USA TODAY
"Rafting
that stretches boundaries; It's a trip: Yoga in the great outdoors:
Yoga off the mat. Instructor
Hannah Johansen stretches body and mind from a perch at the Chilko
Lake Lodge."
"Footbaths,
massages and mud facials take the edge off roughing it."
"As
our rafts bobble gently through placid reaches of the Chilko River
before hitting Lava Canyon, we marvel at schools
of Chinook salmon darting like torpedoes through
sun-dappled water so clear and clean we can dip our bottles for
refills ..."
"I get my wish to see the northern lights in the unlikeliest
of settings: a massage table set up just inches from the hypnotically
noisy confluence of the Chilcotin River and Big Creek. As
Johansen works out the kinks from that day's paddling session, I
gaze toward the northern horizon - and spot a band of white light,
pulsing in waves that seem eerily reminiscent of those we'd encountered
on an earthly plane. Thought creates form? I'm a believer."
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here. USA TODAY, August 2003
Billings Gazette
"A vacation from hotels: A home away from home" "Most of the properties offered are second homes or investment properties that would otherwise sit empty when their owners weren't using them.
Hannah
Johansen's Alpenhaven home is the exception to that rule. She lives
in her Big Sky Meadow Village-area house, renting it out when she
is traveling with her Adventure Spa Programs.
"It
never feels uncomfortable having people I don't know stay in my
house," Johansen said. "It's a house that likes the company of people.""
Johansen has decorated her home using the principles of Feng Shui, a Chinese philosophy where items are placed in a home to balance efficiency and comfort.
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Billings Gazette, December
2003
Billings Gazette
"Rafting company eases water travel with yoga, massage. Toughing it is getting much less ... well ... rough. New this year to the adventure travel business is a river rafting or sea kayaking trip complete with a travel-along masseuse and yoga instructor."
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Billings Gazette, May 2003
O' The Oprah Magazine
"Getting
into the tree pose to relieve stress isn't exactly a new concept
- so why not lean the time-proven soothing practice of yoga in an
appropriately ancient setting? Mountain Travel Sobek's Yoga Adventure
in Morocco (a women-only retreat) begins with a five-day Lawrence
of Arabia-like trek on camels through the Sahara. Days are dedicated
to native beauty and health rituals, from morning yoga classes to
the sloughing, lathering, and oiling in the local hammam (bathhouse)
that leaves you more polished than a marble. Nights are spend under
the desert stars in your billowing Bedouin tent."
O, The Oprah Magazine, October 2002
american spa
"Whether
I'm conducting a yoga class to the music or offering it during a
spa service, the music draws me in for more focused, conscious work.
It's also very dramatic and exciting, in a deep ephemeral way. I
feel like the music is talking to my body, not just my mind. I can
sink deeply into it, whether I'm the service provider or the service
recipient." Hannah Johansen
american spa, October 2002
american spa
"Focused
on the meridian points of the face, the Face & Sinus Soother
at Alpenglow Traveling Spa helps open the sinuses and revitalizes
the face."
american spa, September 2002
The New York Times
Mountain
Travel Sobek, an adventure-travel tour operator in El Cerrito, Californina
and Alpenglow Spa, in Big Sky, Montana, have joined
to offer MTS Yoga Adventures, trips desgined around yoga, meditation,
massage, and "menaingul cross-cultural exchanges."
The
New York Times, Sunday, June 16, 2002
Spa Finder
"Alpenglow
Traveling Spa, Big Sky, MT, will transform your home into a spa
for a day, creating a soothing atmosphere with candles and music
and supplying everything from yoga classes and treatments to a healthy
lunch."
Spa Finder, May/June 2002
Massage Magazine
"Hannah
Johansen owned and operated a day spa at the Big Sky Resort for
18 years until she realized there was a huge market for a traveling
spa. These people (in the spa) would come in for their appointments
and would feel so good they wouldn't want to get up, put their clothes
on, and drive home. So now, Hannah's staff "goes everywhere"
and performs salt glows, oil wraps, scrubs, Swedish massage, polarity
and energy work, as well as her own special hand-foot-and-head treatments,
in a home setting.
Massage,
May/June 2002
Elle Magazine
"Maybe it's in the middle of nowhere (twenty minutes north of Yellowstone
Park), but Alpenglow's massages and treatments stand up to any spa's
anywhere. This time of year you can book an edible and medicinal plant
walk followed by an aromatherapy massage. Or learn wildlife tracking,
then get a "paw massage" (hand and foot reflexology). Or hike to a
mountaintop for yoga then unwind with an algae wrap. Twosomes can
book classes in couples massage followed by joint sessions in an hourglass
shaped hydrotherapy tub. Endlessly innovative, owner Hannah Johansen
eschews the quick fix in favor of beauty based on good health."
Elle, September 1995
Glamour Magazine, February
Unwinding Together
"...Shared treatments - mud baths, paraffin treatments, herbal body
wraps - have become our focal point," says Hannah Johansen, owner
of the Alpenglow Spa in Montana's Big Sky Resort. "This year we installed
hourglass-shaped hydrotherapy baths so that the man and woman can
start their spa treatments at the same time. It gets them on the same
wavelength right away. With their partner around, it's easier for
men to allow themselves to be relaxed and vulnerable. I've also noticed
that after a massage class, partners will be gentler with one another.
They're used to communicating through words and sex - this teaches
them to communicate through touch."
Glamour Magazine, February
Glamour Magazine, January
"How to Have the Best Possible (Spa) Session"
...Remember it's your Session: "No bodywork is a passive process -
you call the shots," explains Hannah Johansen, owner of Alpenglow
Massage in Montana's Big Sky Resort. There's a standing rule that
the therapists must check at least three times ("How are we doing?")
during the course of the initial appointment. While most therapists
are adept at reading body language, speak up if a manipulation is
too painful. A good therapist will back off immediately or help you
to breath through the discomfort. Also speak up if you would like
more pressure in certain areas.
Woman's Day
Secrets of the Super Spas
Alpenglow Spa - Spa-goers are taken on guided Yellowstone National Park walks, where they can observe bighorn sheep, deer, elk and bears (from a distance, of course).
Woman's Day, Beauty, November 4, 1997 |
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