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SEE + BE SEEN RUNNING FOR MASSAGE RESEARCH. Nicole Bucar, associate product manager of TheraBand—a sister brand of BioFreeze, Bon Vital’ and Thera-Pearl—participated at the 2016 Boston Marathon. Bucar ran as part of The Massage Therapy Foundation’s Running for Research Team (TEAM MTF), whose mission is to bring awareness to the benefits of massage and the need for more massage research funding. GLOBAL WELLNESS DAY. The ISPA community celebrated Global Wellness Day (GWD). 1. Island Spa Catalina—located in Avalon, California—joined the GWD celebration. 2. Kerstin Florian International partnered with Montage Resort & Spa in Laguna Beach, California and dedicated the event to remember the late Charlene Florian. 3. ISPA Media Event sponsors showed support to GWD. 4. Yelo Spa in New York joined in celebrating GWD. 5 5. Sandals Red Lane Spa in the Carribbean celebrated GWD as one community. 1 2 3 GIVE THANKS AND CELEBRATE. To help World Figure Skating Championships held in Boston, Massachusetts. More than 170 figure skaters competed to become the next world champions. inspire gratitude, TallGrass Aveda Spa and Salon in Evergreen, Colorado encourages guests to celebrate life. With its message “celebrate life in some way big or small every day,” TallGrass is taking the celebration theme a step further by encouraging guests to think about celebrating the everyday events. Photo courtesy of Jay Adeff/U.S. Figure Skating. SKATING ON ICE. Guinot was a proud sponsor of the 2016 WANT TO BE SEEN IN PULSE? Send your post-event news and photos to ispa@ispastaff.com and find yourself on the pages of a future issue of Pulse magazine. 24 PULSE ■ July 2016 4