I sure could use a spa treatment after this past weekend. I’m sure we all could. First, there were the handsprings following the KU football team’s win over the University of Michigan. (Why do my geography and editing teachers keep texting me?) Then there were the series of violent swings with a baseball bat at my 12-foot bean dip statue of Sluggerrr following the Kansas City Royals games on Friday and Saturday. Well, we’re in luck because a new luxury spa has opened in Lawrence. (I think I’m going to have to first wash some of this bean dip off, though.)

Sensora Spa has opened at 930 Iowa St. in the Hillcrest Professional Building that includes a host of medical offices.

“We looked at a ton of places on the west side of town and elsewhere, but a lot of places were just too loud for a spa,” said Lara Thompson-Countess, an owner and esthetician at the spa.

Thompson-Countess said finding the right environment for the business was important. Sensora touts itself as one of the few locations in the area that is entirely a spa rather than a combination spa/hair stylist location.

“You won’t hear hairdryers here or smell the chemicals from nail treatments,” Thompson-Countess said. “People can feel instantly relaxed once they walk in the door. We want people to walk in here and leave the outside behind.”

The business employs six therapists, including three massage therapists and three estheticians, which of course are professionals who specialize in skin treatments and other such beauty techniques.

And boy, are there a lot of techniques. The spa offers six forms of massage, including the traditional Swedish massage, hot stone massage, and something called Hawaiian Lomi Lomi Massage. (I envision Sluggerrr enjoying this. He uses three Rs after all, so I assume he likes things that repeat themselves.)

The business also offers a host of hair-removal treatments, facials, body scrubs, customized lip treatments, and herbology treatments, where a therapist rubs citrus oil on your body and wraps you in a blanket of Chinese herbs. There is even something called an eyebrow tint, which I know nothing about. (See the photo that runs with this column everyday to understand why a certain someone in my house said an eyebrow tint for me would require an automotive spray paint booth.)

Thompson-Countess has been in the spa industry in the area for several years and long had wanted to open her own business. She had assumed, however, that it would be in her native England, but she married a Kansas resident, and they landed in Lawrence. She still has the English accent, though, which is very relaxing in itself. (It is a fact that the BBC has caused more people to fall asleep than any other organization in the world.)

Sensora opened a couple of weeks ago. Its hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

In other news and notes from around town:

• Perhaps in the future when you buy a cup of to-go coffee at Dunkin’ Donuts you won’t just be putting money into the pocket of your dry cleaner, but you also may be helping out a manufacturer with local ties. The trade journal Plastics News (I read it right before I turn the BBC on) reports that Berry Plastics is working to develop a recyclable plastic cup that would replace all the foam coffee cups sold by Dunkin’. Berry Plastics has a major manufacturing facility in Lawrence. I’m not certain that the cups would be made in Lawrence. It looks like the company’s technology to produce that particular line of polypropylene cup is located in a Kentucky facility.

But Berry also operates a large distribution center in Douglas County. It is the big building you see just west and north of the Lecompton interchange on the Kansas Turnpike. I’m not sure what role that distribution center may play in the project, but the Dunkin’ deal would be a big one. Dunkin’, according to the Plastics News article, is America’s largest retailer of coffee by the cup. The article indicates Dunkin’ may have a demand for about 1 billion cups per year if it decides to move forward with the project, which currently is in the test market stage.

So, at the moment, this appears to be one to merely keep an eye on. But I found it interesting nonetheless because what is good for Berry potentially could be good for Lawrence.