4 one-stop wellness centers on Long Island

From Newsday

Don’t be put off by the odd location of this boutique/wellness establishment set atop a Subway sandwich shop. Inside, it feels like going to your best friend’s house and hanging around in her uber-fashionable closet. The Wellground, which opened just six months ago and already appears to be doing a brisk business, is the vision of two very busy Port Washington moms, Manda Kovar, 40, and Lanie Marcus, 42, (when we say busy we mean it: Kovar has three children, Marcus has five). The space includes a vibrant clothing and accessories boutique and a studio dedicated to barre classes held a couple of times a week. A brow expert from NYC comes once a month; a facialist does a variety of treatments regularly and, occasionally, there’s a visit from a crystal reader. Kovar says the place is “a little escape from life. It’s a playground for wellness and shopping.” Here, a cushy sofa beckons from the center of the where Kovar says customers often gather and shoot the breeze and where “we sometimes serve Kombucha.”

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