Walk into Red Lotus Wellness Center at the busy Village Square Plaza, and you are greeted with something that’s hard to come by in today’s busy and stressful world. Peace. Quiet. Tranquility.
It is, as its website states, “a sanctuary of serenity,” the perfect setting for the promotion of one’s mental and physical well-being, which is what Red Lotus offers.
Dracut Economic Development held a ribbon-cutting for Red Lotus Wellness Center, at 14 Loon Hill Road, Suite 6, on December 12.
“There are three components to what we offer,” said Joe Bonacquisti, who owns Red Lotus with his wife, Feng Hong Song. “We have a head spa, a body spa and reflexology.”
Reflexology is an alternative therapy used to treat a variety of medical conditions by applying pressure to specific points on the feet, hands or ears.
“A lot of people say, ‘What’s that,’ or, ‘I saw that on YouTube or TikTok and I want to try it’. So they try it and they love it,” Joe said of reflexology.
Song owned a reflexology business in Tyngsboro but sold it when Covid struck In 2020. But earlier this year, she got the itch to get back into the holistic health business.
“She decided she wanted to get back to work,” Joe said. “She wants to make people healthy, comfortable and relaxed.”
Song’s dentist, Dracut Family Dentistry, is upstairs in the plaza, and during one visit, she and Joe saw a “for rent” sign.
The space was perfect for their needs. They turned it into three treatment spaces and a reception area, which is the island of tranquility you enter when you walk through the door.
“We didn’t really have to change anything,” Joe said.
Joe is a software engineer for Strata Decision Technology, but these days he’s also helping out at Red Lotus.
“I do the back-end stuff, setting up appointments and stuff like that,” he said.
Song handles the treatments.
In the head spa, you can get a 30-minute gentle cleanse/relaxation of the head and neck, including hydrotherapy; a 60-minute session, which also includes the face; or a 90-minute session, which also includes the shoulders.
The body spa offers 30-minute or 60-minute sessions, which can include back-walking and/or hot stone.
But Song isn’t just a reflexologist. She is also quite the seamstress and made the bedding and pillowcases that adorn the treatment spaces.
Red Lotus is open Monday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-7 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
You can book appointments, and pay for them, at www.redlotuswellness.com. You can also reach Red Lotus at 978-770-5350, or by email at redlotusreflex@gmail.com.
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Feng Hong Song and Joe Bonacquisti, owners of Red Lotus Wellness Center, 14 Loon Hill Road, Suite 6, cut the ribbon during a ceremony on December 12 hosted by Dracut Economic Development. Celebrating with them are, from left, Al Moretti, a friend of the owners; Karen Davis, Dracut branch manager of Eastern Bank and a member of the Board of Directors of the Greater Lowell Chamber of Commerce; Kara Curley and Dave Ouellette from Dracut’s Health Department; and Carol Lavoie, Tom Nauss and Seth Dichard, friends of the owners. (DRACUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PHOTO)
One of the treatment rooms at Red Lotus Wellness Center. (DRACUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PHOTO)