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Indulge yourself with these 5 ideas around Boston

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Indulge yourself with these 5 ideas around Boston

From a private restaurant for two to a massage based on 5,000 years of learning, we're here with 5 places to indulge your senses in unique experiences.

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Boston studio offers treatments inspired by 5,000-year-old traditions

"The massage techniques will be more so for your lymphatic system and your nervous system. You're going to find that the way the oils are applied to you in a particular way will have a soothing effect on your mind and body," said Kim Valerie Povey, director of the wellness center, Unwind, at Down Under.

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Man-made salt cave in New Hampshire

"The cave is lined with Himalayan salt, which is aesthetic. It's nice to look at, but the inhaling, you want to make sure you're breathing in pharmaceutical," said Daryl Browne, the owner of Soleil's salt cave. "So, while you're laying there, you're going to feel a dry mist in the air, and that will be pharmaceutical salt."

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Relax, re-energize with a sound bath

“Essentially, what I do is I play these crystal balls. These are crystal alchemy balls. So they are 99% clear quartz crystal, and then they're infused with precious gemstones. What they do is they entrain with your brainwaves. And so they take you to a super relaxed state, kind of like dreaming. It gets you into, like, a REM cycle, which is the super healing part of your sleep,” sound healer Alyson Raymer said.

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Learn yoga on a paddle board in Boston Harbor

“Once you do it you’re going to love it,” said Molly Gring, who leads the paddleboard yoga classes for Sup Yo Adventures. “The thing about a paddle board is that you have to engage your core at all times. Whenever you’re doing a pose you’re using double the muscles to stay on that board.”

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Unique dining experience atop historic New England lighthouse

"We wanted to show what can be done with an abandoned lighthouse tower," Jay Hyland, president and founder of the Lighthouse Preservation Society, said. "We came up with the idea of trying to do this as a place to dine, and so we basically fixed the place up, made it comfortable upstairs, put in a table and some couches and people are able to rent the place now for about five hours."

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