“In New York, you can tell how successful someone is by how busy they are,” says Angela Lindvall. “In L.A., you can tell because they’re surfing on their lunch break.”
The modeling icon would know. Though she’s been happily ensconced with her two sons in California’s bucolic Topanga Canyon for years, Manhattan is still a part of her life. And don’t call it a comeback, but this New York Fashion Week has been particularly high-profile for Lindvall, thanks to a pair of rare runway appearances for The Row and Baja East.
“It was always my dream, from the time I started modeling, to have a piece of land and grow food and have chickens and kids,” she says, “but coming back to New York is an opportunity to make a lot happen, and it’s been particularly nice this time to work with brands that have a larger message. What you can get done in one day here is unbelievable.”
Yesterday was a perfect example: After back-to-back meetings and a design session working on a forthcoming line of ethical jewelry, she hosted an event at the Noho boutique Voz, the handloomed-in-Chile fashion brand she’ll be the next face of.
The flip side of all this hustle and bustle is, of course, exhaustion, and for Lindvall—who is also a certified Kundalini yoga instructor and nutritional counselor—carving out regular time for self-care is paramount. “New Yorkers forget how important rest is,” she says. “It’s always go, go, go, go, go, even with workout routines and yoga.”
Luckily, she says, “Over the last few years there’s been so much growth and expansion in health and wellness. I’m really excited that there are so many more options.” Here, she reveals her favorite places in the city to rest, recharge, and refuel—the healthy way.
Enfleurage: Aromatherapy Sessions
“This boutique sells essential oils from all over the world and its own handcrafted incense and other botanically scented products. Working with the subtle elements of plant medicine is so powerful—in one drop of an essential oil there’s so much of the essence of the plant. I always have two or three in my bag. If you’ve got a headache, you can use peppermint, or I like to do a bath with frankincense and myrrh. I’m always traveling with lavender, because it brings an element of home and calming.”
237 West 13th Street, enfleurage.com
Osaka Spa: Soak and Shiatsu
“This used to be my spot when I was living in New York and modeling full-time. It’s a Japanese bathhouse—you basically do hot and cold soaks, which is really great for your immune system, and you go in the hot sauna. They do Chinese herbs, acupuncture, and traditional Shiatsu. It’s great because it’s open past midnight. I know a lot of dancers go there when they finish work.”
37 West 46th Street, osakaspany.com
CAP Beauty: Skin-Saving Facials
“I love what they’re doing—I think it’s great that they’ve provided this space for all these amazing natural products in the middle of Manhattan. I just had a facial there, and was transported to another universe.”
238 West 10th Street, capbeauty.com
Té Company: Tea Is the New Coffee
“This tiny, lovely tea room is owned by a husband and wife; he was the sous chef at Per Se and makes beautiful desserts. Tea gives us an opportunity to slow down and kind of have a ritual. I do a lot of tea ceremonies with my friend Shiva Rose in L.A. It’s about taking in the scent of the tea, the warmth of the tea, the conversation you can share with friends—it’s a way to really be in the moment.”
163 West 10th Street, te-nyc.com
Woom Center: Sound Healing
“I love this whole idea of string theory in quantum mechanics. If you break an atom down to its smallest particles, everything is vibration. That’s where this idea of sound and frequency comes in—sound can stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system. It helps to spark healing on so many levels. This place is right on Bowery near Houston, and they have amazing sound meditations and sound-enhanced yoga—it’s ideal for someone overwhelmed by work and the city to just step in, completely shut off the outside world, go inward, and let go.”
274 Bowery, 2nd Floor, woomcenter.com
Warm: Shopping as Medicine
“This store has great natural beauty products and fragrances, as well as ethical fashion and artisan objects. I love the idea of it, which is that the way to survive life in a big, harsh, cold city is to have a home that’s warm. The environment we create has such a huge effect on how we feel. Everything’s made of energy—you can feel it in an object.”
181 Mott Street, warmny.myshopify.com
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