Wellness for a longer life

BEST OF | Issue 2 | Winter 2024

We’ve heard and read a lot lately about longevity, whenever the secrets of good health and active aging are in the focal point. To live long and at the same time to remain physically and mentally fit – the chances of reaching that goal have never been so good. Life expectancy has doubled over the last century. The basic formula for its achievement: healthy diet and physical activity. Longevity Retreats have picked up the ball and run with it: in beautiful surroundings they create a temporary time-out from everyday life, making new things possible, reducing stress and assisting you to slow down, calm down, become deeply tranquil. Above all else they offer wide-ranging diagnostic tests upon which individual treatments can then be structured. And they support you in implementing easily applied strategies for a healthy lifestyle. Here are a few exclusive examples.

Palazzo Fiuggi

Eighty kilometres east of Rome lies Fiuggi. The tiny city has been well-known for its natural mineral water and healing sources, cures, health and revitalisation treatments for body and soul at Palazzo Fiuggi for hundreds of years. The programmes carried out in this fin-de-siecle palace with its own medical spa are dedicated to the themes of detoxification & weight goals, restore & balance, as well as longevity. For the food line of Palazzo Fiuggi, where eating is considered medicine, master chef-de-cuisine Heinz Beck, decorated with three Michelin stars, is in charge.
www.palazzofiuggi.com

SHA Wellness Clinic

Due to a worrisome medical diagnosis, Alfredo Bataller Parietti sought out solutions for his long-enduring medical complaints and problems through integrative medicine and a healthy diet. It proved successful. This highly valuable experience was something he then wanted to share with others, to help them along the self-same path towards a longer and better life. Today the SHA brand stands for integrative health care, prevention of all ills and complaints, and longevity. In the SHA Wellness Clinic in L’Albir, near Alicante, Spain, and also at the resort in Mexico opened in 2024, healthy eating is the tool of choice leading to nature therapies, preventive medicine and all-round fitness. There are no limits to what can be done to improve and optimize the health of the guests.
www.shawellness.com

Kamalaya

Through holistic, all-encompassing healing launched on the inside, Kamalaya in Koh Samui, Thailand, provides solutions to the problems of stress and sets the cornerstone of rejuvenating mind, body and soul. The suites and villas of the resort savour unparalleled views over the jungle or the turquoise-hued waters of the Gulf of Thailand, inspiring your relaxation a further notch. In order to help you temporarily switch off the noise of the outside world, guests are asked to forego the use of their digital devices. Through more than seventy therapies and treatments in holistic medicine stemming from Eastern and Western medicine on offer right on location, Kamalaya Wellness Centre improves and optimizes the well-being of its guests. In addition, optional courses are provided, ranging from Pilates, Yoga, Qi Gong and Meditation all the way to Tai-Chi and Core-Fitness. In the Longevity House, what’s more, the Kamalaya Resort also offers regenerative treatments and therapies to further underpin the well-being of its guests.
www.kamalaya.com

Chiva-Som

Chiva-Som in Hua Hin, Thailand has been a hallmark of custom-tailored luxury wellness retreats for more than a quarter of a century. As a consequence of this unusually venerable expertise and also due to its paradise-like location extending over seven hectares of terrain on the Gulf of Thailand, Chiva-Som (incidentally the very first wellness resort in Asia) was presented with the Condé Nast Traveler’s Readers’ Choice Awards and the proud distinction “Top Destination Spa Resort in the World”. Its far-reaching repertoire of offerings includes physiotherapy, nutritional consulting, fitness, spa and beauty treatments, all of which make it possible to bring body and mind back into harmonious functioning as a unit and thereby, to achieve genuine well-being, while at the same time supporting your physical, emotional and spiritual rejuvenation.
www.chivasom.com

Lanserhof

The name Lanserhof, whose cradle of origin lies in Lans near Innsbruck, with additional resorts in Tegernsee and on Sylt – and, we might add, also on Marbella as of 2026 – has for more than 40 years been a synonym for holistic, all-round medicine and sustained regeneration and prevention. The Lanserhof concept is based on a symbiosis of traditional natural healing methods, on the one hand, and innovative diagnostics and discoveries of modern medicine on the other. The key to regeneration and revitalisation of the flowing juices of life is to be found in the healthy state of the gut: the microbiome. A strictly regulated diet of less than 500 calories daily cleans, clears and purges the intestines so that regenerative therapies can have optimal effect.
www.lanserhof.com