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Last month I met a friend from my past who was visiting another friend here in Palm Springs. We had a spa day like no other we’ve ever had before. At a genuine day spa – because you need at least one full day to enjoy the various mineral pools, jacuzzi’s, halotherapy salt caves, grounding room, eucalyptus steam room, acoustic wellness lounge, fitness room (if you so choose to work out – we did not) and food from health-forward on-site Málmal Café. I arrived there at 10:00 am – left at 6:00 pm – almost closing time. 
My personal treatment – an aromatic 90-minute powerful warm quartz scrub/massage which felt like lying on a bed of heated desert sands. I lay on a zero-gravity bed that had crushed quartz stones underneath and a massage roller. At some point there was an infrared-light dome that went over my body as I lay on my back while getting a neck/scalp massage. The best!
The Spa at Séc-he provides a wellness experience unlike any other in the Coachella Valley. The setting is serene and inspired by the healing powers of sacred mineral hot springs which it is built around. For centuries, Séc-he has been the center of Tribal life for the Agua Caliente people, imbued with cultural and spiritual significance.
Séc-he is one of the most important cultural resources cared for and protected by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. Located in the heart of downtown Palm Springs, Séc-he (“the sound of boiling water”) is an ancient hot mineral spring that is remarkable in both form and function. Here, rainwater and mountain snow melt naturally, collect underground and emerge from the ground at a rate of 26 gallons per minute.
Geologic surveys have revealed the unique nature of this ancient hot mineral spring, which is not connected to any other water source in the Coachella Valley. It exists in a chamber 8,000 feet below the surface, where the earth heats it to temperatures nearing 180 degrees. Unlike other natural sources of geothermal energy, which typically make their way to the surface through fissures created by seismic activity, Séc-he travels up a unique, natural pipeline, absorbing minerals such as calcium, magnesium and sodium on its 1.5-mile journey and cooling to about 105 degrees as it reaches the desert floor.
I don’t remember being that relaxed ever in a long time.
Photos: d. king
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