Put your mind to
22 METRO Monday, July 31, 2017
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H i s an d H e r s g ear fo r a e u r o pean s pa b r eak
Voluspa Casa Pacifica tin candle £10, houseoffraser. co.uk
Barry M coconut infusion nail paint in bikini £4.99, barrym.com
Spas have moved on and new European offerings are championing mental wellbeing just as much as simple physical relaxation, says a chilled Richard Mellor
Jump nice soft weekend bag £86, wardow.com
Avery dry ice sunglasses £98, aceandtate.co.uk
Paradis round towel £84.13, revolve.com
Sugar the pillar: The grand pool at the Terre Blanche hotel
Cote d’Azur Surf foam wash shampoo £20, bumbleand bumble.co.uk
Turquoise canvas women’s classic Toms £34.99, toms.co.uk
Grey lightweight knit slouch v neck crop top £12, prettylittlething.com
Sophrology, for the uninitiated, is a mixture of simple physical and mental exercises that promise optimum health. It could be just shaking your body to release tension or focusing on, say, your favourite calm place. you can give it a go during a two-hour session when harmony retreats takes over France’s five-star Terre Blanche hotel, found in lovely, lavender-scented provence. A tension-releasing hypnotherapy alternative is also available but whatever you go for, we highly recommend massage and gentle exercise over two days. Access to the hotel’s vitality and infinity pools, sauna and fitness centre is also provided. Designed like a fortified hillside village, Terre Blanche and its Michelin-starred restaurant boast fine vineyard views and is within day-trip distance of the sparkling Med. Harmony Retreats cost from £590 per person for two days; doubles from £320 per night, en.terre-blanche.com
Put your mind to In the swing: Learn how to cope with stress
Greece
WhIle the new Mastermind2.0 programmes at over In greece’s renovated MarBella Corfu seaside resort won’t quite make you dazzling John humphrys, they do promise to reboot brains. over five days, addiction expert Dirk Stikker and his team will use one-to-one cognitivebehavioural therapy-style sessions to identify your stress responses – and then suggest coping skills. This is complemented by personalised massage and exfoliation, plus yoga and aerobics. Corfu’s tempting seas and beaches should also leave you feeling perkier, while walks promise olive groves and orchards. From £3,770pp, including online aftercare, addictions-mastermind.com, doubles from £119 per night half board, marbella.gr
Monday, July 31, 2017 METRO 3
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Croatia
Grease funky: enjoy the oil treatment
West Sussex
View to a thrill: Put your mind and body at ease in pretty Provence
continental calm
You snooze, you win: Learn how to tackle your sleep deficit amid the beauty of Tuscany
Tuscany
Sleep has never been moree in vogue: researchers from Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard universities have evidence that we sleep almost two hours less than 50 years ago, and hotels aree concentrating on shut-eye like never before. That includes Tuscany’s Castello o Del Nero, a country estate that has launched a new Reconnect package taking on the scourge of sleeplessness. The six-day programme incorporates a varied regime of cardio exercise,
sleep-enhancing spa trreatments, sleep-aiding yoga and even bespoke y sleep-targeted food, plus a stimulating horse-ride or pottery class. In between p you can enjoy the vast y esstate’s marble interiors, gard dens, pool and tennis courtss. Dangerously nearby are lots of Ch Chianti vineyards – the produce of which certainly won’t help your quality of slumber. From £4,288 per person for five nights, castellodelnero.com
JUST shut up, all right? That’s the message of West Sussex’s Ockenden Manor Hotel & Spa, an elegant elizabethan manor and its new Silent Treatment. Visitors choose between two therapy rituals – one an introductory 30minute bob, the other an hour-long hover – amid the hotel’s cocooning i-sopod tank, whose Dead Sea-esque saline levels ensure weightlessness. Floating has been shown to improve mood, increase happiness, relieve pain and combat worry. What’s more, just 30 minutes’ worth is said to have the same rejuvenating effect as 90 minutes of sleep. each ritual is followed by a spa treatment. To really, really relax, stay the night after enjoying Ockenden’s croquet lawn and natural spring. From £294 per person incl breakfast, hshotels.co.uk.
CROATIA’S new Hotel Ola is a colourful four-star, 50-room boutique with an infinity pool above the Adriatic. programmes at Ola’s energy Clinic Spa include ‘Inner Balance’, a five-night affair that blends traditional Chinese medicine with psychoneuroimmunology – how a healthy mind leads to a healthy body. Hence the personalised wellness consultation, the two breathing-focused mindfulness classes, the daily yoga and moxibustion treatments, where dried plants are burnt near the skin to encourage energy flow. Also likely to reduce anxiety is how simple it is to get here: the hotel is just outside Unescoprotected town Trogir, essentially a lovely mini-Dubrovnik, and only 15 minutes from Split airport. From £1,435pp, including flights, transfers, full board and all therapy, thehealthyholidaycompany.co.uk
Spa-cial: Personalised treatment at ola
Escape
Travel | Culture | Adventure
H i s an d H e r s g ear fo r a e u r o pean s pa b r eak
Voluspa Casa Pacifica tin candle £10, houseoffraser. co.uk
Barry M coconut infusion nail paint in bikini £4.99, barrym.com
Spas have moved on and new European offerings are championing mental wellbeing just as much as simple physical relaxation, says a chilled Richard Mellor
Jump nice soft weekend bag £86, wardow.com
Avery dry ice sunglasses £98, aceandtate.co.uk
Paradis round towel £84.13, revolve.com
Sugar the pillar: The grand pool at the Terre Blanche hotel
Cote d’Azur Surf foam wash shampoo £20, bumbleand bumble.co.uk
Turquoise canvas women’s classic Toms £34.99, toms.co.uk
Grey lightweight knit slouch v neck crop top £12, prettylittlething.com
Sophrology, for the uninitiated, is a mixture of simple physical and mental exercises that promise optimum health. It could be just shaking your body to release tension or focusing on, say, your favourite calm place. you can give it a go during a two-hour session when harmony retreats takes over France’s five-star Terre Blanche hotel, found in lovely, lavender-scented provence. A tension-releasing hypnotherapy alternative is also available but whatever you go for, we highly recommend massage and gentle exercise over two days. Access to the hotel’s vitality and infinity pools, sauna and fitness centre is also provided. Designed like a fortified hillside village, Terre Blanche and its Michelin-starred restaurant boast fine vineyard views and is within day-trip distance of the sparkling Med. Harmony Retreats cost from £590 per person for two days; doubles from £320 per night, en.terre-blanche.com
Put your mind to In the swing: Learn how to cope with stress
Greece
WhIle the new Mastermind2.0 programmes at over In greece’s renovated MarBella Corfu seaside resort won’t quite make you dazzling John humphrys, they do promise to reboot brains. over five days, addiction expert Dirk Stikker and his team will use one-to-one cognitivebehavioural therapy-style sessions to identify your stress responses – and then suggest coping skills. This is complemented by personalised massage and exfoliation, plus yoga and aerobics. Corfu’s tempting seas and beaches should also leave you feeling perkier, while walks promise olive groves and orchards. From £3,770pp, including online aftercare, addictions-mastermind.com, doubles from £119 per night half board, marbella.gr
Monday, July 31, 2017 METRO 3
Travel | Culture | Adventure
Escape
Croatia
Grease funky: enjoy the oil treatment
West Sussex
View to a thrill: Put your mind and body at ease in pretty Provence
continental calm
You snooze, you win: Learn how to tackle your sleep deficit amid the beauty of Tuscany
Tuscany
Sleep has never been moree in vogue: researchers from Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard universities have evidence that we sleep almost two hours less than 50 years ago, and hotels aree concentrating on shut-eye like never before. That includes Tuscany’s Castello o Del Nero, a country estate that has launched a new Reconnect package taking on the scourge of sleeplessness. The six-day programme incorporates a varied regime of cardio exercise,
sleep-enhancing spa trreatments, sleep-aiding yoga and even bespoke y sleep-targeted food, plus a stimulating horse-ride or pottery class. In between p you can enjoy the vast y esstate’s marble interiors, gard dens, pool and tennis courtss. Dangerously nearby are lots of Ch Chianti vineyards – the produce of which certainly won’t help your quality of slumber. From £4,288 per person for five nights, castellodelnero.com
JUST shut up, all right? That’s the message of West Sussex’s Ockenden Manor Hotel & Spa, an elegant elizabethan manor and its new Silent Treatment. Visitors choose between two therapy rituals – one an introductory 30minute bob, the other an hour-long hover – amid the hotel’s cocooning i-sopod tank, whose Dead Sea-esque saline levels ensure weightlessness. Floating has been shown to improve mood, increase happiness, relieve pain and combat worry. What’s more, just 30 minutes’ worth is said to have the same rejuvenating effect as 90 minutes of sleep. each ritual is followed by a spa treatment. To really, really relax, stay the night after enjoying Ockenden’s croquet lawn and natural spring. From £294 per person incl breakfast, hshotels.co.uk.
CROATIA’S new Hotel Ola is a colourful four-star, 50-room boutique with an infinity pool above the Adriatic. programmes at Ola’s energy Clinic Spa include ‘Inner Balance’, a five-night affair that blends traditional Chinese medicine with psychoneuroimmunology – how a healthy mind leads to a healthy body. Hence the personalised wellness consultation, the two breathing-focused mindfulness classes, the daily yoga and moxibustion treatments, where dried plants are burnt near the skin to encourage energy flow. Also likely to reduce anxiety is how simple it is to get here: the hotel is just outside Unescoprotected town Trogir, essentially a lovely mini-Dubrovnik, and only 15 minutes from Split airport. From £1,435pp, including flights, transfers, full board and all therapy, thehealthyholidaycompany.co.uk
Spa-cial: Personalised treatment at ola
