Pura Vida in the News
Modern in DenverFrom the crosswalk at First and Milwaukee to the cross trainer three stories above, two Denver-based architects have redesigned the former Tattered Cover book store building into a new landmark for Cherry Creek North. Click to read the story. Modern in Denver
Condé Nast Traveler:Hot List Spas 2009
A little R and R is just what the doctor ordered. And as luck would have it, this past year delivered a bumper crop of superlative spas from Macau to Mexico. Our reviewers left no hot stone unturned in their effort to identify transcendent spots for head-to-toe pampering—rejecting scores of also-rans in the process.
Touted as "recess for grown-ups," with jelly beans at the front desk, bright translucent "art panels" quartering the locker rooms, and a home in Denver's yuppie-hippie hybrid neighborhood of Cherry Creek North, Nectar is a refreshingly unstuffy spa. Sustainable wood floors and American clay plaster walls lend the 4,000-square-foot space a clean, natural aesthetic. Signature treatments, focusing on decompression and delivered by serene therapists in subtly lit rooms, include the Wild Mint Wrap, which uses Colorado mud to soothe and hydrate, and the deep-tissue Vital Touch massage, designed to knead out the aches of mountain climbers. The Blossom facial, a 30-minute sloughing followed by an intensely moisturizing mask, is the perfect remedy to a few days in the dry altitude of Mile High City. From there, a quick exit path brings you to the downstairs Pura Vida fitness center, where spa-goers can take a full day's spinning, yoga, Pilates, and dance classes for free.
Boot Camp: The Latest Trend in Group Exercisewww.cbs4denver.com
Moody Gets Help Keeping in Shape in Holidays
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A Virtual Cycling Training Ride Moody Likes
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Goal: Getting Moody’s Head ‘In Right Place’
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The Difference Between Perception and Reality
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As CBS4’s Fit for Colorado campaign continues, so does the quest for Greg Moody to find a new measure of fitness at Pura Vida.
Moody Takes First Step in Fitness Plan
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CBS4 Critic at Large Greg Moody has a strong fondness for cycling in Colorado. He has penned 5 novels on the subject and reported on and rode in the annual Ride the Rockies event in 2007 and 2008. As CBS4’s Fit for Colorado campaign continues, Greg Moody takes the first steps in a new fitness program at Pura Vida to get in shape for the next Ride the Rockies.
PuraVida: Rishi tea now brewing at Nectar
Denver Cooking Examiner
Rachel Ruff
Executive fakeout: Exercise the right to loaf. Repeat.The Denver Post
Bill Husted
Kick, Stretch, Burn - Blending martial arts, yoga & modern dance,
Nia is a whole new kind of exercise
Rocky Mountain News
Click image for PDF of article.Pura Vida - Embodying the Good Life
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Favorite Fitness Teachers
The Denver Post
This Post article features Dave Farmar, Jamie Vance and Jessie Franklin, three beloved instructors of Pura Vida. Please check the schedules for their current class offerings.
Back to school: PUR Power Fitness Class Revisits the Lost Childhood Art of Weird Balancing
Excerpted from Chris Anthony’s Corner
“. . . The most difficult part of being on the road is keeping fit. So this year I decided to team up with a very nice athletic club in Denver’s Cherry Creek district called Pura Vida . I wanted to offer this as a way for people to get in shape for my camps I will be holding at the Park Hyatt in December: The Beaver Creek Park Hyatt & Spa Technique Weeks (www.chrisanthony.com) . . . It has been a long time since I have been part of an organized conditioning program, or for that matter had a coach pushing me. This was part of the reason I decided to be the catalyst of a ski-conditioning program called PUR Power at Pura Vida. . . . Then just as the snow fell, day one of Pur Power took place under the leadership of master trainer Tim Harris. Our small but mixed group, a little nervous about what we were getting ourselves into, was enthusiastic, a bit quiet, but ready to jump in. . . The class is on its way, but feel free to join Pur Power anytime over the next six weeks and be able to take advantage of Tim’s guidance, but also Pura Vida itself.”Fitness: Fall Back Into Step - In the Mix
Denver Post
“Mind, body and aerobic moves are incorporated into Stacey Lei Krauss' "willPower and Grace" class taught on Tuesdays at Pura Vida in Cherry Creek North. "I've been in the business 15 years, and I've never experienced anything like it," says marketing director Keith Moore. Krauss, who is based in San Francisco, also teaches a 30-minute "Ex-Tension" class on Tuesdays and will add other offerings in October. Small-group Kinesis circuit training classes and group Pilates on Reformers classes are among the other new offerings at Pura Vida.”
Pura Vida Fitness & Spa chosen as Best Denver Health Club
5280's Top of the Town.
”If you're going to sweat, you might as well do it in style. At Pura Vida, Cherry Creek North's new athletic club, you can do nearly anything—Pilates, spin class, yoga, kinesis, treadmill, free weights—in a setting with flair to spare. The sleek, four-level club dresses out in pale blue and brown hues, which accent the clean white walls adorned with contemporary art. But while the decor is fabulous (even the locker rooms have panache), it's the first-class equipment (TVs on every treadmill) and accessible yoga and Pilates classes (many of which are included in membership) that really get your heart pounding.”Denver Architecture: 10 Buildings Worth the Trip
Rocky Mountain News
“Talk about a better life. For years, this stodgy building fronting on East First Avenue was remarkable only for being the home of the Tattered Cover. A new regime removed various exterior walls and added glass panels that make this one of the sleekest structures in town. Thank the architecture firm Gensler for that; Semple Brown Design is responsible for the interior.”