8 Wellness Retreats for 2019

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8 Wellness Retreats for 2019
Find your zen at the best wellness retreats in the world

BY REBECCA COX

If you often feel like you need another break to recover from your holiday, it might be time to think about swapping
your beach break or city weekender for a wellness retreat. Wellness tourism is on the up, which means there are
more options than ever for when you want to spend your holidays finding some headspace. From yoga retreats to
mindfulness breaks and a little reiki and forest bathing thrown in for good measure, check out our round-up of the
best wellness retreats for the new season…

Best Wellness Retreats 2019
Azura Benguerra & Azura Quilalea, Mozambique

Azura Retreats ‘Sounds of Africa’ wellness programme is all about ‘nurture hyperconsciousness’, designed to
encourage guests to experience the current moment by cultivating a single point of focus. The wellness programme
will include a range of activities that acutely direct attention, encourage nonattachment to distractions and cultivate
a new way of thinking to care for mind and body. Including walking mediations around the island, African Drumming
sessions, silent white sand breakfasts and tribal traditions massages.

Book it: www.azura-retreats.com | from $675 per person sharing per night

Coral Reef Club, Barbados

How does a week in the Caribbean sound to reset and recharge? Coral Reef Club Barbados is running three wellness
retreats for 2019, incorporating a range of spa treatments and exercise classes. Think warm Bajan sunshine,
Caribbean cuisine and tropical breezes, with tailor-made programmes to help guests achieve their personal goals.

Book it: The Spa Wellness Package is £290 per person and includes 50 Minute Muscle Melt, Detox or Aroma Fusion
Massage, 60 Minute Citrus Appeal Facial, 50 Minute Mojito Magic or Lemongrass & Ginger Body Scrub and a
Manicure or Pedicure (Elements/Rejuvenation or Revival). Various exercise options are available for guests to add
onto the spa wellness package, these include: Platinum Package, 10 classes, approx. £155 and Single Sessions from
£17. The 2019 Wellness Retreats will run on the following dates: 9 – 16 March, 27 July – 3 August and 9 – 16
November. Carrier (0161 492 1354, www.carrier.co.uk) offers 7 nights from £3,465 per person based on 2 adults
sharing a Garden Room including breakfast, return flights from London Gatwick with British Airways and return
private transfers. Based on departures 9 March 2019. coralreefbarbados.com

Miraggio, Greece

Head to the Miraggio to experience their 3-5 day luxury wellness retreat packages, made up of therapies from the
Myrthia Thermal Spa at Miraggio. Choose from packages including ‘The Stress Antidote’, ‘The Family Programme’
and ‘The Greek-Mythology Immersion’ and find a package to suit your needs. The spa features both sea and thermal
waters across four different pools, which are unique to the region and famous for their healing properties.

Book it: Prices at Miraggio Thermal Spa Resort start from £150 per night for a double room. Wellness Retreat
packages start from £300 on a 3 day basis. miraggio.gr

COMO Uma Bhutan Eight-Day Film & Photography Expedition

Teaming up with Natural World Safaris and British-American photographer and Kodak Ambassador Michael Turek,
COMO’s two lodges in Bhutan, COMO Uma Paro and COMO Uma Punakha launch Bhutan’s first ever Film and
Photography Expedition, set to run from 2 to 9 June this year. The trip will encourage guests to remain ‘in the
moment’ as they capture their surroundings on film, with thought and intention.

Book it: The ‘Eight Day Film & Photography Expedition’ runs from 2 to 9 June 2019 and starts from USD 7,600 per
person for single accommodation or USD 5,800 per person for twin share accommodation. The package includes:
accommodation for five nights at COMO Uma Paro and two nights at COMO Uma Punakha on a full board basis,
including picnic lunches during excursion days (excluding beverages), six-and-a-half days of privately guided
excursions, taking in the highlights of the Paro, Thimphu and Punakha Valleys, the private services of an experienced
English-speaking Bhutanese guide, one 60-minute COMO Shambhala body treatment, private airport transfers and
transport around Bhutan, all Bhutanese government visa and royalty fees, service charge and sales tax, all museum
and visitor centre entry fees and road permits, a complimentary one-hour daily yoga class whilst at COMO Uma Paro
(except Sundays). comohotels.com

ADLER Spa Resort, Dolomiti

What better place to work on your wellbeing than in the spectacular mountain scenery of the Dolomites, the
UNESCO World Heritage Site? Book in for a Yoga & Nature workshop to experience the beautiful autumnal colours
and participate in an intensive yoga programme. There’s also the option to get involved with the latest wellness
trend of forest bathing, as the hotel offers a Shinrin Yoku “forest bathing” experience every Tuesday, and
participation is free to all hotel guests.

Book it: Three to sevent nights, from €456 per person for 3 nights, from €1248 per person for a week both on half-
board basis. adler-dolomiti.com

Grotta Giusti, Tuscany

What’s more spiritual than a yoga retreat? A yoga retreat in an ancient thermal cave, of course. Grotta Giusti,
Tuscany is the place to go for thermal yoga in its vast, ancient thermal cave. Grotta Giusti is the only hotel in the
world to have an underground thermal cave and hot spring lake as part of its spa. Yoga practised in the natural
warmth of this underground labyrinth amplifies sensations, aids concentration and raises body temperature, while
participants experience the therapeutic effects of the cave’s thermal vapours. The water running through the Grotto
is rich in salt, sulphate, and alkaline earth and comes out of the ground at around 34°C. Its vapours generate a steam
bath that provides effective treatment for respiratory, circulatory, osteo-muscular, nervous, and skin complaints.
Namaste.

Book it: The two-night thermal spa package starts from €664 (£597) per person based on double-occupancy. Rates
include two nights B&B, one a la carte dinner at the newly refurbished La Veranda restaurant, one tasting dinner,
thermal swimming pool and bioaquam circuit, a 50-minute thermal yoga class, 90-minute scuba diving or spa
floating and a 50-minute Ayurveda massage. For further information or to book please
email booking@grottagiustiapa.com or call +39 0572 90771. grottagiustispa.com

Baobab Suites Yoga, Tenerife

Improve your daily practice with a week-long retreat at Baobab Suites in Tenerife. On the 7-day trip you’ll enjoy
indoor and outdoor Hatha yoga, plus a dynamic or power session in the privacy of your own suite. Deep tissue
massages will help you to recover from your practice, while the tranquil views of the Atlantic Ocean will help you
find your inner calm.

Book it: Health and Fitness Travel (0203 397 8891 healthandfitnesstravel.com) offers 7 nights at Baobab Suites from
£720pp or £1,205 for single occupancy. Price includes breakfast, a yoga programme and return private transfers.

Chateau St Pierre de Serjac, France

Looking for a mixture of adventure and relaxing? Beautiful vineyard estate Château St Pierre de Serjac are launching
a series of road biking weekends this spring from their prime position in the Mediterranean countryside. Guests will
have access to premium road bike hire, with three days of guided rides through the picturesque vineyards and rolling
hills of Languedoc. Fuel your rides with three-course dinners in the hotel restaurant, and spend your evenings
relaxing in the spa or swimming in the outdoor pool before residing to your gorgeous château bedroom.

Book it: From £975.00 per person including 3 nights in a luxury château hotel room on a half-board basis (full
breakfast to fuel you for the days riding, evening 3 course dinner with wine), access to the spa with a 50 minute
massage, access to the all of the hotels other facilities. serjac.com