By Steve Taggart
Make now the time to change your life for the better and reach your optimal health. Take a break and escape on holiday to reach your own personal goals, whether to get fit, lose weight, stop smoking, learn to surf, beat insomnia or learn to dance. Here, wellness holiday experts Health and Fitness Travel round up the top 10 self-improving wellness holidays to enhance your life.
Get fit in Ibiza – 38° North Ibiza Optimal Fitness Group Retreat
Find your fitness and tone up in Ibiza on an optimal fitness group retreat with 38 Degrees North. Enjoy the beautiful island of Ibiza with a week’s fitness holiday of exploring your limits and working hard with four to five activities per day. Choose from a selection of activities like mountain biking, guided hiking, beach circuits, aqua spinning, yoga, or even, for those who don’t mind making a splash, stand-up paddle boarding. Recuperate with deluxe spa treatments and you’ll bounce home feeling as good as new in optimal health and fitness.
Health and Fitness Travel (0203 397 8891 healthandfitnesstravel.com) offers 6 nights at 38° North Ibiza from £1,640pp or £1,835 for single occupancy. Price includes full board, a fitness programme, return flights and transfers.
Learn yoga in the Philippines – The Farm Yoga
Feeling daunted by the prospect of getting into those seemingly impossible yoga positions you’ve seen? Don’t be; head to the Philippines and learn yoga at The Farm, a luxury wellness retreat famed for its back-to-nature approach to emotional and physical health. You’ll receive one-on-one yoga sessions with an expert who’ll carefully guide you and help you to understand your body. Compliment your yoga holiday with access to daily wellness activities, like meditation and circuit training, then recuperate with spa treatments, to ensure you come home renewed and ready to continue your practice.
Health and Fitness Travel (0203 397 8891 healthandfitnesstravel.com) offers 7 nights at The Farm from £2,240pp or £2,590 for single occupancy. Price includes full board, a yoga wellness programme, return flights and transfers.
Stop smoking in Spain – SHA Anti-Tobacco
Are you longing to give up smoking but the quick fixes haven’t worked? SHA Wellness Clinic in Spain has all the tools you need for a successful last attempt. With a personalised wellness programme of traditional Chinese medicine, natural therapies and modern technology, you’ll see those smoke rings blow away without the slightest hint of remorse. SHA will address your mental as well as your physical dependency, with anti-anxiety classes and psychological and fitness assessments to tackle your nicotine addiction head on, to ensure you return home smoke-free.
Health and Fitness Travel (0203 397 8891 healthandfitnesstravel.com) offers 7 nights at SHA Wellness Clinic from £3,325pp or £3,815 for single occupancy. Price includes full board, an anti-tobacco wellness programme, return flights and transfers.
Learn to surf in Morocco – Paradis Plage Surfing
Ride the waves and become a pro on a surfing holiday at Paradis Plage in Morocco. Hone your skills in surf lessons and you’ll soon be catching waves like you’ve been surfing for years. Or if you’d rather a little more variety, why not combine your surfing with some yoga classes? This will give you the full body workout that pro surfers need to perform at their best. Compliment your core activities with fitness classes like body sculpt and beach circuit training and you’re sure to return home an all-round surf fanatic.
Health and Fitness Travel (0203 397 8891 healthandfitnesstravel.com) offers 7 nights at Paradis Plage from £815pp or £1,225 for single occupancy. Price includes breakfast, a surf programme, return flights and transfers.
Beat Insomnia in Thailand – Kamalaya Sleep Enhancement
Don’t let that embarrassing yawn get you down any longer. Sleeping issues can be swept away at Kamalaya, where holistic naturopathy is teamed with practical lifestyle changes to improve your routine. Benefit from a combination of traditional Chinese medicine, healing therapies, massages and Shirodhara to produce a state of deep relaxation. Spend your day in the spas plunge pools and steam caverns after your treatments and you’ll soon feel the positive effects of an uninterrupted sleeping pattern, and insomnia will be a past nightmare.
Health and Fitness Travel (0203 397 8891 healthandfitnesstravel.com) offers 7 nights at Kamalaya from £3,095pp or £3,520 for single occupancy. Price includes full board, a sleep enhancement programme, return flights and transfers.
Drop a dress size in Portugal – Luxury Algarve Bootcamp
Are those extra few pounds weighing you down? Kick-start your weight-loss regime and get the motivation you need to make healthy lifestyle changes on a luxury bootcamp holiday. Sweat it out in fitness classes like beach boxing, jogging, and mountain biking and swimming and increase your strength and flexibility in yoga and Pilates. Refuel your body with a healthy meal plan and you’ll see the weight melt away in no time, with expert advice and tips for when you return, you will come home feeling lighter and more energetic.
Health and Fitness Travel (0203 397 8891 healthandfitnesstravel.com) offers 7 nights at Luxury Algarve Bootcamp from £1,965pp or £2,655 for single occupancy. Price includes full board, a bootcamp programme, return flights and transfers.
Learn how to beat stress in India – Ananda in the Himalayas Stress Management
Learn how to beat stress and take the time to reflect on yourself and your goals on a relaxing retreat in India. Escape the downward spiral in a tranquil atmosphere and recharge your being through a selection of traditional Ayurveda therapies, expert consultations and wellness activities on the Stress Management programme at Ananda. Return home feeling energised, inspired and informed to make the small changes that manifest themselves into a healthier day-to-day stress free lifestyle.
Health and Fitness Travel (0203 397 8891 healthandfitnesstravel.com) offers 5 nights at Ananda from £2,265pp or £2,830 for single occupancy. Price includes full board, a stress management programme, return flights and transfers.
Detoxify your body in Austria – Grand Park Detox
Toxins in our body can lead to chronic fatigue, insomnia, headaches and weight gain. Enhance your health and well-being at Grand Park in Austria on a detox holiday. Re-energise and restore your body and mind with specialised massages, manual lymph drainage and mud wraps, and refuel with healthy meals. Rebalance your mind and spirit with Qi Gong, meditation and yoga, along with medical and nutritional consultations, not only will you feel alive and toxin-free by the end of your stay, but you’ll have the knowledge to stay healthy when your return home.
Health and Fitness Travel (0203 397 8891 healthandfitnesstravel.com) offers 7 nights at Grand Park from £1,555pp or £1,670 for single occupancy. Price includes full board, a detox programme, return flights and transfers.
Learn Thai boxing in Thailand – Absolute Sanctuary Fusion Fitness
Fancy yourself as a future pro martial artist? Pick up the moves in one-on-one lessons with an expert on a Fusion Fitness™ holiday at Absolute Sanctuary in Koh Samui. Alongside your Thai boxing workouts, you could opt for power walking, beach circuits, weight training or yoga and work on your mental fighting spirit with meditation. Recover with spa treatments from pressure point and Thai massage to relieve aching muscles and fitness assessments to ensure you are the top of your game, you are sure to return home in fighting shape and optimal fitness.
Health and Fitness Travel (0203 397 8891 healthandfitnesstravel.com) offers 7 nights at Absolute Sanctuary from £2,050pp or £2,320 for single occupancy. Price includes breakfast, a fusion fitness programme, return flights and transfers.
Learn Tennis in St. Lucia – The BodyHoliday Tennis
Perfect for beginners and wannabe professionals escape on an exciting tennis holiday to The BodyHoliday in St. Lucia. With group classes to suit all abilities, personalised private lessons and a tournament to show off your newly developed skills this is a holiday experience you won’t forget. What’s more, you can enjoy a range of luxurious spa treatments and energising fitness classes in between your time on the court.
Health and Fitness Travel (0203 397 8891 healthandfitnesstravel.com) offers 7 nights at The BodyHoliday from £2,165pp or £2,165 for single occupancy. Price includes all-inclusive, a tennis programme, return flights and transfers.
For advice, guidance and booking visit www.healthandfitnesstravel.com or call 0203 3978891
