The Daily Telegraph - Saturday - Travel
PREIDLHOF LUXURY DOLCEVITA RESORT, SOUTH TYROL
BORGO EGNAZIA
Italy
Not for the sceptical: the Vair spa team includes therapist-artists, musicians and local dancers who encourage progressive, personal transformation. The new Happiness Break focuses on hormonal balance, beginning with an individual virtual session at home. Once at the bougainvillea-draped Puglian-style village, treatments are personally tailored, combining a healthy diet, spa treatments, physical activity and a consultation with aromatherapy expert and psychologist Luca Fontana. There are even sessions with a new laughter teacher. I kid you not. Three-night Happiness Break from €850pp. Rooms from €289 per night. borgoegnazia.com
Mexico
A holiday is a good start to mending a broken heart but Chablé takes it to another level. Its new You Are the Love Story programme is designed for those following a split, and focuses on renewing self-worth. Sunrise and sunset yoga sessions take place in the jungle, there are seaweed body wraps and massages in the spa, and there’s even a Temazcal Ceremony – a ritual performed in a steam house where physical, mental and spiritual levels are said to converge. Casitas from $1,106 (£820) per night, B&B, with Journey Latin America. The You Are the Love Story retreat costs an additional £1,650pp. journeylatinamerica.co.uk; chablehotels.com
Italy
One of Italy’s leading spas, Preidlhof is famous for its integrative mind-body approach. Glowing Flow is a new retreat by master therapist Stefano Battaglia. Featuring therapeutic work and holistic health treatments amid lush valleys surrounded by snow-capped mountains, it aims to increase creativity, calm the mind and lighten the heart. Battaglia’s treatments include Trauma Touch Skills, which “listen” to the body to explore emotional memories, find hidden traumas and dissolve tensions. Healing Holidays offers five-day Glowing Flow retreat from £2,850pp, full-board, with flights and transfers. healingholidays.com; preidlhof.it
VANA India
Even the architecture here is soothing, with modern, vegetation-clad buildings that morph into the landscape. Sure, the treatments are sublime – from Ayurvedic and Tibetan medicine to Western wonders – but it’s the phone-free spaces, cotton kurta pyjamas and world-class teachings in mindfulness, yoga, chanting and meditation that create the deep shifts. All this, plus morning mountain treks and an excursion to Rishikesh to see the holy Aarti ceremony that pays tribute to the River Ganges, will spark a renewed appreciation for life.
Healing Holidays offers seven nights from £2,272pp full-board, including flights, transfers and a tailored programme. healingholidays.com; vana.co.in