Spa Chance Harbour

🌊 Combining gentle movement, controlled breathing, and time outdoors can support both physical and mental wellbeing.

✨ Helps reduce stress and promote relaxation
✨ Supports flexibility, balance, mobility, and strength
✨ Encourages slower, deeper breathing
✨ Can improve body awareness and mindfulness
✨ May support better sleep and overall mood
✨ Spending time in natural environments, including coastal settings, has been associated with improved wellbeing and lower perceived stress
✨ The sounds and scenery of the ocean can create a calming environment for meditation and mindful movement

Yoga already gives your body a reason to slow down. Add fresh ocean air, the sound of the waves, and nature surrounding you, and it becomes an opportunity to truly ●disconnect, ●de-stress, and ●reconnect. 🌿🌊

Keri-Lynn Calp 📷

⚡🌎 YOUR BODY CAN ACTUALLY BECOME ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED TO THE EARTH.

Take off your shoes and step onto damp earth, wet sand or into the ocean and you're making a conductive connection with the Earth's surface.

The Earth has a natural electrical environment a Schumann resonances with a fundamental frequency around 7.83 Hz.

Our bodies are electrical too. Our heart, muscles and nervous system depend on electrical signals and electrolytes.

🌊 And the ocean makes this especially interesting.

Saltwater is highly conductive because it's filled with naturally occurring charged ions including sodium, chloride, magnesium, calcium and potassium.

Researchers are studying whether grounding may influence stress, sleep, inflammation, recovery and nervous system activity, as well as how our bodies may interact with Earth's natural electromagnetic environment.

The electrical connection is real physics. ⚡
The potential health effects are still being explored. 🔬

Here at NSCH, grounding can be as simple as:

🦶 Bare feet on the earth.
🏖️ Walking the wet sand.
🌊 Stepping into the Bay of Fundy.

●Disconnect. ●Destress. ●Reconnect.

**Potential grounding and frequency related health effects remain areas of ongoing research.

14 years ago today Nature Spa Chance Harbour was in the Saturday News paper 🩵🌊

We made the newspaper last Saturday! :)

Imagine stepping out of a hot, wood heated dry sauna and taking that first deep breath of cool Bay of Fundy air. 🌊🌿

The warmth of the sauna. The salt air. The sound of the water. The cool Fundy breeze against your skin.

This is the kind of experience we’re working to bring back to Nature Spa Chance Harbour.

Soon, you’ll be able to warm up in our wood heated dry sauna, step outside and slow down. Breathe in the fresh Fundy air, wander toward the beach and estuary, cool off, or simply find a quiet place to sit and take it all in.

We believe some of the best parts of a spa experience don’t come from inside a building , they come from the nature surrounding it.

Simple. Natural. Unhurried.

●Disconnect. ●De-stress. ●Reconnect.

🌊 Nature Spa Chance Harbour
Coming back soon.

We’d also like to take a moment to introduce the new faces behind Nature Spa Chance Harbour 🩵

We’re Holly Waycott-Matthews and Eric Matthews, along with our daughter, Hazel.

Our connection to this area runs deep. The Waycott family has called this part of the Fundy coast home for more than 200 years, and today, Eric and I are fortunate to be raising the next generation here as well. 🩵

Nature has always been a big part of our lives. We love exploring, being outdoors, discovering new places and spending time along the coast. We’re also both creative people who genuinely enjoy building, restoring and taking an idea from something imagined into something real.

Those parts of who we are have shaped much of our vision for Nature Spa Chance Harbour.

We see an incredible opportunity here, not to change what makes this property special, but to build upon it. Our goal is to create an experience that feels connected to its surroundings and encourages people to slow down for a few hours. The sauna, hot and cold experiences, waterfall, beach, estuary and natural landscape will remain at the heart of what we do.

Over time, we hope to thoughtfully expand upon that experience.

One of our ambitions is to make greater use of the beautiful estuary and create new ways for guests to experience the water and surrounding landscape. We already have some exciting ideas in the works that, if all goes well, we hope to begin bringing to life next summer.

We’re also excited about the future addition of Apitherapy. 🐝 Our hope is to eventually introduce a dedicated bee theapty hut experience at the end of the beach, adding the unique opportunity to slow down and experience the healthing properties of honey bees vibrations, hive air, and the natural environment of the movement, scent, and art of the honey bees.

There are many other ideas we hope to explore as Nature Spa Chance Harbour grows, wellness experiences, local products and partnerships, seasonal offerings, retreats and opportunities to bring people together.

Community is especially important to us.

This is where we live, where our family has history and where we’re raising Hazel. We want this business to contribute positively to the area, support other local businesses and makers wherever possible, and give both residents and visitors another reason to appreciate what makes Chance Harbour and the Fundy coast so special.

We have ambitious plans, but we also believe in growing thoughtfully. Some changes will happen quickly, while others will take time, so please be patient with us as we grow along side. Most importantly, we want to preserve the character of this place as we move it forward.

We’re incredibly excited for what’s ahead and look forward to introducing you to more of our plans, asking for input and eventually welcoming you here in person!

From our family to yours, thank you for following along and supporting this next chapter of Nature Spa Chance Harbour. 🩵

●Disconnect ● De-stress ●Reconnect.

Why the scallop?

We could have chosen a fern. A tree. A leaf. Something that simply said nature...

But Nature Spa Chance Harbour is about something deeper....For centuries, the scallop shell has represented journey, renewal and transformation. Most famously, it became the symbol of the Camino de Santiago, carried by people who stepped away from everyday life to walk, reflect, heal and return home changed.

And then we looked at the shell itself.
Its lines branch outward in completely different directions, yet every one returns to the same centre.

That felt like us.🌊

Because isn't that what life does?
We start from one place, ourselves, and then life begins pulling us outward.

We become parents. Partners. Caregivers. Professionals. Friends. Providers. Dreamers.
We build careers. Raise families. Care for homes. Chase goals. Carry responsibilities.
We grow so many branches that sometimes we forget where they all began. At the centre is still you. And sometimes, you need to come back there.

To be quiet long enough to hear yourself again.
To let your body rest.
To breathe deeply.
To stand beside the ocean.
To feel the heat of fire9 and the shock of cold water.

To disconnect from everything pulling you outward

And then reconnect with the person underneath it all. 🌊

But for me, the scallop has an even more personal meaning. The water you overlook from Nature Spa Chance Harbour is the same water my family has worked for generations. 🩵

I have fished this bay. My father fished this bay. And my forefathers before him made their lives from these waters. For more than 200 years, generations of my family have been connected to this exact coastline, to its tides, its weather, its salt air and everything the sea provides.

So when we chose something to represent Nature Spa Chance Harbour, I didn't want a generic symbol of nature. I wanted something that belonged here. Something from the sea. Something connected to our history. Something that represented where we've come from.

So we didn't choose the scallop because it simply looked beautiful beside our name.
We chose it because it tells our story and, in a way, we hope it will become part of yours.🩵
A reminder that no matter how many directions life takes you, your centre is still there.
Come as all the different pieces of yourself.
Rest here.
Restore here.
Return to yourself.
And when you're ready, branch outward again

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Nature Spa Chance Harbour isn't your typical spa. 🌊🌿

When you hear the word spa, you might picture polished floors, white robes and everything perfectly in place.
That's not quite what we're creating here.
At Nature Spa Chance Harbour, nature is the spa. 🩵

The ground is uneven. The shoreline is rocky. The wood is weathered. Plants grow where they grow. The tides change, the fog rolls in, and the Fundy air has a mind of its own.
And that's part of the experience!

We're not trying to polish away the nature around us. We're building with it, creating places to warm up, cool down, sit by the fire, breathe the salt air, wander the shore and simply slow down.

This isn't a space just for "spa people," either.
It's for men and women. Young and old. Couples, friends, parents and grandparents. Anyone who could use a few hours away from the noise of everyday life.

We're happy to say.. we're still working behind the scenes but aren't open just yet... little by little this special piece of Chance Harbour is coming back to life...

Come as you are.
We'll keep nature the same way. 🌿

As we bring Nature Spa Chance Harbour back to life, I’ll be sharing polls and questions right here to hear from you, what you’d love to see, what you’ve missed, what you’d change, and what you think is an absolute must have. 🌿🌊

● ● -stress ●

There’s something about the ocean that asks you to slow down.

The salt air. The sound of the water. The cool breeze against warm skin. Bare feet on the shore and nowhere you need to rush off to.

Here, the ocean isn’t just the view, it’s part of the experience.

A place to warm up, cool down, breathe deeply, wander down to the water, and reconnect with the natural rhythms around you.

Wellness doesn’t always need four walls.

Sometimes, it looks a lot more like this. 🌊

●Disconnect ●De-stress ●Reconnect.

The shore is never really still.

Every tide comes in and rearranges it; rolling stones over one another, carrying some away, uncovering others that have been buried beneath the sand.

And slowly, almost invisibly, they change.

Sharp edges soften. Rough surfaces become smooth. Pieces that once came from somewhere else settle here together.

There’s something beautiful about that.

We spend so much of our lives surrounded by things made quickly, perfectly and exactly the same. Then you come down to the water and find a beach made of thousands of imperfect little pieces, shaped only by salt, stone, weather and time.

Sit among them. Walk barefoot over them. Stack a few. Skip one across the water. Notice the colours you would have missed if you were rushing.

Sometimes reconnecting with nature really is that simple.

Just you, the shore, and a few old rocks with nowhere else to be. 🪨🌊

Disconnect • De-stress • Reconnect