Bodi-licious, for health and fitness
A new day spa with a focus on overall health and wellness has opened in the Spokane Valley.
“I have always wanted to have a place where you could take care of someone inside and out,” said owner Stacy Benoscek, a longtime personal health and fitness trainer who opened Bodi-licious Day Spa and Tanning last month. “It’s health and wellness.”
Bodi-licious includes the usual spa features such as facials, massages and body-wrap treatments as well as a hair and nail salon and a metabolic testing center. Benoscek, a body building and Fitness America competitor who used to own Fitness Unlimited with her husband, also offers nutrition counseling and customized workout routines.
“What makes us different is we take care of the individual both inside and out,” she said. “For the person on the outside, we have the typical spa amenities … The way we take care of a person internally is where the metabolic testing comes in.”
Knowing a person’s metabolism information enables Benoscek to customize a routine for health and wellness goals that could include weight loss or gain, better nutrition, exercise and anti-aging.
The spa gives Benoscek, 42, an opportunity to combine her health awareness and years of fitness training with her desire to pamper and be pampered. After all, she says, when women lose weight, they feel good on the inside.
“They want to look good on the outside, too,” she said. “And it’s amazing what a little highlight or a little tan can do.”
One aspect of Bodi-licious that Benoscek said she’s especially enthusiastic about is her Tweener Party packages.
Tweener parties are spa parties for girls age 8 to 12 where they can be pampered and have fun while getting a healthy, age-appropriate perspective toward beauty and application. Mothers are welcome as part of the group but not required for three hours of indulgence that can include hand and foot treatments, nail polishing, make-up class and applications, hair up-dos, even cake and ice cream and sparkly flip-flops.
Until late last year, Benoscek worked as a nutrition and fitness speaker who traveled throughout the Western United States with Cheryle Hart, a Spokane obstetrician and gynecologist and founder of Hormones by Hart, a series of women’s health programs.
Benoscek has two young children, including one with autism, and said her new venture keeps her closer to home. Plus, her husband, Ken, often travels as an on-call Olympic trainer, and also is preparing for the opening of his new fitness center in the Spokane Valley called Workout Connections.