Choosing A Wellness Retreat For Your Vacation

By Sean Pratch

A wellness retreat should be on your list for one of your next potential vacation spots. This year you may not want to just sit around a pool drinking margaritas all day. Instead, you can go to a retreat where you can get pampered but also get healthy. A wellness retreat is a perfect vacation for those that are stressed out from running the rat race every day.

The term health spa used to apply pretty well to a place where you could go get pampered and enjoy some of the benefits of a healthy regimen. Then, fat farms came into the picture and turned our ideas of a health spa to boot camp for fat people where the diets are restrictive and dull and the exercise routines are punishing. Now, a health spa is more likely to be found in the pricey part of town and it's a place to get a facial and your nails done. This leaves us with the term wellness retreat when we are talking accommodations that will spoil you and add a healthy routine to your stay.

Throughout the world you can find many wellness retreats.

If you are looking for one of the best wellness retreats you will want to consider the Canyon Ranch in Miami Beach. This retreat is on the ocean and there is a 70,000 square foot spa right in the middle of all of the lavish accommodations. At this wellness retreat you can indulge in massage, facials, fitness, and much more.

You might pick another wellness retreat for your vacation, like Lilianfels Blue Mountains Resort and Spa in Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia. Located in a gorgeous Australian National Park, you can experience nature walks for therapy and spa treatment based on Aboriginal rituals. You can have your own out-of-body experience perched upon this cliff-top overlook where indulgence surpasses the corporeal.

If you prefer to stay in North America, you might choose Alive Health Resort, for your wellness retreat. Located in Kelowna, British Colombia, Alive Health Resort has a rustic charm that's hard to deny. It's cradled in the forests of the Monashee Mountains, with breath taking views and plenty of hiking and outdoor exercise for the back-to-nature type. Once you've had your wellness retreat experience here, it will be difficult to return to the bustle and strife of the real world.

If you want to travel to a wellness retreat whose therapies include that of slowing down the aging process, you will be headed to the wine country of Bordeaux, France to Les Sources de Caudelie. You can experience massages and wraps that utilize, of all things, grape extracts. These therapies are said to enhance blood flow by strengthening blood vessels. A similar treatment is available from the inside out, as you are also encouraged to take part in the resort's wine tasting parties every week.

The resorts listed above are just some of the renowned wellness retreats available. Most of these can get quite expensive. However, there are wellness retreats that can fit most budgets. Make sure you shop around and find that one retreat that is perfect for you and your wallet. - 29951

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