Spas and Wellness Centers Along the Beerwerks Trail

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The stress of the holiday season is over, but what if you still can’t relax? Consider making your health and wellness a priority in 2026 with a visit to a health and wellness spa along the Beerwerks Trail. Some centers focus on traditional spa treatments like pampering and aesthetics, some seek to ease tension with massage, while others take a holistic approach to wellness, focusing on stress relief and lifestyle balance. We’ve also included some yoga and meditation studios. Make sure you don’t hurry back to the grind as soon as your session is over.  A stop at a Beerwerks brewery on the way home can help you live in the moment and supercharge your calm!

Spa-Centered Wellness

These classic, full-service spas specialize in well-rounded menus of massage, facials and body treatments, aromatherapy, and more, all in serene and luxurious settings. This is pampering at its finest!

You deserve the calming escape from everyday life you’ll find at Harrisonburg’s Healing Touch Body Work. This spa blends spa relaxation with therapeutic wellness rooted in holistic principles. Treatments range from skin peels, brightening facials, lifting and firming body wraps, hydrotherapy and detox, and massage (including prenatal, sports, cupping, and hot stone). Various relaxation packages can combine several treatments in one visit.

The Spa at the Iris Inn (Waynesboro) is an upscale mountain retreat that offers restorative luxury and comprehensive treatments including personalized skin and facial treatments designed to improve circulation and combat signs of aging. The spa offers aromatherapy, and Swedish, deep tissue, and hot stone massage, guaranteed to reduce anxiety, soothe pain and release tight muscles. Choose from several revitalizing treatments that use natural botanicals, essential oils, and soothing minerals. Plan your treatment as part of your weekend away at the Iris Inn! 

Other full-service spas along the Beerwerks Trail:

Massage and Body Work

Finely tuned massage and body work adapts to your body’s needs by targeting muscle knots, imbalances, and inflammation. Plus, it feels wonderful!

Mindful Massage (Lexington) seeks to provide both physical release and mental grounding through Swedish and deep tissue massage and customized bodywork. The practice emphasizes listening and personalized wellness sessions work to alleviate stress and anxiety and pain and tension.

Licensed and experienced professionals at Healing Therapy Massage (Waynesboro) will work with you to design a personalized treatment plan for relaxation, stress reduction, and pain relief. Soothe your symptoms with Swedish, sports, shiatsu, structural integration, or deep tissue massage. They can also provide cupping, scraping, ear candling, and acupressure, along with LaStone (hot and cold stone work) and prenatal sessions.

Other massage studios along the Beerwerks Trail:

Holistic, Integrative & Energy-Based Wellness

Holistic massage and energy-based wellness treatments view the systems of the body as a whole unit and focus on both physical and emotional relaxation and healing, often combining ideas from both Eastern and Western medicine.

Harrisonburg’s Restorative Massage Therapy promises integrative healing and sensory relaxation. Try a session in the barrel steam sauna, anti-inflammatory salt therapy harness, or the sensory deprivation float pod, which is relaxing for everyone, but especially beneficial to people with injuries or chronic pain. The center’s massages include signature restorative, couples, and aromatherapy types, as well as trigger point and myofascial release, prenatal, and lymphatic draining.

Mountain Massage’s (Staunton) collaboration of holistic practitioners support whole body wellness with health coaching, meditation classes, and educational workshops supporting naturopathic health modalities.  Massage therapy offerings include deep tissue and sports massage, trigger point therapy, prenatal massage, Reiki, and hot stones. Mountain Massage also has a Lexington location.

Other holistic treatments along the Beerwerks Trail:

Yoga, Meditation, and Mindfulness

Want to practice mindfulness and living in the moment this coming year? Here’s how to find your community and your guide. Stretch your muscles and obtain inner peace.

Newly opened Mountain Movement and Mindset (Elkton) promises a judgement-free community space with plenty of indoor fitness options The studio offers intro and challenge levels of yoga, mat and reformer Pilates, and barre as well as one-on-one and small group training. Special events like birthday, bachelorette, and team-building Pilates classes and Zumba dance parties promise to invigorate you and get you excited about your fitness in the new year.

Center of Gravity Yoga & Pilates (Lexington) integrates yoga and Pilates to strengthen bodies, ease stress and gain mental clarity. The in-person and video schedule includes over 20 weekly offerings of Yoga, Pilates, Barre, and Tai Chi, including adaptive classes. You buy a class pass and attend whenever you get the urge to stretch and bend.

Phoenix Fitness and Yoga (Staunton) emphasizes a strong sense of community and teaches mindful movement for all skill levels. Classes include multiple styles of yoga, breathwork, mindfulness, flexibility and strength classes, barre, sound healing, and more, including classes in the studio and in the virtual space.

The Center Yoga Collective (Harrisonburg): is a calm place in downtown Harrisonburg offering classes in guided meditation, breathwork, and centering. You’ll also find mind-body workshops, and yoga classes designed for students off all levels.

Other spaces to find your zen along the Beerwerks Trail:

Hopefully, your journey through 2026 will be full of wellness and relaxation. Don’t forget to enjoy the great outdoors (and craft beer) along the way!