Health: The New Gift Trend For This Festive Season
As preventative health and wellbeing become an even higher priority on the list for Brits, there is nothing more special and timely than giving a loved one the gift of good health this Christmas.
From the world’s most advanced personal healthcare assessment, to a results-driven medical retreat in Switzerland and a transformative healing experience in the heart of London, we’ve selected the most pioneering gift ideas for serious health and wellness-seekers of every kind.
A Weekend of Emotional Cleansing
Reset and reconnect body and mind this Christmas with one of the signature wellness experiences by COMO Metropolitan London, Park Lane's most holistic wellbeing establishment. Perfect for those looking for a pampering yet deeply healing experience, the EAT STAY HEAL package is designed to relax the body, remove physical and emotional blockages and provide a renewed clarity of mind. Start your healing journey in the hands of an expert COMO Shambhala therapist for a nurturing signature massage, where bespoke blended oils ease away anxieties as the massage gently rejuvenates the body.
Once in a state of relaxation, meet Energy Therapist, Francesca Raffa. Using techniques developed over decades, Francesca tackles both physical and emotional issues, meeting individual needs – whether it’s anxiety, insomnia, traumas or physical ailments. A combination of Reiki healing is used to create a completely bespoke treatment, where Francesca senses energy fields and pinpoints problems in the unconsciousness before releasing them. The release from an underlying issue has a holistic domino effect, improving both physical and mental wellbeing. After dining on fresh-from-the-ocean seafood and sushi at Nobu Restaurant, retreat to your luxurious suite for a deep, undisturbed and restorative sleep.
A Retreat to Europe’s Best Medical Spa
Designed to reduce chronic stress and restore optimal energy levels along with improved sleep patterns and better general mood, the Recover and Energise programme at Chenot Palace Weggis - Europe’s latest and most advanced medical spa - is the ultimate experiential Christmas gift for those in need of a reboot. With an integrated, science-based approach wellbeing at its core, the programme includes medical screening and state-of-the-art diagnostics using the Chenot Lifestyle Biomarkers®, a nutritional plan to detoxify the body, strengthen the immune system, and activate the body’s repair mechanism, and spa rituals such as energetic massages and whole-body biomodulation, aimed to re-energise the body.
Majestically positioned on the serene Lake Lucerne in Switzerland, Chenot Palace Weggis medical retreats epitomize the pinnacle of holistic wellness. By far the most comprehensive offering within the Chenot portfolio, Chenot Palace Weggis includes a world class metabolic and sports laboratory, an in-house blood analysis laboratory, a whole body cryochamber at -110C, antigravity technologies, an altitude chamber, ultra-modern area, a 21-metre indoor swimming pool and a private beach for lake swimming.
A Life-Saving Health Assessment
Proactive, predictive and utterly personalised, the London-based Echelon Health offers world-leading technology that detects up to 95% of early disease. Home to the most advanced medical imaging equipment and a renowned team of experts led by Dr Paul Jenkins, it delivers a comprehensive health assessment that can detect deadly diseases years before they manifest.
All Echelon Health assessments are available as a gift voucher, and the perfect gift for Christmas, is the new Echelon Optimum which includes the most comprehensive health assessment (Platinum) and a collaboration with the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park to offer a two-night stay in the London hotel, before and after the assessment. Clients within a 100-mile radius of London will be collected from their homes and chauffeured to the hotel then the following day to Harley Street for a meticulously designed day of assessments and tests, where they will enjoy lunch and be under the care and supervision of their personal client liaison manager. Beautifully presented in an Echelon Health branded box with a ribbon, this is a priceless gift like no other.