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January 21, 2025 - Why start 2025 on a hectic note? Let nature in and guide yourself back to earth with body-grounding wellness experiences in Cambodia, Vietnam, Fiji, and Portugal. You’ll be ready to take on the world.

Grounding wellness is rooted in ancient traditions and modern science. It involves connecting with the earth to balance your body's electrical charges. This can be achieved with something as simple as taking the time each day to stand in nature in your bare feet. Alternatively, you can dig a little deeper with our holistic offerings, harnessing the healing power of nature to nurture body, mind, and spirit.

Put down new roots at Six Senses Krabey Island

With its back-to-nature feel, Six Senses Krabey Island offers a transforming wellness experience, with all paths leading up to the spa. To support your journey, our wellness experts are on hand to guide you through a combination of ancient practices such as Ayurveda, yoga, and meditation, and contemporary science. By harmonizing the old with the new, we offer rejuvenation to connect you with what really matters. Meet our experts:

Dr. Abhijith Krishnan: modern Ayurvedic healer

Hailing from Kerala, India, the cradle of Ayurveda, Dr. Abhijith Krishnan brings over a decade of expertise in blending ancient wisdom with modern techniques. After a personalized Ayurvedic consultation to assess your key physiological biomarkers, our team craft a customized wellness journey made up of signature therapies such as: 

• Marma Massage: a vital energy point massage using Ayurvedic oils to harmonize the body and mind. 
• Kati-Vasti: a spinal therapy where warm, medicated oils are pooled on the lower back to alleviate pain and enhance flexibility. 

Bong Sherab: meditation master from Bhutan

Born into a lineage of Buddhist practitioners, Bong Sherab spent seven years on a spiritual sojourn in a Bhutanese monastery. Epitomizing tranquility, Bong insists: “Finding inner peace is easier than you think.” Thankfully, he is on hand to guide you in cultivating your own inner calm. His signature sessions integrate a variety of techniques and include:

• Meditate like a monk: an immersive session combining guided meditation, breathing exercises, Tibetan singing bowls, and mantra chanting, offering tranquility and clarity.  
• Buddhist astrology readings: offering celestial insights for personal alignment and purpose through karmic influences and feng shui guidance.

Earthy delights at Six Senses Fiji

There’s nowhere quite like the tropical setting of Six Senses Fiji to lift your soul and ground your spirit. Sublime Malolo Island, the largest of the Mamanuca Islands, is surrounded by crystal clear waters, a white sand beach, and lush jungle trees, offering a delightful setting to bring you back to earth embraced by the natural beauty of the islands.

Make your way to Six Senses Spa Fiji, a contemporary take on a traditional Fijian village which embodies the benefits of the surrounding nature to soothe, pamper, and heal.

Our signature grounding rituals incorporate locally sourced lava shells and sea salt, exotic oils, freshly pressed coconut oil, and Fijian herbs picked fresh from our spa’s garden. 

• Heated Lava Shell Massage: combining warm lava shells with exotic oils to relieve tension, enhance circulation, and balance body and mind. The heat penetrates deeply into muscles and soft tissues, targeting specific areas for effective stress and muscle relief.
• Fijian Bobo Massage with Herbal Poultices: a traditional massage using firm techniques and locally blended oils to ease muscle tension, release toxins, and boost circulation. Warm poultices filled with handpicked Fijian herbs are applied to problem areas for additional healing benefits.

For an added layer of wellness, come to Alchemy Bar located within our Wellness Village to infuse and create your own facial and body scrubs, essential oils, and other aromatic spa products from medicinal plants and herbs grown in our herb garden. Using hibiscus flowers, aloe vera, neem leaves, papaya, moringa, guava, and local medicinal herbs known as vevedu and vau, this is an immersive experience embodying earth-to-body self-care.

Lay the foundations for inner peace at Six Senses Con Dao

In a prime position in the pristine Con Dao archipelago, Six Senses Con Dao offers a serene escape where the wellness experience is as dreamy as the two-kilometer stretch of golden sands it occupies.

Our newly transformed Six Senses Spa Con Dao spans 15,000 square meters of soothing sanctuary. The signature treatment area merges sustainable architecture with the island’s natural environment to offer a meditative, healing space where handwoven bamboo mirrors the curves of the surrounding water lilies.

Here, wellness becomes a way of life. Come to indulge in personalized treatments inspired by ancient healing traditions from Vietnam, Thailand, and India.

• Mindful Walking Meditation on the Beach: this simple yet profound practice invites you to synchronize each step with the rhythm of the waves, grounding you in the present moment as you focus on your breath and clear your thoughts. 
• Sound Healing amidst Tranquility: sound healing sessions use Tibetan singing bowls and crystal bowls to clear energetic blockages and restore harmony. Set against the backdrop of breathtaking ocean views, these vibrations resonate with the earth’s natural frequency, creating a profound sense of balance.

Hug a tree at Six Senses Douro Valley

Feel tranquil and strongly grounded after a guided forest bathing experience at Six Senses Douro Valley. Our elegant Portuguese resort, set in the heart of the world’s oldest demarcated wine region, is set in woodland overlooking vine-covered terraces with the Douro River gently flowing at its feet. 

Here you can wander among ancient trees and marching vineyards, where every step is a gentle invitation to breathe deeply and let nature ground your spirit. This mindful immersion encourages you to awaken your senses: feel the warmth of the sun filtering through leaves, listen to the whisper of the breeze, and soak in the earthy aroma of the forest floor. A calming blend of tranquility and reflection, this experience guides you back to earth.

Warming Schist Vinotherapy experience

The nature-loving treats continue at our tranquil Six Senses Spa Douro Valley where locally inspired wellness therapies come wrapped in the region’s wine and port making legacy. Did you know that ingredients made from grapes create delicate fragrances and luxurious textures for maximum efficacy and real results while schist stones, rich in minerals, enhance both grapevine health and healing benefits? One of many spa highlights is the indulgent two-hour Warming Schist Vinotherapy treatment:

• A restorative experience starting with a grapeseed pearl and port exfoliation, followed by a relaxing massage with warming schist stones to melt tension. The treatment concludes with a rejuvenating mini facial using local ingredients for a blissful finish.

Grounding wellness isn’t just a practice—it’s a return to the essence of being, where the harmony of earth, water, fire, and air revitalizes the soul. By fostering a connection to nature, aligning with ancient wisdom, and embracing modern healing techniques, we provide a sanctuary where you can rediscover balance, serenity, and purpose.