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Category: Travel/Wellness

Finding “ReNew-al” at Hilton Head Health

Posted On April 5, 2025April 5, 2025 By Diana Ballon

Hilton Head Health has been widely recognized in the U.S. as a respected destination for weight loss, overall health and wellness, and delicious low-calorie cuisine.

Category: Travel/Wellness

Stress-Free, All-Inclusive Wellness Holidays That’ll Have You Feeling Better

Posted On April 5, 2025April 5, 2025 By Diana Ballon

Here are four “pre-packaged” all-inclusive wellness holidays that offer fun and fitness, and perhaps, life-changing new discoveries.

Category: Travel/Wellness

Not All Wellness Retreats Are Equal: Here’s How Women Can Find the Right One

Posted On April 4, 2025April 4, 2025 By Diana Ballon

Are ‘recovery retreats’ the latest travel trend for women?

Category: Travel/Wellness

Doing a reset in the dense forests of B.C.

Posted On March 29, 2025March 29, 2025 By Diana Ballon

Mountain Trek Fitness Retreat & Health Spa offers the chance to fully recharge–physically, mentally and emotionally.

Category: Food + Wine/Island Life/Wellness

Eating Well in Dominica

Posted On March 12, 2025March 29, 2025 By Diana Ballon

This lush, volcanic-dense island in the Eastern Caribbean is the nature lover’s dream. It is remote enough to be underdeveloped, and difficult enough to navigate to make quiet forays through hiking trails and underwater diving a placid exercise in mindfulness.

Category: Hotels/Wellness

Wellness is the Focus at One of the World’s Top Golf Resorts

Posted On March 11, 2025March 29, 2025 By Diana Ballon

It’s right there in the name: Camiral Golf & Wellness.

Category: Food + Wine/Island Life

Sifnos—A Small Island With a Big Foodie Reputation

Posted On February 17, 2025February 17, 2025 By Diana Ballon

Culinary traditions run deep–and bring people together–in this foodie-focused area in the Western Cyclades.

Category: Outdoor Adventure

Adventures in and Around Cuenca in Ecuador’s Andean Highlands

Posted On February 10, 2025February 10, 2025 By Diana Ballon

While Ecuador has become synonymous with the Galapagos Islands, the Amazon and the Andes Mountains are two other areas where you can enjoy the rich biodiversity and natural beauty so plentiful in this country.

Category: Cycling

Cycling Greece: It has its ups and downs

Posted On February 3, 2025February 10, 2025 By Diana Ballon

There is a quiet meditative state that comes over you when you bike. The more your body moves, the more your mind quiets, clears and expands. The warm wind sweeps away the past and leaves you with a visceral experience of the present.

Category: Hotels/Wellness

Top Canadian Hotels for Wellness and Hydrotherapy

Posted On February 2, 2025February 3, 2025 By Diana Ballon

A sauna plus cold plunge and steam before bed? Or some chill time in a salt therapy room before getting the day underway? All this may well be possible at a hotel near you.

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