10 Healthy Holidays to Change your Life in 2016

10 Healthy Holidays to Change your Life in 2016

Make 2016 the year to kick-start a healthy change in your life as Health and Fitness Travel, the leading experts in tailor-made wellness holidays worldwide, share their most transformative and life-changing healthy holidays. Whether you're looking to embrace mindfulness, quit smoking, get fit or beat insomnia, welcome in a new beginning as you embark on a life-changing wellness journey in inspiring destinations around the world.

Embrace Change in Thailand: Kamalaya Embracing Change

Set on Thailand's peaceful Koh Samui Island, learn how to embrace change on this tailor-made wellness program which teaches you the skills needed to develop inner emotional strength. Personalised for those seeking support for challenging situations, be it relationship issues, anxiety or grief, mentoring sessions work together with wellness activities, such as yoga and meditation, to ensure you are able to sustain the personal practice to rebuild your life. Together with healing therapies, including traditional Chinese medicine and Reiki, learn how to release stress and improve your emotional balance.

Beat Insomnia in Italy: Ti Sana Insomnia

Rediscover a good night's sleep and learn to beat insomnia at this tranquil retreat in northern Italy. Release stress with specialist medical spa treatments and therapies to help reclaim your sleep-wake rhythms and naturally bring balance to your cortisol levels, the hormone responsible for stress. Together with a customised nutrition plan and calming yoga lessons, form healthier habits to resolve your sleep issues and enjoy secondary improvements on affected problem areas such as fatigue, weight gain and digestion issues.

Master revitalising cooking in Bali Fivelements Cuisine for Life

Study under the expertise of one of the world's most highly regarded gourmet raw food chefs, and take home an in-depth understanding of this extraordinary Cuisine for Life. Culinary professionals will guide you through key techniques including juicing, sprouting, smoothies, fermenting, low temperature baking and dehydrating. Enhance your experience with relaxing spa treatments and holistic therapies inspired by traditional Balinese remedies for ultimate well-being and return home boasting an impressive new culinary skill set and feeling amazing.

Boost Your Brain Power in Brazil: Kurotel Brain Booster

Give a healthy boost to your brain power in Brazil with this specialist wellness program, designed to enhance your cognitive capacity, attention span and memory. Developed by neuroscientists and in-house health professionals, optimise your brain performance during consultations with psychologists as well as creative coaching sessions. In the stress control centre, utilise relaxing visual and sound stimuli to promote tranquillity and optimum brain power, before relaxing with a calming yoga class or underwater massage.

Quit Smoking in Spain: SHA Anti-Tobacco

Transition to a tobacco-free life the natural and healthy way on a transformative wellness holiday at SHA Wellness Clinic in southern Spain. Surrounded by inspiring coastline and mountain views, begin your wellness retreat with an initial heart and lung check, before experiencing a program of personalised coaching and medical spa therapies, designed to prevent you from returning to your smoking habit. Combine oxygen therapy sessions and dental cleaning with stress relieving wellness activities, such as yoga and Tai Chi, to return home a changed person both inside and out.  

Improve Heart Health in the Philippines: The Farm Heart Health & Stress Reduction

Discover the secret to maintaining your cardiovascular health as you de-stress at the healthy hideaway of The Farm in the Philippines. Tackle high stress levels and improve your cardiovascular well-being with a wellness program combining a vitamin-rich vegan diet with healing spa therapies and daily wellness activities. Together with daily follow-ups with a medical doctor, learn how to look after your heart during a fitness assessment with a personal trainer and a sustainable lifestyle discussion with a wellness expert.

Fighting Fit in Tanzania: Wildfitness Zanzibar

Get fighting fit in the great outdoors of Zanzibar, for a luxury boot camp holiday set in paradise. Make the most of the surrounding natural beauty and experience a back to nature approach to fitness as you participate in daily group training sessions besides the white sands and turquoise shallows of the ocean. Receive personal guidance from fitness trainers with individualised exercises prescribed as a result of individual assessments, before learning the key to health and fitness with workshops covering movement, metabolism and nutrition.   

Mindfulness in India: Shreyas Silent Retreat

Take a break from the stresses of modern day living and embrace the art of mindfulness at this wellness retreat in India. Set amongst 25 acres of calming gardens, experience utter stillness as you spend your days relaxing in silence, whilst benefiting from a range of meditation and yoga classes, from Pranayama to trataka (candle meditation) and private yoga nidra sessions. Begin your journey with a health consultation for a bespoke wellness experience and unwind with rejuvenating massages to feel instantly renewed. 

Triathlon Training in Thailand: Thanyapura Triathlon

Bring out your athleticism with a triathlon training holiday at Thanyapura, Thailand's leading sport and fitness retreat. Welcoming both beginners and seasoned triathletes, experience expert coaching in swimming, cycling, running and the all-important transitions, to help you reach your personal best. Work on your technique with one-on-one coaching before soothing tired muscles with a revitalising sports massage. Enhance your strength and endurance as you train with state of the art facilities, including an Olympic sized pool and athletics track, as well as the stunning surroundings of expansive forests and mountains.

Healthy Ageing in Portugal: Longevity Life Rejuvenation & Anti-Ageing

Rejuvenate your well-being on a healthy anti-ageing holiday at this medical spa retreat, set amongst botanical gardens on Portugal's stunning Algarve coastline. Slow the signs of ageing with medical and Thalasso spa therapies, whilst enhancing your quality of life with in-depth diagnostics, including medical consultations and biophysical evaluations. Discover the practice of healthy ageing with nutritional consultations, stress management and personal training sessions, which will leave you feeling younger both inside and out.

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