Adam Skolnick

It’s just after 2 p.m. Filtered sunlight splashes through the teak forest, illuminating a network of stilted bamboo huts that stretches into the surrounding hills. Five neighborhoods are stitched together with pumpkin patches and banana groves, and enlivened by scavenging chickens, mud-soaked pigs, and packs of children dressed in rags. This place is not joyless, [...]

LA Weekly - November 14-20, 2003 “I was a curious child,” concedes Kirpal. She could hardly help it, being the granddaughter to two wise women, one a Celtic Pagan healer from Canada, the other a Mexican Shaman from Echo Park. Peculiarity, in the form of psychic intuitions, and the ability to communicate with spirits and household pets, [...]

Healing Lifestyles & Spas – May/June 2003 Seane Corn’s hands and forearms dig into her sticky mat. Inverted, she moves from forearm balance, her legs perpendicular to the floor, into full scorpion. Her upper arm muscles twitch and tremble with strain, her skin glistens with sweat. The only thing audible is her furnace-like breath, and it [...]

Healing Lifestyles & Spas Magazine - Jul/Aug 2003 “All movement in living tissue is catalyzed by enzymes,” says Michael Strusser, founder of Osmosis, a day spa in Sonoma County and the only location in America that offers enzyme baths. Enzymes spark the exchange of oxygen from the lungs into the bloodstream, manage the nervous and immune systems, [...]

Spa Magazine Worldwide Guide - Winter/Spring 2007 When we first stepped into the Bodyworks courtyard in Ubud, Bali, I felt I was in for something extraordinary. The surrounding stone buildings were 15th century replicas rife with tropical plants and flowing fountains. We were led upstairs by a lovely Balinese woman in a sarong to a treatment room [...]

Spa Magazine - May-June 2005 The mere mention of Bali inspires bliss flashbacks from those who have sampled its sweetness, but there is one town where Bali’s essence is at its most accessible. Where everything great about it is magnified. This is your insider’s guide to the vibrant spiritual culture, delicious, healthy cuisine and mind-body indulgences not [...]