Wellness Retreats

Resident Ayurvedic doctors, a spa village built on the Pancha Kosha, a Himalayan salt house and a meditation cave, about an hour from Kathmandu.

Two open-air treatment bales above a lotus pond, local healers, and a three-night Nourishing Spiritual Journey that ends with a blessing at Amandari’s own temple.

Mala Holistic Spa, with a private sauna, steam room and aromatherapy bath in each of its eight treatment rooms, and a meditation cave behind falling water.

Aman’s first hot spring resort: a private onsen in every suite and villa, a thermal spring garden, and Kampo herbal baths in two private bathing pavilions.

Six mineral hot spring pools at the crest of the hill, a spring-fed plunge pool on every tent, and Sukha Spa open to the rainforest.

Yoga, meditation or sound therapy every morning, Aqua Harmony floating water therapy, and a heated mineral-water plunge pool on every casita deck.

Geothermal water at 38 to 42°C in a basalt stone hot pool beside every house, and a cold plunge and sauna at the four-bedroom Torfvilla.

The original Aman Spa, now a Holistic Wellness Centre, with Wellness Immersions of three nights or more and a Muay Thai ring in its hilltop gym.

Integrated Wellness that measures sleep and other biomarkers before a personal program, with sleep, detox, fitness and yoga programs in a spa high in the hills.

Aura Spa, with one treatment per guest included each night, six wellbeing pathways, a cold-immersion pool and two classes a day on the open-air deck.

Pharomatiq Wellness, built on the island herbs that have made Hvar a place of healing since 1868, with yoga, sound healing and a heated pool at every villa.

25,000 square feet of spa in the desert, with a flotation pavilion, a water pavilion of steam, sauna and cold plunge, and yoga on the buttes.

Three floors of the Crown Building given to wellbeing: a 20-metre pool, a cryotherapy chamber and two private Spa Houses, one with a banya and one with a hammam.

Cheval Blanc Spa by Guerlain on an island of its own in Noonu Atoll, with yoga and meditation, and an overwater spa for the Private Island.

An outdoor infinity pool heated to 34°C in every season, 914 metres above Lake Lucerne, with a bio sauna, a Finnish sauna and a relaxation room facing the mountains.

A pool hall the size of a barn above Merano, with an indoor pool by an open fire, a heated outdoor pool, a hot tub in the middle of the lake and a private sauna in every chalet.

All-inclusive weeks in the hills of northern San Diego County, with daily treatments, more than 120 classes and a chapel brought from Burgundy.