Cell Vitality
The Cell Vitality retreat has been carefully created by experienced Naturopathic Doctors to support those who are in remission or have recovered from cancer. Its focus is on boosting vitality.
Recommended for
Building immunity
Stress resilience
Supporting cellular health
Included in this stay
The understated design of our 54 rooms and suites helps you slow down and enjoy the tropical gardens and sea views of our natural surroundings. Thai motifs: bamboo, silk, teak, and muted colours, blend with spacious proportions and soft plays of light, for an overall tranquil atmosphere. Robes, pyjamas and complimentary laundry services are available.
To get your wellness journey safely underway, it’s useful to establish your starting point and your goals. Shortly after you arrive, you’ll meet your Health and Wellness advisor for a consultation. From this conversation, we’ll help guide your selection of treatments and activities that best fit your current health status and objectives.
Wellness cuisine focussed on organic, whole foods in beautifully presented dishes, full of flavour.
Enjoy a variety of wellness bites and drinks, thoughtfully curated to support a healthy lifestyle. Our wellness minibar is replenished daily to ensure you have fresh options throughout your stay.
Experience our short assessment for consultation and analysis of your posture and musculoskeletal balance. Our physiotherapists will then guide you to the treatments, classes, services, or programmes that best suit you as an individual.
Discover your skin’s needs with our Skin Facial Analysis. Our advanced analysis reveals hidden sun damage, pores, fine lines, and pigmentation concerns. Get personalised insights and prevention strategies for radiant skin. Gain expert guidance and tailored treatments for a revitalised complexion.
Our wide-ranging and ever-evolving activities include up to nine daily fitness and leisure classes. Joining group sessions brings you together with like-minded guests, enhancing your experience.
Our extensive facilities are designed to enhance your Chiva-Som retreat, offering steam rooms, saunas, jacuzzis, cold plunge pools, swimming pools, and a gymnasium. Enjoy the perfect environment to support your chosen activities and treatments.
One daily treatment per night of stay, choosing from: Thai Massage, Chiva-Som Signature Massage Invigorating Massage, Relaxing Foot Massage, Oriental Scalp Massage, Chiva-Som Skin Haven Body Polish, Hydrotherapy (Detoxifying Balneotherapy, Floatation or Body Jet Blitz), Manicure or Pedicure.
Experience the convenience of our complimentary laundry service, perfect for refreshing up to 4 pieces of your wardrobe.
Choose 1 service from the list below.
- Bio-Feedback Rebalance
- Pranayama
Bio-Feedback Rebalance is a heart-focused breathing technique that helps you to understand how your emotions can either deplete or renew your mind, body and spirit, and how these reactions profoundly impact your wellbeing. By practising Bio-Feedback Rebalance, you can manage stress more effectively and reduce its impact. The technique will objectively show the dynamic interaction between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, as well as demonstrate how breathing patterns can promote balance within the autonomic nervous system.
Prana means breath, respiration, life, vitality, wind, energy or strength. Ayama means length, expansion, stretching or restraint. Pranayama is therefore the science of breath, or the extension of breath and its control. Even as emotional excitement affects the rate of breathing, deliberate regulation of respiration keeps emotional excitement in check. Regular practice of pranayama will slow your heart and bring a subjective experience of relaxation. Proper breathing techniques can create space for personal healing and transformational growth.
Choose 1 service from the list below.
- Naturopathic Consultation
The human body is a complex organism with the innate ability to heal itself when we learn how to listen to it and respond by supporting its needs. The Naturopathic approach seeks to find the underlying causes of your symptoms, remove obstacles to healing, and implement appropriate changes that restore the body’s natural tendency to return to health. Naturopaths use herbs, homeopathy, nutritional supplements, lifestyle modification, exercise, detoxification and the concept of food-as-medicine to help put your health back on track. Chiva-Som offers a full naturopathic dispensary of herbs and supplements which may be prescribed during the consultation.
Choose 1 service from the list below.
- Naturopathic Follow-Up
The human body is a complex organism with the innate ability to heal itself when we learn how to listen to it and respond by supporting its needs. The Naturopathic approach seeks to find the underlying causes of your symptoms, remove obstacles to healing, and implement appropriate changes that restore the body’s natural tendency to return to health. Naturopaths use herbs, homeopathy, nutritional supplements, lifestyle modification, exercise, detoxification and the concept of food-as-medicine to help put your health back on track. Chiva-Som offers a full naturopathic dispensary of herbs and supplements which may be prescribed during the consultation.
Choose 1 service from the list below.
- Acupuncture (initial)
- Shiatsu Acupressure
- Seiketsu Shiraku Acupuncture
- Traditional Thai Therapeutic Massage
As one of the five interdependent branches of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), this treatment begins with a diagnosis along traditional Chinese methods, which includes thorough history-taking and identifying significant signs from pulse and tongue analysis. Acupuncture treatment helps reduce blockages, stimulate energy flow, and restore balance in the body, mind and spirit. Acupuncture treatment has been shown effective in helping relieve aches and pains, insomnia, digestive disorders, stress and chronic immune dysfunction as well as to generally improve wellbeing.
Shiatsu is known as Japanese acupressure, which is acupuncture without needles. Shiatsu manipulates acupuncture points to stimulate the body’s self-healing system through a traditional Japanese massage technique using vertical and continuous pressure. Shiatsu Acupressure can help you relax and cope with stress, muscle pain, nausea, anxiety or depression. The treatment is tailored to your specific needs, and is safe during pregnancy and for all health conditions.
By quickly lancing the skin, a few drops of blood expressed from one or more of the peripheral acupuncture points provides therapeutic benefit through the “release” of excess heat or stagnant qi (chi or energy). The stimulation of Seiketsu points helps the autonomic nervous system to improve the flow of energy in the meridians, restoring neurological balance and aiding relaxation. Additionally, this technique will have a calming effect on motor and sensory nerves, helping to relax excessively tight muscles and relieve common complaints of muscle spasms, pain and tension.
This highly regarded healing procedure is the combination of modern scientific understanding and an ancient system of medicine once only available to occupants of the Royal courts. Using only the fingers and palms, practitioners unblock the 10 main health lines, akin to meridians in Chinese medicine, which allows restoration and energy flow to the whole body, creating wellness and vitality. Sufferers of acute or chronic pain, migraines, digestive or pelvic ailments and joint discomfort may sense immediate improvement of symptoms after this deep tissue and hot compress massage. Follow up treatments may begin with Thai herbal steam the use of traditional Thai herbs which can be obtained from our pharmacy on prescription of our Traditional Thai Medicine specialist.
Choose 3 services from the list below.
- Holistic Health
- Cranio-Sacral Therapy
- Reiki Gemstones Therapy
- Acupressure Reflexology
Bamboo Massage’ offers a gentle, natural healing experience for stress relief and overall well-being. Bamboo Therapy Massage harnesses the innate healing power of bamboo to promote wellness and rejuvenation. This unique form of massage therapy offers numerous benefits for the body, mind, and spirit. The therapist uses the bamboo stick are carefully selected for their smooth texture, strength, and flexibility to apply various massage techniques, such as rolling, kneading, and tapping, along the body. Bamboo sticks provide a gentle, comfortable massage, applying targeted pressure to relieve muscle tension and promote deep relaxation, ensuring a customised and effective massage experience. Let's delve into the remarkable healing properties of bamboo and explore why it has become a sought-after treatment for stress relief and overall well-being.
This therapy uses rhythmic motions in the cranial bones to
promote fluid movement through the brain, spinal cord and
nervous system. This profound yet gentle manipulation promotes
balance and harmony at the deepest level of your being.
The combination of the use of gemstones with Reiki can have very positive effects. Reiki enhances and the gemstones amplify the energy. The gemstones help by drawing negative energy out of the person’s energy field.
A traditional Chinese healing method, reflexology works on the connection between specific reflex points in the feet and all other body parts. After determining these tender and tense spots, the therapist then applies pressure on the feet to alleviate the local discomfort and treat the body parts reflected. Reflexology stimulates these points in order to improve and strengthen the weak areas of the body, remove congestion and eliminate discomfort. As tensions are eased and circulation is improved, this gentle therapy encourages the body to heal itself at its own pace, often counteracting a lifetime of misuse.
Choose 2 services from the list below.
- Pranayama
Prana means breath, respiration, life, vitality, wind, energy or strength. Ayama means length, expansion, stretching or restraint. Pranayama is therefore the science of breath, or the extension of breath and its control. Even as emotional excitement affects the rate of breathing, deliberate regulation of respiration keeps emotional excitement in check. Regular practice of pranayama will slow your heart and bring a subjective experience of relaxation. Proper breathing techniques can create space for personal healing and transformational growth.
Choose 2 services from the list below.
- Refunctional Exercise (50 mins)
- Gyrotonic®
- Gyrokinesis®
- Corrective Posture Exercise
Good exercise doesn’t always need to be intense, but should focus on proper form and provide strength and recruitment of the correct muscles. With this programme, our physiotherapists will analyse your posture, muscle function and movement patterns to create a special programme that suits your body’s own needs. Refunctional exercise combines Pilates and careful use of special equipment to ensure that your workout is safe and effective. The objective of this session is to give you postural correction, strengthen your core muscles and increase total body flexibility and mobility.
Gyrotonic® exercise offers 360-degree freedom of movement, resulting in increased equilibrium through comfortable stretches that build strength in the spine. Exercises are performed on a fully-adjustable pulley tower that supports a variety of body types and levels of strength. The even and constant resistance in the handle unit and pulley tower ensures a smooth and safe experience for maximum positive effect.
This unique form of exercise incorporates many key principles of yoga, dance, gymnastics and Tai Chi as it works the joints and muscles of the entire body in a gentle yet invigorating way. Rhythmic, spiralling and undulating movements set the spine in motion and send waves of circulation through the inner organs and all other tissues of the body. These harmonious movements and their corresponding breathing patterns oxygenate the blood and stimulate the nervous system. The body and mind are re-trained to move with greater fluidity, relaxation, elegance and power.
Corrective Posture Exercise is a movement method that gently works the entire body, opening energy pathways, stimulating the nervous system, increasing range of motion, and creating functional strength through rhythmic, flowing movement sequences. It is an original and unique movement method which has benefits & qualities similar to those found in Yoga, Tai Chi, gymnastics and dance. Our online Fitness Instructor will help you train for optimal trunk and core stabilisation, stretching and muscle coordination in order to improve your posture and learn about body awareness.
Choose 1 service from the list below.
- Chiva-Som Skin Haven Facial
Our most popular facial, this restful and balancing treatment combines wonderful Thai herbs and floral essences to create a thoroughly refreshing, cleansing, healing and hydrating treatment. Your skin will be strengthened with anti-oxidants that provide a natural defence against damaging free-radicals. With this immersive and therapeutic treatment, you will feel relaxed and renewed.
Choose 1 service from the list below.
- Jet Lag Therapy Package
o 1 Padebhyanga Hot Oil Foot Massage
o 1 Aromatherapy Massage with Vata-Balancing Essential Oil
o 1 Antioxidant Face Revival Mask
Erase the evidence of time zone changes such as devitalised skin and physical and mental fatigue with the power of Ayurvedic aromatherapy. Your therapist begins by relieving stress with a Padebhyanga hot oil foot massage (45 minutes). An Aromatherapy Massage with Vata-balancing essential oils (50 minutes) will ground and reconnect you, while an antioxidant Face Revival Mask generates an immediate revival of facial skin cells, eradicating puffiness and providing an instant healthy glow.
Choose 1 service from the list below.
- Mood Mist
Smell is a strong sense that influences the activity of the brain. Our specially formulated mood mists include “Release” and “Fresh”, each one a special blend of herbal extracts and essential oils selected for their healing properties. “Release” promotes harmony of the mind and calming of the emotions, while “Fresh” is a light aroma to uplift your spirit.
Choose 1 service from the list below.
- Bio-Feedback Rebalance
Bio-Feedback Rebalance is a heart-focused breathing technique that helps you to understand how your emotions can either deplete or renew your mind, body and spirit, and how these reactions profoundly impact your wellbeing. By practising Bio-Feedback Rebalance, you can manage stress more effectively and reduce its impact. The technique will objectively show the dynamic interaction between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, as well as demonstrate how breathing patterns can promote balance within the autonomic nervous system.
Choose 1 service from the list below.
- Naturopathic Consultation
The human body is a complex organism with the innate ability to heal itself when we learn how to listen to it and respond by supporting its needs. The Naturopathic approach seeks to find the underlying causes of your symptoms, remove obstacles to healing, and implement appropriate changes that restore the body’s natural tendency to return to health. Naturopaths use herbs, homeopathy, nutritional supplements, lifestyle modification, exercise, detoxification and the concept of food-as-medicine to help put your health back on track. Chiva-Som offers a full naturopathic dispensary of herbs and supplements which may be prescribed during the consultation.
Choose 1 service from the list below.
- Naturopathic Follow-Up
The human body is a complex organism with the innate ability to heal itself when we learn how to listen to it and respond by supporting its needs. The Naturopathic approach seeks to find the underlying causes of your symptoms, remove obstacles to healing, and implement appropriate changes that restore the body’s natural tendency to return to health. Naturopaths use herbs, homeopathy, nutritional supplements, lifestyle modification, exercise, detoxification and the concept of food-as-medicine to help put your health back on track. Chiva-Som offers a full naturopathic dispensary of herbs and supplements which may be prescribed during the consultation.
Choose 1 service from the list below.
- Acupuncture (initial)
- Shiatsu Acupressure
- Seiketsu Shiraku Acupuncture
- Traditional Thai Therapeutic Massage
As one of the five interdependent branches of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), this treatment begins with a diagnosis along traditional Chinese methods, which includes thorough history-taking and identifying significant signs from pulse and tongue analysis. Acupuncture treatment helps reduce blockages, stimulate energy flow, and restore balance in the body, mind and spirit. Acupuncture treatment has been shown effective in helping relieve aches and pains, insomnia, digestive disorders, stress and chronic immune dysfunction as well as to generally improve wellbeing.
Shiatsu is known as Japanese acupressure, which is acupuncture without needles. Shiatsu manipulates acupuncture points to stimulate the body’s self-healing system through a traditional Japanese massage technique using vertical and continuous pressure. Shiatsu Acupressure can help you relax and cope with stress, muscle pain, nausea, anxiety or depression. The treatment is tailored to your specific needs, and is safe during pregnancy and for all health conditions.
By quickly lancing the skin, a few drops of blood expressed from one or more of the peripheral acupuncture points provides therapeutic benefit through the “release” of excess heat or stagnant qi (chi or energy). The stimulation of Seiketsu points helps the autonomic nervous system to improve the flow of energy in the meridians, restoring neurological balance and aiding relaxation. Additionally, this technique will have a calming effect on motor and sensory nerves, helping to relax excessively tight muscles and relieve common complaints of muscle spasms, pain and tension.
An ancient Thai tradition, this method of massage involves applying pressure to therapeutic points on the muscles and ligaments, together with deep, elongating stretches, to gently release spinal and muscular tension while enhancing joint mobility.
Choose 5 services from the list below.
- Holistic Health
- Cranio-Sacral Therapy
- Reiki Gemstones Therapy
- Acupressure Reflexology
Bamboo Massage’ offers a gentle, natural healing experience for stress relief and overall well-being. Bamboo Therapy Massage harnesses the innate healing power of bamboo to promote wellness and rejuvenation. This unique form of massage therapy offers numerous benefits for the body, mind, and spirit. The therapist uses the bamboo stick are carefully selected for their smooth texture, strength, and flexibility to apply various massage techniques, such as rolling, kneading, and tapping, along the body. Bamboo sticks provide a gentle, comfortable massage, applying targeted pressure to relieve muscle tension and promote deep relaxation, ensuring a customised and effective massage experience. Let's delve into the remarkable healing properties of bamboo and explore why it has become a sought-after treatment for stress relief and overall well-being.
This therapy uses rhythmic motions in the cranial bones to promote fluid movement through the brain, spinal cord and nervous system. This profound yet gentle manipulation promotes balance and harmony at the deepest level of your being.
The combination of the use of gemstones with Reiki can have very positive effects. Reiki enhances and the gemstones amplify the energy. The gemstones help by drawing negative energy out of the person’s energy field.
A traditional Chinese healing method, reflexology works on the connection between specific reflex points in the feet and all other body parts. After determining these tender and tense spots, the therapist then applies pressure on the feet to alleviate the local discomfort and treat the body parts reflected. Reflexology stimulates these points in order to improve and strengthen the weak areas of the body, remove congestion and eliminate discomfort. As tensions are eased and circulation is improved, this gentle therapy encourages the body to heal itself at its own pace, often counteracting a lifetime of misuse.
Choose 3 services from the list below.
- Pranayama
Prana means breath, respiration, life, vitality, wind, energy or strength. Ayama means length, expansion, stretching or restraint. Pranayama is therefore the science of breath, or the extension of breath and its control. Even as emotional excitement affects the rate of breathing, deliberate regulation of respiration keeps emotional excitement in check. Regular practice of pranayama will slow your heart and bring a subjective experience of relaxation. Proper breathing techniques can create space for personal healing and transformational growth.
Choose 4 services from the list below.
- Refunctional Exercise (50 mins)
- Gyrotonic®
- Gyrokinesis®
- Corrective Posture Exercise
Good exercise doesn’t always need to be intense, but should focus on proper form and provide strength and recruitment of the correct muscles. With this programme, our physiotherapists will analyse your posture, muscle function and movement patterns to create a special programme that suits your body’s own needs. Refunctional exercise combines Pilates and careful use of special equipment to ensure that your workout is safe and effective. The objective of this session is to give you postural correction, strengthen your core muscles and increase total body flexibility and mobility.
Gyrotonic® exercise offers 360-degree freedom of movement, resulting in increased equilibrium through comfortable stretches that build strength in the spine. Exercises are performed on a fully-adjustable pulley tower that supports a variety of body types and levels of strength. The even and constant resistance in the handle unit and pulley tower ensures a smooth and safe experience for maximum positive effect.
This unique form of exercise incorporates many key principles of yoga, dance, gymnastics and Tai Chi as it works the joints and muscles of the entire body in a gentle yet invigorating way. Rhythmic, spiralling and undulating movements set the spine in motion and send waves of circulation through the inner organs and all other tissues of the body. These harmonious movements and their corresponding breathing patterns oxygenate the blood and stimulate the nervous system. The body and mind are re-trained to move with greater fluidity, relaxation, elegance and power.
Corrective Posture Exercise is a movement method that gently works the entire body, opening energy pathways, stimulating the nervous system, increasing range of motion, and creating functional strength through rhythmic, flowing movement sequences. It is an original and unique movement method which has benefits & qualities similar to those found in Yoga, Tai Chi, gymnastics and dance. Our online Fitness Instructor will help you train for optimal trunk and core stabilisation, stretching and muscle coordination in order to improve your posture and learn about body awareness.
Choose 1 service from the list below.
- Chiva-Som Skin Haven Facial
Our most popular facial, this restful and balancing treatment combines wonderful Thai herbs and floral essences to create a thoroughly refreshing, cleansing, healing and hydrating treatment. Your skin will be strengthened with anti-oxidants that provide a natural defence against damaging free-radicals. With this immersive and therapeutic treatment, you will feel relaxed and renewed.
Choose 1 service from the list below.
- Jet Lag Therapy Package
o 1 Padebhyanga Hot Oil Foot Massage
o 1 Aromatherapy Massage with Vata-Balancing Essential Oil
o 1 Antioxidant Face Revival Mask
Erase the evidence of time zone changes such as devitalised skin and physical and mental fatigue with the power of Ayurvedic aromatherapy. Your therapist begins by relieving stress with a Padebhyanga hot oil foot massage (45 minutes). An Aromatherapy Massage with Vata-balancing essential oils (50 minutes) will ground and reconnect you, while an antioxidant Face Revival Mask generates an immediate revival of facial skin cells, eradicating puffiness and providing an instant healthy glow.
Choose 1 service from the list below.
- Mood Mist
Smell is a strong sense that influences the activity of the brain. Our specially formulated mood mists include “Release” and “Fresh”, each one a special blend of herbal extracts and essential oils selected for their healing properties. “Release” promotes harmony of the mind and calming of the emotions, while “Fresh” is a light aroma to uplift your spirit.
Choose 1 service from the list below.
- Traditional Thai Therapeutic Massage (90 mins)
This highly regarded healing procedure is the combination of modern scientific understanding and an ancient system of medicine once only available to occupants of the Royal courts. Using only the fingers and palms, practitioners unblock the 10 main health lines, akin to meridians in Chinese medicine, which allows restoration and energy flow to the whole body, creating wellness and vitality. Sufferers of acute or chronic pain, migraines, digestive or pelvic ailments and joint discomfort may sense immediate improvement of symptoms after this deep tissue and hot compress massage. Follow up treatments may begin with Thai herbal steam the use of traditional Thai herbs which can be obtained from our pharmacy on prescription of our Traditional Thai Medicine specialist.
Choose 2 services from the list below.
- Super Stretch (25 mins)
After any exercise session it is important to stretch and relax. Our fitness team has developed a unique stretch combination to refresh and rejuvenate you at the end of your workout. Receive a full one-to-one stretch, rounded off with muscle manipulation to aid the body’s recovery process. This cooling-down treatment is also highly recommended for golfers looking to improve their swing.