I love trying out local, authentic treatments when travelling. Whilst staying in Kerala in India for my yoga teacher training in April this year, I was able to experience a very different kind of ‘foot [...]
SpaTree - bringing the Spa back to Nature Modern Lifestyles seem to be about downsizing, going back to the roots, simplifying lives, becoming more in tune with nature. So the question today is: How can [...]
Soaking in a Japanese style Wooden Bathtub: Waking up the deepest part of your Spirit The Global Wellness Trend Report 2017 ranks Wellness Architecture second (and no, just because the identification of wellness trends has been [...]
Merlot and Mud – Wine & Wellness in Napa Valley I admit, the scale for my recent Wine & Wellness in Napa Valley trip got tipped heavily towards one side…the wine side… Wellness is not [...]
Silver Swimmer Paradise: Wellness 60plus I am driving West, almost 700 km one way on a hot summer Friday, in desperate need of a break, and eventually end up in silver swimmer paradise. To be [...]
Experience Authentic Kneipp in Tirol “Everything we need to stay healthy is already given to us by nature” said Sebastian Kneipp. Who was Sebastian Kneipp? German clergymen Sebastian Kneipp (1821 - 1897) came up with [...]
Saarland Therme - successful German-French Wellness Cooperation I am always thrilled when I can report about wellness from my home country Saarland, the small and charming region in the south-western part of Germany. And if [...]
Cryo Therapy - Ice Age 2.0 What was the coldest temperature you have ever experienced? For me until now it was -37 C, which was not so unusual in Finland back in 1985 in January [...]
Places of Power in Tyrol Yes, Tyrol is Wellness Country par excellence and what better place to chose as venue for the next Global Wellness Summit! Majestic Mountains. Crystal clear lakes and rivers. The [...]
Floating – tank, dome, or pool? A recent discussion in a Wellness Facebook Group has triggered my deeper interest in floating. I have done some floating session in the past, including in facilities such as a kind [...]
Spa Check: Watzmann Therme BerchtesgadenIt is a gloomy day. The clouds have been distributing snow and rain alternating over the past few days, the tops of the mountains can only be guessed from way below in [...]
A truly oriental spa experience – Hamam Baden Review Whenever I think “I have seen it all” a little gem pops up seemingly out of nowhere. The little gem I am talking about today is [...]
The Body Wrap Vienna – my mummy experimentOnce you have made your way through the shabby lobby and lift to the 19th and top floor of Vienna’s first residential high tower located in Vienna’s 5th district, [...]
Spa Review Römertherme Baden – Wellness like the Romans Just only about half an hour car ride out of Vienna, the small town Baden is a real fountain of health, located along the so called [...]
Spa Review: Felsentherme – The Thermal Waters of Bad Gastein Bad Gastein – also called the Monte Carlo in the Alps – is one of 3 towns in the Gasteiner Valley in the midst of [...]
Spa Review: Timeless Spa Dubai AirportDo you remember Mandy’s article “Does travel need to be disruptive to our wellbeing”? Mandy rightly says: “Traveling is disruptive. Be it to our sleep, our diet, our work, our fitness [...]
about gym hardware and softiesafter having been an aerobics instructor in younger years (yes, i did the glitzy tights 80’s style, but photos of that time over my dead body only) and having managed health clubs [...]
Floating to my heart beat in Vienna I have had a few floating sessions before, mostly in larger pools in public thermal spas or hotel spas, and have never really experienced such profound relaxation that [...]
Therme Linsberg Asia Having tested Therme Wien the other day, I am intrigued about getting to know further thermal spas in the Vienna area. I have to say, I find the about 40 min car ride [...]
Sabai-Sabai Thai Massage in Bad ReichenhallA piece of Thailand in BavariaSince I had visited THE Thai massage school at the Wat Po temple in Bangkok in 2008 – where, by the way, the only remains [...]
Tauern Spa Kaprun …is a wellness highlight to me over and over again, despite the fact that I usually spend a lot of time in thermal spas, wellness hotels and such in general. For once [...]
Therme Wien Oberlaa Was hab ich mich gefreut, als ich in Wien ankam und der Himmel war grau und winterlich trist… doppelte Vorfreude auf den nachmittaglichen Besuch in der Therme Wien Oberlaa. Ich bin [...]
Wellness Österreich – Wellness in Austria according to an international report (Health and Wellness Industry Report 2014 by Horwath HTL), so called ‘destination spas’ (hotels, that have made their spa and wellness offers main focus [...]
