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MIND, BODY AND SOUL RETREAT, VILLA LUCIA, TUSCANY
T_h e retreats are being sold via Rhodes’
established client base, as well as through
FIRST-PERSON EXPERIENCE: KATH HUDSON
high-end travel agencies and articles and
adverts in a selection of consumer spa, ’ve never seen wine Bond, a motivational teacher,
travel and lifestyle magazines.
I
fl owing quite so led us through hot yoga –
freely at a spa, but Villa Lucia’s take on bikram
VEDIC SPA VISION
since I’d been assured it was – in the apple orchard in the
While the new spa and retreats are a big good for me, I was more than late afternoon sunshine. Her
priority for Rhodes, they aren’t the end happy to go with the fl ow. It felt encouragement made me try
of his vision for using wellness to breathe slightly strange to have wine that little bit harder when my
new life into his holiday rental business. at lunch, before a yoga class, muscles were trembling.
Another possible new venture is a but luckily it didn’t affect my balance. The My time with Wright, comprised a full-
seven-day juice retreat. If this goes ahead, rebel in me also liked the fact that wine and body massage and refl exology which I
it will debut in October and run in con- chocolate weren’t off limits. didn’t want to end. Unlike most therapists
junction with the UK-based juice detox Like myself, many of my fellow guests who give up on the knots in my back,
company Raw and Juicy – another one of were feeling a bit beaten up by life, but the Wright tackled them with gusto.
Jayne Alexander’s clients. T_h e Red Wine mix of treatments, the general happy vibe The vibe at Villa Lucia is more fun-loving
Diet will be jettisoned and instead a range and the attentiveness of the staff soon had than the slightly insular atmosphere I’ve
of juices will be served, along with colonic everyone shedding their burdens. previously experienced at spas. What I
irrigation, treatments and yoga. My three therapists transformed the really liked was the healthy balance of food,
Rhodes’ overall aim, however, is to break into a life-changing experience. wine, exercise and time out. I came back
launch Villa Lucia as a Vedic Spa Resort – Ninety minutes of NLP and hypnotherapy with new habits and two months on I’ve
a new spa concept he’s created. On top of with Budd in a blissful garden spot took me kept up a regular yoga practise, as well as a
the two retreats, the Vedic Spa Resort will to the root of my post-natal depression and guilt-free glass of wine with dinner. Best of
of_f er one.fittedzero.fitted other spa packages. T_h ese range enabled me to bin my anti-depressants. all, I still don’t need the anti-depressants.
from the three-night Valentines Spa Gif_t
which starts at Euro.fittedtwo.fitted,three.fittedzero.fittedzero.fitted (USdollar.fittedthree.fitted,three.fittedzero.fittedzero.fitted, sterling.fittedone.fitted,nine.fittedfive.fittedzero.fitted)
per couple, to the seven-night Detox Week
which begins at Euro.fittedone.fitted,nine.fittedfive.fittedzero.fitted (USdollar.fittedtwo.fitted,eight.fittedzero.fittedzero.fitted, sterling.fittedone.fitted,six.fittedfive.fittedzero.fitted) therapists trained to administer treatments them to one of his other properties, Dar
per person, sharing a double room. Unlike when bookings come in. T_h ese services are Liqama, in Marrakech, Morocco in March
the retreats, these packages can be booked also available on an ad-hoc basis. two.fittedzero.fittedone.fittedzero.fitted. So, while Rhodes may be adding some
at any time of the year. While there are If the mind, body and soul retreat package unusual spa ingredients to his businesses, it
no full-time therapists employed at the and the Vedic Spa Resort concept is suc- looks as if this unique approach could well
spa, Rhodes has had a selection of local cessful at Villa Lucia, Rhodes will introduce prove to be an enduring recipe for success. ●
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