Spa Halcyon 🧿🧿🧿 — Local services in City of Albany

Skilled Bodyworker! I feel like I’ve been reborn, a new man! I just had a 90 minute deep tissue massage by John Bowers at Halcyon Spa in Albany. This will be longer than a typical review. I had forgotten how important and beneficial regular skilled massage is for wellness. Today I remembered. I also knew for 10 years that John Bowers is an exceptionally gifted Bodyworker, yet I never got a massage from him until today. I'm Sorry it took me so long. I sought massage now because I’ve been physically over-stressing my body for some time and it caught up with me. My back (and whole body) had many tense and knotted trouble spots. I had been having spasms and major warning signals for weeks. It was horrible suffering. What I didn’t realize until today was how much of my mental and emotional stresses, my bottled up feelings, were at the root of many of those muscle knots. John had me feeling sufficiently safe that I was able to allow a series of powerful emotional releases. As he worked on me there were moments when I cried, moaned, wailed, sobbed, and sometimes laughed while he worked on specific knots and muscles. Bottled up feelings and emotions were released and often I could feel the knots releasing along with them. All this emotional release all-the-while receiving and enjoying a blissfully skillful and thoughtfully thorough full body massage. I can get so distracted and preoccupied that I forget how to take care of myself. Now is the best time to take care of myself!

I’m on a health and healing journey, and I really want to do what’s good for my body. This massage was the most amazing full-body “Tune Up” And I found myself realizing just how wonderful and well I would feel after a series of these sessions with John. I intend to bring my partner back here for a couples massage. I’ve already booked myself another session 2...

Kind of a weird place. Some rooms have odd things like stage lights hanging from the ceiling with gels. It makes me wonder if this place is used for something else after hours…

Had a few decent massages, not great- but ok. Then had a massage with the other masseuse. I think her name was “Queen” or something like that. She seemed to either lack skills or be kind of creepy. She wasn’t applying enough pressure to certain personal body parts (thighs, glutes), so it just felt like being lightly rubbed instead of massaged. She also kept going over those areas, even thought she was applying basically no pressure.

It creeped me out and I asked her to either apply more pressure or stop bc it didn’t feel like a massage. She then continued the massage with the appropriate amount of pressure.

The sudden switch to giving an appropriate massage made her behavior even sketchier. Maybe she thought she could get away with doing less work with me for some reason? Maybe she is just a creeper? I don’t know, but I also didn’t care to give her or this place another shot.

I have had dozens of massages over dozens of years all across the US and abroad. I have never had such an experience or been forced to say such a thing to a masseuse. That was...

I recently began a fitness routine that involves weight training, running and swimming after a long period of inactivity. I am also a man of a certain age, and this made me seek the s Services of Spa Halcyon In the form of receiving a sports massage To help relieve my aches and pains, and to learn some stretches, I can do as a way of prevention. I have been going once a week for the past four weeks and I can’t tell you how dramatically it has improved my overall well-being. Masseuse John Knows what he’s doing and does it in a professional and friendly manner. I live and work in downtown Albany, which can be very hustle and bustle. From the moment I stepped into Spa Halcyon I felt like I left that world behind and entered a peaceful sanctuary. Everything from the lighting, the decor, the soft music, the sound of water gurgling from a fountain. It reminded me of treatments I received years ago while visiting Thailand, I am going to continue to make this spa a part of my healthy living lifestyle and I highly recommend it to others seeking the same. It is two thumbs up and five out of five...