Kosa Spa

08/12/2025

I just decided to announce a last minute $25 community sauna special for an end of summer retreat.

There has been a lovely slowness about summer AND

It’s been exhausting.

It could be all the running around after kid camps, squeezing in camping trips, doing those last minute projects - or the world in general.

For me, it is all of that coupled with a growing sense of disconnection.

Kosa was created as a safe space for community.

We are here. In Real Life. Connecting.

Proximity. Breath. Smiles. Eye contact.

These things actually improve our health.

And how much of that are we missing with text, email, zoom, FaceTime, social media?

A lot. What is your screen time average?

And then there is the question of wanting to be with friends and around people, but not at a bar.

Not many options.

And of course, how do we address our mental exhaustion when we are preparing for the school year - with zero time for self-care?

It’s all here for you.

We hope to see you here from 8/26-9/6 for our expanded social sauna times and special rate.

$25 includes THREE HOURS to relax at the spa.

You get:
🔥hot stone sauna
🚿Cold rain shower
🧖‍♀️Aromatherapy steam room
📚Sanctuary space with comfy couches, books and meditation area
☕️Hand crafted Ayurvedic teas, snacks, infusions and hydration
🌹Chilled aromatherapy towels

We have women’s only and all gender days.

Grab a spot and get your last minute retreat!!

Our hope is you feel restored and reconnected with life and with yourself.

08/04/2025

Our most popular line is on sale ya’ll!

Why is Pitta our most popular?

Maybe because summer is still in full sizzling swing 🔥

Maybe because we use decadent Ayurvedic herbs and oils and delicious ingredients like Rose, Lime, Coconut, Jasmine. 🌹🍋‍🟩🥥🪷

We use organic ingredients so your medicine is absorbed through the skin in your everyday rituals. Washing your face. Bathing. Washing hair. Using deodorant.

Maybe it’s because it’s summer and all of these products are cooling, soothing, and calming for the mind.

Ayurvedic sciences are behind our formulas so your inflamed skin, rashes, breakouts, hair fall - are all gently put into balance.

Maybe it’s because you know we have used these on over 10,000 spa guests with amazing results.

Maybe it’s because everything smells and feels amazing. Like you’ve just been at the spa.

Maybe it’s all the love we put into it!❤️❤️❤️

I literally love each and everyone one of these.

My faves are the rose toner that hydrates, plumps and keeps away breakouts. It has HA, rose and blue chamomile.

And the lime bergamot spray deodorant with probiotics that balances your skin and keeps you fresh - anywhere on the body!

And the Sandalwood Lime lotion that soothes bug bites and freshly shaved skin.

I could go on…

Sale ends 8/31.

(We craft everything in small batches so availability is limited to what we have on hand. )

07/29/2025

As an Indian immigrant kid, growing up in Wi, I was seen as odd when I’d come to school with oily hair.

As soon as I was old enough, I stopped that hair oiling business to become a little more “normal”. And, so I did with many other cultural practices in my life.

Ayurveda, and Kosa were my way back home, to India, and to myself.

In this process, I found hair oiling again. And it is delightfully luscious!

Oil, in Sanskrit, is Sneha. This is also the word for LOVE.

In Ayurveda, and at the spa, we use OIL IN EVERYTHING. All organic oils are in our foods, coconut oil in our golden milk, massage oils, hair oil, serums, moisturizers, shampoos (yes!) and even our skin cleanser is oil-based.

Many are afraid of oil, but it is miraculous. It delivers nutrients, softens tissues, and pulls out dirt and toxins when washed off.

As a kid, my mom put oil in our hair and we washed it, but often our hair remained oily. As an adult, my father’s sisters (who have thick, black hair, in their 80’s!), taught me to oil again.

Here are just some of the benefits:
- Rejuvenating by massaging marma points on the head
- Strengthens roots
- Nourishes hair shaft
- Conditions hair
- Encourages hair growth

How do you do it?
- Once a week (which is the only time I wash my hair), saturate scalp with oil and bring it to ends with fingers.
- Massage scalp with zig zag motions and small circles to encourage oil to pe*****te the roots and bring circulation to the scalp for healthy growth.
- Put hair in a loose braid or turban and sleep with oil in overnight.
- Wash in the morning with an oil-based shampoo, that is organic and free of harsh cleansers that strip your hair.

Of course, we have made decadent herbalized Scalp Oil that includes neem, fennel, sandalwood, and Ayurvedic herbs that calm the mind and help with growth. We use it in our Indian Head Massages at the spa.

And we have the perfect shampoo for your dosha and hair type that has more goodness of oils, Ayurvedic herbs, and essential oils.

Now you can all be oily-haired and proud of it 😉

07/21/2025

Due to popular demand - we are extending our Social Sauna Founding Member special!

The regular memberships are an amazing deal, and this DOUBLES your discount.

Normally $55/session, now just $40!
• 3 hours of bliss
• Aromatherapy steam room
- Cold rain shower
• Cozy Sanctuary with teas & infusions
• Chill with like-minded self-care lovers

AGAIN - you get to be here for THREE HOURS.

Regular sauna use reduces chronic inflammation, and triggers cellular repair. That is just one of the amazing benefits.

AND - you can hang out in space with others who appreciate self-care and are Kosa people!

It's super fun on a Saturday night (mocktails and music). Or come on a Thursday for women's community sauna.

This is our offering to the community - to spend time being good to your body, while having fun and experiencing beautiful things.

We are launching our new social wellness club offerings and gifting our founding members significant discounts for being the first to start their wellness journey in community.

06/25/2025

It’s time for me to do one of the re-introductions for all the lovely people who recently have joined our conversation!

I’m Shilpa - Founder of Kosa and certified Ayurvedic Health Coach.

And I don’t use ChatGPT for my posts.

I’m living as much as I can in the REAL.

I started my career as a management consultant in Chicago - helping corporations improve “processes” and “systems” to improve profits.

That did not feel REAL.

So I moved to San Francisco during the dot com boom to help start-ups create something new and cool. I watched the cool things turn to dust as people burned through billions in VC money.

That did not feel REAL.

I then started my own company building prefab net zero energy buildings.

Closer to real! Real buildings, climate impact, affordable housing.

Sadly- VC-funded with no heart behind the funding.

Not real enough.

Then as a non-profit director helping cities and builders move to zero carbon.

Closer for sure. But still trying to convince people why it was important.

To be REAL - I realized I need to go small or go home.

I had to bring together individuals, to support people’s much bigger journey of reconnecting with themselves.

Without this, there is no caring about the big things.

This is where Ayurveda comes in. I rediscovered it and found my roots and health again.

This is the most REAL it gets. And I’m still here, in the discomfort of the real.

There is no running away, seeking, striving, avoiding, or craving.

Ayurveda teaches us that trying to escape the real leads to greater imbalance in the mind and body.

It’s a process! And that’s ok. That’s real too.

Joining us in the spaces of Kosa, with natural materials in a 100-year-old feed mill, touched by real hands, fed organic ingredients - you may start to get closer to your real self.

Say hello. Give them a hug.

We are here to support you in that embrace.

We are here to share in the whole you - not just the “perfection” that tools, tips, hacks, Chat, IG seem to think will cure you.

We are doing it too, in our imperfection, and we are loving it.

[authenticity, Ayurveda, self-care, community, dreams, inner voice, meditation, spa]