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class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>"I should warn you, I'm really strong," says massage therapist Ashley Siebring-Jones as she begins exploring my back--an understatement, not a boast, as it turns out.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Six-one and powerful from years of yoga, Jones is an Amazon, and she delivers the deepest, most intense, and most effective massage I've ever received. She uses her body weight to exile the knots in my shoulders and uses her shoulders to elongate my taut hamstrings. Holding my ankles, she lifts me almost completely off the table and swings my legs until my hips release, but working on my neck, she backs off the moment my muscles start to tense up from the intensity. By the time she finishes, I feel taller and freer than I have in years. My body fits me again like the custom-made garment it is. As will my entire three-day stay, which is being crafted by Pure Kauai. </p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>The vacation company is neither spa nor resort but a consummate tailor of bespoke experience, using the island of Kauai as the setting. Led by CEO Phil Jones, Pure Kauai pulls together a group of very talented people ("healers," as Jones describes them) dedicated to bringing all things spa--relaxation, fitness, treatments, and healthy food--to its guests, whom it houses in some of the north shore's most luxurious vacation homes. Thus, while I'm being massaged in the master bedroom of a 1,300-square-foot villa, a private chef is upstairs preparing an Indonesian curry, redolent with coriander, for dinner. My boyfriend, Andy, and I will eat it in our robes and then doze off on the cushiony sofa while watching a DVD--blissfully tired from a day that starts with a dawn Pilates class in a lovely hilltop studio, after which we eat delicious omelets and fresh pineapple. We spend the rest of the day being led on an arduous hike--we cover four very hilly miles in six hours--along the Na Pali Coast, one of the state's wildest shores, by a guide who knows the area like the back of her hand.</p><div class="aC"><div class="textSmallGrey w320"><a href="#storyContinued">Story continues below ↓</a><hr noshade size="1"> advertisement <div style="padding:0 10 10 10;"><script>ad_dap(250,300,'&PG=NBCSMT&AP=1089');</script></div><hr noshade size="1"></div></div><a name="storyContinued"></a><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Privacy and customization are the keystones of the new luxury, and they're increasingly flanked by health and spa-centric wellness. Pure Kauai is at the vanguard in emphasizing both halves of the equation. It gives its clients a home away from home with a staff that sees to all the details (and makes the operation look effortless), and it places fitness, mostly through outdoor activity, at the center of the experience. 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