Most beautiful wellness retreat in the world, much?
We love a bit of Maldives. Quite the schlepp, puts the é in your sun-sand-spa-repeat cliché, and yes, we did cringe a tad writing the word ‘wellness’, but who cares when said wellness looks – and feels – this good?
That’s because it’s JOALI BEING, the first wellbeing island of its kind in the Maldives, and hands down – hands anywhere, seeing as you ask – the prettiest. Seriously, look at it. They had us at that Calatrava-esque welcome jetty, then kept giving with their biophilic villas, earth-to-table culinary philosophy (the glorious Plantae is ticking all our vegan boxes) and that darn handsome spa that’s giving us all the right feels.
Then there’s JOALI BEING’s new programme of immersive wellbeing experiences, curated by a gaggle of very clever ‘Master Practitioners’, focussing on mental, emotional and spiritual healing. Like, say, craniosacral and Watsu therapy (right?!), water nervous system resetting, Luminous self-healing, Holographic Memory Resolution, herbology, sound therapy, water rebirthing (we actually did this. We might’ve wept happy tears), breathwork, their signature Intelligent Movement Analysis and Integrative Health Assessment, plus dedicated wellbeing programmes for men. Our gut bacteria are having a ball just thinking about it.
New year, new you? You’d be silly not to.
And if that doesn’t blag us a free trip, we’ll eat all our bonnets.
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