New Openings To Latest Fitness & Next-Level Wellness Programmes
NEW IN FITNESS:
HOOKE Fitness launches this January
Interconnected & innovative physical fitness
HOOKE, a first of its kind membership service offering the world’s most advanced health screenings and a personalised, evolving longevity plan, launches HOOKE Fitness. At HOOKE Fitness, their philosophy goes beyond the traditional gym experience. They understand that true wellbeing requires a comprehensive approach, through a dynamic fusion of training, therapy and recovery. Their state-of-the-art Mayfair facility is home to a private training studio, recovery suite and a team of wellness experts. Their commitment is to foster an environment that allows clients to prioritise their health and performance without the constraints of a typical gym membership.
Upscale 3-4 day immersive fitness escapes
The Ranch Hudson Valley, new opening, Spring 2024
This new property will be the brand’s first East Coast destination, located in the Lower Hudson Valley, just 45 minutes from New York City. The Ranch Hudson Valley will allow guests to immerse themselves in nature whilst experiencing the core elements of The Ranch programme – hiking, fitness classes, yoga, deep tissue massage and a plant-based diet. Interiors are expertly designed by esteemed New York designer, Steven Gambrel, renowned for his ability to breathe new life into historical spaces. Enjoy 25 guest rooms, a dining room overlooking the onsite lake and gardens, a spa and a transformed 2,000 square foot ballroom come gym, now the location for afternoon fitness, yoga and meditation classes.
NEW HEALTH PROGRAMMES:
Deep dive detox & diagnostics
The Original FX Mayr launches two new programmes for January 2024
Austria’s The Original FX Mayr launches the brand new, highly personalised ‘Mayr Med’ programme involving comprehensive, holistic health care with a choice of in-depth medical diagnostics or a more intense detox and relaxation programme. Whichever route guests choose to take, they will be rewarded with a deeper understanding on the state of their health and the tools to make 2024 their healthiest yet.
Bio-hacking ‘Ski Performance & Recovery’ package
Launches this winter season at Switzerland’s The Alpina Gstaad
Bio-hack your way to health this ski season. The new ‘Biohacking Ski Performance & Recovery package’ from The Alpina Gstaad is carefully curated to ensure peak performance and swift recovery. The ultimate wellbeing boost for serious skiers it includes innovative machinery to use both before and after hitting the slopes. Guests can try, for example, the Hypermax Oxygen to boost Nitric Oxide levels, or post-ski, enjoy a 10-minute PEMF session which allows the body to transition into Parasympathetic (resting) mode. Soothing 20 minute head massages are also included!
New Holistic Rebalancing programme
Thailand’s star spa, RAKxa, launches a progressive new 5-night programme
RAKxa’s new integrative Rebalance Programme encourages guests to return to a natural state of equilibrium by balancing physical and mental stability, brain and body coordination, the gut-brain axis, chakra alignment and the inner flow of vital life force energy, resulting in a radical improvement to overall health with lasting results. An inter-connected approach includes mindful exercises, energy healing, Ayurvedic massage, acupuncture, and traditional Thai herbal bath rituals underpinned with a functional fitness assessment and nutritionally dense food. Guests will depart with new found wisdom and more in tune with themselves.
Supportive Sleep Deep programme
A transformative wellbeing offering from India’s Ananda in the Himalayas
Ananda’s 7-Night ‘Sleep Enhancement Programme’ draws on the knowledge pathways of Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine, alongside Emotional Healing sessions. A multidisciplinary and completely personalised approach educates guests around how to better manage their work-life balance and reduce stress and anxiety levels, as well as introducing a series of tools which guests can integrate as part of their at-home self-care routine.
Healing hot & cold therapies
Escape to Norway’s leading destination spa hotel: The Well, Oslo
A star spa offering an impressive array of thermal facilities, including a Japanese bathhouse, more than 11 hot and cold pools and 15 different and exquisitely designed saunas, steams and ritualistic experience. The Well combines traditional therapies with community-based social rituals, such as new 'Exploring Asia Thursday' inspired by Japanese and Asian bathing culture, where people from all backgrounds and ages can gather together and recuperate. Refreshing indeed.
Holistic Leadership retreat - launching 6-10 March 2024
Empowerment at Euphoria Retreat in Greece
Run by Euphoria’s visionary founder, Marina Efraimoglou, and spiritual teacher Mary Vandorou, this retreat harnesses the power of yin, exploring qualities such as intuition, compassion and empathy. Guests should expect immersive workshops, somatic awareness practices, round table discussions, share experiences, and specially curated treatments to help define and gain a deeper self-awareness as to what type of leader they are or want to be.
Science-Backed Psychedelics
Beckley's new scholarship programme & female-only retreats
Beckley Retreats, the holistic Psilocybin wellbeing retreat company, announce their new Scholarship Program which aims to expand access to psychedelic experiences for those who may not otherwise be able to participate. At the same time, they launch two dedicated retreats for women only -one at their location in the Netherlands (from 29 April - 4 May) and one supporting the BIPOC community which will take place in Jamaica, (28 April - 3 May) and will be run exclusively for Black women, by Black women.
NEW IN TRAVEL:
New experiences: Starry nights & nature recovery
New programs at the UK’s leading retreat centre: Broughton Sanctuary
Broughton Sanctuary (which just got a name check in NGT's Cool List for 2024) launches two new programmes this winter. Lens on Nature enables guests to combine wellbeing activities with hands-on nature recovery programmes. Meanwhile the new Broughton by Night allows guests to stargaze with an astronomer, enjoy dinner round a campfire, grab a telescope and soak in expert-led tour of the cosmos. There's even a chance of seeing the Northern Lights.
New lauch: Natural connection: marine & wilderness adventures
Four Seasons explorer, Palau launches
Four Seasons is now welcoming travellers to discover the marine wilderness of Palau aboard Four Seasons Explorer. Eco-adventurers, divers and cultural explorers will be able to explore the virtually untouched wilderness of more than 340 islands, expansive protected marine territory, and a 4,000-year-old culture, while enjoying the warmth and care of Four Seasons from the deck of this luxury catamaran.
New opening: Kibale Lodge, Uganda (May 2024)
Reasons to celebrate at Volcanoes Safaris
As well as celebrating the 15th anniversary of VSPT (Volcanoes Safaris Partnership Trust), Volcanoes Safaris, the pioneer of gorilla and chimpanzee eco-tourism in Uganda and Rwanda for 25 years, is opening its fifth lodge in 2024. The new Kibale Lodge will be perfectly positioned for chimpanzee trekking in Kibale National Park in Uganda, one of the best parks to view chimpanzees in Africa, with a community of 1,500 chimps. This expansion complements the existing circuit of Volcanoes Safaris’ great ape lodges, offering a seamless safari across Rwanda and Uganda, letting guests experience the unique gorilla, chimpanzee, and wildlife of the Albertine Rift. Kibale lodge will comprise 8 deluxe rooms and a villa, with a spa, sauna and pool. Three deluxe bandas are expected to be open by May 2024 and five more by the end of 2024. Bookings for the lodge will be taken from 1 January 2024.
