Reset After the Holidays 🔥
After the celebrations, late nights, and rich meals, your body may be ready for a gentle reset. An infrared sauna session helps support circulation, ease muscle tension, and encourage deep relaxation — exactly what your system needs after a full holiday week. ✨
Infrared heat works from within to help the body unwind, sweat out stress, and restore balance before heading into the weekend.
📞 Call (941) 713-1637 to book your session — space is limited.
12/25/2025
🎄 Merry Christmas from the Spa Northwest Team 🎄
Today, we want to pause and simply say thank you. Thank you for trusting us with your care, your time, and your wellness throughout the year.
From our team to you and your family, we wish you a Christmas filled with peace, warmth, and meaningful moments. May today be a reminder to slow down, breathe deeply, and enjoy the people and moments that matter most.
We’re grateful to be part of your wellness journey and look forward to supporting you in the year ahead. 💛
With gratitude,
The Spa Northwest Team
12/24/2025
A Gentle Christmas Eve Reminder 🎄
Today is often filled with last-minute details, full homes, and full hearts. Before the celebrations begin, this is your reminder to pause — even briefly — and support your nervous system.
A few slow breaths, a quiet moment, or intentional rest can help your body shift out of stress and into presence. Wellness doesn’t have to be complicated, especially today.
Wherever this evening finds you, may it feel calm, meaningful, and grounded. 💛
12/23/2025
alm, Bright, Holiday-Ready Skin ✨
The days leading up to Christmas can be busy, and stress often shows up on the skin as dullness, dryness, or sensitivity. A customized facial is a gentle way to reset — helping restore hydration, smooth texture, and bring back a healthy glow.
Whether you’re prepping for gatherings or simply want to feel refreshed, our esthetics team tailors every treatment to what your skin needs most right now.
Because when your skin feels good, everything feels a little lighter. 💛
📞 Call (941) 713-1637 to book — limited appointments available.
12/22/2025
The final days before Christmas can be exciting… and exhausting. Between errands, travel, and hosting, your body often carries more tension than you realize.
A massage is a chance to pause, breathe, and release built-up stress before the festivities begin. It helps calm the nervous system, ease tight muscles, and restore a sense of balance when life feels full.
Before the celebrations start, give your body the care it needs to feel grounded and present.
📞 Call (941) 713-1637 to schedule — appointments fill quickly this week.
12/19/2025
Permission to Slow Down ✨
The week before the holidays can feel full — full calendars, full homes, full minds. This is your reminder that taking care of yourself isn’t something extra… it’s essential. 💛
Whether it’s a quiet moment, a deep breath, or time set aside for true rest, self-care helps you show up calmer, clearer, and more present for the season ahead.
As the weekend begins, ask yourself:
✨ What would help me feel more grounded right now?
However you choose to care for yourself today, let it be intentional.
12/18/2025
Support Your Body During the Busy Season 🔥
Between holiday shopping, travel plans, hosting, and long to-do lists, your body often absorbs more stress than you realize. An infrared sauna session is a powerful way to slow things down and support your system from the inside out. ✨
Infrared heat works gently and deeply to:
🌡️ Improve circulation and encourage a natural, healthy glow
😌 Ease muscle tension and help the nervous system unwind
😴 Support deeper, more restorative sleep — especially during high-stress weeks
💧 Promote detoxification through gentle sweating
Whether you’re pairing it with a massage or using it as a stand-alone reset, infrared sauna time helps your body feel lighter, calmer, and more balanced during the busiest season of the year.
📞 Call (941) 713-1637 to reserve your session — space is limited.
12/17/2025
Between planning, shopping, entertaining, and trying to make everything “just right,” the holidays can quietly take a toll on your nervous system. 🎄✨
When your body stays in go-mode for too long, it can show up as poor sleep, tight muscles, irritability, or feeling completely drained. That’s your cue to slow things down — even just a little.
A few simple ways to support your nervous system during the holidays:
✨ Take 5 slow breaths before bed (in for 4, out for 6)
✨ Build in intentional pauses — even 10 quiet minutes counts
✨ Prioritize restorative self-care such as a massage or facial that helps your body truly relax
Wellness isn’t about doing more this season — it’s about supporting your body so you can actually enjoy it. 💛
12/16/2025
If your skin is feeling dull, uneven, or “meh” this time of year, it’s the perfect week for a facial reset. Our esthetics team customizes every facial to help smooth texture, boost hydration, and bring back that healthy glow—just in time for holiday plans.
📞 Call (941) 713-1637 to book — appointments fill quickly this season!
12/05/2025
Open House Winners!
Huge thanks to all those that came out and supported our 3rd annual open house. It was such a fun night and as a small business we greatly appreciate the community support 🫶
12/04/2025
Tonight - Grab your bestie and come out! Stop in for our Open House and get your raffle ticket to win one of these amazing prizes! You do not need to be present to win. Tag your bestie here for the event - draw will happen live tomorrow!
We are so excited to host our Holiday Open House, and we’re celebrating with TWO amazing ways to win — one online and one at the event!
To enter:
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💛 Two winners will be selected:
• 60-Minute Relax Massage
• 60-Minute Organic Facial
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We are a Wellness Boutique Spa and Yoga Studio located at 5701 21st Ave West, in West Bradenton close to Blake Hospital and across from Bishop Animal Shelter. We are almost exactly midway between the Anna Maria Island and downtown Bradenton.
First founded by North West Bradenton local Kathleen Gallen in 2006 as Gallen Massage, as Gallen Massage and Yoga in 2011 and then as Spa-NorthWest in 2015. The changing names reflected our expanding range of services. In 2017 we acquired our current location and added partners providing Acupuncture and Ayurvedic Health treatments.
Our passion is helping people to find space in their lives to relax, heal and also find balance and or slow down in this busy world. This may mean taking a yoga class, learning to meditate, getting a massage or a facial, or getting a treatment to help relieve pain or correct and out of balance metabolism. All of these are wellness activities otherwise known as alternative therapy. Kathleen’s husband Paul Ramshaw, whom Kathleen says she ‘imported’ all the way from London 🙂also shares running the Spa and Studio.
Both Kathleen and Paul are accomplished world travelers, and passionate foodies and outdoor enthusiasts. Kathleen is a licensed massage therapist, yoga and meditation teacher, as well as a Political Science & Economy B.A. graduate and returned Peace Corps Volunteer. Paul, a composer, musician, educator and artist also has a law degree and a PhD in Political Economy among his many other skills which include cooking world cuisine, furniture making and design.
Together Paul and Kathleen bring a creative approach to their passion for life alongside a caring, talented and committed staff of therapists and teachers. They each strive to serve their community and humanity in as many ways as possible inside and outside the Spa Northwest business
