Month: August 2015

BEAUTY: What’s Your Home Scent?

  There are very few things that are more luxurious in life than a spa. Whenever you walk into your favourite spa, your senses are engaged immediately.  Your mood changes. You shoulders start to drop. Your eye lids start to lower and your breathing gets slower as you inhale the incredible scents around you. The air is perfumed, soft music quietly plays, the lights are low and there is very little clutter. Candles are lit and all the furnishings are warm, soft and luxurious.  You ignore your technology and you don’t miss at all the flickering screens or beeps. You get handed tantalising infused water or warm herbal tea. Already you feel yourself start to relax. The stresses that worried you as you walked through the door. Almost gone. Well, why not try to recreate this at home? If you are anything like me you will have a rather healthy (or not, totally depends on how you look at it!) obsession with candles and fragrance. Creating your own can be far less expensive, easier to …

ESCAPE: Wellness Escapes to Inspire

Ah Winter. You make it ever so easy to lose motivation. To forget routine. To leave health well behind. Basically, you make it very easy to do nothing! That is almost what I did, but no, after a look at a rather judgemental Pug a few weeks ago (after a particularly busy day of study) I decided enough. I wasn’t going to let the cold, rain, wind get to me. So I made a bargin with myself to get in at least an hour a day of walking in with said judgemental Pug. Insert some gym sessions and NYC and boom. A habit is born. It was after this spurt of energy and the decision to commit to a beginners Yoga course, starting next week (!) that I got to roaming in the interwebs and found these dream-worthy Wellness & Detox retreats. Ah, not only do you get away. Get healthy. Revive. You also get to do so in some of the most beautiful destinations in the world. Perhaps if I cross off some more …