Elemental Life Spa: Recovery as a System in Yuma, Arizona
Last Updated on 21 July, 2026
How Bryan and Cecily Nance built a five-part biohacking circuit in the corner of three borders — and why they moved off Boulevard to run it on WellnessLiving.
A Biohacking Studio in the Corner of Three Borders
Yuma, Arizona, sits at a strange and useful crossroads — two states and a country all within a seven-minute drive. It’s also where Bryan Nance and his wife Cecily, built Elemental Life Spa, a recovery and biohacking studio that put a different kind of wellness on the map in their town.
The business runs on a five-part circuit: full-body medical-grade red light therapy, PEMF therapy, concentrated oxygen, blood flow restriction workouts, and cold plunges. Clients move through the stations on a 15-minute interval, station to station, with the whole circuit taking roughly an hour. Three circuit lines, three guests every quarter hour — a rhythm designed for flow and built around math that prevents bottlenecks during peak hours.
Bryan is the kind of operator who reads the market closely. He was the first business in Yuma to bring Boulevard in as a booking system. He watched competitors copy the playbook. And when the platform stopped keeping up with what he was trying to build, he started looking for what came next.
Recovery as a System, Not a Single Service
Elemental Life Spa is built around a clear conviction: real recovery is a system. Members pay for access to the full circuit, not individual sessions, and the studio’s value proposition is structural.
“What we’re offering for a month’s worth of services is roughly $3,500 worth of value anywhere else in the country.”
The studio offers core and elite membership tiers, both available as individual and couples plans, with pricing up to $300 per month at the elite level. Memberships include a $75 activation fee that covers a personal oxygen mask the member brings to every visit. The split between individual and couple members runs roughly even.
A six-week metabolic transformation program is on the roadmap, anchored by an incoming physician team and priced as a higher-ticket offering that bundles IVs, peptides, hormones, and personal training. The physicians will prescribe therapies into the existing circuit, which is why appointment-based scheduling becomes more critical as the business scales. Prescription-driven visits don’t tolerate bottlenecks.
The studio runs Monday through Friday, 5 a.m. to 7 p.m., with Saturday hours from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The team is lean: Bryan and Cecily plus two part-time staff, with plans to bring on physicians, nurses, and medical assistants as the program expands.
Why Bryan Left Boulevard for WellnessLiving
Bryan found WellnessLiving the way a growing number of studio owners do: he asked an AI assistant for the best alternative to what he was running. Boulevard had become “clunky” and “janky” in his words, and the gap between what the platform offered and what his growing business needed had widened past the point of patience.
He needed a real branded app, not a workaround.
Bryan wanted members opening an app with Elemental Life Spa’s name on it, not navigating to a website and logging in. “Having its own branded app, you’re gonna think of them as a trusted company.” WellnessLiving’s branded app supports account registration, form completion, contract signing, and payment — all inside an Elemental-branded experience.
He needed memberships and circuits modeled the way the studio actually runs.
The 15-minute interval model needed software that could treat each circuit line as bookable inventory and let three guests start staggered appointments at the same time slot. WellnessLiving’s appointment structure, with circuit lines configured as bookable assets, handled the model cleanly.
He needed digital forms to replace paper.
Every consent form, intake, and waiver at Elemental Life Spa had been on paper, then scanned in. WellnessLiving’s form builder eliminated that workflow — mandatory-signature waivers tied to specific services, forms attached to the booking flow, signatures stored on the client profile.
He needed reporting that surfaced operational truth.
In his previous platform, projecting next month’s recurring revenue meant pulling individual records and doing the math manually. In WellnessLiving, projected revenue is a dashboard widget. Front desk staff get their own role-based view with just the schedule and check-in tools they need.
And he needed pricing that didn’t punish growth.
As Bryan looked toward multiple locations, the cost structure of his previous platform became a ceiling. WellnessLiving’s pricing fit a business planning to scale, and the feature set — including SMS volume built into the plan — matched what Elemental Life Spa actually needed.
How WellnessLiving Fits the Operating Model
The studio’s central challenge is throughput on a circuit, not one-on-one appointments. Three lines, 15-minute intervals, and a clean handoff between stations only work if the booking system models them precisely.
Each of the three circuits is configured as its own bookable line, allowing three guests to start at the same 15-minute mark and move through the stations in sequence. The booking flow surfaces the next available start time without requiring a client to choose a specific staff member, which matches how the studio actually operates.
On the membership side, members purchase a tiered monthly plan, and the system applies it automatically at booking — no checkout friction, no second transaction. Couple’s accounts use family-linking and voucher sharing, so a single membership covers both partners. Attendance limits, rollover rules, and pause policies are configurable per tier, giving Bryan control over the boundaries around recurring revenue.
And the branded app serves as the front door for everything. Bryan estimates 90% of bookings will run through it. Members register, sign waivers, complete intakes, and book — all inside an Elemental-branded experience. In a premium category where members are paying for a system, the difference between that and a generic web portal is part of what they’re buying.
What Bryan and Cecily Are Building
Elemental Life Spa is already the studio Bryan and Cecily set out to build — a five-part biohacking circuit in a town most wellness businesses overlook, serving a market that crosses two states and a border.
The next chapter is taking shape: a physician team prescribing therapies into the existing programming, a six-week metabolic reset package at a higher price point, and a referral engine that rewards members for bringing in the next one. Multiple locations across the region are in view, with the platform architecture already built for that progression.
What Bryan knew when he moved off Boulevard was that the software had to match the ambition. A circuit built on deliberate math, a membership model built on structural value, and a brand built for a market most people don’t think to enter.
That is Elemental Life Spa: a recovery system in the corner of three borders, built by two people who saw a gap and filled it with precision.
If you’re running a recovery, biohacking, or wellness studio and outgrowing Boulevard, Mindbody, or another booking platform, the questions Bryan asked are worth asking yourself: Does the software model your operations, or are you modeling around it?
Book a demo with WellnessLiving to see how the platform fits.
