Banyan Tree Veya
For a total well-being experience, check yourself into the Banyan Tree Veya Phuket. Veya means “to weave” and the tailored experiences are led by certified multidisciplinary wellbeing hosts. Created in direct response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Banyan Tree Veya aims to address a world with an urgent need for reconnecting mind and body daily. Your journey to wellness begins with a private consultation with the wellbeing hosts, who are certified and trained in eastern medicine, naturopathy and coaching. After an assessment, a personalised itinerary is created.
Classes such as Ocean Breath and Conscious Grounding raise sensory awareness through breathwork, sound therapy and guided imagery meditation techniques in natural environments.
• Somatic movement: Intuitive forms of dance, yoga and classes such as Balance and Stability that focus on the internal experience of movement to release chronic tension patterns and calm the nervous system.
• Weightless: A new range of signature therapies unique to Veya — combining rehabilitative floatation with body stretch massage techniques and meditational sound therapy into a restorative sensory experience.
• Lifestyle learning: Workshops aimed at introducing wellbeing rituals into daily life such as creative therapies, integrative nutrition and classes such as Positive Resilience help guests bring the retreat experience home.
The Datai Langkawi
Located deep in an ancient forest, the Datai Langkawi is the place for nature lovers and passionate environmentalists. Guests can participate in reef protection activities at the centre’s new Coral Nursery, learn about the resort’s reforestation efforts at the Native Tree Nursery, or discover how to harvest the unique Trigona itama honey from the resort’s sting-less beehives. Explore The Lab which is the resort’s sustainable craft-making centre that is built from over 9,000 used wine, champagne, and liquor bottles with an open-air annexe to conduct upcycling workshops. Poetry lovers book for the Poet’s Trail that features the readings of inspirational poems by Max Wallis, Khalil Gibran and The Datai’s Resident Naturalist, Irshad Mobarak.
Many of these new nature activities are part of the resort’s conservation programme that aims to protect nature’s beauty with a focus on the resort’s operations, as well as the wildlife, marine environment, and communities of Langkawi island. Partner NGOs are regularly invited to conduct further guest activities such as hornbill observation excursions up local mountain Gunung Raya, dolphin spotting boat trips, and educational talks at The Nature Center. All proceeds from such activities go towards funding the manifold initiatives under The Datai Pledge.
