The 10 Best Luxury Wellness Retreats in America
Fancy chilling out and enhancing your wellness at a luxury retreat? You’ve come to the right place to find the right place. As the year comes to an end, it’s time to celebrate leaving another stressful year behind in style, because a wave simply won’t do after all we’ve endured (pandemics aren’t fun). Go on, treat yourself!
1. Sensei Lana’i
Secluded in magical Hawaii, Sensei Lana’i offers stunning scenery to heal you from the inside out. The views alone will have you awestruck, as will the gorgeous resort you’re staying at. Sensei Lana’i is full of wellness activities catered to your body, mind, and soul. You’ll be tempted to extend your stay after just one night at this exquisite resort.
Sensei Lana’i is focused on all parts of wellness, including physical health. The exercises will meet you where you’re at, so nothing is too intensive. And if you’d rather stroll the property, there’s plenty of space for you to walk around, ground to the earth, and reconnect with nature.
To work on your nutrition, culinary masters are available to create dishes you’ll love, and ones that’ll fit your exact dietary needs. The food will fuel your body in the most sublime way, making you feel your best and flush toxins out in the safest way. Plus, all ingredients are local, so everything will be served at peak freshness.
While staying at Sensei Lana’i, you’ll have plenty of time to sleep so you can recharge and recalibrate, as well as time to rest and meditate, getting back in touch with your mind. If you’re unsure how to, there are experts to guide you through your journey, ensuring it meets your needs and sends you home feeling rejuvenated.
2. Miraval Resorts and Spa
Set in three stunning locations throughout the United States, anyone can access Miraval for a beautiful wellness stay, healing you spiritually. At Miraval, you’ll experience a private and posh retreat curated by wellness experts who have the utmost respect and care for your wellbeing. You’ll go on a journey while you’re there, leading you to total wellness physically, emotionally, and mentally.
Miraval has everything a resort could need to create the perfect atmosphere for spiritual bliss. Its grounds, rooms, and views are the height of luxurious healing, and every space lends itself to calm and serenity.
Miraval is known for its first-class spa. It uses only the most natural ingredients to restore homeostasis in your body and bring you total relaxation, releasing all stress and bringing a genuine sense of calm. Nothing harsh, toxic, or abrasive will touch your body, so as you release toxins, nothing new will replace them. Only good energy and positive vibes.
3. Inns of Aurora
Located in New York, this award-winning retreat is committed to natural, organic healing and wellness treatments, and is unlike any other wellness resort in the United States. If it can’t be found in nature, it doesn’t exist here. At the Inns of Aurora, you’ll feel as though you were transported to the past, but you’ll still have all the modern amenities you love and need.
At the Inns of Aurora, you can enjoy multiple restaurants – one where food is farm-to-table, and another where organic coffee is served along with comfort food, but without the harmful ingredients. No matter what you’re craving, you’ll be able to find something satisfying and oh-so-healthy.
Private residences are available at the Inns of Aurora, so you feel totally calm and at home. All amenities you could possibly imagine at your fingertips, and housekeeping is available. Each residence is equipped with a fully operational kitchen so you can cook if you’d like, but world-class chefs are available too, and can show you how to cook an unbelievably tasty meal. You’ll be able to go home with new and impressive skills to elevate your home cooking game.
During your entire stay, you’ll experience a totally rustic setting. From the views of the grounds to the interior of the homes, the Inns of Aurora is an immersive experience yielding highly healing results.
4. Madeline Hotel & Residences
Tucked away in snowy Colorado and surrounded by the Rocky Mountains, Madeline Hotel & Residences is everything you could want out of a wellness resort. It has all the regular aspects of a luxury wellness retreat, as well as an added bonus of activities that you can’t find anywhere else due to its climate, and not just during the snowy months.
To really get you to your peak self, a full-service spa and salon are available to help you look as good as you feel. When you look good, you feel good, and Madeline knows this. Their spa has a variety of massages to choose from, all with different healing properties. No matter what you’re feeling on the inside, a Madeline massage can address it from the outside.
The spa also has different rituals, like CBD and gemstone, that use materials straight from the earth to relax, energize, or exfoliate your body – whatever you’re after, they can make it happen. There are also treatments available specific to your bodily needs, like flexibility and joint ease. You’ll leave the spa feeling like a brand new person.
After the spa, you’ll be up for adventures like fly fishing and hiking, weather permitting, of course. And if you want to extend your stay in Colorado, Madelin also has a totally fully functioning hotel apart from the wellness resort, which is perfect for a vacation.
5. We Care
Just by reading the name of this wellness retreat, you know you’re in for some major relaxation and healing. A decades-long program made specifically for those looking to live the healthiest life possible, We Care is a holistic, luxury restoration.
We Care provides a private suite for every guest, and each one has a breathtaking, restorative view of the desert. The resort is dedicated to privacy, keeping the theme at their pool and poolside cabanas. We Care is also into juices, keeping you hydrated and providing you with the nutrition you’ve been lacking.
While at We Care, you’ll have access to dozens of amazing courses designed to encourage mental wellness, led by professionals who care about your health and can help you address whatever issues you’ve been harboring to release emotional stress. There’s a reason We Care has been in business for so long – they provide an unmatched experience for all guests, leaving them feeling far better when they leave than when they arrived.
6. Pritkin Longevity Center
At Pritkin, there are physicians available to help diagnose and heal whatever calamities you have – physical, mental, emotional, the Pritkin doctors can help you address it all. There’s more healing available than you thought possible while here.
Pritkin has tons of exercise classes for everyone and anyone, ensuring all guests can tend to their physical fitness. With lifestyle experts and nutritionists available to ensure you leave on just as healthy a path as you entered, you’ll leave feeling confident you can maintain your newfound healthy lifestyle.
To feed your brain, Pritkin offers seminars and lectures to share the latest information on health from leading physicians. They also offer state-of-the-art cooking classes, and provide daily breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and elegant dinners, all without any effort from you.
7. Lake Austin Spa Resort
Water is known for its healing powers, which is exactly why you want to spend your time relaxing and healing at Lake Austin Spa Resort. With this luxurious setting, you won’t have any choice but to heal. Lake Austin Spa Resort is a rustic, natural retreat, allowing you to immerse yourself in nature, which is the quickest way to wellness.
Lake Austin Spa Resort boasts a beautiful spa with treatments that absolve you of all issues, getting deep into both your body and soul. You’ll feel totally relaxed, not realizing it was possible to feel so good. And after your luxurious spa treatment, you can enjoy a meal made of local, fresh ingredients – food that makes you feel as good as it tastes. It’s rare to find a place that hosts such an array of amenities that are the epitome of health and wellness.
Since Lake Austin Spa Resort sits on a lake, there are plenty of water sports available for exercise, and water sports are a great way to let go of inhibitions and everyday stressors. If you’ve never tried before, be aware that water sports are not easy, but with some practice, you can get the hang of it, adding another skill to take home with you later.
Lake Austin Spa Resort is all about a rounded approach to wellness, hitting all aspects of health. With packages available for up to 30 days, you can choose what you need for the ultimate healing getaway in a spot that couldn’t be nicer. And if you stay for 30 days, you’ll have plenty of time to practice those water sports.
8. Golden Door
Located north of San Diego, California, Golden Door is a world-class wellness retreat, taking luxury to a new level. Each guest is given a private room with a daily massage – where do we sign up?
Not only do you get all those amazing amenities, Golden Door outfits you with a personal trainer, and offers speaker sessions and mindfulness sessions, so your health will be addressed from every aspect, even your skin. A skin analysis is available, as are recommendations by professionals on ways to improve your complexion while you’re there and when you leave.
Golden Door gives you a personalized meal plan, a cooking class, and other wellness recommendations to take with you beyond their property. And with 600 acres of land on the resort, multiple hiking trails, gardens, and perfectly manicured grounds that you won’t believe unless you see it with your own eyes, you’ll be wondering why it took so long for you to book a stay.
This luxury resort provides you with ample products while you’re there, and all are available online so you can continue using what you discovered and loved while at your stay. You’ll never have to be without that hydrating moisturizer again thanks to Golden Door.
9. Hilton Head Health
For many years, weight loss retreats were considered taboo, but Hilton Head Health has made that notion a thing of the past. This wellness resort promotes healthy living, and offers weight-loss courses for those who want it.
Catered to your weight loss goals, Hilton Head Health offers different paths according to your fitness needs. If you’re not interested in losing weight, the resort also offers other ways to improve your health. No matter what you choose, Hilton Head Health treats you to holistic wellness plans that work to establish a healthy lifestyle and commitment to wellness beyond your stay.
10. Amangiri
In the stunning landscape of Utah, Amangiri is the perfect luxury wellness retreat. It gives you lodging options for your stay, and offers a boutique with ready-to-wear fashionable pieces to keep you comfortable and stylish while at your stay. If you forgot to pack something, hit up the boutique. If you packed everything you need, hit up the boutique.
You can also participate in extreme sports like the Cave Peak Stairway. This lets you be adventurous and brave, and see stunning, unparalleled views of the sky, reminding you how big the world is in the best way possible. If you’d like, a private jet charter or private yacht can pick you up and bring you to Amangiri, and take you home when your stay is over. If that’s not luxury, we don’t know what is.
