976, the year he graduated from Santa Fe High, he never would have considered going to college. And he definitely would never have imagined being the honorary student speaker at Santa Fe Community College’s graduation Friday.

But in the past eight years, Martinez has turned his life around, from an al...