EXCLUSIVE: Resort Esencia Combines Historic Mayan Rituals With Slicing-edge Biohacking Expertise in Renovated Spa

Resort Esencia’s spa is prepared for its grand reveal. 

The five-star boutique resort, identified for its 50-acre property that was beforehand the house of an Italian duchess, on Wednesday is revealing the renovation and reopening of its Mayan-inspired spa, which now features a second flooring dwelling to a sensory deprivation tank. This information follows the launch final Could of a espresso desk e book with Assouline celebrating the resort, in addition to the announcement of Resort Esencia’s subsequent location, Château de Curzay in France.

Whereas the spa at Resort Esencia has all the time been a spotlight of the property, resort proprietor and chief govt officer Kevin Wendle, a former Hollywood producer, found a slew of latest applied sciences and coverings throughout his travels that in the end led to the renovation. 

“It’s actually an all-new spa,” Wendle stated. “Three years in the past, we have been simply doing all the conventional remedies that you’d anticipate on the spa, however I wished to take it to a different degree.”

He was impressed specifically by remedies and modalities he was experiencing at spas in France, Italy and Switzerland. 

“I noticed issues on the market available in the market that have been a degree above,” Wendle stated. “I stated, ‘Wow, if I might usher in a few of these new applied sciences, combine them, increase what was our outdated spa, add a second degree, add every kind of latest remedies to combine these historical, conventional spa therapies with the most recent and best in know-how, we’d have one thing that might appeal to our excessive degree clientele.’”

Due to this fact the spa menu now varies from historical Mayan rituals, like a cacao ritual or a Temazcal, a scorching steam bathtub, to widespread biohacking applied sciences, corresponding to an infrared sauna, sensory deprivation tank and ice baths. In accordance with Wendle, the brand new method is working — 50 p.c of the resort’s clients are repeat friends and plenty of are coming again for the spa specifically.

“What we’re doing is all about longevity,” Wendle stated. “It’s not only a buzzword for us. It’s one thing that we actually take a look at.”

When it comes to the traditional rituals, there are a number of different contact factors {that a} visitor will expertise, together with teas that the therapists make out of muddled herbs from the resort’s backyard and an ancestral vitality cleaning ritual that begins every remedy.

“It was in-built a method to be harmonious with the vitality round it and Mayan influences, in order that we are able to carry out these historical Mayan rituals that our spa therapists have grown up with,” Wendle stated.

A slew of different new choices additionally shall be obtainable, together with a hydrotherapy circuit, the place friends can leap from a steam room, a Swiss bathe, a scorching tub, an ice rub, an infrared sauna and a chilly plunge, and conclude all of it with a face and scalp therapeutic massage.

Certainly one of Wendle’s favourite additions is the Lumenis NuEra Tight, a noninvasive skin-tightening remedy that makes use of radio frequency.

“The great thing about it’s, there’s no downtime,” he stated. “You’ll be able to have this remedy with this deep radio frequency know-how and go proper again into the solar. In fact, we all know the solar shouldn’t be nice for you, however [the] level is you’ll be able to proceed with trip.”

Different spa menu highlights embody an array of facials and massages, nail remedies, waxing, hair cuts and styling, energetic bodywork periods, sound therapeutic, meditation, yoga, breathwork, private coaching and extra.