A relaxing and luxurious trip to the Hamptons is closer than you think.

The popular Long Island getaway is the name of just one of the rooms at the New York-themed Beyond Wrapture Spa and Retreat that opens this weekend at the Summerland Waterfront Resort.

The spa is the seventh location for Beyond Wrapture and the first in the South Okanagan.

Owner Debra Pender said she decided to expand her operation into this end of the valley to serve the many clients who travel from the South Okanagan to her Kelowna locations. It was also an opportunity for the spa to continue its move into the resort environment, which Pender said has been a long-term goal for the company.

Pender started her Beyond Wrapture chain 14 years ago, following a career in health and fitness. Her inspiration came from a trip to Europe, where she recognized the popularity of day spas as a part of everyday life, not a luxury. Several years later, as the trend started to grow in Canada, Pender began researching the business.

“My research showed that there were very few full-service aromatherapy day spas operating in the province, or in the country, for that matter,” she said. In May 1994 she opened the doors to her first Beyond Wrapture retreat, the first of spa of its kind in Kelowna. But it wasn’t for another seven years that Pender began to expand, opening her second location in Big White in 2001, then from 2003-2006, she opened another location in the Kelowna area every year.

Along with a common focus on “body, mind and spirit,” each Beyond Wrapture spa location comes with its own theme. In Summerland guests are greeted by a calming black, white and grey interior — the walls adorned with photos of New York and the rooms and services with names to match. The theme for the spa was prompted by thoughts of Central Park — an oasis in the midst of hustle and bustle, similar to the relaxing lakeside location of the Summerland resort.

“It is spectacular,” she said. “The setting is so conducive to stepping off the treadmill of life. As soon as you get onto that lakeshore drive you automatically start to slowdown.”

But even with its New York theme — and rooms with names like Brooklyn Bridge, where men’s services take place, and the Madison Avenue martini bar, where manicures will be done — there is still something very Okanagan about the spa. Aside from its local ownership, Beyond Wrapture offers services that incorporate wine. Pender said she introduced the treatments hoping to capitalize on the valley’s growing wine industry, which has become a major tourism draw. The vinotherapy treatments, which were pioneered in France, have now become one of the spa’s signature services. Pender said the company is aiming to become the best in the world at vinotherapy, and has already won Canada-wide competitions with their unique recipe.

“We use the by-products that the winery normally disposes of — the pips, stems and skins — all of which contain a valuable antioxidant called resveratrol,” she said.

Much like the benefits wine’s antioxidants have on a person’s internal health, used in a treatment wine can also help improve the health of skin.

According to Beyond Wrapture, the vinotherapy can help to strengthen and repair connective tissue and promote enzyme activity.

For a full list of services offered at Beyond Wrapture go to their website at .

Ashlee Ritchie (above), a spa practitioner gets a make-up touch-up by fellow practitioner Kyla Sochan at Beyond Wrapture’s New York-themed spa in the Summerland Waterfront Resort.