Rooted In Vitality: Cryomedspa + Restore Hyper Wellness
Restore Hyper Wellness is bringing innovative wellness services to people across the nation. Cryomedspa in Durango provides Restore’s signature services. Their services are all centered around the goal to help people “do more” of what they love by optimizing vitality.
“Our purpose as human beings is to evolve. Evolving takes energy, and energy takes vitality,” Elizabeth Lutes, co-owner of Cryomedspa in Durango and Restore in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, said as she received a vitamin cocktail via an IV drip.
Photos courtesy of Tom + Elizabeth Lutes
IV Drip Therapy is among the many wellness modalities offered by Restore. The IV Drip provides vitamins, minerals, nutrients and amino acids in a saline solution. Registered nurses always administer the medical processes at Cryomedspa and Restore, review health history and create an individualized protocol to ensure the most effective outcome. Additional services include whole body Cryotherapy, an Infrared Sauna and Mild Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, plus other state-of-the-art offerings.
Cryotherapy, or cold therapy, is designed to increase circulation, reduce inflammation and boost immunity. “Forever, people have been using cold as a way of stimulating circulation,” Elizabeth Lutes shares. Increased circulation stimulates healing and boosts energy. You walk into a futuristic-looking cubicle chilled by nitrogen and walk out feeling revived and peaceful, thanks to the endorphin release.
“All the blood is rushing to your core, getting nice and oxygenated. Then, when you get out, that oxygenated blood goes back out to your extremities,” Max Allen, Restore regional manager, explains. A full-body Cryotherapy session takes just two to three minutes. LocalCryotherapy is also offered to reduce swelling and stimulate healing in specific areas of injury or paid.
The Infrared Sauna is an enticing and relaxing chamber for one. “The difference between a traditional sauna and an infrared sauna is [the latter] uses infrared light to heat what is in the chamber, so it’s heating your body from the inside out,” Allen explains. Some of the numerous benefits of the Infrared Sauna are detoxification, cardiovascular support and muscle recovery. You can adjust the color of the light, and all the variants on the spectrum have unique benefits.
Mild Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy involves settling into a pressurized chamber and receiving 90% to 95% pure oxygen through a nasal canula. Oxygen is a great healer, as Allen points out, so anyone recuperating from injury or illness, people recovering from cancer, those with autoimmune or neurological disorders and athletes seeking enhanced performance find the oxygen chamber to be helpful.
“[Restore is] a perfect way of helping people access deeper levels of health,” says Tom Lutes, co-owner of Cryomedspa and Restore Hyper Wellness. In addition to the core wellness services, Cryomedspa’s and Restore’s licensed aestheticians provide Hydrafacials and Cryoskin treatments.
Restore is membership based and treatments are individualized; clients can drop in for a quick, two-minute Cryotherapy session or stay longer for a facial and relax in the Infrared Sauna (or any combination of treatments that fit their needs). “It’s a fun place to help people heal,” Allen says, zealously. Restore brings many wellness modalities together, so anyone can find refreshing vitality.
Elizabeth Lutes believes vitality exists in four dimensions — physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Tom Lutes agrees, saying that depth in each of the four realms of vitality is fundamental to a person’s overall wellbeing. He believes that being rooted in all four dimensions of being is essential to real wellness, which gives people the freedom to expand and contract, bend and not break. He shares, “Roots are core strength — core strength physically, core strength emotionally, mentally, spiritually.”
“Roots are [your] ability to contact deeper and deeper levels of self,” Tom Lutes proclaims. Elizabeth Lutes emphasizes, “The deeper the roots, the more you’re able to flower and reach out and explore.”
Restore is guiding people to greater levels of vitality by helping to support their physical systems and renew their mindsets because, as Elizabeth and Tom Lutes believe, mindset is causative. Restore helps people plant intentional roots in their wellbeing and vitality; deeply rooted in wellness practices, you can expand your capacity to “do more” of what you love.
Originally published in the Fall 2022 issue of Spoke+Blossom.