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Infrared Sauna Wellness Spa ‘calmë’ Opens Friday on Main Street

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One year ago, Meghann Smith recalled, she tried to find an experience that could make her “feel better” in the space of an hour. She tried a variety of exercise classes and other services before discovering infrared saunas. After visiting a sauna, Smith said, she decided that she wanted to create her own luxury spa version. Over the next 12 months, the beauty industry veteran developed the idea for what would become calmë—a new wellness spa offering infrared saunas that soft-opens Friday at 78 Main St., in what emerged as New Canaan’s wellness precinct. 

“We created a brand which is very luxurious,” she said, adding, “I wanted to really create something that everybody can use.” According to Smith, an hour-long session at calmë is more affordable than going to a spa. 

In addition to infrared saunas, calmë will offer acoustic resonance therapy and chromotherapy, Smith said.

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Ultramarathon Training in New Canaan 

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This year I am giving up politics for Lent. In lieu of complaining about local government, I want to share a ‘Thank you’ note to the New Canaanites helping me prep for my upcoming ultramarathon. This was not a New Year’s resolution (one-month survival rate: 64%). I just want to make some changes this year. My plan was to compete in an ultramarathon scheduled for late June with six months to prepare.

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‘I Just Believed In It’: Stretch Lab Opens on Main Street

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One year ago, Adam Kanzer decided to a abandon what had become an unfulfilling career in advertising that had seen him commute to New York City daily, keeping him away from his young and growing family. Dad to two young kids in Westchester County, N.Y., Kanzer was inspired by a neighbor who had left her career in finance to launch franchises of a fitness-related business. “So I started investigating different franchise concepts and came across this one and it just naturally struck a chord with me,” Kanzer said Thursday afternoon, sitting cross-legged on one of the stretching tables on the main floor of Stretch Lab at 86 Main St. “I played sports my whole life. I’ve been a diligent stretcher and I was doing it long before it was a ‘thing’ to do.

Adam Kanzer

‘Stretch Lab’ Fitness Boutique Planned for Main Street

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A boutique fitness studio that focuses on stretching is planned for a commercial space on Main Street. A Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. man has applied to Planning & Zoning for site approval so that Stretch Lab can be installed at 86 Main St. Stretch Lab is a “wellness concept that offers one-on-one assisted stretching and group stretching classes, to improve mobility and flexibility,” applicant Adam Kanzer said in his application. “Our demographics are equal parts men and women, and cover a range from young people to serious athletes to older people who are trying to stay active and continue the lifestyle they currently enjoy,” he said. Under the New Canaan Zoning Regulations, service establishments are permitted in the Retail A zone with site plan approval as long as a retail component faces the street and occupies a certain amount of the commercial space (see page 74 here). 

The Planning & Zoning Commission is scheduled to consider the Stretch Lab application as well as similar application a little further up Main Street, for Club Pilates, at its regular meeting Tuesday.