GUIDES, WELLNESS
Unique Holistic Therapy Treatments for Your Holistic Well-Being
One of the latest trends is to work on being healthy. Holistic therapy and wellness treatments can help you home in on your well-being through treatments as well as forming new habits that enhance your mental and physical state. Below, we reveal some of the most spectacular ways to tap into holistic therapies and recharge your mind, body, and spirit in one.
30 August 2024
Spa and Wellness Treatments
The Thai Spa
The Thai Spa brings authentic Thai massages and therapy to Singapore, so leave your passport and home. Instead of being jet-lagged, you’ll be among the jet-set at this rejuvenating wellness spa. Add a rose honey and milk bath or hot stone therapy to your treatment too, and enjoy the privacy of the therapy rooms, complete with a private shower, allowing you to fully relax and embrace your well-being.
Ikeda Spa
Japan and quality are often synonymous, and that’s certainly true at Ikeda Spa. Noted for being the first true Japanese spa in Singapore, it features a luxuriously tranquil and serene space. The Hinoki onsen bath is the ideal way to let your stress, worries, aches, and pains, melt away. The soothing bath detoxifies and helps you reclaim your wellness. You’ll have the chance to choose the onsen bath salts you want to use, all direct from Japan, allowing you to immerse yourself in pure serenity.
Wellness Retreats
Sometimes, a little escape is just what you need to revitalise your wellness. With these holistic wellness retreats, you’ll be giving your body and spirit that refresh its craving.
Soori Bali
Soori Bali is on Bali’s southwestern coast right on the ocean and tucked amid sprawling acres of rice paddies with volcanic mountains just behind. This eco-friendly retreat destination creates a modern yet understated luxury experience through private villas and culinary excellence. The holistic healing treatments here focus on mental and physical well-being through neurotherapy, meditation, and relaxing massage. Another way to revitalise and renew is simply by revelling in the bliss of sticking your toes in the black volcanic sands of the beach.
Amanpuri
Amanpuri in Thailand is the place where you’ll find celebrities making their wellness escapes. Known for creating transformative experiences, Amanpuri is in high demand for its Thai healing practices melded expertly with Chinese medicine and innovative science, creating personalised holistic treatments to fit your unique needs.
The Farm at San Benito
The Farm at San Benito in the Philippines provides a more in-depth wellness retreat that combines diagnosis, cleansing, nourishing, repairing, and sustaining methods of holistic and healthy treatments. This blend of western medicine and alternative medicine practices makes it truly a remarkable place for therapy. Guests are treated to an array of experiences from hydrotherapy and grounding moving practices to restorative spa treatments and nourishment through epicurean vegan meals. With a backdrop of the Malarayat mountain range, it is the perfect setting to indulge in your best wellness therapy.
Sofitel Singapore Sentosa Resort & Spa
No time to go far? At the Sofitel Singapore Sentosa Resort & Spa, you’ll find the only one-day wellness retreat in Singapore, where you can experience transformations to restore inner balance and harmony. This local experience includes guided meditation, embodied flow, sound healing, group exercises, and breath work along with a lunch composed of locally sourced, environmentally friendly delights.
Unique Body Therapy Treatment Options
For a different way to engage your wellness, you can look to sound therapy, ice baths, and more to restore your well-being.
Raffles Holistic Harmony
Raffles Holistic Harmony provides an excellent way to delight in your wellness, which starts with holistic yoga and sound healing, followed by the enjoyment of the hydrothermal facilities to cap off your treatments with an invigorating swim. For an additional cost, you can also arrange afternoon tea in the private spa lounge for the ultimate perfection in pampering and relaxation.
The Yoga House Private Sound Therapy
The Yoga House Private Sound Therapy indulges you in sound healing therapy, a truly unique hour-long class that blends deep meditation with soothing yin postures all set to therapeutic sounds. This immersive experience relaxes the mind and helps you achieve mindfulness and calm.
The Mandarin Oriental
At the Mandarin Oriental, join the Wellness Wednesday Massage and South Bath that helps you recharge and rejuvenate through holistic treatment. This day of relaxation provides an hour-long massage followed by another hour of sound bath. At the end, you’ll be treated with refreshments that reinvigorate your mind and body.
Core Collective
Core Collective offers cold water therapy in a state-of-the-art ice bathtub made by Tundra, allowing you to immerse yourself in cold water. While athletes use this practice often, it’s also a beneficial wellness treatment to help improve blood circulation, reduce inflammation, help muscle recovery, flush out toxins, and for improving mood and alertness.
Healthy Eating
SuperNature
Shop for the healthy foods you need to nourish your body at SuperNature. Providing an extensive selection of natural and certified organic products, it caters to your health and wellness needs with in-store and online shopping options.
Glow
Before you begin shopping for the foods to fuel your well-being, stop in Glow, a cafe and restaurant within SuperNature, that treats you to mindful eating. The nourishing dishes you’ll find are made from top-tier ingredients sourced by the store and crafted by the on-staff naturopath. It goes beyond salads with hearty dishes that are so exceptionally delicious, it’s hard to believe they’re good for you.
Little Farms
Little Farms is another supermarket option with specialty goods sourced from all over the globe. Some of their outlets also feature cafes called Little Farms Café, serving up healthy café food in the form of brunch and main dish options. If you’re gluten-free or plant-based, you’ll have plenty of options as well, all of them nutritious and delicious.
VeganBurg
For those moments when life is a bit fast-paced and you simply want something to grab and go, fast food won’t do, unless it’s from VeganBurg. The premise is all plant-based burgers in unique flavours, such as the Chilli Krab burger, made from plant-based meat and topped with spicy chilli crab sauce. Seaweed fries are another unusual yet delicious twist on fast food classics, and unlike fast food, you’ll feel good about the healthy choices you’re making for your food.
Mental Health Apps to Take with You Anywhere
Mental health and wellness apps are also ideal when you are in between retreats and holistic treatments. You can access them anytime you need them, making them a great way to connect to your well-being.
Headspace
Headspace offers an array of options in one mental health app through courses, bedtime exercises, guided meditations, and wellness programmes. It also provides personalised support at an additional charge. If you’re not sold, you can use the free trial to see if it’s something that works for you.
Calm
Struggling with stress, anxiety, or trying to get a good night of sleep? Calm is an excellent mental health app that provides you with breathing exercises, soothing sleep meditations, and much more.
Smiling Mind
If you’re the sort who is always pressed for time, Smiling Mind makes it easy to get the mental health charge you need. Just 10 minutes per day and you’ll be on your way. This app offers targeted programs that make it easy to focus on your areas of concern including sleep, stress, mindful eating, relationships, well-being, and more. The meditations and mindfulness exercises were developed by psychologists, ensuring they truly help you practise mindfulness daily. Another bonus – it’s a completely free app as it’s by a not-for-profit, though making a donation will surely be appreciated.
Fabulous
Feeling like you’re stuck in a plateau or want to elevate your life? Use Fabulous, a self-care app that provides coaching sessions and daily routines designed to help you break out of your rut and achieve your goals. The habit tracker helps you build healthy habits while releasing unhealthy ones that aren’t serving you. It’s an excellent tool for truly feeling fabulous in your mental well-being.
Sometimes, apps are no substitute for speaking to a professional about the things that are weighing heavily on your mind. Share allows you to connect with qualified therapists on any issue you choose, and even offers a privacy mode to keep you anonymous. While not free, having easy access to therapy through a therapist in your pocket may be just what you need to ride out rough patches and help work on getting your mind healthy.
From typical spa treatments to more extraordinary and unique options, and from healthy eating to retreats, you’ll find different holistic ways to treat your health. Tap into these exceptional options, and when you’re strapped for time, make sure you have these apps downloaded to help you stay centred in your wellness.
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