Our readers once again named Trilogy Spa the best place to be rubbed, kneaded and pampered with massages, as well as wraps, hot tubs, rubs and peels with exotic oils, body butters, Hawaiian hot stones, ginger aloe balms and Vichy rain bar rinses, with all-natural, handmade products.
Meanwhile, Trilogy continues to grow as a business, adding more weight-loss and wellness offerings, a sociable, inexpensive “happy hour” with treatments such as “mini-massages,” and new additions to its community-based charity efforts.
The highly regarded spa has teamed up with Ashley Black, who works deeply and intensely with fascia tissues, bone positions and other building blocks of human health, restructuring the bodies of a client list including numerous professional athletes. Black sees clients at Trilogy and also trains the staff in aspects of her work.
“We’re taking it to a higher level, without losing who we are,” said owner Chandra Shaw.
Creative services offered by Trilogy include a “thermal cocoon rest,” which gives guests the rejuvenation of a full night’s sleep in less than an hour, by wrapping them in special membranes and submerging them in warm water.
Such offerings, along with showers for two, massage-your-mate lessons, spa parties and bridal events, have earned Trilogy lavish attention from magazines including Cosmopolitan, Allure, Self, Shape, Elle and Oprah’s great and powerful O. -RF
451 Manhattan Beach Blvd. (Metlox Plaza), Manhattan Beach, 310-760-0044, trilogyspa.com
Runner-up: The Massage Spot, 3408 Highland Ave., Manhattan Beach, 310-545-9524; 507 Pier Ave. Unit B, Hermosa Beach, 310-798-8900, themassagespot.com
