10 TRENDS | In Spa Daying
- Glancer Magazine
- Feb 1, 2024
- 3 min read
Updated: Mar 6, 2025
Elevate Your Spa Day Experience
The spa industry is constantly evolving, and 2024 brings a wave of innovative trends and treatments designed to elevate the spa day experience. From cutting-edge technologies like Opus Plasma treatments and Red Light Bars to holistic practices such as forest bathing and wholistic care, there's something for everyone seeking rejuvenation and wellness. Whether it's enhancing skin vitality or promoting mental well-being, these 10 trends offer a diverse range of options to look and feel great. Relax and enjoy.
#1 | Opus Plasma Treatment
DOWNERS GROVE–Opus Plasma™ is a state-of-the-art technology taking skin rejuvenation to a whole new level. To keep your skin looking youthful, the experts at Skin Med Spa use the Opus Plasma special technology to produce aesthetic changes; therefore, improving skin texture, enhancing elasticity, increasing thickness of skin, correction of fine lines, diminishing wrinkles, and improving skin tone. www.theskinmedspa.com/services/opus-plasma
#2 | Red Light Bar
CHICAGO–Enhance your winter glow at the Red Light Bar at Spa Space Chicago. Targeting the face, forearms, and wrists, this gentle radiance revitalizes skin by promoting collagen production while also aiding muscle recovery by accelerating healing, reducing tension, and improving flexibility.
#3 | DEXA Scan
GENEVA/YORKVILLE–What’s a body made of? Body composition measurement with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) can look beyond weight and body mass index (BMI) to determine body fat mass and lean mass to provide an accurate picture of your body, chart change over time and pinpoint problems in the body’s arms, legs, android, gynoid before they occur at Fox Valley Orthopedics.
#4 | Pulsed Electromagnetic Therapy (PEMF)
NAPERVILLE–Pulsed Electromagnetic Therapy (PEMF) is an FDA approved therapy at Naperville Healing Center which helps re-energize damaged cells by inducing electrical charges within the cell that restore it to its normal healthy state. PEMF is used to improve circulation and cell metabolism by penetrating every cell, tissue, organ and even bones to stimulate electrical and chemical processes in the tissues.
#5 | Forest Bathing
LISLE–Experience the healing and wellness-promoting effects of shinrin-yoku, the practice of bathing the senses in the atmosphere of the forest at the Morton Arboretum on February 19 and 24 from 1pm-3pm Open the senses, cultivate presence, and invite healing interactions during these mindful walks with a certified forest therapy guide. No two walks are the same so you will always enjoy a variety of awareness-raising exercises.
#6 | Wholistic Care
NAPERVILLE–Wholistic Care offers an integrated holistic approach to a healthy body, mind, spirit connection as a whole, as opposed to parts through combined counseling, life coaching, and yoga therapy. Through this approach, therapeutic services help discover self-awareness, enhance wellness, and enable happiness within.
#7 | Sankalpa Fest
YORKVILLE–Sense of Samadhi Yoga in downtown Yorkville invites all to the Sankalpa Fest on February 24 from 9am-5pm for a day of wellness, yoga, meditation, metaphysical and so much more! Decide in the moment whatever class your intuition is guiding you toward! The day will be filled with workshops, lectures and yoga classes, as well as tarot cards, birth chart, and henna appointments available.
#8 | Power Plate Therapy
ST. CHARLES–Whole Body Vibration Therapy, otherwise known as Power Plate therapy at the LaCava Center for Integrated Medicine is used to improve circulation and build muscle strength. It may offer other benefits, including improving metabolism, reducing stress hormone presence and the presence of cellulite, improving lymphatic flow, reducing pain, and stimulating collagen production to improve skin.
#9 | Infared Fitness Micro Workouts
WHEATON/NAPERVILLE–HOTWORX is a virtually instructed exercise program promoting the benefits of infrared heat absorption, while completing a 30-minute Isometric workout or 15-minute High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) session. As the infrared heat penetrates your body causing you to sweat, the isometric postures further accelerate detoxification by physically removing the toxins from your organs through muscle contraction.
#10 | BroadBand Light Facial
NAPERVILLE/OSWEGO–BroadBand Light (BBL Forever Young photo facial) at Smooth Solutions Medspa uses the power of light to deliver heat into the layers of the skin, stimulating skin cells to regenerate and boost the body’s natural ability to fight the appearance of aging; thus correcting redness (caused by fine vessels) and age spots, and sun-damage (caused by excessive melanin) using the most powerful IPL device in the world with HERO (High Energy Rapid Output) technology.
