Top 5: Wintertime Wellness Retreats to Sign Up For Now

Kick your New Year off and start those resolutions the right way with a wellness retreat meant to give you a fresh jumpstart on 2018.

Sky Ting Yoga Belize Retreat

Escape for a week in February to the beautiful beaches of Belize. Enjoy seven nights and all meals (all “clean”), as well as 14 yoga, pranayama and meditation classes, all included in the experience pricing. Activities you can add on are snorkeling, diving, massages and a daytrip outside the resort. You can pick between a cabana (with full or partial ocean views) or a private or shared guestroom. The organizers from Sky Ting say to expect “innumerable insights and a greater understanding on how to use yoga to enhance your life.”

The Arrigo Programme

For a more personalized experience, head to England for a stay at The Arrigo Programme. Enjoy your own country cottage with a confidential atmosphere where you’re pampered by your own maid, chef and therapist. Therapeutic treatments to enjoy during the course of your personal retreat range from acupuncture to massage to Pilates to psychotherapy. Beyond the Level 1 retreats, which focus on healing, restoration and wellbeing, further levels of retreats are designed for more serious issues, such as depression and grief.

The Art of Living Retreat Center

If you’re still looking for something a bit personalized with multiple choices, but don’t want to travel to England at the moment, head instead to North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains to the Art of Living Retreat Center. There are multiple retreats going on nearly any time of the year, and you can choose the one that best fits your needs, whether you want to focus on yoga, meditation, weight loss, happiness or even the art of silence.

Wellness in Nature at The Ranch at Rock Creek

If your idea of a winter wellness retreat includes skiing and snowy countrysides, try the Wellness in Nature retreat in Montana. Stay four nights and enjoy two spa treatments, two mind and body classes and all the skiing and snowboarding you’d like. You can choose from more than 20 classes, including yoga, forest bathing and mindfulness treks. While there, enjoy locally sourced meals by the resort’s executive chef and add on other winter sports you love, such as snowmobiling, ice skating and horseback riding.

NIZUC Resort and Spa Be Well Retreat

If you can only get away for a few days and want to jet off to a convenient location, try the NIZUC Resort and Spa in Cancun, where the Be Well retreat combines exercise, clean eating menus and relaxing spa treatments. Classes and personal training, hydrotherapy and massages, paddle boarding and working out with an ocean view — it all combines for a rejuvenating time.