Mountain bliss: How my spa day at Fairmont Banff Springs nourished my soul
The newest signature treatment at the Fairmont Banff Springs hotel spa begins with a purifying sage and peppermint salt scrub created by Mother Earth Essentials, an Indigenous-owned Alberta company. As I lay on a massage table in a dimly lit treatment room experiencing the Nature’s Renewal body treatment, it felt like my stress was slowly washing away. For centuries, Indigenous People in Canada have used sage to cleanse the body, mind and spirit and it seems appropriate that the spa’s new Indigenous treatment begins with sage – one of the four sacred medicines. Read More