Jamaica Inn’s Ocean Spa has launched a Farm-to-Skin Foraging experience that takes guests on a journey through the property’s tropical gardens to forage herbs, plants and fruit to create products for their treatments.

Accompanied by a spa therapist, guests discover ingredients such as papaya, coconut, lemongrass, rosemary and aloe vera, while learning about their health benefits.

Following the tour, they enjoy a hands-on demonstration of how to make a range of DIY beauty products.

All spa treatments can be coupled with this experience with guests offered a 15 per cent discount.

Location: Jamaica Inn Ocean Spa, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Duration: One hour, plus treatment time
Cost: Complimentary, plus price of treatment

The 7132 Hotel and thermal baths (formerly Therme Vals) has launched an immersive Swiss Alpine package.

Guests can enjoy the hotel’s breathtaking landscape by experiencing high-altitude forest bathing, complete with a personalised outdoor massage in a forest dense with fir trees and ferns.

Therapists use local ingredients, such as mountain herb-infused oils during the ritual, which is rooted in the belief that proximity to nature improves physical and mental wellbeing.

The 7132 Alpine Ritual package includes three nights in the penthouse suite, helicopter transfer, a forest bathing wellness treatment, hot stone massage, and access to the thermal baths.

Location: 7132 Hotel, Vals, Switzerland
Duration: Three-night stay
Cost: CHF 11,230 (US$11,385, €10,826, £9,244) per person

The daily schedule includes a four-hour mountain hike / photo: Tyson Sadlo

US destination fitness and wellness retreat operator, The Ranch, has launched its first permanent international programme at Palazzo Fiuggi Wellness Medical Retreat.

Limited to 25 guests a week, the retreat includes a daily schedule of a four-hour morning mountain hike, nap time, healthy plant-based meals, afternoon strength and core training classes, yoga and a daily massage. Guests will also undergo diagnostic and blood testing, plus a consultation with a Palazzo Fiuggi physician for a more complete understanding of their health status.

The package is designed to help people leave with a greater sense of self, and feel rested and rejuvenated, while having lost weight and gained muscle.

Location: Palazzo Fiuggi Wellness Medical Retreat, Fiuggi, Italy
Duration: Seven nights, eight days
Cost: US$10,650 (€10,110, £8,650) per single room

Armathwaite Hall Hotel and Spa is offering the Rest. Restore. Rewild. package to encourage guests to engage with the natural world, to bring a deeper sense of connection and love for the earth and all its beings.

The experience includes two hours of guided forest bathing, afternoon tea and a private tour of the nearby Lake District Wildlife Park, where guests are taught how to connect mindfully with endangered animals, such as red pandas, lemurs, tapirs and gibbons. They also meet alpacas and giant tortoises. To protect the animals’ wellbeing, the tour is conducted without contact.

Location: Armathwaite Hall Hotel & Spa, Keswick, UK
Duration: Five hours
Cost: £110 (US$136, €129)

Philosophia Botanica’s new Meridian Flow Golden Facial has debuted at the UK’s first Heavenly Spa by Westin.

Created by Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), practitioner Francesca Canzano-Franklin, the treatment is inspired by African botanicals and traditional Eastern techniques.

The facial incorporates the use of botanical oils, which are used in conjunction with a gauss micro-stimulator, a magnetic pen and a copper gua sha sculpting spoon. Gold-coated micro-magnetic pearls are then applied to the meridians and acupuncture points of the face, to increase micro-circulation and oxygenation, reduce wrinkle depth and plump the skin.

The ritual also incorporates facial mapping based on TCM’s meridian balancing, magnetic energy matching, acupressure stimulation and a bespoke facial massage.

Location: The Westin London City, London, UK
Duration: 90 minutes
Cost: £170 (US$210, €200)

Mayan culture upholds that the moon’s cycle affects body water in the same way as the tides. Now, Chablé Yucatan’s new Full Moon ceremonies offer guests the chance to recalibrate by working with spiritual guides to request permission from the four cardinal directions and natural elements for the body, soul and mind to be at peace.

Prayers and songs dedicated to the moon are performed, and guests are taken to a sacred healing well to make seed offerings of cocoa, rice, beans and corn to the water, symbolising rebirth. This represents the return to mother nature and resetting one’s life path with new intentions.

Location: Chablé Yucatan, Mexico
Duration: 60-90 minutes
Cost: 4,180 MXN (US$206, €198, £169)