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With an increasing number of health and wellness programs being introduced at resorts around the world, it’s becoming easier for the senior traveller to venture to vacation destinations with health goals in mind.
From tours and retreats to getaways and medical centres, active seniors can combine leisurely trips with healing experiences that include activities such as taking of mineral waters for specific aches and pains, energy renewal and strength building through yoga and Tai Chi, smoking cessation, and detoxification with holistic spa treatments.
Here are four health retreats/tours that offer programs for the wellness-minded 60-plus traveller:
Binh Chau Hot Spring seniors’ health tour
Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Vietnam
Thirty-three hectares of hot springs in coastal forest air is the setting for this health recovery tour designed expressly for seniors. The Ben Thanh Tourist Company offers a two-day trip through the Binh Chau Hot Spring Resort and Vung Tau City. Located about 150 kilometres from Ho Chi Minh City, the springs have natural wells as hot as 83 degrees Celsius. Services include hot mud baths, massages and therapeutic soaks in mineral waters.
Active Seniors’ Yoga Getaway
Nevada City, California
Nestled in the spiritual community of Ananda Village, located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains just outside Nevada City, this retreat combines gentle yoga techniques with meditation practices. Cardiac yoga instructors teach guests how to customize yoga postures to suit their own body needs. The four-day retreat is designed to boost energy levels through increased flexibility, strength and balance. Workshops connect yoga to daily routines, emphasizing how yogic principles produce lifestyle changes. The getaway also focuses on improving concentration levels through a simple meditation technique. Participants are also encouraged to take daily nature walks through the nearby meadows and forests trails.
Space Age Natural Health & Beauty Care Centre
Mumbai, India
The SpaceAge Natural Health and Beauty Care Centre combines a vacation with a clinic offering holistic, herbal and natural treatments. This centre caters to medical tourists by offering a comprehensive preventive health checkup. Promising to address all chronic health issues, the clinic specializes in detoxification and rejuvenation of the body. Intracellular nutritional treatments focus on cardiac problems and other medical conditions such as diabetes, arthritis and body aches. The clinic also offers anti-aging medicine for all age groups and immunity-boosting programs. The Centre says it does not use drugs, chemicals or synthetic hormones in any of the treatments.
Ban Ing Nam Health Resort & Spa
Bangkok, Thailand
Located within an hour’s drive of Bangkok and surrounded by fruit orchards, exotic plants and bird life, the holistic Ban Ing Nam Health Resort & Spa tailors its programs to the individual requirements of guests. For seniors, those requirements might include high blood pressure control, diabetes management and cardiovascular programs. Fitness activities, like aquatic exercise, also cater to an older guest. Wellness health, medical fitness and dietary consultation assessments are available as are scheduled classes such as meditation, Tai Chi and healthy cooking.
Kristy Thomson is an editorial intern with Travel to Wellness
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