Paso Robles News|Thursday, March 28, 2024
You are here: Home » Top Stories » Spa Central Coast and Organic Farms Juice move in together
  • Follow Us!

Spa Central Coast and Organic Farms Juice move in together 

Spa Central Coast juice

Organic Farms Juice owner Dr. Aracely Plateroti, left, and Spa Central Coast owner Kitty Arosteguy, right, stand in front of the juice bar inside the spa’s new location at 617 12th St. in Paso Robles. The juice bar opened Monday morning and the spa will open next week. Photo by Heather Young

Massage, skin treatments and juicery all in one place

Kitty Arosteguy of Spa Central Coast has been working since this summer to relocate her spa from Atascadero to Paso Robles. Along the way she partnered Dr. Aracely Plateroti of Organic Farms Juice and Plateroti Center. The juice bar opened Monday and Arosteguy said the spa will open sometime next week. The new venture is located at 617 12th St. in Paso Robles at the former home of Pierce Modern Gallery.

“[Atascadero] was a really great place to get started and to get grounded,” Arosteguy said. “I felt really drawn to move [the spa] to Paso.”

Spa Central Coast Paso Robles

Spa Central Coast will move from Atascadero to Paso Robles this week. The decor in the new location, owner Kitty Arosteguy said, pulls from the Paso Robles area, including using reclaimed wood for the doors and other features. Photo by Heather Young

Arosteguy has lived in Paso Robles for the last 10 years, and now her business is five minutes from her house. She has known Plateroti the same length of time and they decided it was time for them to come together and collaborate. Arosteguy originally opened her spa in the old fire station on Traffic Way in Atascadero in October 2003, just before the San Simeon Earthquake wrecked havoc on the Central Coast. Nine years ago she snatched up a prime location next to the Carlton Hotel when it became available.

“Being in Atascadero, I’m so thankful,” Arosteguy said. “It was definitely time to move on.”

Arosteguy has been doing skin treatments for the last 20 years, her family owns a spa in Ojai, where she’s from. For the last 10 years she has also been doing massage. Currently she employs eight people who do different treatments. The Atascadero location has four treatment rooms, the Paso Robles spa will have eight, and she’ll be adding a Himalayan salt room that will be floor to ceiling sea salt, with blocks of it lining the walls and chunks on the ceiling and granules on the floor, about a foot deep, on top of which Arosteguy said clients could lie on.

“You’re surrounded by salt,” Arosteguy said, adding that it will help counteract effects of pesticides in people’s bodies. “We’re all affected [by the pesticides in the air].”

Plateroti will add to the environment by offering free-pressed, certified organic juices to help heal from the inside out. She said it’s all about balancing the body and helping it heal itself. The juice bar’s motto is “let food be your medicine.” She said she is focusing on detoxification and rejuvenation through weight loss, hormonal balancing, rest health and holistic facial and beauty. While she’ll continue to see clients at Plateroti Center in Atascadero — which she and her husband, Dr. Carmelo Plateroti have owned and operated for the last 20 years — she will be spending most of her time at the spa.

“If we actually add in detoxifying and cleaning [into our lives], we won’t see people [at the center],” Plateroti said.

She is trying rejuvenation coaches and juiceologists to work in clients in the spa. While certified organic juice is more expensive than other options, she said it will pay off in the long run because people will be preventing diseases — including cancer — and will not incur further health care costs to treat the disease.

“They don’t get sick. They are more productive, They’ll be more happy,” Plateroti said. “Detoxification is really the future of medicine. It’s all about nurturing your soul again.”

Plateroti offers a weeklong juice cleanse where clients can get the juice they need right at the juicery and not have to buy or juice — or clean up after — their own juice, which is something that keeps people from juicing. At the juice bar, Plateroti said they will focus on juice cleanses, but will also sell the juice by the bottle and offer tastings of the juice to people who stop by. Clients will also be able to buy a raw salad or sandwich after a spa treatment.

“We’re the only certified organic juice in all of San Luis Obispo County,” Plateroti said, adding that the process is quite lengthy and arduous.

The juice bar is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The spa will be open Monday through Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thursday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Share To Social Media

Comments