Best of the Maldives: Gut Reset – Joali Being

Joali Being - gut reset

With the holidays behind us, many of us are plotting our January resolutions or at least recovery from the excesses of the festivities. Joali Being offers and complete “Gut Reset” which is a 5, 7 or 10 night programme with comprehensive catalogue of consultations, meals and treatments – Massage, Detox, Microbiome Therapy | Gut Reset, Wellbeing | JOALI Being:

  • Especially designed to address the root cause of digestive disorders, this Wellbeing Programme promotes cellular detoxication and restores the natural balance of your microbiome through a synergistic blend of gentle detoxifying treatments.”

My gut feel is that this will make your gut feel great.

Best of the Maldives: Candy Spa – Centara Mirage Lagoon

Centara Mirage Lagoon - candy spa

Tonight children around the world will have visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads, but the at Centara Mirage Lagoon, they can have these all year round at its “Candy Spa”…

  • “The Centara Mirage Lagoon Resort, located in the North Male Atoll, provides a range of sweet-themed services, including manicures and spa parties. Children can create body scrubs from bubble gum sherbet and toffee apple flavours, or enjoy massages infused with strawberries and cream.”

Best of the Maldives: Glass Floor Treatment Room – Joali Being

Joali Being - glass floor treatment room

Some of the classiest treatment rooms in the Maldives are situated overwater and feature a glass portal under the treatment table so you can be lulled into more a relaxed state looking at the tranquil waters sloshing about below with its colourful tropical fish cruising by. Joali Being has given its entire treatment a glass floor so you are immersed in the aquatic tranquillity the moment you enter.

Best of the Maldives: Sleep Therapy – Joali Being

Joali Being - sleep therapy

One would think that of all places, the relaxed chill of the indolent Maldives would be the last place where one would need help sleeping. But sleep is a bit more complicated than that. Global visitors will confront jet lag. High-powered go-getters can often have trouble shifting gears to decompress. People of a certain age (like us) often suffer from disrupted sleep patterns. And even the blessing of the poolside laying about can make it difficult to get a full night’s sleep because you have rested so much during the day. Joali Being now how has a treatment for anyone who not only wants a relaxing holiday, but also guidance on restful nights even after the vacation is over – sleep therapy:

  • ·Regulate and improve your sleeping patterns. By addressing the underlying health imbalances that may be contributing to your sleep concerns, this Wellbeing Programme ensures that not only will you rest better whilst on holiday but also after you return home.”

Best of the Maldives: Cocoon Body Steam – Soneva Fushi

Soneva Soul - Cocoon Body Steam

The costume awards for “Innovation” and “Wellness” goes to Soneva Fushi’s Cocoon Body Steam:

  • ·This innovative treatment balances 02 and C02 and was developed by Anders Olsson, the founder of Conscious Breathing. It improves vagal tone, increases oxygenation of all tissues, and is applicable for chronic pain recovery, energy and treating inflammation.”

Best of the Maldives: Stem Cell Treatment – Soneva Fushi

Soneva Soul - stem cell therapy

Stem cells are truly amazing components of the human body. They are undifferentiated cells that can turn into wide range of cell types (or they can just replicate indefinitely to produce more of the same stem cell). As a result of these distinctive characteristics, they are seen as the original human cell from which the human organised has evolved. A friend of mine recently had a life saving stem cell transplant where his faulty immune system was destroyed by the doctors and then they introduced the right stem cells to grow him whole new, healthy immune system (forgive the over-simplification).

Soneva Fushi has brought the scientific magic of stem cells to the Maldives offers the first ever stem cell treatments for a range of skin care procedures – Soneva Soul – First And Only Stem Cell Centre In Maldives (maldives-times.com):

  • “By importing stem cells with prescription, Soneva Soul has eminent its collection of bespoke health and wellness services. Operating with the essential approvals from the Maldives Food and Drug Authority and maintenance world-class standards, the resort is now competent to provide targeted treatment and protocols by the power and probable of stem cells. The stem cells used in their treatment are complete by Sweden-based Cellcolabs, a biotech company that’s devoted to growing global access to stem cell treatments. Built on two decades of study at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, they specialize in the high-class manufacture of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs).”

The treatments are from Sweden-based Cellcolabs, a biotech company that’s devoted to growing global access to stem cell treatments. Built on two decades of study at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, they specialize in the high-class manufacture of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). The procedures include:

  • Ntra-Articular Orthopedic Injetions to assist damaged tissue repair
  • Topical injections with Micro-Needling to promote skin renewal
  • IV system Stem Cell to reduce swelling and aid tissue recovery
  • Intradermal Injections for a range of cosmetic treatments

Best of the Maldives: Floating Spa – South Palm

South Palm - floating spa 1

Across the 4 decades of watching the Maldives tourism evolve, we remember when most mainstream resorts didn’t even have spas. Then some added Western therapists on six-month contract given a table in some back room to work from. Eventually, proper wellness spas became the norm and soon, at the luxury properties, these establishments got positioned over the magical water like the villas and restaurants before them. Now South Palm has taken that treatment innovation a step even further by (a) introducing the Maldives’ first ever floating spa, and (b) the Maldives first ever lake spa.

Many of my favourite treatments in the Maldives were on overwater platforms where the natural sounds and sensations of the surrounding sea providing the soothing soundscape. A good massage will leave feeling like your are floating, and at South Palm you can get that feeling for real

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Best of the Maldives: Herbal Compression Workshop – Cora Cora

Cora Cora - herbal compression workshop 1

Sometimes “BestOfs” are doubly good. I have not only not seen “herbal compression” treatments at a spa, but I have certainly not seen a workshop that teaches you who to make your own. But Cora Cora has put these together is a distinctively creative wellness experience. The herbal compresses are heated in a special steamer and then the warm herb compress is then applied (either directly to skin or through thin pyjamas) during a massage. The compress itself is made of a collectin of herbs wrapped tightly in a thin muslin or cotton cloth.

Cora Cora - herbal compression workshop 2

Cora Cora - herbal compression workshop 3