Regent’s new wellness concept has a particular Indonesian island in mind.
The brand’s Bali Cango Hotel, nestled between the Indian Ocean and Bali’s rice fields, is now home to the world’s first Regent Spa and Wellness. Just unveiled this week, the new location combines ancient Indonesian traditions with modern science for a relaxing retreat that will offer you more than just an ordinary massage.
Regent, which falls under the IHG umbrella, tapped the hotelier’s wellness arm, Raison d’Etre, to bring guests a restorative experience, meant to appeal to each of your senses. The journey begins at the spa’s majestic front gate on the second step: before you begin any treatment, you can take part in a reset, a ritual centered on self-paced meditation and an immersive soundscape experience inside traditional wooden cabins amid the hotel’s lush gardens.
The treatment room opens perfectly into lush greenery.
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The hotel will have a symphony of offers that you will experience in a specific order to maximize their effectiveness. A massage treatment, for one, will have you sitting on a bed of heated quartz sand, which will help the masseuse really relieve any and all stress you may be carrying (read: are); Massages based on crystal energy are also on the spa menu. Another ritual, called Healing Zen, uses rhythm, breathing and hot stones to help you find balance. And the facial on offer uses products from California-based Kristen Florian for a powerful treatment with LED light therapy and electrical muscle stimulation. In addition, some treatment rooms open to the outdoors through large pocket doors, making nature more of a companion on your retreat.
The new concept offers much more than just this whirlpool outside the treatment rooms.
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As for activities outside the treatment room, Regent Spa has both active and passive offerings, inspired by the dance between yin and yang. So, you can combine your calm yoga session with high-intensity exercise (with varying temperatures between each exercise), all in the name of balance. For some solitary reflection, the hotel offers a private space with views of the blue sea and surrounding vegetation. And here, neutral color palettes are a thing of the past: the new spot ditches the usual design elements found in healthcare facilities.
“Regent Spa & Wellness has turned traditional spas on their head, replacing traditional neutral palettes, candlelit corridors and run-of-the-mill relaxation rooms with colorful palettes, visual art paths and energy baths,” Raison d’Etre managing director Anna Carey Gund said in a press statement. “Our goal is to bring energy to our guests that takes them to new personal heights, all within mystical, otherworldly spaces and through therapeutic experiences that follow an intelligent formula.”
Crystal Treatment Room.
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Future iterations of Regent Spa & Wellness are expected to pop up around the world—perhaps even taking strong cues from their locations.
