Ladies' night on Memorial Day?

This coming Monday is both Memorial Day and the 4th Monday of the month, which is a Ladies' Spa Night.

I am thinking of keeping Ladies' Night on the calendar, but don't want to be at the spa all by myself. I don't think we have had a Spa Night on a holiday, though this is not quite a family oriented one. I would love to get feedback from any of the regulars to let me know if they are planning on coming on the 25th. My inclination is to keep ladies' Night on the calendar since we just got to twice a month status.

New Summer Session available!

I finally got the next salt scrub recipe worked out and fully tested. Last week, during Ladies' Night, I put out my newest salt scrub: Fresh limes and avocados with peppermint essential oil. I was a bit worried that the limes would be overwhelming, but the consensus was that there was a good balance between the limes and peppermint.

Summer Breeze Spa Session

Feel yourself uplifted by the light scent of Peppermint while getting your feet washed and rubbed in a warm foot bath. A quick shower to get you ready to be floated into oblivion in our spacious hot tub. All your stress and worries are drained away by the swirling water and your attentive practitioner. After being deposited back on dry land, you'll enjoy a hot oil body treatment, breezily scented with Rosemary,Ginger and Lemon. Fresh Lime and Avocado Sea Salt scrub will enliven your skin, which you will shower off in our custom shower, emerging refreshed and rejuvenated.
Singles or Couples: 90 minutes - $150. 120 minutes - $200.

Special Friends & Family offer for LRS tongiht!

Little Red Studio Gold Show is having a 2 for 1 ticket offer for the Friday May 15th show. As a reader of this blog, you count as Friends & Family. Simply call (206) 328-4758 or show up at 400 Dexter Ave. N. between 8:30pm and 9pm and ask for the Friends & Family ticket offer.

Tonight's show is an incredible line up! A Brazilian music band, my new aerial dance piece, singers, three very sexy dance numbers, bondage beauties as dessert platters and, of course, the participation parts of the evening: body painting, playing dress up in the LRS costume department (which recently received and influx from a costume designer who did some spring cleaning!) and the Little Red Dance Party, where we open up the stage for all to dance.

See you tonight!

~Sophia

Fun with words and scheduling for Saturday.

I love words. I get daily emails from Dictionary.com and Urban Dictionary. I have to admit, the Urban Dictionary is more for it's entertainment value that any scholarly merit. That is proved by today's "word":

wwjkd

What Would James Kirk Do? When stuck in a life-threatening, impossible situation with no realistic plausible means of escape, only a plan thought up by James "Jim" Kirk would work.
Person 1: OK, were stuck in an underground cavern on a distant planet with no access to the surface.

Person 2: We need a plan. WWJKD?

I am a big Star Trek fan, having grown up with parents who were sci-fi lovers. When William Shatner came out with a music album a few years ago with Ben Folds, it justified years of my adoration of him. The man was an actor in a futuristic soap opera who rolled with it and held his head high. I always wanted to be Captain Kirk when I was a kid, so I'll probably let wwjkd enter my personal lexicon.

On a scheduling note, this Saturday, the 9th, the Spa is closing down for a Little red Speakeasy. Appointments must end at 4pm so that set-up can begin. I actually have one appointment left, at 1:30pm. If you are interested, please give me a call at (206) 963-0772. The Speakeasy events happen once a quarter and turn into a spa night after the performances are done. If you miss Couple's Spa Night, sign up for the LRS Newsletter so you can know when the next Speakeasy is scheduled.

Ladies' Night has moved!

Remember, Ladies' Spa Night is next Monday, not tonight. this Month is our first month where Ladies' Night is now on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month. And thank goodness, too. The Seattle Erotic Art Festival was a great success and I am greatly tired after working on it all weekend. I hope you got a chance to check it out. If you missed it, check out this article in photos here. It features a few moment from the Festival. Zan, our body painting goddess, is in there!

These nights are designed to be a casual and social evening. There will be a practitioner present to make you feel welcome and facilitate use of the spa's equipment. There will be areas set up for clay, salt scrubs and massage for you and your friends to pamper each other. For an extra fee, one can get a short massage during the evening from our massage therapist on staff.

Please call 206-963-0772 or e-mail Sophia@hengststudio.com for more information.

See you next week!

Seattle Erotic Art Festival is open!

Last night was the invitation only Artist Reception, and there was a great turn out for what is essentially a dress rehearsal opening. Most everything was in place, the performances were sexy and sleek, and the art was selling even though not all the labels were on the wall yet!

If you are curious about what you missed, the Seattle Times did a nice write up here.

Today, starting at noon, the Seattle Erotic Art Festival is open to the public. I will be there most of the day, except between 3pm and 6pm when I am at the Spa, so make sure to say hi to me at one of the docent tables.

Kind words and fibromyalgia

Recently, I was honored to work with a woman diagnosed with Fybromyalgia and her partner. It was an enjoyable and rewarding challenge. Because of her high pain levels, I could not do my default style of massage. After a bit of discussion, we decided that Watsu and Water Contact Massage was the best way of meeting her comfort needs while addressing her therapeutic goals. Taking away gravity and gently massaging her, while her partner gave her Reiki (energy work) turned out to be a beneficial combination.

I received this email from her partner a few days after her treatment.

I'm writing for both D & I to thank you so very much for her session with you! I have never seen her so relaxed before in a "natural" environment (as opposed to medications). She admitted to a bit of doubt with Watsu, but was willing to try it to see how it might work and to hopefully avoid prescription medications. With the results, she is no longer in doubt. She felt great afterwards but the true test was during the night. She constantly wakes up throughout the night in pain, having to adjust herself accordingly, but that night was the first night that she can remember that she slept through the whole night and still woke-up relatively pain-free...her pain level usually an 8+ but was then a 2-3 and she felt rested...until the alarm went off at 5 in the morning..

We appreciated your professionalism, as well as your willingness to be "intimate". You listened to D and were totally there for her and her needs. You made us both feel comfortable with the session, as well as with you. I enjoyed being a part of the session for D with you but have a lot to learn yet as far as holding her while you treat her. She was so relaxed during the part of the treatment where I had my hands on her back and chest that she didn't even know that she was sinking, nor did she care...lol..."

It is always so wonderful knowing that you have helped create a positive change in someone's health. Whenever a partner works with me on their sweetie, even if just by being there and hold and supporting them in the water while I do the massage, it's much more powerful for all involved. There is something special about doing Watsu on your sweetie, even if they don't know any of the fancy moves. That intimacy shared between a couple magnifies all the good of Watsu. I am confident that she would have had a good session if she had come in by herself, but with her partner there, it was extraordinary.

I am looking forward to working with them again.