calling all wellness junkies

Lara Green’s Saturday morning yoga-with-a-view at South Hill Cider.

From meditating with the Dalai Lama’s monks to morning yoga in an apple orchard, Ithaca is a veritable haven for wellness junkies like myself. And no, I’m not trying to be an Ithaca version of early-Goop. (Though now that I think about it, maybe a little.)

Here is an introduction to the wide variety of activities and services designed to nurture your mind, body and spirit.

acupuncture

there are many practitioners in the area, here are a few that I’m personally familiar with

• Finger Lakes Acupuncture Associates

• Integrated Wellness Center

• Ithaca Community Acupuncture

chiropractic

• Ithaca Family Chiropractic

• Von Bergen Chiropractic Health Care

• Todd Stein, CH

• Spinal Wellness Center

crystals

• Multi faceted Minerals, Ithaca Commons

• Sunshine’s Creative Designs, Dewitt Mall, Ithaca

energy work/chakra rebalancing/reiki/specialized massage

• Stephanie Gray. Steph also specializes in lymphatic massage.

• Padma Center for Natural Therapies

• Guided Touch Massage

medicinal herbs and tinctures

• Bramble, Community Herbalism, Press Bay Alley, Ithaca.

• Greenstar Coop, Wellness Section, west end location, Ithaca.

meditation

• Ithaca Zen Center

• Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies

• Light on the Hill Retreat Center

• Foundation of Light

spas

• Rasa Spa, located in the building that also houses Island Health and Fitness

• The Spa at the Inns of Aurora

• August Moon Spa at La Tourelle

• Satori Day Spa and Salon

Tai Chi

• Taoist Tai Chi Society

yoga at home is good, but nothing compares to practicing with a group of like minded yogis

yoga and pilates

• Jenni Sol Yoga’s Badass Yoga Academy offers outdoor Ashtanga Vinyasa classes, such as the Tuesday evening lakeside class at Stewart Park and indoor classes at her home studio.

• Lara Green Yoga. Lara offers classes every Saturday in the apple orchard at South Hill Cider from 10:30-11:45am.

• Hilary Davis teaches popup classes in the Anusara style Sundays in Hector and and Tuesdays in Tompkins Park in Ithaca.

• Mighty Yoga Studio offers lots of options for indoor or outdoor yoga classes, pilates and workshops.

• The Pilates Room and AntiGravity Studio

• Light Blossom Yoga Studio

• Yoga Farm Ithaca

• Paddle-n-More offers stand up paddle board classes off of Stewart Park, Taughannock Park and Myers Park

Yoga teacher extraordinaire Jenni from Jenni Sol Yoga at her summer retreat in June.

Runners

• The Finger Lakes Runners Club is an awesome resource for runners

*This list is by no means exhaustive, and we are adding to it all the time. Feel free to drop us a line at catbirdlake at gmail dot com if there’s something you’d like to add.