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Face & Body & Healthy Aging Conference 2004 Hosts Spa Person of the Year Award 2004 - The winner is Linda-Ann Kahn, Owner of Beauty Kliniek Aromatherapy Day Spa and Wellness Center

The Spa Person of the Year Award was chosen through online votes at www.dayspaassociation.com. This year’s Spa Person of the Year is Linda-Ann Kahn, Owner of Beauty Kliniek Aromatherapy Day Spa and Wellness Center. She joins Catherine Atzen of ATZEN®, Cheryl Sott of Aroma Works Software and Peggy Wynne Borgman of Preston Wynne who won this award in 2001, 2002 and 2003 respectively.

Linda-Anne Kahn, Director and founder of Beauty Kliniek Aromatherapy Day Spa and Wellness Center, the most complete Health and Beauty and Wellness Center in Southern California. She is a Cidesco Diplomate, a clinical aromatherapist, holds a certification as a Manual Lymph Drainage therapist and ‘Lymphedema’ specialist from the Dr Vodder School in Austria, the Foldi School in Germany, and from Drs. Judith and John Casley-Smith in Australia.

She is totally committed to the Day Spa Industry and was one of the country’s first day spas. A pioneer in the field she began doing aromatherapy treatments, manual lymph drainage and hydrotherapy when these modalities were virtually unknown in the United States. Linda-Anne has had a long-standing philosophy of a holistic approach and has been committed to health and well-being of the body, mind and spirit. The spa has expanded 5 times over the years to become the 11,000 square foot Day Spa & Wellness Center it is today.

Linda-Anne works with many cancer survivors, as well as cancer patients and lectures to breast cancer support groups, American Cancer Association and other organizations. Beauty Kliniek hosts cancer survivor events at the spa for the Parish Foundation, a foundation that supports cancer patients and siblings or children of cancer patients.

Linda-Anne still works at her spa treating clients and lymphedema patients, as well as teaching aromatherapy at her training center Avedana Holistic Training Institute and the Natural Healing Institute in Encinitas.

The Day Spa Association chooses a “Spa Person of the Month” 6 times a year – they are individuals who have made a significant contribution to and have been influential in shaping the day spa industry nationwide as well as in their own community. The “Spa Person of the Year” Award is chosen during a major industry event once a year from the pool of current and previous years’ Spa Persons of the Month.

The 2004 votes for this unique award were collected online starting in late August at www.dayspaassociation.com - 4491 people cast their votes, with Linda-Anne receiving 56.77% of the votes. Runner-up was German Dulanto of Cossini Corporation. The award was presented to Linda-Anne during Face & Body & Healthy Aging Conference in San Francisco and presented to the industry at the Gala Reception on Sunday Oct. 11. A short biography of the 9 candidates was posted on a large attractive poster both, at the registration desk and at the DSA booth. Ballots were included in every registration package as well as on the registration tables. Attendees were invited to choose and cast their votes at both locations.

This years’ candidates were:

• Adam Broderick, Adam Broderick Salon & Spa
• Tara Becker, Spa 415
• German Dulanto, Cossini Corporation
• John C. Gray, Glen Ivy Hot Springs & Spa
• Judy Hohn, The Rejuventating Day Spa
• Linda-Anne Kahn, Beauty Kliniek Aromatherapy Day Spa & Wellness Center
• Eric Light, Strawberry Hill Group
• Joanne Liuzzo, Mario’s International Spas
• Fayez Tamba, Fayez Beauty Spa

“We were delighted that the Day Spa Association has chosen to present this award at Face & Body the second year in a row,” comments Marian Raney, Publisher of Skin Inc. “We are delighted to have this award as part of our conference and Gala Reception, benefiting the Melanoma Research Foundation”.

Not only are the winners acknowledged by their peers and prominently placed on www.dayspaassociation.com, but they are awarded with a beautiful engraved Irish Crystal Hurricane Lamp, imported from Ireland with a commemorative plaque naming the award.

To read more about the candidates go to:

www.dayspaassociation.com/professionals/Allied

and if you know of anyone that you would like to nominate as be a Spa Person of the Month and to be entered in the 2005 Award Program, please contact

The Day Spa Association
310 – 17th Street
Union City, NJ 07087
201-865-2065
FAX: 201-865-3961
DaySpaAssn@aol.com