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The answer is a resounding yes. Our wellness holidays go far beyond the traditional fly and flop holiday. They’re transformative experiences which provide lifelong benefits, whether it’s a healthy holiday to help you manage your stress levels, lose weight, detox or learn a new skill. You’ll return home inspired and with the knowledge you need to pursue a happier and more peaceful lifestyle. Here are a few of the benefits you can expect from one of our luxury wellness holidays:

Built around an ancient cave that once served Buddhist monks as a place of meditation and spiritual retreat, Kamalaya, offers a secluded sanctuary nestled on the tropical Thai island of Koh Samui. For the last eleven years, this leading destination spa has been pioneering wellness itineraries for guests from around the world. Now, they’re taking that one step further with three new life enhancement wellness retreats for 2016 and 2017.

Spa holidays are all about relaxing and de-stressing. As well as offering a range of spa therapies, holistic activities and pamper sessions, they also provide the perfect opportunity to take in the local surrounding beauty. There are numerous health benefits from going on a spa holiday, from relieving stress to improving your diet, which will help you live a more spiritual and healthier lifestyle. Here we share our top 10 benefits:

Take a break from your hectic lifestyle and embark a life-changing retreat that will help you to become a better version of you. Whether you want to improve your health or become more in touch with yourself, our wide range of wellness holidays will help you get on track to make real positive changes to your life. From a safari spa break in South Africa to a detox holiday in Thailand, our collection of healthy holidays ensure that everyone can find the life changing escape they are looking for to make you a better person. Indulge in a relaxing getaway being pampered with rejuvenating spa treatments and take part in a variety of fun activities whilst working your way towards achieving your personal goals.

Make now the time to change your life for the better and reach your optimal health. Take a break and go on holiday to reach your own personal goals, whether to get fit, lose weight, stop smoking, learn to surf, beat insomnia or learn to dance. We round up our top 10 self-improving wellness holidays which will impact you long after you return home.

Yoga has taken the world by storm, with over 15 million people now practising this ancient tradition and profiting from its mental and physical benefits. Being much more than just a form of physical activity, a regular yoga practise can also help calm the mind, increase mental and physical awareness, and renew spiritual and physical balance.

When it comes to staying fit and healthy, we all know that a combination of exercise and a balanced diet is the key. Whilst exercising is mostly straightforward - increasing the heart rate to burn calories - there can be a difficulty in finding the right foods to best compliment working out. With so much to choose from and an array of hidden ingredients, you never know what you might be eating. Superfoods (so called owing to their 'super' health benefits) may be the answer to this problem. By incorporating them into our everyday diet we reduce the risk of chronic disease and can even prolong life. 

Being confined to the cramped space and stuffy recirculated air of an aeroplane for several hours can have a number of detrimental effects on our bodies, leaving us to feel not so fresh when we eventually reach our destination.  Following a few simple steps could make the journey much less tedious and enervating. Here are ten helpful suggestions for how you can stay healthy whilst travelling:

The workplace is where most of us spend the majority of our time and so plays a big part in our health. Lots of things can distract us from work, for example, hunger, tiredness, joint aches, and dehydration so we share our top ten tips on how to minimise these and feel happier and healthier at work.

When the clock strikes five on Friday afternoon, all you want to do is let your hair down, relax and have fun with your friends. Unfortunately, this often leads to overindulging on sugary snacks, ordering takeaways and lounging around in front of the TV. By the time your Monday morning alarm sounds, you’re left feeling tired, lethargic and guilty, having undone all your weekday healthy eating.

Investing in the latest celebrity endorsed beauty secret in pursuit of the promise of flawless skin is something we have all fallen victim to. Instead of bankrolling an endless collection of moisturisers, toners and anti-ageing creams; get out of your body what you put in to it, by making some healthy eating changes. With the right food choices capable of giving you the healthy glow you have been longing for, swap sugary snacks for leafy greens and you will be amazed at the changes you see in your complexion, just one of the many benefits of healthy eating.

The road to recovery from cancer has never been a clear-cut path and often demands a lot of time to cope with the aftermath from cancer treatments. For individuals going through this journey, a rejuvenating post-cancer recovery retreat may be the wellness solution you need to help restore your energy and revive your spirit. With the importance of patients getting the support they need to get their lives back after fighting the illness, wellness plays a fundamental role in cancer recovery. For recovering cancer patients, our 5 rejuvenating spa and well-being centres offer personalised wellness programmes, to ease you into facing life after cancer.

With many of us in search of ways to improve our daily lives, Emily Alp, freelance journalist and guest yoga teacher at Samahita Retreat in Thailand, shares 5 life changing benefits of going on a yoga retreat.

Everybody knows it’s important to stay healthy whilst pregnant, but have you ever considered how your health affects your chances of conceiving? Saying goodbye to a bad diet or simply taking time to relax and unwind could really help your family blossom. When it comes to enhancing fertility, Mother Nature should always be first in line. Just for now, forget man-made solutions and try making small changes to your own daily routine. Make more time for yourself, eat healthily and get more sleep. You will be surprised how much of a difference it can make.

Remember what your mother told you - you’re never too young to start preparing for healthy ageing. If ageing gracefully and looking after your well-being is important to you, a healthy anti-ageing holiday is the perfect choice for you.

There are so many different types of yoga mats out there; it's difficult to know which one will support your yoga practice the best. A yoga mat must suit your body, keeping you stable in your poses, soak up any sweat that you produce, provide enough cushioning between you and the floor and enhance your practice so that you gain the numerous benefits of yoga.

Whether you are shedding the pounds with personal training sessions in Spain or are learning to cook healthier meals at a wellness retreat in India, with our 5 most effective and intensive weight loss holidays, you’ll have everything you need to kick-start your weight-loss regime.

Eating a healthy balanced diet at a post-cancer recovery retreat won’t only keep you at your ideal optimal weight, but it can also help you fight or recover from cancer. Many raw fruits and vegetables actually contain nutrients that attack cancer cells, whilst others block inflammation that promotes cancer growth. It is therefore important to adopt a healthy diet to ensure that you are living a healthy lifestyle and to help prevent the growth of cancer cells. Start your journey to a healthier lifestyle on a nutrition friendly holiday where you can indulge in nutritious flavoursome meals and discover that healthy doesn’t have to be boring. Our nutrition retreats can also help to improve your understanding of the importance of a healthy diet, and help you to make a lifestyle change. To start you on this journey, here, we share our top 5 superfoods to help fight cancer.

Don’t overlook the numerous health benefits mindfulness retreats can have on your health, physical fitness and overall well-being. Practicing mindfulness can be particularly useful for athletes looking to improve their sporting performance and all fitness fanatics seeking to find new ways to optimise their movements and concentration during training. Most importantly, a mindfulness retreat is an easy and accessible way to benefit anyone with the desire to improve their physical fitness. Re-connect your mind and body on a mindful meditation holiday and extend greater appreciation towards your physical senses.

All time is precious, but holiday time is priceless. That’s why it is so important to spend every moment of it with purpose. Remember those goals and hobbies you’ve put aside because you were just too busy with work and life in general? Holidays are an excellent way to get back on track, and what better way to do it than on a learning holiday? Whether you’re a beginner or trying to enhance underlying skills, it’s never too late to embark on a new adventure. Stop putting things off and embrace the opportunity to learn something new with these six stunning holiday destinations.