Have a look inside the brand new Agua Caliente Cultural Museum
Have a look inside the brand new Agua Caliente Cultural Museum, Nov. 2, 2023.
The Spa at Séc-he in downtown Palm Springs was the highest spa within the U.S. in 2023, and in addition was primary for sustainability, in accordance with two current business rankings.
The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians’ spa, which opened in April 2023, topped the journey web site Spas of America annual Prime 100 rankings for spas in North America, primarily based on distinctive web page views and client decisions on the location all through 2023. All spas on the record should additionally maintain a Google Assessment ranking of 4.0 or larger to be thought of for inclusion. The brand new record contains 82 spas from the U.S., 14 from Canada, and 4 from Mexico.
“Thanks to Spas of America for this recognition,” Daniel Spencer, spa director, stated in a press release. “Making a one-of-a-kind wellness vacation spot rooted within the sacred therapeutic waters and sizzling springs of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians and providing revolutionary and conventional spa therapies has been a dream come true for my crew and me.”
The 40,000-square-foot sizzling springs and spa in downtown Palm Springs additionally received the Inexperienced Spa Planet Sustainable Spa/Wellness Facility Award for 2023. Billed as “some of the luxurious sizzling mineral spring spa locations within the nation,” the spa, the newest incarnation of each business and sacred bathtub homes on this spot, is on the nook of North Indian Canyon Drive and East Tahquitz Canyon Approach, on the web site of the tribe’s long-awaited Agua Caliente Cultural Plaza and Museum, which opened in November, and its On line casino Palm Springs.
The spa is fed by underground sizzling springs, or “séc-he,” which means “the sound of boiling water,” utilized by the tribe and their ancestors for millennia. The waters, in contrast to others within the space that stream from earthquake faults or are pumped in from the Colorado River, seemingly come from historical spring snow and rains that have been naturally filtered underground earlier than effervescent again to the floor, in accordance with U.S. Geological Survey researchers.
Each Palm Springs’ and the tribe’s identities and historical past are intertwined with the flows. Town took its identify from the springs and the adjoining native palm timber, and “agua caliente,” a Spanish phrase that was imposed on the world, means “sizzling water.”
Design inspiration for the Spa and Cultural Plaza is rooted in Agua Caliente traditions equivalent to basket weaving, pottery (ollas) and botanical parts native to the tribe’s reservation. The power is house to 22 non-public mineral baths, gender-specific bathhouses, 15 remedy rooms, a salon, health amenities and outside mineral swimming pools.
Current analysis from the World Wellness Institute suggests curiosity and funding in sizzling springs developments will proceed to rise. In 2022, the worldwide Thermal/Mineral Spring sector was price $46.3 billion, and the GWI predicts it’ll climb to $90.5 billion by 2027.
Janet Wilson is a workers author for The Desert Solar. She could be reached at jwilson@gannett.com