Tantric retreats, integrative healing, customized training. health remains to recharge your batteries at the start of the school year

Save yourself. Reconnect body and mind. Breaking the boundaries of age. Take yourself out of an overwhelming context. These are our new mantras, and the pandemic has sharpened the deep needs of an era yearning for change. With global sales of $4.4 billion in 2020 and an estimated 60 percent growth by 2025, wellness is making a profit, according to the Global Health Institute. The American Express Travel survey even mentions a health wave, 43% of respondents choose their vacation spot based on the presence of a spa. “Demand is exploding in France and internationally,” says Pascal Langillon, founder and CEO of Luxe Wellness Club, a medical spa and wellness specialist. Since Covid, we want to regain control of our health and no longer suffer the horrors of modern life.” At the same time, customers are getting younger. “These aspirations also affect people in their thirties, realizing the need to take care of themselves, especially when responsible for stressful positions.”

A holistic approach

Treatments, cures, and retreats now go beyond a pleasant break; the programs offered aim to optimize physical and mental abilities. It is biohacking – hacking biology – which consists of controlling the body by combining various manual, mental, medical, nutritional, physical techniques… and which is demonstrated by the success of the epigenetic treatment of the Thalazur facilities. “Customers want to live longer and in better health,” analyzes Pascal Langillon. They are informed and know that to do this they need to eat better, deal with stress, exercise, sleep better, etc., but they need time and support to get there. Similarly, yoga in all its forms and naturopathy are almost always included.

Clients want to live longer and healthier lives, but they need time and support to get there

Pascal Languillon, founder and CEO of Luxe Wellness Club

The medical boom remains

Result: in countries where the law allows it: Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Thailand, etc., “we offer more advanced antiaging techniques or machines: fasting, vitamin injections, hyperbaric chambers, aesthetic procedures with stem cells, ozone therapy, physical, aesthetic and even genetic tests, etc., explains our expert. Everything is done under the supervision of the medical staff after health consultation. Proof that the trend is not weakening. next to the pillars (Chenot, La Prairie, Merano, Nescens, Sha Wellness, La Reserve…) new establishments are constantly appearing (Palazzo Fiuggi…). At the ultra-luxurious Hotel Ultima Gstaad in Switzerland, the Full Winter Recharge program begins with a DNA test to better understand your health and offer you care and customized nutrition to boost your immunity.

The undisputed reference for medical fasting treatment, Germany’s Büchinger Wilhelm Clinic is multiplying scientific research to prove the benefits of guided fasting on health, sleep, hormonal balance, oxidative stress, blood pressure and other metabolic disorders. Chronicles… For those who can’t afford them. stay, he launches a €199 fasting box to carry out a five-day diet in complete safety at home. In France, limited by even stricter regulations, new thermal or thalassotherapy treatments are positioning themselves to support proven health problems, as shown by the near generalization of programs for post-cancer and menopause treatments or sleep and digestive pathologies or joint, metabolic disorders. …

The individual is the focus

When informed, the customer also demands highly personalized care. Therefore, many centers no longer hesitate to break their predefined packages to offer stays where you create your own program (Barrière La Baule, Thermes Adour, Miramar Crouesty, etc.). “In large health centers, the personalization of care is established from the first meeting,” notes Pascal Langillon. And it may be adjusted gradually, depending on the performed tests, feelings…” Protocols are also increasingly outdated, where everything is the same for everyone: treatments, types of massages, meridians used, nutritional programs, cosmetics used… increasingly individualized to optimize results. Space, time, tranquility and the feeling of being unique now. In 2023, this is the essence of luxury. Another telling example is the newly customized Inspiration massage delivered at Chamonix’s Deep Nature Resorts, which lasts between 20 and 75 minutes, based on listening to the body’s needs.

A stop called desire

“Sexual well-being is an important part of overall health and emotional well-being,” says Elodie Jacquemond, founder of the Holissence platform. He’s not alone in thinking so. In the heart of our village or at the end of the world, staying dedicated to intimate life is multiplying and reaching luxury hotels. Not to be confused, of course, with sex tourism, which has nothing to do with it. A couple who is suffocating or wanting to “repair the betrayal”, a mother who has lost her way to desire, a forbidden single…

Sexual well-being is an important part of overall health and emotional well-being

Élodie Jacquemond, founder of the Holissence platform

For the effect, it was enough to go on vacation for a long time sea, sex and sun works, but the stress and pace of modern life complicate romantic relationships today. Mexico, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Australia… Some agencies like intimacymoons.com or backtothebody.org specialize in high-end accommodations in heavenly places. Coaching with a sex therapist is included. But there or elsewhere we willingly use a euphemism.

We talk about reuniting with the self, bodily awakening, sensual experiences, even a tantric retreat or kundalini yoga. Others approach the issue in a more medical way. In Spain, the Sha Wellness clinic opens a sexual health department that focuses on hormonal and sexual harmonization and emotional balance. “There is no age that fully enjoys life in all its aspects,” says the doctor.^r: Rafael Navas, Integrative and Hormonal Health Expert. Radiofrequency, stem cell therapy, gynecological aesthetics, physical therapy, hormone therapy… Here we begin by treating the physical with the very first technologies to liberate the mind. Is seventh heaven on the horizon?