Santa Fe is a winter wonderland, but high altitude sun and snow in the Land of Enchantment may have less than enchanting effects on your body. The following easy-to-follow tips from Spa Sage at La Posada de Santa Fe will keep you warm and well all season long.
Stay Warm and Boost Your Immune System
Keep your immune system at it’s highest level to aid the body in fighting off colds and flus. Avoid stress, protect yourself from the elements, get proper rest, eat nutritionally sound and follow the tips below.
Use in the Bath or Shower: Essential oils of Eucalyptus, Rosemary, Peppermint and Tea Tree enhance circulation, accelerate immune response and provide relief from sinus congestion. Sprinkle 10 drops of Eucalyptus Essential Oil on a clean sponge and place on the shower floor to create your own therapeutic steam bath. Breathe in for respiratory relief and to boost immunity. Careful not to slip!
Immune Boost Salt Glow: Mix 6 Tbsp. salt, 6 drops of Eucalyptus Oil, 4 drops of Peppermint Oil, 2 Tbsp. of Olive or Safflower Oil, scrub your way to health and rinse off. An aid to prevent or reduce the effects of colds and flu and associated aches and pains.
Daily Immune Boost: Use the following essential oils on the body or use products containing them: Tea Tree, Eucalyptus and Lemon Grass. Apply this blend to your body after bathing and take some time for yourself to relax and give your body time to regenerate.
Night Time Warmer: Place a warmed herbal pack under the covers before getting into bed for instant warmth and relaxation. Also assists circulation and giving immune system a boost.
Tea anytime: Create warmth from the inside out with a cup of Immune Boost Tea – this is useful during the winter months to reduce congestion and increase circulation.
1 heaping tablespoon fresh ginger in chunks / ½ lemon / dash of turmeric and cayenne Blend all in 1 cup heated water / let steep and add agave or honey to sweeten – Enjoy!
Swim, Soak and Steam
What could be more indulgent and invigorating than a swim or soak in an outdoor heated saline pool or whirlpool in winter? Spa Sage at La Posada de Santa Feoffers both. Relax in the brisk mountain air as the steam arises around you and warm up afterwards in an aroma steam room. Spa facilities are available to guests staying at the resort as well as outside visitors with spa treatments or those who purchase day passes. Click here for complete details.
Enjoy the dazzling sun and sparkling snow of Santa Fe and be sure to follow these winter wellness tips!
Snow blanketing adobe walls, the glow of farolitos lining rooftops, and the scent of pinon wood burning in kiva fireplaces. Santa Fe in the winter is truly magical and the perfect setting for Ringing in the New Year into 2017.
Family Friendly Celebration on the Historic Plaza
Be part of the fun as the City Different says Adios to 2016 at the Second Annual New Year’s Eve on the Santa Fe Plaza.
The festivities begin at 8:45 p.m on December 31, 2016. with the Plaza warmed by cozy piñon bonfires scenting the night air with an unmistakably comforting New Mexican fragrance. Local musicians will appear on the Bandstand and The Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe will provide hot chocolate and biscochitos (New Mexican Christmas cookies).
At 11:45 p.m. on December 31, 2016, Mayor Javier Gonzales and city officials will address the crowd and begin the countdown to a peaceful and prosperous new year. Please dress warmly and bundle up the kids for this uplifting and family-friendly tradition in America’s oldest capital city.
Dining, Dancing and More
La Posada de Santa Fe offers multiple options for greeting the New Year on December 31, 2016. Celebrate New Year’s Eve by the roaring fire in Julia, a Spirited Restaurant & Bar, with a five-course dinner including choice of enticing entrees.
Both early and late seatings are offered for our December 31, 2016 dinner, so you can dine early and join the celebration on the plaza, or stay warm and cozy and toast the New Year indoors. Dinner is $85 per person for the 6:00 pm seating and $125 for the 9:00 pm seating. The latter option includes wine pairings and complimentary entry to “Club Countdown”, the resort’s festive dance party. For more information and reservations, call 505-954-9670.
Club Countdown Dance Party
Ring in the New Year with a late night dance party at La Posada de Santa Fe on December 31, 2016 from 9:00 pm to 1:00 am. Dance the night away to DJ Oona and celebrate with party favors, hot appetizers and a champagne toast at midnight. All for just $30.00 per person! Drinks available for purchase. Must be 21 years of age or older. For reservations, call 505-954-9696.
Happy New Year and best wishes for the coming year in 2017!
For over a hundred years, La Posada de Santa Fe Resort & Spa has been one of the most historic Santa Fe hotels. As the city grows and changes, so has La Posada. Our entwined histories have made us Santa Fe’s signature resort.
In 1607, the history of Santa Fe began when New Mexico’s governor, Don Pedro de Peralta, founded the city near the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. He originally named the city, “La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís,” or The Royal Town of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis of Assisi. In 1610, Santa Fe became New Mexico’s capital, making it the oldest state capital in the United States.
Immigrants flocked to the West and New Mexico in the 19th century. Along with them came Abraham Staab and his wife, Julia. In 1882, he built a beautiful three-story brick mansion. The residence was constructed in the French Second Empire-style, and it was decorated with lavish European furnishings.
Later on, in the 1930s, R.H. and Eulalia Nason became the estate’s owners, and they transformed the property into the marquee hotel in Santa Fe. They constructed a series of Pueblo Revival-style adobe casitas around the existing mansion. They dubbed their new Santa Fe hotel “La Posada,” which means “inn” or “resting place” in Spanish. As La Posada spearheaded the Pueblo Revival style, the city of Santa Fe followed suit. In the 1920s and 1930s, architects and artists developed a unique regional identity by drawing inspiration from the local Native American culture. Pueblo style architecture imitates the design of traditional adobe construction, but with more modern materials, such as brick or concrete.
In the following years, our Santa Fe resort became a popular place to be for the arts community. An annual summer arts school drew many guests, who were leaders in the Santa Fe arts movement. La Posada truly became “The Art Hotel of Santa Fe.”
Our rich heritage makes La Posada de Santa Fe Resort & Spa Santa Fe’s most historic resort. Nowadays, we’ve renovated the estate with a relaxing spa and a flavorful restaurants. Our southwestern ambiance means that there is no better resort in Santa Fe to absorb the rich environment of the West.
Julia Staab, original owner of the historic estate that has become La Posada de Santa Fe Resort & Spa, so loved her home that she has reputedly never left it.
Her great-great-granddaughter, Hannah Nordhaus, has just written a fascinating book on Julia’s life and legacy. “American Ghost, A Family’s Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest”, comes out on March 10th.
Hannah Nordhaus will be our featured guest at La Posada on Friday, March 13th, for an on-site book signing and reception from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm. Reservations are required – just email laposadaSF@gmail.com.
In the meantime, this blog, and subsequent blogs, will feature excerpts from interviews with Hannah Nordhaus. The first excerpt follows:
Question: You write in the book that you’ve known about your great-great-grandmother Julia Staab your entire life. Why did you decide to write about her now?
“I had always found Julia interesting, of course, and I had even written about her when I was a young woman starting out as a journalist. But she was always more of an anecdote to me than a real person with a real story.
Shortly after I gave birth to my first child, however, I was poking around the dusty bookshelves in the house my great-grandfather built in the mountains east of Santa Fe, when I found a history my great-aunt Lizzie had written shortly before she died in 1980. I may have read it without much interest when I was a young girl. But this time around, I found it riveting: Lizzie told a tale of sadness and madness and forbidden love, of drug addictions and suicides, knives to the “bosom,” inheritance and disinheritance, penury, family feuds, brother against brother. There was, I realized, more to Julia’s story than just a ghost in an old hotel. Julia had actually been alive once; she had been dragged as a new bride across the Santa Fe Trail to an unfamiliar place; she had been a new mother, like me. I now wanted to learn more about her.”
Question: Do you see your book as a ghost story, a biography or something else?
“I think of this book as a history that is wrapped in a ghost story. The story—the legend—of Julia’s life and death and afterlife is what makes her interesting to most people and what keeps her alive to us so many years after her death. It is the reason people want to know about Julia in the first place.
But it’s also very much a device through which I was able to explore the other, equally intriguing stories of my family’s past, and all the different pasts that bear on Julia’s story—Jewish history in 18th and 19th century Germany; the settling of the Anglo-American Southwest; the European spas and séance rooms of the late 19th century; the fate of German Jews during the World War II era; and even the 1980s and 90s, when Julia’s ghost story first entered our cultural imagination.”
Continue to viist our blog and our website, laposadadesantafe.com for more of Hannah’s insights on Julia Staab.
Romance is in the air. This year, Valentine’s Day falls on a Saturday – the perfect reason to plan a weekend getaway to Santa Fe, one of the world’s most romantic cities. Why not spend the weekend cuddled up in front of a roaring fireplace at La Posada? We offer the perfect Santa Fe Valentine’s Day package with massages, champagne and strawberries, and more. Our chef is creating a delectable three-course Valentine’s Day dinner. The spa is offering special seductive treatments with chocolate, champagne and rose oil. Keep reading for all the juicy details and have a wonderful Valentine’s Day…
An Alluring Escape – Santa Fe Valentine’s Day Package
Retreat with your sweet for a memorable weekend in Santa Fe.
Start the weekend in style with champagne and strawberries upon arrival
Treat that special someone (or yourself!) to a distinctive spa treatment during the month of Feburary.
Champagne and Rose Oil Couples Massage with our Gift of a Rose Quartz Heart Placed on your Heart
Rose Quartz is known for empowering and protecting – which is why it is placed on the heart.
50 Minute Swedish Massage: $245.00 per couple
80 Minute Swedish Massage: $330.00 per couple
Chocolate Chile Pedicure
Not only do you get a pedicure with chocolate and chile, you receive a Chocolatey gift from Chocolatesmith to enjoy.
80 Minute Pedicure: $75.00
Call our spa directly at 505-954-9630 to schedule your treatment. Remember – gift certificates make a perfect Valentine’s Day gift too.
Valentine’s Day Dinner in Fuego
Join us for a delectable dinner on Friday, 2/13/15, Saturday 2/14/15 or Sunday 2/15/15 with a three-course feast for just $125.00 per couple. Includes a Red Rose Gift as well.
Call Fuego for reservations at 505-986-0000.
First Course
Choice of Lobster Bisque with Brandied Cream Hearts or Hearts of Romaine Salad with Champagne Dressing
Second Course
Choice of Char-Grilled Sea Bass Filet with Hearts of Palm Corn Cake and Key Lime Beurre Blanc or Pepper Crusted Filet Mignon with Port Wine Reduction, Artichoke Hearts and Fingerling Potatoes
Dessert for Two
Chocolate Molten Cake with Colossal Tuxedo Striped Strawberries
Christmas is right around the corner. Best wishes for a wonderful holiday season – hopefully, spent in Santa Fe! Holiday festivities begin at dusk on Christmas Eve with the annual Canyon Road Farolito Walk. This beloved tradition lights up heart and soul, as thousands of people stroll Canyon Road, which is decorated with farolitos (small, sand-filled bags with votive candles) and luminarias (bonfires). The joyous sounds of carols and friends and families greeting each other fills the air and hot cider is served at many of the galleries along the road. Farolitos and luminarias commemorate the lanterns that lit Mary and Joseph’s way on their quest to find shelter.
Christmas in Fuego
Before or after the farolito walk or, on Christmas Day, plan to gather with loved ones in Fuego for a festive holiday dinner.
Christmas Eve dinner reservations begin at 5:00 pm and Christmas Day seatings are available at 3:00 pm, 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm. Feast for just $85 per person or $40 for children 12 and under. Reservations are required, so call Fuego at 505-986-0000.
Christmas Eve and Day Menu
First Course
Charcuterie of Salami, Cappicola, Country Pate, Carrots, Celery, Olives and Sweet Pickles, served with Assorted Breads and Roasted Garlic Spread
Second Course
Grilled Shrimp Tamale with Christmas Chile Sauces
Third Course
Choice of:
Hearts of Romaine Lettuce, White Anchovies and Rye Crisps with Classic Caesar Dressing
Winter Pear Bisque, Gorgonzola Creme
Main Course
Choice of:
Pan Roasted Duck Breast with Orange Cranberry Stuffing, served with Braised Winter Kale and Broccolini with Port Sauce
Herb Crusted Leg of Lamb with Pumpkin-Pecan Flan, served with Brussel Sprouts with Pancetta and Cider Jus
Pan Seared Chilean Sea Bass with Basmati Rice, Baby Bok Choy and Lemongrass Broth
Prime Rib with Herbed Potato Souffle, Haricot Verts, Caramelized Pearl Onions and Natural Jus
Dessert
Choice of:
Traditional Natillas with Biscochitos
Pecan Chocolate Tart
Chocolate Crème Chantilly with Hazelnut Crème Anglaise
Banana Bread Pudding with Brown Butter Rum Sauce and Dark Chocolate Chips
