Explore Santa Fe: Health / Fitness / Spas

Santa Fe offers a wide array of gyms and fitness studios for every budget and in locations all over town. Whether you're looking for fitness classes, serious weight training, or a full-service gym with pools and steams rooms, you'll find it in Santa Fe.

The VMS (vitamins, minerals and supplements) industry is $25 billion strong nationwide, recession proof, and thanks to aging Boomers and an increasingly health-conscious America, growing about six percent a year, according to the Huffington Post. In Santa Fe, which may be more health-crazed than most cities, the VMS business is booming at Wal-Mart, CVS and Walgreens, and particularly at specialty stores. Industry growth depends on either marketing new products or new research on existing products or, at the store level, having informed and knowledgeable salespersons.

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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!

Move to Santa Fe and it's not long before you hear of someone who's suffering from allergies-juniper, elm, and oak in the spring, chamisa in the fall. You sympathize and are grateful this is not you. You have never had allergy issues back in New York, and with your strong immune system (New Yorkers are immune to almost everything), it's doubtful you ever will. Flash forward a few years, and after a particularly long, wet winter, you suddenly wake one windy morning with tightness in your chest, your throat is filled with mucus, your sinus cavities are bloated, and your eyes won't stop itching. Soon, you're telling newcomers that it's not if but when they, too, will be struck by an airborne plague that makes your daily existence as much fun as a kidney stone.

How many daily maneuvers do we expect our bodies to perform for us? How many blinks in an eye, how many bends in a knee? Our human bodies are complex machines worthy of tender care and that care is often referred to as “body work”. From massage with its many sub-categories and specialties to the Asian traditions of Jin Shin Do and Shiatsu, these are treatments that go beyond mechanics. Finding the optimum modality and practitioner is highly personal but if you’re ready to try it, chances are it’s available in Santa Fe.