13,834
Massage Therapy
Licensed massage therapists and dedicated massage studios. Swedish, deep tissue, sports, prenatal and trigger point work, usually booked as a 50 or 80 minute session on a table.
45,965 listings · 14,223 cities · 50 states and DC
Find the room where you actually switch off.
Midori Spa is a US directory of massage therapists, day spas, medical spas, skin studios, bodywork practices and the sauna, float and cold plunge rooms in between. Browse by state and city, check who regulates them, and work out what it costs before you book.
13,834Massage Therapy
14,912Day Spa
6,550Medical Spa
3,781Facials & Skin Care
4,869Bodywork & Reflexology
1,326Sauna, Float & Recovery
693Resort & Hotel Spa
Browse
States with the deepest coverage
Every state is in the index. These twelve carry the most listings, and the full A to Z has the rest.
Seven kinds of listing
A medical spa is not a day spa is not a massage studio
These get lumped together everywhere else, and the differences are the ones that matter: who is licensed to touch you, what they are allowed to do, and what happens if something goes wrong. Every listing is sorted into one of seven categories for that reason.
14,912
Day Spa
The full menu under one roof: massage, facials, body wraps and often a steam room or sauna. Built around half-day and full-day packages rather than a single treatment.
6,550
Medical Spa
Aesthetic medicine in a spa setting. Injectables, laser, microneedling and chemical peels, working under a supervising physician. A different regulatory category from everything else in this directory.
3,781
Facials & Skin Care
Licensed estheticians and skin studios. Facials, extractions, dermaplaning, waxing and product-led treatment plans, without the medical scope a med spa carries.
4,869
Bodywork & Reflexology
Asian bodywork and manual traditions: Thai massage, shiatsu, reflexology, acupuncture, cupping and craniosacral work. Often clothed, often on a mat rather than a table.
1,326
Sauna, Float & Recovery
Heat and cold as the treatment. Infrared and traditional saunas, bathhouses, float tanks, cold plunge, salt caves and contrast circuits, sold by the session or the membership.
693
Resort & Hotel Spa
Spas attached to a hotel, resort, club or hot spring. Usually open to non-guests for treatments, usually with a day-pass fee for the thermal facilities.
From the directory
Independent studios to start with
A sample of independent massage practices, day spas and recovery studios from around the country.
Day Spa
Nurtur Salon and Spa
Massage menuFacialsBody treatments
Day Spa
Sport Clips
Massage menuFacialsBody treatments
Day Spa
Sport Clips
Massage menuFacialsBody treatments
Day Spa
The Vitamin Shoppe
Massage menuFacialsBody treatments
Day Spa
Vata Salon & Spa Aveda
Massage menuFacialsBody treatments
Day Spa
Bath & Body Works
Massage menuFacialsBody treatments
Tools
Six calculators that do real arithmetic
All client side, no sign-up, nothing sent anywhere.
Tip calculator
What to tip on a massage or spa service, including the awkward cases: discounted rates, gift certificates, service charges already added and the spa owner who works on you herself.
Membership break-even
Monthly spa and massage memberships against paying per visit, including the unused credits nobody counts and the cancellation terms that make them worse.
Massage style finder
Answer six questions about what you want out of the hour and get the modality to actually ask for, plus the words to use at booking.
Sauna and plunge planner
Build a contrast circuit from your heat tolerance and the time you have, with the limits and the cautions stated rather than implied.
Self-care budget planner
What your current booking rhythm costs per year, and the three levers that change the number without cutting the habit.
License board lookup
The regulator for every state, the four with no statewide license at all, and exactly what to ask when you cannot look someone up.
Guides
Know what you are booking
What the modalities actually are, what a license does and does not guarantee, when massage is a bad idea, and how much of the spa menu is doing anything at all.
Thai, Shiatsu and Reflexology: Bodywork Beyond the Table
Clothed, on a mat, and nothing like a spa massage. What each tradition actually does in the room, and who tends to prefer them to lying face down for an hour.
Facials Explained: What an Esthetician Can and Cannot Do
Where the line sits between a facial and a medical procedure, why a good studio sends you to a dermatologist sometimes, and which parts of the treatment are doing the work.
Spa Etiquette: The Questions Nobody Wants to Ask Out Loud
Phones, underwear, shaving, talking, falling asleep, needing the toilet, and what to do when the pressure is wrong. All of it is normal and none of it is a problem.
When You Should Not Get a Massage
The absolute contraindications, the situations that need clearance first, and the ones where you just need a therapist with the right training rather than no massage at all.
Massage for Back and Neck Pain: What the Evidence Says
Massage has a real, modest, short-term effect on non-specific back pain, and that sentence is doing a lot of work. What to expect, and the symptoms that mean see a doctor first.
Prenatal Massage: What Is Different and What to Ask
Positioning, pressure, training and timing all change during pregnancy. What a certified prenatal therapist does differently, and the questions that identify one.