Therapist watch: movement therapist Ivana Daniell on Wimpole Street

Queen of Retreats | 14 Aug 2014

Ivana offers Life In Movement therapy, a brilliant combo of postural movement analysis, aerobics, Pilates, Alexander Technique, Ayurveda, Feldenkrais Method and Gyrontonics. Perfect for those who have injuries or sedentary lifestyles, it features bespoke exercises – mostly on pilates machines – tailored to your postural misalignments, muscular needs, lifestyle and ayurvedic body type. The aim is to help you attain a fully functioning body that operates at its optimum. As well as working out of her own clinic at 61 Wimpole Street, she is much sought after by private clients globally and works for retreats run by Aman Resorts on a consultancy basis.

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Medicine man

Condé Nast Traveller | 19 Jul 2014

A rarity: an amazing man who looks like a gap-year student, used to be a zookeeper (he loves gorillas) and is now a healer. Paul Lennard has an uncanny ability to read people’s energy and highlight any issues. Then he addresses them through an eclectic mix of sports massage, Chi Nei Tsang (Chinese tummy massage) and craniosacral therapy.

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Dial H for Healers

Tatler | 18 Jun 2014

Mornings were worst. I would wake with lead in my veins, a jackboot pressing on my chest and my body rigid, as if set in formaldehyde. I’d be beset by a terrible inner loneliness and desolation, paralysed with foreboding. I became destructive, self-sabotaging and impulsive, forgetting that I’m a successful, loved woman with a good life and an exciting future.

This is depression. A crippling depression that has been with me all my life. So who would have thought that the best help would come in the form of a spa therapist?

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Therapist watch: spiritual healer Katie Winterbourne

Queen of Retreats | 27 May 2014

Katie Winterbourne works with your energy, reading your unique energy ‘signature’ and using her intuition to give you a better understanding of your life – to deliver healing in whichever form her higher consciousness reckons is best. You can have a reading with her by Skype or over the phone, at a clinic on Wimple Street and or at Harrods Urban Retreat in London, or alternative locations by arrangement.

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At home: your exclusive salon

High50 | 28 Apr 2014

It started with home shopping and home office. Now it’s home everything. You don’t have to schlepp anywhere nor waste time travelling. There’s no need to sit in waiting rooms, deal with receptionists or make small talk with salon assistants. Nor go food shopping, dirty so much as a saucepan or wash up after your dinner guests. 

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A cut above

Mayfair | 3 Jan 2014

Rossano Ferretti is that rare breed: a hairdresser-cum-architect with a good splash of the designer in him. In fact, he has designed twenty salons across the globe – from New York to New Delhi – and is a world-renowned crimper. He’s known for a way of cutting hair that’s not simply described as a ‘haircut’ but instead is dubbed ‘The Method’ – a unique and patented technique of cutting tresses that apparently has something to do with snipping the hair based on its ‘natural fall in motion.’

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Five post-holiday beauty buzzes

High50 | 16 Sep 2013

Time is money. So what price a mani, pedi, foot massage and full head of highlights, administered simultaneously by Daniel Galvin Jr and his elves, all working on you like a team of synchronised swimmers? Remember that then you have a cut and blow-dry while you eat your Ottolenghi organic lunch (all included in the price). It’s two hours from beginning to end, but don’t fret: the white-on-white salon has iPhone chargers and WiFi. Gives a new meaning to ‘power lunch’ – as it should, at £1,200.

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Anassa: something healthy for all the family in Cyprus

Queen of Retreats | 12 Sep 2013

Greek for ‘queen’, Anassa is a grande dame resort in western Cyprus modelled on a traditional Cypriot village. It’s no longer the only building on this part of the coastline – but Anassa has its own stretch of beach and your feet get a hot stone massage every time you run across it. Plus it has more watersports than you can shake a stick at.

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A watery work out with teenagers at Anassa, Cyprus

Queen of Retreats | 12 Sep 2013

I’m not a fan of resorts. So why go to Anassa, the Cypriot mother of all resorts? Two teenage daughters, that’s why. First there’s the weather. 40 degrees in the shade in August, which suits teenagers whose idea of a holiday is to get brown, then browner and even more brown. Meet Anya, 18, dark mahogany and Ella, 15, deep hazelnut.

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The Ab Fab of rehab

Stella | 13 Aug 2013

The owner takes ‘guests’ for a spin in his Porsche and bundles them off to Prada in the company of a stylist. No, it’s not the latest boutique hotel but arguably the most exclusive – and wackiest – centre going. Caroline Phillips meets its aristocratic founder.

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Seven can’t-live-without beauty products

High50 | 8 Aug 2013

This moisturiser is a Beauty Bible Anti-Ageing Award winner, and with good reason, not just because it has gold, truffles and diamonds in it. They’re not a gimmick: the first two are antioxidants and the diamonds give skin a glow. The champagne extract it also contains is a skin humidifier. Dabbing yourself with its phyto-endorphin complex is akin to smiling, and it helps the skin heal (hence its ‘Happiness in a jar’ moniker). This cream genuinely gives instant radiance and brightens the complexion. I promise.

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Tatler Spa Guide 2013

Tatler | 18 Jul 2013

Chiva-som, Thailand – The mother of them all. Chiva remains triumphantly at the top of its game. Come here to scrub your chakras, give up sleeping pills or smoking (or both), lose your post-baby lubber or have accelerated subdermal therapy (ultrasound does battle with cellulite) in the medi-spa. There’s a daily schedule that’s more tightly packed than a tin of chickpeas, from vinyasa flow yoga to gyrokinesis (pilates meets ballet). Plus it’s all run with Swiss-style efficiency.

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