Los Angeles - June 08, 2009

On the Mend

Tikkun Holistic Spa Opens

Alabaster complexion notwithstanding, you and Humpty Dumpty can relate: Sometimes it feels like nothing could put you back together again.

The ultimate fix: Tikkun Holistic Spa. The new (and only) Westside Korean spa is a repair shop for body and mind. From mountain and sea fossils in the steam rooms to the shaman-like therapist, everything in the basement-level sanctuary is intended for healing.

Soften skin with a soak in the green tea pool before a full tune-up Korean scrub or a jade stone massage and facial. Book the spacious private suite complete with an oversize bathtub and heated onyx chamber or slip into shorts and a tee for co-ed R&R in three heated rooms. Hwangto clay helps detox, Himalayan salt soothes bellyaches, and jade is good for catnaps.

Be sure to give yourself a few hours.

Ideally on those days without any rhyme or reason.

Tikkun Holistic Spa, 1460 Fourth Street, at Broadway, Santa Monica (310-319-1111 or tikkunpsa.com).