Our Philosophy

We believe in arming people with knowledge.
We believe that knowledge leads to intuition and that intuition leads to wisdom.
We believe that wisdom leads us to make the best choices for ourselves.

We offer to you a healing experience that has its origins in the wisdom of the ancient world. Throughout the ages, the experience of healers and sages is that life is not linear and fixed but rather a world of gradations and of phases of subtlety. Underlying the apparent phenomenal world is a more refined realm of energy and creation; this is the realm of the 5 elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Sky.

From the five elements, we can learn to live as a human being in harmony with nature, abiding by the cycles of the sun and moon of our Mother Earth, sharing her air and water as part of the infinite cosmos.

Our products begin with the idea that the skin is the door to inner health. Your skin is the largest organ in your body and serves as a link to all the other organs. Physicians are now reviving the age-old practice of delivering medicine through the skin. So great, in fact, is the ability of the skin to absorb substances that one drop of essential oil placed on the fingertip will show up in hair analysis ten minutes later. Therefore, the skin is the starting point in all our treatments. We treat the skin as though it is a living, breathing organ that expands and contracts, senses and responds, knows as well as remembers, ceaselessly dying as well as becoming.

Our Product Line

As well, in pursuit of our commitment to provide healthy alternatives to the health and beauty industry, we have developed our own product line, 5 Elements. The 5 Elements program for face, body and hair care is unique in its comprehensiveness. It integrates modern scientific knowledge with the ancient healing wisdoms of yogic science, Ayurvedic medicine and Chinese herbalism.

Our 5 Elements products begin with the idea that the skin is the door to inner health. Your skin is the largest organ in your body and serves as a link to all the other organs. Physicians are now reviving the age-old practice of delivering medicine through the skin. So great, in fact, is the ability of the skin to absorb substances that one drop of essential oil placed on the fingertip will show up in hair analysis ten minutes later. Our products recognize that the skin is a living, breathing organ that expands and contracts, senses and responds, knows as well as remembers.

Our Literature

Since 1986, when La Casa Resort Spa was founded, our guests have been insistent and persistent about their interest in having written material for them to bring back to their homes. They have wanted health recipes from La Casa Resort Spa, information on detoxification, the rationale for distilled water vs. bottled water – all the material that is in the hearts and minds of our staff. In response to that demand, we have written a book: Insparations: if you can do it at a spa, you can do it at home.

There is a saying in Puerto Rico which reflects the warmth and hospitality of its people: mi casa, su casa; my house is your house. We would like to reverse that saying: su casa, mi casa; your house is my house. We would like to give to people the knowledge that will enable them to transform their own homes into their own version of our spas. We feel that this is the greatest gift we can give.

Over the years, we have read, researched and studied most of the world’s traditions of natural healing, nutrition and methods of detoxification. In our book, we have integrated and implemented what we consider to be the best and most effective aspects of these approaches. We have found that even a short exposure to our program of 5 Elements healing is rejuvenating and brings to its participants a soul-deep calmness.

Our Director

Jane G. Goldberg, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst in private practice and serves on the faculties of several psychoanalytic institutes, including the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Center of Northern New Jersey.

As well, she is a frequent contributor to scholarly journals in the fields of clinical psychoanalysis and psychological oncology.

Dr. Goldberg has authored five books: Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Cancer Patients; Deceits of the Mind (and their effects on the body); The Dark Side of Love; Insparations (if you can do it at a spa, you can do it at home) and Searching for Separation.

Dr. Goldberg is the founder of La Casa Resort Spa in the Puerto Rican rain forest and owns and directs La Casa Day Spa in the flatiron district of Manhattan.

She is a frequent guest on television and radio news shows as well as serving as a consultant for most major health and beauty magazines.

Dr. Goldberg is listed in Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, Who's Who in the World, Who’s Who in the East, Who's Who in American Writers, Who's Who of Women International, Who's Who in Medicine, International Who's Who of Professional & Business Women.

In 2002, Dr. Goldberg was privileged to receive the Changing Destiny award, given by More magazine and the charitable foundation Help a Parent, Save a Child. Susan Sarendon presented her with the award. In 1996, Dr. Goldberg was awarded the International Award of Recognition: 5,000 Personalities of the World. In 1994 she was awarded Most Admired Woman of the Decade by the American Biographical Institute.

Dr. Goldberg is an avid runner and swimmer as well as an advanced belt in Tae Kwon Do.