Caribbean Resorts Offer Luxury Wellness Retreats

  • April 11, 2014
Caribbean Resorts Offer Luxury Wellness Retreats
Today, luxury resorts are bringing in acclaimed fitness experts from popular programs like Barry's Boot Camp and other famous NYC & LA gyms, who can offer guests the same grueling workout they get at home, but with a backdrop of pristine beaches, blue water and sunshine. Here are four top Caribbean properties leading this trend:

• Rosewood Little Dix Bay in Virgin Gorda has launched its newly enhanced Wellness Retreats for 2014. The four-day retreats offer rigorous programming such as beach boot-camps with Kettlebell training, Self Myofascial Release therapy and TRX suspension training. Curated and taught by esteemed NYC fitness expert Frank Baptiste, Frankly Fitness® Immersion offers a high-intensity program designed to get your heart racing and calories burning. The resort also engaged renowned yoga instructor Johnny Anzalone for the Revitalize, Refresh, Renew Yoga retreat, which offers classes ranging from Multi-level Yoga to Core Strength and Choreography of Asana.

• Viceroy Anguilla has created the ultimate workout for guests looking to build up a sweat during their tropical vacation with the renowned Barry's Boot Camp classes. Offered over almost every holiday weekend, Barry's Boot Camp has become the star of the resort's fitness schedule, featuring one of Barry's celebrity trainers from their L.A. or New York locations.

• The BodyHoliday LeSport in St.Lucia is another luxury Caribbean resort offering wellness retreats that kick things up a notch with an intensive two-week long boot camp led by led by Olympic champion Sharron Davies, professional coach Ayo Falola, and pro athlete Danny Crates.

• In 2014, El Conquistador Resort & Las Casitas Village, A Waldorf Astoria Resort in Fajardo, Puerto Rico in partnership with Lisa Taylor of Twist-Life is offering guests an immersive four-day health and wellness program designed to build strength and stability with hikes, guided meditation, superfood cooking demonstration, educational workshops and seminars.