Given that Americans spent almost $1000 each on spa services in 2005 alone, it’s no surprise that the Huffington Post’s Oasis - a suite of offices magically transformed into a veritable sanctuary for attendees of the Denver Democratic Convention - was teeming with visitors this week.

Offering massages, facials, yoga instruction, healthy vegan food, green smoothies, and some good old fashioned R & R, the Oasis became a home away from home for many of the ever-busy journalists, delegates, and bloggers who have been running about making news, covering news, and writing news.

Said Don Hazen of Alternet.org:

I had a fabulous massage there by Naveena Valley, who along with a bevy of body workers and instructors, was volunteering her time for the cause. I sent Mother Jones’ David Corn for a visit; he got a hand massage and some yoga instruction. We were followed by Timesman David Carr, who got body work.

Among the many well-known (and appreciative) visitors who visited the spot were Katie Couric, Deidre Hall, Darryl Hannah, Larry Brilliant, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Lesley Jane Seymour, and Mr. Bobby Kennedy himself.

On the ICAM front, of course, this is all good news. It looks like yoga, massage, healthy living and the recognition that, even in such a land of drive and determination, health and wellbeing is, in fact, very much worth making time for.