Neha Mehrotra
03-Jun-2026
From wellness retreats in Bali, Sri Lanka and Tuscany to skincare launches, luxury spa experiences and mindful travel in India, here’s a look at the latest wellness trends in 2026.
What’s New in Wellness Around the World:
1. Dior Elevates Everyday Self-Care with Its New Haute Wellness Collection
Dior is extending its luxury lifestyle vision into the wellness space with the launch of the Haute Wellness collection by Cordelia de Castellane for Dior Maison. Designed around movement, mindfulness, and relaxation, the collection transforms everyday rituals into refined experiences through elegant fitness and self-care essentials. Featuring the house’s signature cannage motif in deep blue, ivory, and gold tones, the range includes yoga and Pilates mats, resistance bands, weights, water bottles, silk sleep accessories, and a guided wellness journal. The collection encourages a more intentional approach to wellbeing, where fitness, rest, and mindfulness fit into daily life.
2. Preferred Hotels & Resorts Launches ‘Preferred Wellbeing’ to Spotlight Wellness Travel
Preferred Hotels & Resorts has unveiled Preferred Wellbeing, a new global designation recognising more than 50 member hotels and resorts that offer exceptional, holistic wellness experiences. Inspired by insights from the company’s Luxury Travel Report, the programme highlights properties leading trends in longevity-focused wellness, hydrotherapy, nature-based healing, personalised retreats, and the integration of ancient traditions with modern science. From biohacking and thermal therapies to immersive nature experiences and structured multi-day wellness journeys, the initiative reflects growing demand for meaningful, restorative travel. Hotels are assessed against a rigorous wellbeing framework covering rest, movement, nourishment, connection to place, and sustainability, ensuring a comprehensive and credible standard of wellness excellence.
3. FACEGYM Announces India Debut Through Reliance Retail’s Tira
FACEGYM, the UK-based facial fitness brand, launches in India through Reliance Retail’s omnichannel beauty platform, Tira, in Mumbai. The brand’s core offering will include its globally recognised treatments such as Signature Hands and Signature Sculpt, alongside several targeted add-ons tailored to different Indian skin and muscle needs. Structured, multi-session packages are designed to encourage routine-led consumption, drive stronger long-term outcomes, and build sustained customer engagement, making India a particularly relevant market for the facial fitness category. As part of its expansion, FACEGYM plans to enter three key metro cities in the first phase – Delhi, Hyderabad, and Kolkata.
4. InterContinental Maldives Maamunagau Resort Debuts Swimming with Nurse Sharks
InterContinental Maldives Maamunagau Resort has debuted ‘Calm Waters: Swim with Nurse Sharks', a thoughtfully designed package that pairs adventure with holistic wellness and marine education. The experience begins with a presentation by a resident marine biologist followed by a guided swim with nurse sharks, offering a rare opportunity to observe these fascinating creatures. The experience extends beyond the ocean, incorporating a series of curated spa rituals. On the morning of the swim, guests are invited to take part in a pre-swim ritual with a 60-minute Morning Meditation & Slow Stretch session. Following the swim, guests can add on a selection of optional restorative rituals at the AVI Spa, including the Floating Sound Healing session. The package also offers the 120-minute Maldivian Essence ritual — a full-body experience designed to soothe muscles, nourish the skin, and rebalance the senses.
5. Bhutan Spirit Sanctuary Unveils Exclusive Summer & Wellness Offers for 2026
Bhutan Spirit Sanctuary invites guests to experience the Kingdom of Bhutan through a deeply restorative summer retreat with an exclusive seasonal promotion available for stays throughout June, July, and August 2026. Wellness remains at the heart of every stay. The all-inclusive stay includes four-course lunches, six-course dinners and drinks, a tea bar featuring 20 herbal teas, traditional Bhutanese medicine doctor consultation, one wellness treatment per day, daily yoga & meditation classes, Bhutanese cooking classes, traditional archery games, as well as a 25% discount on room rates and a lot more!
6. JOALI BEING To Mark Global Wellness Day 2026 With A Week-Long Celebration
JOALI BEING, the Maldives, has announced a week-long programme to celebrate Global Wellness Day 2026. Taking place from 6–12 June 2026, leading up to Global Wellness Day on 13th June, the island-wide experience is inspired by this year’s global theme, #JoyMagenta. Guests can participate in activities like family wellness sessions, culinary experiences, mindful workshops, marine conservation experiences, community clean-up initiatives, guided meditation rituals and more.
The celebrations culminate on 13th June with a curated line-up of island experiences, including wellness breakfast bowls, a barefoot island run, guided house reef snorkelling, sea turtle conservation experiences at the Olive Ridley Sea Turtle Care Centre and more. As part of the celebrations, students from R. Kinolhas School will participate in a half-day community wellbeing programme focused on connection, sustainability and ocean discovery.
7. Aahaasa Collection Launches Aarogya Wellness Retreats Across Sri Lanka
Aahaasa Collection introduces Aarogya, a new wellness retreat concept offering immersive Ayurveda and aromatherapy-led programmes across Sri Lanka. Available at Aarunya Nature Resort and Aavya Cove Villas, the retreats range from three to 21 nights and combine doctor-led Ayurvedic consultations, personalised treatments, yoga, meditation, and tailored nutrition plans. Inspired by Sri Lanka’s natural landscapes, each property incorporates local elements into its therapies, from spices and earth in the highlands to coastal botanicals by the sea. The seven structured programmes focus on relaxation, detoxification, rejuvenation, and holistic healing, with select stays including Panchakarma therapies.
8. Dermatologists Garekars Launch A New Skincare Brand: COMPOUND
Founded by renowned dermatologists Dr Gurveen Waraich Garekar and Dr Siddharth Garekar, COMPOUND is a new skincare brand designed to tackle pigmentation, dullness, and barrier sensitivity through a science-led, systems-based approach. Moving beyond single-ingredient trends, the brand focuses on “concern-driven skincare", with products formulated to work synergistically for long-term skin health. The launch portfolio includes the Pigment Defender Sunscreen, Polyactiv10 Serum, and Pigment Corrector Kit, each targeting different stages of pigmentation and skin repair. Featuring advanced actives, airless packaging, and clinically informed formulations, COMPOUND aims to deliver consistent, effective results tailored to the needs of Indian skin.
9. Italian Hospitality Collection Introduces “Your Wellness in Calendar” Across Tuscany
Italian Hospitality Collection has launched “Your Wellness in Calendar", a new concept offering recurring wellness-focused stays across its Tuscan thermal resorts — Fonteverde, Bagni di Pisa, and Grotta Giusti. Designed as personalised wellness journeys spread throughout the year, the programmes combine nutrition, thermal treatments, mindfulness, movement, and expert consultations to encourage long-term wellbeing. Each property offers a distinct focus, from detoxification and longevity to stress management and anti-ageing rituals. The initiative reimagines wellness not as a one-time escape but as a sustainable lifestyle practice integrated into everyday life through tailored, repeat wellness experiences.
10. HOSHINOYA Bali Unveils Wellness-Focused ‘Longevity Ritual in Sacred Valley’ Experience
HOSHINOYA Bali has launched its four-day, three-night Longevity Ritual in Sacred Valley programme, designed to promote physical and mental wellbeing through immersive cultural and wellness experiences. Inspired by the Balinese philosophy of Tri Hita Karana, the retreat combines yoga, aquatic exercise, restorative spa therapies, batik-making, gamelan lessons, and Balinese cooking classes. A key highlight is its nutrition-focused culinary programme, which pairs local flavours with wellness benefits. Signature dishes include protein-rich Bebek Goreng prepared with coconut oil and Balinese Aqua Pazza, featuring shellfish rich in the antioxidant astaxanthin.
11. TIA Wellness Resort Expands Lifestyle Boutique with Wellness-Inspired Essentials
TIA Wellness Resort has expanded and refreshed its lifestyle boutique, offering guests a wider selection of wellness-inspired products to extend their resort experience at home. The enlarged space features exclusive TIA-designed goods, including jewellery, tote bags, affirmation cards, notebooks, yoga accessories, and décor items inspired by the resort’s signature aesthetic. A highlight is the new TIA Signature Tea Collection, featuring blends such as Breathe, Flow, Nourish, Create, and Wellness, each crafted around the resort’s core wellbeing pillars. Created in response to guest demand, the boutique aims to help visitors reconnect with the rituals, scents, flavours, and mindful practices experienced during their stay, long after leaving Vietnam.
12. Raffles Udaipur Hosts Dr Hetalkumar Doshi for an Exclusive Wellness Experience
Raffles Udaipur hosts Dr Hetalkumar Doshi, a holistic healer, acupuncturist, naturopath and Reiki Grand Master with over 32 years of experience, from 7 May 2026 to 10 June 2026. During his stay, Dr Hetalkumar presented the ‘Energy Masters Wellness Experience’, centred around his Four-Dimensional Healing Journey. Guests experienced therapies including acupuncture, acupressure, Reiki, breathwork, sound healing and naturopathy and benefited from a complimentary 10–15 minute consultation with Dr Hetalkumar, which helped identify their specific wellness requirements. In addition, guided meditation sessions were conducted each morning and evening, providing guests with a calming and restorative start and end to their day. The Four-Dimensional Healing Journey was a guest-paid, structured wellness experience.
13. JW Marriott Goa Unveils Exclusive Marriott Bonvoy Summer Getaway Offer
JW Marriott Goa is inviting travellers to embrace a luxurious coastal escape this summer with an exclusive offer for Marriott Bonvoy members. Perched above the Chapora River, the resort combines Goan-inspired design, refined hospitality, and immersive experiences. Guests can enjoy an additional 10% savings on stays, daily breakfast, and 20% savings on dining across the hotel’s restaurants and bars. Highlights include the signature Bubbalicious Sunday Brunch, Nikkei dining at Heliconia, wellness rituals at Spa by L’Occitane, and family-friendly entertainment. The offer is available for bookings made until 30 September 2026, with stays valid through the same period.
14. RUNE Debuts with an Evening Celebrating Conscious Luxury and Transformative Travel
RUNE, a new travel and wellbeing concept founded by Dr Neetika Modi and Dr Ruhi Satija, was officially launched at an intimate gathering that brought together conscious luxury, inner wellbeing, and purposeful travel. Held as a Sattvic High Tea experience, the evening introduced guests to RUNE’s philosophy of mindful exploration through sacred journeys, healing rituals, and immersive cultural experiences. In collaboration with The Unbored Club, the launch also unveiled a curated travel series to the 12 Jyotirlings, encouraging deeper self-discovery through India’s spiritual heritage.
15. Unwind with Candlelight Sunset Yin Yoga at Kathiwada City House, Mumbai
Kathiwada City House invites guests to an intimate Candlelight Sunset Yin Yoga session with wellness practitioner Pramila Khubchandani on Saturday, 6th June, at 5:30 PM. Pramila Khubchandani will guide participants through a gentle Yin Yoga practice focused on slowing the breath, releasing tension, and creating stillness within the body and mind. The evening will begin with pranayama and breathwork techniques to help calm the nervous system before moving into slow, restorative asanas that encourage deep stretching and emotional release. The session will conclude with a relaxing shavasana, allowing guests to fully unwind and reconnect with a sense of clarity and inner calm.
16. Chorus Hosts Second Edition of Chorus Interlude with Ritika Zaveri
Chorus Wellness announces the second edition of Chorus Interlude, its immersive wellness series focused on reflection, restoration, and mindful connection. Hosted at Chorus in Kala Ghoda, the upcoming session will be led by fitness coach and bodywork specialist Ritika Zaveri. The experience begins with a five-senses activation, followed by guided meditation, visualisation, and restorative lymphatic movement techniques designed to regulate the nervous system and restore balance. Guests will also receive Chorus body oils, soaps, and journaling materials during the session, along with refreshments, including the brand’s signature bowls and seasonal fruits.
Cover Credits: Preferred Hotels & Resorts
Dr. Sonia Tekchandani
