Boost Your Health and Wellness in Long Beach

Do you feel like you need a hard reset on your health? Take some time to focus on health and wellness with these local Long Beach businesses and resources that can help you get your body and mind right.

VISION

For a spa-inspired vision care experience, check out Frame + Sight (6511 E Pacific Coast Hwy, Ste G2-B), a new optometry office in the Marketplace Long Beach shopping center. Frame + Sight specializes in preventive care for your eyes, particularly management of dry eyes due to screen time fatigue and direct sun exposure. They also offer in-house lens cutting for faster turnaround and carry indie brands for chic frames and lenses.

MIND/BODY

Located in a private residential building in Belmont Shore, Human Aeon (address provided upon booking) offers cold and heat exposure therapy, massage, meditation, and classes related to wellness, including breathwork, meditation, and capoeira. Human Aeon’s resort-like atmosphere provides a restful environment, with amenities including an indoor/outdoor tea lounge, sauna, pools, movement space, massage room, and meditation hall.

MEDITATION

Long Beach Meditation (5100 E. The Toledo) offers classes, Dharma conversations, retreats, and a mindfulness book club, with sessions hosted both online and in person in the Gabrielson Chapel inside Bay Shore Community Congregational Church in Belmont Shore. Drop in for their Come As You Are sessions on Monday evenings or sign up for a weekend retreat or multi-week course to dive deeper.

MOVEMENT

Dr. Karen Bloch, owner and operator of Bloch Wellness and Sports Medicine (6324 E. Pacific Coast Hwy, Ste C), led the sports medicine and athletic training programs for the USA Water Polo Teams at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and the London Olympics in 2012. She and her team can help optimize your body’s performance, with many types of treatments and therapies like chiropractic, massage, acupuncture, nutrition counseling, cryotherapy, laser therapy, and much more.

REFRESHMENT

Whether you are interested in a wellness shot or tonic with your morning smoothie or fully flushing your system with a half- or full-day juice cleanse, Salud Juice (4918 E Second St/1944 E Fourth St) can help you select a healthful beverage to suit your needs. In addition to cold pressed juices, their stylish cafe also offers acai bowls, coffee, superfood lattes, and a selection of menu items like avocado toast and pastries.

SERENE SETTINGS

Around Long Beach, you can achieve enlightenment surrounded by the beauty of art and nature. Compound (1395 Coronado Ave) is an art and gathering space that has launched a Wellness Collective Series featuring weekly sound bath, breathwork, and meditation sessions. Its art installations and other programming also focus on creating community and deriving healing and self care from connection with art and culture. You can also find peace among the bonsai trees at the Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden (Earl Warren Dr) on the campus of California State University, Long Beach. The garden offers weekly Zen Yoga and monthly sound bathing sessions designed to help participants find balance and relaxation. Visit the website for dates and tickets.

INNER STRENGTH

Boost your wellness from within with IV therapy treatments or vitamin injections from Dripp IV Therapy (117 W 5th St). With offerings that can target your immunity, improve sleep, increase your hydration, assist with workout recovery, boost your metabolism, and even help clear your skin, Dripp IV offers treatments provided by licensed nurses to improve your health.

About the Author

Claire Atkinson

Claire Atkinson is a Southern California native who has lived in Long Beach for 20 years. She spends her free time visiting local parks, farmers markets, and museums, and loves learning about Long Beach history and culture.