Welcome to Gender Medicine I’m suspended over a pool of deep water. A jet of water is shooting at tight muscles, aimed by a highly proficient and reassuring therapist. This was not torture, quite the opposite. It was an underwater, extension therapy, designed to relieve joints and misaligned sections of the spine. Twenty minutes later, […]
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Slow travel in Laos
In the cloak of fading darkness, shadows appear in the delicate hues of a new dawn. An apparition of tangerine-robed figures take shape from the soft glow oozing from the temple before me. One by one, in silent reverence, a procession of figures tread the morning journey, respecting social distancing, sombre, eerily quiet. Barefooted, young, […]
Sipping Sherry in Spain
By The Healthcare Holiday on 15th August 2020 in Uncategorised, Europe, Reviews, Reviews Spain, Spain
It was a family tradition on a Sunday, compulsory at Christmas. Thick, sweet and rather potent I recall but the fashionable tipple of the time. But in the Spanish city of Jerez, the mecca of sherry, there’s certainly a lot of sipping going on…. Home to the world’s finest producers, sherry is the key […]
Wellness Travel
By The Healthcare Holiday on 14th April 2020 in Uncategorised, General, Latest News, Post COVID-19, Reviews
Wellness retreats, holidays and activities were prolific before this deadly pandemic when the interest in wellness travel and wellness tourism was surging. Mindful skiing, vinyasa yoga, monastery meditation, and elemental herbology (matching individuals to the natural elements). It was the height of fashion in travel. Health and Wellness Travel According to the Mental Health Foundation, […]
A Garden Spa in the Cotswolds
By The Healthcare Holiday on 3rd February 2020 in General, Latest News, Reviews, U.K., Wellness United Kingdom
Just like a secret hideaway. Follow the pathways through the manicured gardens and they will lead you to a building housing everything that’s relaxing. All sitting conveniently at the bottom of the garden. Belonging to the Cotswolds House Hotel, the Spa is intimate and extremely friendly with an expert therapist team who work hard to […]
Natural wellness sparkles in Hotel Plunhof’s stylish Spa Minera
By The Healthcare Holiday on 3rd April 2019 in Europe, Italy, Mind and Spirit, Reviews, Reviews Europe, Reviews Italy
Swimming with snowflakes, floating by flames, massaged with stones, pummelled with rollers and immersed in the smoke of burning bark. Wellness takes on the natural elements at the sparkling new Spa Minera at Hotel Plunhof, peaking out of the Stubai Alps in Italy’s South Tryol region. It’s lilac and silver, wood and water, glazed with […]
Cocooned in comfort at Rudding Park & Spa
By The Healthcare Holiday on 11th December 2018 in Latest News, London, London Wellness, Reviews, U.K., UK Reviews, Wellness United Kingdom
There are cloisters and cobbled streets, a castle and listed Church, leafy Georgian avenues and Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms, according to my online research. Harrogate, is a Victorian Spa town and in its heyday a sought-after fashionable resort with curative spring waters. And a Yorkshire must-see. Sadly, however, I didn’t quite manage the short journey […]
Ayurveda, the European way
By The Healthcare Holiday on 29th April 2018 in Austria, Ayurveda, Detox, Europe, General, Holistic, Reviews, Therapies (Holistic & Alternative Medicine)
Editor’s Review It has been a very busy year so far and it’s starting to show. I’m eating more of the wrong foods to cope with looming deadlines, my mobile takes priority, my weight is nudging the scales and my skin has lost that freshness. I have no time to just be…. Is this just […]
Chewing Over A Modern Mayr Cure at Park Igls, Austria
My happiest New Year fantasy is to wake up back at the Park Igls Hotel in the Austrian Tyrol, all set to be cosily eased into a Modern Mayr Cure – making me healthier, fitter & thinner for 2018! The traditional FX Mayr Cure was the stuff of legend. Devised in the 1920’s by Austrian […]
The Healing Waters of Bath
Dip your toe into the therapeutic waters of Bath for a reflection of a Roman era. Echoing a bygone time, it’s easy to imagine servants carrying vessels of mineral rich water, bathing in the warm waters that promise miraculous healing powers, being pampered in majestic surroundings with high domed ceilings while pompous and imposing Romanesque […]
