Wellness Retreats

Places built around rest, treatment and a programme for the body and mind.

Stays

A low adobe-style residence at dusk behind a lit desert rock garden.

Canyon Ranch Tucson

Canyon Ranch Tucson is the wellness resort Mel Zuckerman founded at the end of the 1970s, and it still sets the pattern for the genre.

Tucson, Arizona

Lake Lucerne between steep wooded mountains, with snow peaks beyond.

Chenot Palace Weggis

Chenot Palace Weggis opened on June 11, 2020, on the shore of Lake Lucerne, with a private beach and views of Mount Rigi.

Weggis, Lake Lucerne, Switzerland

Waves on the sand at Hua Hin, from directly above.

Chiva-Som

Chiva-Som opened on April 19, 1995, on 6.7 acres of beachfront in Hua Hin, where the Thai royal family built summer palaces in the 1920s.

Hua Hin, Thailand

Sunset over the sea from a beach in Raa Atoll.

JOALI BEING

JOALI BEING, on Bodufushi Island in Raa Atoll, calls itself the Maldives' first wellbeing island.

Bodufushi Island, Raa Atoll, Maldives

An aerial view of a hillside lap pool and gardens above the sea, with forested hills behind.

Kamalaya Koh Samui

Founded in 2005 on the southern coast of Koh Samui, Kamalaya takes its name from the Sanskrit words for Lotus Realm.

Koh Samui, Thailand

A wide valley of green scrub between red sandstone cliffs and buttes.

Mii amo opened in 2001 in Boynton Canyon, among the red rocks of Sedona, and reopened in February 2023 after a two-year renovation and expansion by Gluckman Tang that grew the resort by more than 40 per cent.

Boynton Canyon, Sedona, Arizona

Lake Travis and the Hill Country shoreline at Lago Vista, from above.

Miraval Austin Resort & Spa

Miraval Austin opened in February 2019 on the former Travaasa site above Lake Travis, Miraval's second resort after Tucson, bordering the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve in the Texas Hill Country.

Austin, Texas

A lawn and young vines above a lake in the Berkshires, Massachusetts.

Miraval Berkshires Resort & Spa

Miraval Berkshires opened on July 15, 2020, as Miraval's first resort east of the Mississippi, across 380 acres of the Berkshires that include Wyndhurst, a Gilded Age mansion with grounds by Frederick Law Olmsted and a golf course from 1926.

Lenox, Massachusetts

The Presa El Carrizo reservoir in the dry hills between Tijuana and Tecate.

Rancho La Puerta

Rancho La Puerta was founded in June 1940 by Edmond and Deborah Szekely, when she was 18; early guests brought their own tents and helped with the chores.

Tecate, Baja California, Mexico

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