7 Luxurious Wellness Retreats to Recharge Your Body and Soul

 

Find the best luxury wellness retreat every luxury lifestyle magazine recommends for a memorable fine dining, spa and luxurious health restorative experience.

The last few years have completely changed the way we perceive wellness. Though a good spa day or a facial can never go out of style, wellness is no longer skin deep; but has come to mean something much deeper and more holistic. As healthy lifestyle magazines often quote, wellness is the complete harmony of physical, mental, spiritual and emotional well-being. And so to gain it, you need not be sweating out in a gym but a peaceful walk amidst nature, a relaxing session of painting or crafting and even a game of tennis or chess with a pal can do the trick for you.

With this newfound understanding, thanks to the many digital lifestyle magazines, more and more people are opting for travelling to luxurious wellness resorts to take care of their health but not without pampering themselves at the same time. Whether you are someone looking forward to digital detox, spiritual rediscovery, jump-starting body sculpting or simply want to relax and take a break from your fast-paced life, there is at least one blissful wellness resort awaiting you.

Como Shambhala Estate

Payangan, Bali

A favourite of most luxury lifestyle magazines, Como Shambhala Estate has to be. your first choice. And that’s because when you take the health-oriented brand of Como Hotels and combine it with a mesmerising travel destination like Bali, it gives birth to pure magic. Situated in the serene forest region just outside of Ubud, the hotel offers all of its guest's complete access to different spa treatments, pilates and yoga sessions and its fitness centre. However, if you still wish for something extra, then you can register for their wellness program which offers you consultation with the hotel’s wellness experts, tailored diet plans, therapy sessions, fitness classes and more.

SHA Wellness Clinic

Alicante, Spain

If you like to read lifestyle magazine online and stay on top of celebs. news, then you must surely have heard of this place. This luxurious wellness hilltop resort has serviced many well-known personalities such as Donna Karan, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kylie Minogue. With its unique blend of Eastern and Western ancient medicine and wellness practices mixed with new-age technology, SHA helps to improve your overall health and lifestyle. The holistic approach employed by its highly accomplished doctors, reflexologists, Chinese medicine practitioners, nutritionists and naturopaths, along with macrobiotic food can do wonders for your fitness. Its all-white architecture coupled with modernist decor and stunning oceanic or mountain views only adds to the charm of this place.

Arctic Bath Hotel

Harads, Sweden

With its unique open-air bath and striking nest-shaped spa, Arctic Bath offers stunning views paired with enhanced health. This is what makes it one of the best wellness retreats you can often find mentioned within the pages of any luxury guide magazine. The frost-covered forests surrounding the property and Lapland animals such as moose and deer leaving their footprints in the snow, give you the feeling of being in a fairytale. You can take a cold bath, relax in their invigorating outdoor hot tub, spend a day relaxing at their spas or indulge in many exciting activities like dog-sledging, moose safari, ice-fishing or snowshoe-hike. When you are back from a day of adventures, you can enjoy a heart-warming meal made with local ingredients like oysters, foraged mushrooms and Kalix Löjrom, a type of local caviar.

Bio-Hotel Stanglwirt

Going Am Wilden Kaiser, Austria

Spread in a vast area, this gorgeous alpine chalet is located at the base of the Wilder Kaiser mountains painting a postcard-worthy picture. This luxe wellness resort’s mid-century glamour and pure Tyrolean hospitality as felt for the past 400 years, is often described with fervour in the best luxury lifestyle magazines. Apart from soaking in the stunning natural vistas, here you can also relish scrumptious meals that are concocted with the produce from the property’s own organic farm. The hotel sets you up for a relaxing stay with its numerous spas, soothing massages and replenishing beauty treatments, everything that you need to leave behind life’s daily grind and truly nourish your soul.

Six Senses Fort Barwara

Sawai Madhopur, India

Although erected as a fortress in the 14th century to keep out the invaders, this expansive property was revived recently as the latest Six Senses wellness retreats. And it is already turning heads with its wonderful architecture and warm hospitality as revered in the top digital lifestyle magazines. The place attracts guests from near and far to recharge their batteries through holistic wellness programs including yoga, Ayurveda therapies and spa treatments featuring local gems of ingredients like saffron, Kashmiri lavender and fragrant mogras. In addition to improving your health through these techniques, you can also enjoy slow life by visiting the nearby Hindu temples, enjoying the local rituals, taking relaxing walks and admiring the horticulturists’ efforts for growing the population of leopards, jackals and native birds in the area.

Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa

Baden-Baden, Germany

Situated in a pristine valley in the Black Forest Mountains, Brenners Park Hotel stands overlooking the trees-dotted Lichtentaler Alee for the past 150 years. With architecture depicting a classic country house, its beauty and appeal are further enhanced due to the surrounding historic Baden-Baden thermal springs. This adds to the numerous rejuvenating opportunities for the hotel’s guests making it one of the favourites of lifestyle magazine online. You can not only enjoy a relaxing bath in the historic springs but also restore your vitality in their medical spa uniquely featuring aesthetic dentistry and dermatology too. But if you wish to go that extra mile, you can also enjoy a more intimate experience with lulling massages and facials at their annexed residential spa at Villa Stephanie that also offers stunning vistas of the river Oos.

7132 Hotel

Vals, Switzerland

This striking wellness hotel and resort is built around the natural thermal springs in the Vals region of Switzerland. The talk of every healthy lifestyle magazine, 7132 Hotel is known for its rejuvenating soaks in the minerals-rich natural spring water paired perfectly with myriad spa treatments using ESPA products. However, that is not all that this hotel is about. It has a resplendent architecture that can be seen in its every nook and cranny, especially its marvellous thermal baths. In addition to this, it also houses a restaurant, Silver, which has been awarded two Michelin stars.