Luxury Spas the top-level retreats and medi-clinics, the most-results-driven health centres and the slickest spas. Below are wellness retreats in California and Nepal, Italy and Indonesia, Mexico and Massachusetts. Among them.
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List Of world Best Spas
1.Aja Malibu, California
Keep an open mind at this year- old holistic retreat (already booked through 2018), which focuses on different chakras— wheels of energy along the spine—each day. Meditation teachers, sound healers, shamans, breathing specialists, and nutritionists guide treatments ranging from crystal light therapy to binaural beats that balance your energy fields. Communal dinners feature “living foods” (think carrot spaghetti and tomato tartare).
HOW LONG: Seven nights.
WHO GOES :New Agey types who embrace a kumbaya vibe.
DON’T MISS: The tile designs at Adamson House, a late-1920s Moorish-Spanish- style villa.
2.Canyon Ranch, Massachusetts
The all-inclusive Tucson spa’s New England outpost, on the grounds of the Bellefontaine Mansion in the Berkshires, feels like a college campus for fitness geeks, with lectures, cooking demos, medical assessments, and massages. Weight loss is a focus, and cardio comes in the form of kayaking, hiking, and cross-country skiing.
HOW LONG– Two-night minimum.
WHO GOES -Nature and culture lovers who want education with their exercise.
DON’T MISS -Tanglewood is practically next door.
3.La Reserve Geneve, Switzerland
As close as you’ll come to the fountain of youth. The sauna, hammam, and indoor pool at the 20,000-square-foot lake-front Nescens spa erase stress, but it’s the customized “Better Aging” regimens developed with doctors, osteopaths, acupuncturists, and nutritionists that work the magic, slimming, detoxifying, and reviving you. Visitors depart with a medical report, recipes, and an exercise program.
HOW LONG– From a 24-hour refresh to deeper four-to-seven-night stays.
WHO GOES -Politicians, businessmen, and ladies who lunch.
DON’T MISS -The artisans of nearby Carouge.
4.Villa Stephanie, Germany
Old World elegance and state-of- the-art healing are combined at this Belle Epoque mansion in the Black Forest. The sister property to Baden-Baden’s Brenners Park, it has just 15 rooms and a genius digital detox switch that blocks WiFi. Next door, experts in dentistry, cardiology, and physiotherapy create individualized programs for detoxing, skin rejuvenation, mental vigor, and more. Unlike elsewhere, the experience is intensely private.
HOW LONG :Seven days is suggested— mandatory for detox and weight loss programs.
WHO GOES: Those looking for the latest in medically supervised preventive care minus the clinical setting.
DON’T MISS :A performance at Festspielhaus, Europe’s second-largest concert hall and opera house.
5.Schloss Elmau, Germany
Artists and authors have been escaping to this resort in the Bavarian Alps, which nurtures the mind with art, music, and literature and the body with yoga, massage, and hiking, since it opened in 1916. Today it hosts political symposiums (the 2015 G7 Summit), renowned musicians (cellist Gautier Capuçon), literary stars (Ian McEwan), and master yogis (Timo Wahl), in addition to non-prodigies looking to jump-start their diets, workouts, and creativity. The 162-room, family-friendly hotel has five spas, six restaurants, three libraries, and a concert hall. A new 47-suite retreat, with its own spa and jivamukti yoga center, is for those into serious R&R.;
HOW LONG- One week is suggested.
WHO GOES– See above.
DON’T MISS -Hikes to King Ludwig’s famous summer lodge.
6.Nihi Sumba Island, Indonesia
At a luxury resort 250 miles east of Bali known for Occy’s Left, the most exclusive surf break in the world (only 10 guests are allowed on it per day), a spa day sounds like a snooze. Until you experience the Robinson Crusoe–esque “spa safari.” A 90-minute sun-rise trek through misty rice paddies and local villages to a secluded valley is followed by a full day of unlimited treatments (truly) in a private ocean-view balé, punctuated with swims along your own stretch of beach.
HOW LONG– The spa safari is a single day; most visitors stay one week.
WHO GOES -Honeymooners into private pampering; surfers; those who prefer being active to exercising.
DON’T MISS -A bush-to-beach horseback ride that ends with a canter in the waves.
7.Borgo Egnazia, Italy
Perhaps best known for hosting Justin Timberlake’s wedding, this low-key hotel was designed to look like a traditional Puglia village, with 29 villas. Vair Spa, a modern take on a traditional Roman bath house, employs “artist therapists”: a psychologist-composer, a scent master, a hair doctor. Spa programs might include a candlelit soak, a scrub using garden produce, and a music therapy session.
HOW LONG- Three-day minimum suggested.
WHO GOES- The Milan fashion set; wellness seekers who embrace carbs.
DON’T MISS -Grottaglie, an important pottery center.
8.Kamalaya, Thailand
Devotees fly halfway around the world to Koh Samui for this holistic retreat founded by a former yogi monk and his wife, who is an acupuncturist and traditional Chinese medicine expert. Kamalaya hosts visiting practitioners of Eastern and Western healing methods, and it’s known for a highly effective detox program combining a mostly raw diet, in ared sauna sessions, and chi nei tsang, a kind of Taoist abdominal massage.
HOW LONG– Three-night minimum stay. Make it two weeks if you’re flying from the U.S.
WHO GOES Soul searchers who want cultural immersion and personal transformation.
DON’T MISS -The weekly cruise aboard a Turkish ketch.
9.The Ranch Malibu, California
Tough hikes on 200 miles of trail and tiny portions of delicious food characterize this no-nonsense 18-cottage retreat in the Santa Monica Mountains. Expect: 5:30 a.m. wake- up calls, four-hour hikes, four hours of low-impact exercise, and falling into bed by 8:30, dreaming of your next vegan meal.
HOW LONG -Seven days.
WHO GOES -Type A’s who want guaranteed weight loss (3 to 7 percent of body weight on average) and sweaty selfies against Insta- grammable vistas.
DON’T MISS :Sunning at Malibu Lagoon State Beach.
10.Chable Resort, Mexico
The 32,000-square-foot spa at this 19th-century Yucatán hacienda is centered on a cenote and surrounded by Mayan ruins, and the therapies are rooted in ancient practices. There’s a resident shaman, detoxifying sweat lodge sessions, and full moon bathing rituals. The menu includes mouthwatering dishes like suckling pig with pickled Ixchil onions.
HOW LONG -No minimum stay.
WHO GOES -Travelers who want an alternative to Tulum and prefer jungle
to beach.
DON’T MISS :Stone crabs at Los Pamponos, in the village
of Celestún.
11.Dwarika’s Resort, Nepal
It’s not your typical spa, but if you’re in the area, this ayurvedic retreat an hour’s drive from Kathmandu is known for its masterful blend of Buddhist medicine and vedic philosophy and for its unconventional treatment rooms (meditation maze, chakra sound chamber, Himalayan salt room).
HOW LONG :Three to 13 nights for set wellness programs.
WHO GOES: Trekkers in need of TLC; ayurveda devotees.
DON’T MISS :Dwarika’s farm, a 90-minute walk from the resort past rural villages.
12.Ananda, India
Even if you’re not into yoga, a visit to this resort on a 100-acre maharaja’s estate in the Himalayan foothills will leave you feeling enlightened. The 24,000-square-foot spa has 24 treatment rooms and offers more than 80 therapies that balance physical and mental well-being through meditation, chanting, breath control, reflexology, and dosha-appropriate meals of veggie thalis and curries. Daily lectures on vedanta, or life philosophy, feed the mind.
HOW LONG Five-to-21-day programs are the norm.
WHO GOES Yogis; those wanting both spa time and cultural excursions.
DON’T MISS The Ganga Aarati, a 90-minute ceremony held daily at sundown on the banks of the Ganges.
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