Do you feel tired and stressed with your daily life, work, and relationships?  Do you care about and would like to improve your health and lifestyle while traveling? If you do, a wellness retreat is a proper choice. With rich plant and herbal resources and alluring natural landscapes, from mountains, and caves to beaches, Vietnam is indeed a suitable destination to take a wellness retreat vacation. Let’s find more information about wellness retreats in Vietnam with Handspan Travel Indochina!

Through this article, you can learn about these pieces of information below. 

General information about a wellness retreat

Instead of traveling for relaxation, more and more tourists are choosing wellness retreat vacations. So what is a wellness retreat? A wellness retreat is traveling to improve health and emotion through physical, psychological, and spiritual activities. Besides, it promotes active participation between people, culture, and nature. 

Doing yoga in a wellness retreat

And who are wellness retreat travelers? They can be anyone who would like to escape from daily life, refresh the mind, revive from stress, and restore and improve health. They can be people working in the office, young children, middle-aged women, or even elderly people, etc. You can also be a wellness retreat traveler seeking wellness experiences.   

Activities in and benefits from a wellness retreat vacation 

Activities in a wellness retreat vacation combine the use of all senses. You will hear the sound and music, see the space and scenery, touch, and do exercise. Besides, you can smell fragrances and taste delicious food. Let’s explore some experiences and benefits of a wellness retreat vacation. 

Yoga, Tai Chi & Meditation

Yoga, Tai Chi, and meditation are the three most popular wellness retreat activities. These activities help stabilize your mind, decrease stress, and avoid depression. Besides, you can eliminate negative emotions, understand yourself better, and see things around you from a different perspective. Yoga, Tai Chi, and meditation are also good for your heart and health. 

Doing yoga in Pilgrimage Village Hue

Holistic energy and healthcare

Holistic energy and health care include many therapies. For example, you can have acupressure, acupuncture, bathing, salt therapy, massage, and hydrotherapy. Besides benefits for the body and skin, you can also relieve stress and muscle pain, detox, sleep well and improve blood circulation. 

Art & music therapies

Music therapy is using music to improve health and body functions. Through this therapy, you can improve memory, cognitive ability, exercise ability, emotional development, and social skills. Specifically,  you can experience some music therapy skills below. 

Playing drums

• Listening to live or recorded music
• Singing with acoustic melodies and accompaniments
• Learning a new musical instrument like a guitar or piano
• Dancing under the music
• Listening to soothing music while doing exercises, yoga, meditation

Like music therapy, art therapy is also an activity in your wellness retreat journey. This therapy combines creative expressions through drawing, sculpting, etc. Through these activities, you can understand your behavior and emotions better. 

Physical activities

The wellness retreat includes physical activities like hiking, trekking, and cycling. Consequently, you can be closer to nature, enjoy the fresh atmosphere and relieve stress. 

Zipline in Alba Wellness Valley Hue

Let’s take and experience yourself the benefits of a wellness vacation! Undoubtedly, you will have an unforgettable trip and change yourself towards a better lifestyle.

Wellness retreat resorts in Vietnam

In a word, luxurious wellness retreats are becoming a trend in Vietnam. Traveling along the country, you can find many gorgeous wellness retreat resorts meeting up to wellness needs. For example, you can refer to these wellness retreat resorts below. 

Topas Ecolodge and Topas Riverside Lodge

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Located in the remote area of Sapa with fresh air and atmosphere, Topas Ecolodge and Topas Riverside Lodge are indeed suitable for a wellness retreat vacation. Staying in these two resorts, you can immerse yourself in the featured cultural space and magnificent nature in Vietnam’s Northwest areas.

Topas Riverside Lodge Nam Cang

Topas Ecolodge

Especially when joining the Topas wellness retreat trip, you will have the chance to experience these activities below. 

• Walking around the village and visiting Red Dao people’s house
• Relaxing by the cool stream
• Experiencing the unique herbal spa treatments of the traditional Red Dao people while admiring the scenery 
• Joining Vinyasa yoga retreat
• Doing natural meditation
• Taking a dip in the infinity pool
• Enjoying vegan and other types of food

Vinyasa Yoga Retreat

Herbal bathing

Infinity pool in Topas Ecolodge

Let’s take a vacation to Topas Ecolodge and Topas Riverside Lodge to refresh your mind!

Besides, you can also see more about two-day experiences in Topas Riverside Nam Cang here: https://www.handspan.com/en/two-day-experiences-in-topas-riverside-nam-cang.html.

Alba Wellness Valley Hue

• Address: Phong Son Commune, Phong Dien District, Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam

Alba Wellness Valley is also one of the wellness retreat resorts you should not miss. It is located at the foot of the Truong Son mountain range, among a spacious space of mountains, valleys, and streams.

Alba Wellness Valley Hue

Coming here, you will have an opportunity to learn about local culture, relax and regenerate energy. Besides, you can balance your spiritual life, relax, and maintain good health through various activities, such as yoga, Tai Chi, walking and water meditation, spa therapies, food experiences, etc.

Doing meditation in Alba Wellness Valley Hue

Alba Wellness Valley possesses a precious hot mineral source forming from Truong Son Mountain’s heart. Therefore, you can experience everything from outdoor bathing to authentic Japanese Onsen with eight standard steps here. 

Onsen bathing in Alba Wellness Valley Hue

Furthermore, if you are an outdoor activities lover, you can explore the organic farm, and see the sunset on Hoa Mua Valley by biking, hiking, barefoot walking, etc.  In addition, if you love adventurous activities, you should not miss Highwire and the longest Zipline in Southeast Asia to experience flying over the forest and valley below.

Trying highwire in Alba Wellness Valley

Besides, when you stay in the resort, you can enjoy wellness detox, detox juicing class, organic and vegetarian cuisine, and cooking class. Let’s take a wellness retreat vacation in Alba Wellness Valley yourself!

TIA Wellness Resort

• Address: 109 Vo Nguyen Giap, Ngu Hanh Son, Da Nang, Vietnam

TIA Wellness Resort

With a stunning beachfront location, TIA is indeed one of the most suitable places for a wellness retreat vacation. Besides, the resort is also fully equipped with the facilities below.

• 22 treatment rooms & 2 beauty salons
• Two steam and saunas & 2 hydrotherapy rooms
• Two relaxation rooms
• Waterfall and pool areas
• Indoor wellness studio
• Outdoor yoga deck, lifestyle boutique, and wellness lounge (for retreat guests)

In addition, TIA Wellness Resort also provides Wellness and Retreat packages with many activities. Let’s find some detailed information about each package.

• Wellness Inclusive

A wellness-inclusive package is created to provide relaxation, healthcare services, and healing energy. Currently, it includes these experiences below.

Experiencing these treatments, you can enjoy warm aroma movement, bamboo roll-out treatment, and back, neck, and shoulder release. Besides, Himalayan heart stones, balancing foot massages, etc. are also on the package. 

Spa treatment in TIA Wellness Resort

TIA’s yoga flow exercises include movements belonging to Hatha/ vinyasa yoga. You will be instructed to move in a focused manner and practice strength and endurance. 

Doing yoga in TIA Wellness Resort

Besides yoga flow, the breathwork master class is also included in the package. Breathwork skills instruct you to slow down the heartbeat, eliminate negative feelings, and listen to yourself. 

By joining these workshops, you can explore yourself and spark your creativity through drawing, painting, writing, etc. 

• Retreat Inclusive

A retreat program goes from stillness to splash, helping guests boost their confidence, self-reflection, and expression.

You can enjoy two wellness therapies per night for 120 minutes and have your guide helping you get a nice sleep and find your insight and peace of mind. Acupressure and acupuncture therapies stimulate the body's self-healing mechanism improve blood circulation ability and balance the body. In brief, the retreat-inclusive package helps you explore yourself and improve stillness, concentration abilities, and creative energy.

Let’s visit TIA Wellness Resort and join these wellness activities!

In conclusion, you have understood better about wellness retreats, the benefits of a wellness retreat, and the wellness retreat in Vietnam. Hope that these pieces of information will be helpful and you can consider Vietnam a wellness retreat destination!