Cross over to Switzerland and there on the banks of another lake – Geneva – two differing experiences await. On offer at La Reserve in Geneva is a special 5-day anti-ageing retreat that begins with a biological age assessment, after which a specific programme is devised for each guest looking at skin, weight, body and stress levels (
www.lareserve.ch).
Further along the lake at Montreux is the iconic Clinique La Prairie, famed for its rejuvenation programme, which includes CLP therapy where extracts from embryos of live sheep cells are used to help boost the immune system and delay the onset of degenerative diseases (
www.laprairie.ch).
A much more clinical approach has been adopted at the revamped Grand Resort Bad Ragaz, which offers a full medical centre (in fact it’s the Swiss Olympic Medical Centre), where treatments for joint and back are almost unparalleled. Alongside is a full beauty spa offering treatments from posture to peeling (
www.resortragaz.ch).
The Fontina Spa Resort in Malta has wellness rejuvenation rooms where guests can sleep on magnetic pillows and mattresses that are supposed to relieve the body of all stress and tension, thus aiding sleep (
www.hotelfortina.com).
Nearer home, both Rockcliffe Hall and Grayshott Spa in Surrey offer sleep retreats while, at the EF Medispa in London’s Chelsea, you can find a medi-pod programmed for power naps or deep relaxation to help you sleep. They also have a visiting cognitive therapist, who will unravel your sleeping problems (
www.efmedispa.com).
Night, night
Sleep is the new bugbear. Apparently, more and more of us are having great trouble getting a good night’s sleep. It could be our lifestyle, our digestion or one of the offshoots of the recession and is becoming a severe health
issue, which is why a number of spas are offering sleep treatments, therapies and programmes. For instance, the Hospes Maricel in Majorca has a
four-night ‘Learn to Sleep Programme,’ which incor- porates a 10-step mantra (
www.hospes.com).
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And then there is salt – a flavour and element that we have been told to be wary of but now it is reap- pearing in caves and grottoes to help us clear our heads and tubes and make breathing easier. You’ll find salt baths and saline hydro-therapy also making a comeback. Check out the gorgeous 18th century country house of Rockcliffe Hall in the Tees Valley (
www.rockliffehall.com) and the elegant 17th century monastery of Relais san Maurizio in Piedmont (
www.relaissanmaurizio.it) for such treatments. Wonderful, isn’t it, the way spas keep seducing us with new ways to help us feel and be better!
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