HEALTH CLUB SPA
HEALTH CLUB SPA new club and spa for the mere
The Mere Golf Resort and Spa in Knutsford, Cheshire, has opened its new £5.5m fi ve-star health club and spa. The new development features seven
luxury treatment rooms, a state-of-the- art fi tness centre and spa lounge serving a range of healthy dishes using fresh, local produce from across Cheshire. Facilities include a 20m swimming
pool, as well as a hydrotherapy vitality pool and thermal zone with hammam, caldarium, aroma steamroom, salt infusion and experience showers. It’s also the only health club and spa in the area to offer a rasul room, an ancient Arabic cleansing bathing ritual that uses mineral-rich mud, heat and steam. The new spa is one of only a handful in
the north of England to offer the ‘Fishy Feet’ foot treatment and bespoke skin consultations from luxury beauty brands Carita and Aromatherapy Associates.
The £5.5m Cheshire spa includes a lounge serving fresh local food
Co-owner Gary Corbett says: “I
am delighted that phase one of our £15m redevelopment is complete and am confi dent that The Mere now provides the ultimate in luxurious but affordable health, wellbeing and day spa experiences in the region.”
lifehouse appoints hypnotherapy expert
Lifehouse, the ‘day and stay spa’ in Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex (see HCM Feb 11, p32), has appointed hypnotherapist Tom Barber to its panel of experts to add to the range of services on offer at the new spa. Barber, whose areas of expertise
include the Virtual Gastric Band treatment for those looking to lose weight without invasive surgery, has spent two decades in full-time
practice as an analytical and cognitive hypnotherapist, psychotherapist and integrative counsellor. He is also the co-author of
the book Thinking Therapeutically: Hypnotic Skills & Strategies Explored and has lectured on the subject of hypnotherapy around the world.
Tom Barber specialises in Virtual Gastric Band treatment
klafs rolls out children-only spa concept
Wellness programmes for children are gathering ground in the US and Europe, and now – following a successful trial with the Steigenberger Hotel Group – spa supplier KLAFS is rolling out its children-only spa concept. The Steigenberger Hotel Gstaad-
Saanen in Switzerland has piloted this new concept over the last two years, with an entire fl oor of its three-storey Spa Luxury World – a 150sq m (1,615sq ft) area – devoted to children alone. Children can try out a range of healthy
Kids can try out a range of spa experiences including a water grotto
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treatments in a supervised setting. These include a treehouse sauna, with a mild temperature of 40 degrees – a gentle
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introduction to the spa experience – and a water grotto, which offers an adventure shower and waterfall, with everything from tropical raindrops to sudden thunder and lightning. They can then relax in hammocks,
on sofas or in swinging gondolas before taking their energy levels up again in the mountain hut, which features Wii consoles and a climbing wall. Children aged 12 years and older
can also explore the other areas of the spa in the company of an adult – the panorama sauna with its mountain view, for example, or the aroma sanarium and herbal steam bath.
may 2011 © cybertrek 2011 NEWS edited by kate cracknell. email: kate
cracknell@leisuremedia.com
dance at malaysia resort
V Integrated Wellness, a new wellness centre at The Andaman – a luxury resort on the island of Langkawi, Malaysia – is introducing a new ‘ecstatic dance’ workshop next month. Classifi ed as “an exuberant kind of yoga”, it aims to “free students from the rigidity of the body and mind through uninhibited movement – the type of dance our ancestors embraced, and tribal people still do,” according to instructor Michael Hallock. Participants will take part in a series
of therapeutic sessions that incorporate yoga, meditation and relaxation techniques, and be educated on how to “let go of physical tensions and mental and emotional blocks,” he adds. V Retreats is one of fi ve
components at V Integrated Wellness, alongside V Botanical Spa, V Fitness, V Healthy Cuisine and V Beach Club.
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