A forest of healing options

Alicia Robinson

After taking her skin-care business down the coast for a few years,

Carmen Kuys has returned to her roots in Costa Mesa.

Kuys and her business partners just opened SeaCoast Healing Arts,

a spa offering massage, skin care and other treatments with holistic

and all-natural methods.

“Costa Mesa is actually where I started doing business about 15

years ago,” Kuys said.

For the past four years, she ran a business built on referrals in

Laguna Beach and Monarch Beach, but she and three other holistic

health entrepreneurs wanted to come together under one roof.

“We kept complaining that there wasn’t a place where there was a

community,” Kuys said. “We wanted a place where people could come and

relax.”

Now they have their wish, and it took the form of a spa on Newport

Boulevard featuring two rooms for skin treatments, a “peace room”

with books that customers can borrow or buy, and a classroom space

for workshops on health and nutrition topics.

The biggest draw is expected to be the scalar wave chamber, a room

containing generators that release waves of energy believed to

rejuvenate the body’s cells. The frequency of the energy is the same

as natural resonance in the world’s rain forests, said Linda Marie

Kral, who operates the chamber.

Most scalar chambers are found in private homes, so clients are

expected to come from all over the country to use the one at the spa,

Kuys said.

Kuys thinks the community will respond well to her spa’s

offerings. Her plans include adding two detoxification tubs, an

infrared sauna and steam chamber in a currently unfinished room.

For now, the partners are focused on giving people all-natural

treatments in a soothing environment.

“This is something where people come and retreat,” Huber said.

“It’s more than just in and out. It’s really the experience of a

place that’s really unique with a lot of wonderful people that work

there.”

SeaCoast Healing Arts is at 2488 Newport Blvd. in Costa Mesa.