Zulal Wellness Resort by Chiva-Som, Qatar
Zulal Wellness Resort by Chiva-Som is a pioneering destination in the Middle East that blends Traditional Arabic & Islamic Medicine with a holistic health and well-being philosophy, established by Chiva-Som, the internationally acclaimed wellness resort in Thailand. We welcome guests from all over the world to our coastal home on the northern tip of Qatar, where we offer two distinct yet interconnecting experiences. Zulal Serenity is dedicated to adult guests seeking an immersive health and lifestyle reset, while Zulal Discovery invites families to connect and embark on a wellness journey together. We aim to inspire you with positive and sustainable lifestyle change.
TRADITIONAL ARABIC & ISLAMIC MEDICINE (TAIM)
“As the pioneering global destination for TAIM, we’ve modernised this ancient practice for today’s world. TAIM, originating from Ibn Sina’s Canon of Medicine in 1025, identifies individual ‘humour’ types that affect our health. Our experts use evidence-based TAIM principles like diet, herbs, and lifestyle guidance to enhance your body and spirit’s healing abilities.”
Zulal Serenity
The calm and private spaces throughout Zulal Serenity are dedicated to guests over 16 years. The whole Serenity experience has been designed for those seeking a path of reset and reflection in nature. This is a place to escape to, where you focus on your wellbeing and embrace lasting lifestyle change.
Zulal Discovery
Zulal Discovery is the family side of our resort. Here we offer programmes, activities and facilities that bring families together in a journey of healthy lifestyle discovery: to learn, experience and share. Our retreat programmes also support all family members as individuals, whatever your age.
Retreats
*Zulal Serenity wellness is for adult only and Zulal Discovery is for family.
A perfect retreat for first-time visitors to Zulal. On arrival, you and your Health & Wellness Advisor will plan a schedule of activities and treatments to meet your goals while supporting your journey of personal discovery and meaningful change.
This retreat aims to alleviate and overcome the signs, symptoms and effects of stress, overwhelm, fatigue and burnout through a series supportive treatments and therapies created to promote the sustainable lifestyle changes that will transform your everyday life.
This retreat allows you to rebalance and rejuvenate in body, mind and spirit. The aim is to reset your well-being and boost your immunity through a various healing traditions and holistic activities.
The Natural Slimming retreat is designed to facilitate the start of a healthy weight loss through a healthy lifestyle approach for long-term weight management and improved well-being.
This retreat focusses on building your physical performance to optimal levels, alleviating pain from repetitive exercise and improving postural alignment.
Sustainable Weight Loss retreat is tailored to your needs to promote an end result that not only achieves weight loss, but also provides you with valuable knowledge and understanding for you to continue a healthier, sustainable lifestyle beyond your stay with us.
This retreat is designed to help you restore a fresh sense of health. Aimed to give you younger-looking skin and an overall healthier appearance, this retreat combines treatments and services from our spa treatment menu.
This is ideal for those who feel ready to embark on the dietary transformation or fine-tuning. Let our experts help you unearth your ideal diet and maximise the benefits of the detoxification process. You can expect improved health on all levels, including internal balance and increased energy and vitality.
A perfect retreat for first-time visitors to Zulal. On arrival, you and your Health & Wellness Advisor will plan a schedule of activities and treatments to meet your goals while supporting your journey of personal discovery and meaningful change.
This retreat aims to alleviate and overcome the signs, symptoms and effects of stress, overwhelm, fatigue and burnout through a series supportive treatments and therapies created to promote the sustainable lifestyle changes that will transform your everyday life.
This retreat allows you to rebalance and rejuvenate in body, mind and spirit. The aim is to reset your well-being and boost your immunity through a various healing traditions and holistic activities.
The Natural Slimming retreat is designed to facilitate the start of a healthy weight loss through a healthy lifestyle approach for long-term weight management and improved well-being.
This retreat focusses on building your physical performance to optimal levels, alleviating pain from repetitive exercise and improving postural alignment.
Sustainable Weight Loss retreat is tailored to your needs to promote an end result that not only achieves weight loss, but also provides you with valuable knowledge and understanding for you to continue a healthier, sustainable lifestyle beyond your stay with us.
This retreat is designed to help you restore a fresh sense of health. Aimed to give you younger-looking skin and an overall healthier appearance, this retreat combines treatments and services from our spa treatment menu.
This is ideal for those who feel ready to embark on the dietary transformation or fine-tuning. Let our experts help you unearth your ideal diet and maximise the benefits of the detoxification process. You can expect improved health on all levels, including internal balance and increased energy and vitality.
This retreat gives families a beautiful opportunity to spend time together sampling different activities while allowing each family member time and space to relax and reflect on their internal environment and their surrounding environment in which they play a part.
Family Wellness at Zulal Discovery
We passionately believe that supportive and gratifying relationships within a family support the personal development of each individual member as well as the family unit as a whole. These positive relationships ripple out for the benefit of the wider community of which the family is a part. This is why our unique concept of Family Wellness is key to our wellness philosophy at Zulal. It centres around the holistic development of young people and the joy of family connection. Following a family consultation, your time is divided between activities and treatments for each member, in other words ‘me-time’ for everyone, and memorable time spent together as family learning, laughing, being active and creative. Our programmes are conceived to benefit all ages, in a spirit of engagement and enjoyment.
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Our Wellness Pillars
Your Programme is highly personalised crafted from our holistic approach
Spa
Body treatments and hydrotherapy to relieve physical stress, relax the mind and soothe the soul.
Physiotherapy
Physical therapies, rehabilitation and targeted recovery programmes to improve body function, balance and mobility.
Holistic Health
Diagnostic therapies that assess health states and energy therapies to help heal chronic and acute conditions
Nutrition
Wellness cuisine focussed on organic, whole foods in beautifully presented dishes, full of flavour.
Fitness
Personal training, the latest gym equipment, indoor and outdoor facilities and classes for targeted exercise.
Aesthetic Beauty
Innovative, FDA-approved technologies for non-invasive and minimally invasive aesthetic procedures.
Genomics Testing
Genomic testing provides unprecedented intelligence on our genetic code, and how lifestyle, environmental factors and nutritional habits can have dramatically different effects depending on individuals’ specific makeup.
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Our Wellness Approach
Zulal serenity wellness is for adult only and Zulal discovery is for family.
Retreat and Reconnect
All of our Serenity Retreats help you shape a healthier, happier lifestyle. Whatever your goals, from relaxing to managing your weight, our Health Advisors guide you through your retreat, treatments, activities, mindset and nutritional approaches. Everything you choose can be modified as you go along so that your wellness journey is as gentle or rigorous as you want it to be.
Treatments
Wherever you are and wherever you want to be, we have more than 200 treatments to support your holistic wellbeing from a physical issue to de-stressing, better sleep and spiritual rejuvenation. You chose treatments from our extensive menu that includes Traditional Arabic and Islamic Medicine (TAIM) protocols, innovative technologies, nutritional consultations, sessions in the gym and energy therapies that calm your nervous system. We help guide your choices to suit your goals.
Activities
Enjoy our complimentary group activities that run from 7 AM to 8 PM. The daily timetable includes a variety of physical activities, both indoor classes and outdoor adventures that bring you close to nature. We also have talks, walks, craft and cooking classes, where you’ll get inspiration for your at-home menu. All activities are optional, you chose what you’d like to do.
Health Practitioners
Our Health Practitioners are the minds, hearts and hands that transform lives. We’re proud of the spectrum of expertise of our practitioners, from Unani doctors, expert in TAIM, to Naturopathic and Ayurveda practitioners, fitness experts, acupuncturists and specialists in many holistic and energy therapies. They join us from all over the world alongside our Visiting Consultants who share their specialisms with guests during specific calendar dates.
Wellness Cuisines
We passionately believe that eating well is the cornerstone of a long and happy life. We create gastronomical experiences where flavour and fresh produce marry nutritional healing and respect for Islamic superfoods such as olives, figs, honey and camel milk. At Serenity you enjoy exclusive all-day dining at Al Sidr and our tranquil Tea House. You’re also welcome at all dining outlets within the resort.
Retreats and Reconnect
Our unique two or five-day Discovery retreats are designed around every family member, focusing on experiences that bring you together to share, create and learn: a bonding connection to take back into your daily life. All retreats stress the importance of healthy eating from a young age. They blend experiences in Oasis of Discovery, our Family Wellness centre, plus joint and separate adult and child treatments and activities, so each family member has ‘me-time’. Retreats start with a Family Consultation to make schedules to suit everyone.
Treatments
We offer adult or child-focused versions for many of our treatments, such as stress-relieving Reiki, Cranial Sacral work, meditation styles and facials. You can enjoy others together, such as our mother-daughter beauty treatments. We have more than 200 treatments ranging from TAIM mind-body and herbal-based therapies, as well innovative technologies and holistic approaches to release tension, re-energise and re-balance for all the family.
Activities
Activities are divided into those that foster family connection in sports, creativity and nutrition and those that are age appropriate for each family member. Activities are both active and introspective and subtly encourage personal awareness. For example, Discovery Oasis, our Family Wellness centre, is themed round desert animals, such as the smart fox and far-seeing falcon, as metaphors for life-building skills.
Health Practitioners
Our Health Practitioners are the minds, hearts and hands that transform lives. Our family and child specialists bring experience in psychology, education, counselling and research. We also have medical doctors and practitioners in TAIM, Naturopathic Medicine, many holistic therapies and fitness experts. They join us from all over the world together with our Visiting Consultants who come during specific calendar dates.
Wellness Cuisines
The Zulal dining experience defines what it means to eat well for all ages, Our chefs blend taste with nutritional value to boost energy and cater for all dietary requirements, including some Islamic culinary superfoods. Whether you opt to eat at our fine-dining restaurant, Acacia, family restaurant, Aizoon, our lagoon-side café or beach club, you can choose Arabic, Mediterranean or international cuisine.
Luxury Accommodation
*Zulal Serenity wellness is for adult only and Zulal Discovery is for families.
Qataf Suite
Our exclusive Qatar Suite with three bedrooms is a home-from-home residence with living and dining area and double doors opening onto your own garden with beach access, an infinity swimming pool, plunge pool and a wide view of the ocean from your expansive terrace. There’s also a hydrotherapy suite with a steam bath and sauna.
Shinan Suite
This very secluded Shinan Suite has two bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms and separate dressing areas. The living and dining areas are decorated with cream textures and clean lines for added tranquility. This suite also offers its own sauna and swimming pool under a verandah, hidden from view.
Serenity Junior Suite
We have 11 junior suites with terraces and private plunge pools and views through the trees over the Arabian Gulf. Each suite has a comfortable living area with sofa and table for in-room dining, separate dressing area and walk-in wardrobe. The palette of soft, muted shades adds to the cool airy atmosphere.
Serenity Grand Deluxe Room
These very spacious rooms open out onto a private terrace with your own plunge pool. They all look over the lagoon and are situated in a tranquil area away from the main hub of the resort. The decor is calm, clean, and contemporary with artistic motifs that nod to our Arabian culture.
Discovery Family Deluxe Room
This choice for families combines two our of deluxe rooms with views over the resort’s lagoon. One room offers a king sized bed while the other has two twin beds. The rooms, which each have their own outdoor space, are joined by a connecting door.
Discovery Family Junior Suite
This suite is a perfect choice for families of four as it joins our Deluxe Room with a Junior Suite via a connecting door and includes a relaxing area, en-suite bathrooms, a dressing area and private balconies. This suite offers a king-sized bed plus two twin beds.
Discovery Deluxe Room
These centrally-located rooms overlook the resort’s lagoon. They’re close to the wellness centre and restaurants. Similar to our Deluxe Rooms, with either a king or twin beds, these rooms are ideal for either adults or children.
Discovery Deluxe Garden View Room
The Deluxe Garden View Rooms have the double bonus of leafy, landscaped views across the resort and the sound of the gently lapping waves of the Arabian Gulf. Enjoy both from the comfort of your king or twin beds. A small sitting area opens out onto a shady terrace.
Discovery Junior Suite
Discovery Junior Suites offer just the right balance of space and simplicity making them tranquil and airy spaces to relax in. A sophisticated colour palette runs through the bedroom, reclining area and ensuite bathroom, and dressing room. These suits enjoy private balconies.
Discovery One Bedroom Suite
These are our most spacious suites, ideal for two people, with separate bathroom and dressing area and own living and dining space decorated in natural textures and clean lines. The wide terrace is kept private from view thanks to the resort’s soft landscaping.
Exclusive Offers
Unveiling our special offers for a vacation in wellness at an oasis that will nourish your mind, body and spirit.
Wellness Plus
Time and health are the greatest gifts, and for retreats until the end of December 2024, we are offering extra wellness treatments the longer you stay. Take the time to restore your mind, body and spirit to optimal wellbeing.
Qatar Resident Offer
25% Off Retreats and Stays at Zulal Discovery. Take the time to invest in your health and wellbeing, and escape from the hectic rhythms of daily life at our peaceful desert oasis just one hour north of Doha.
Wellness Getaway
Our Wellness Getaway Offer extends 25% off our all-inclusive Discovery Reconnect Retreat that provides accommodation, wellness cuisine, health and wellness consultation by our expert advisor, group activities, choice of one daily treatment and 20% off à la carte wellness treatments.
Kids On Us
Experience more wellness for less with our generous family offer, where kids dine and stay with our compliments. Create memorable moments together as a family while enjoying a host of wellness experiences designed to create deeper bonds between parents and children.
Awards and Recognition
We’re proud to be recognised as the World’s Leading Retreat by readers of the World Travel Awards, for three consecutive years since we opened. And to be continuously nominated as the best retreat in the Middle East. It’s an honour to be internationally applauded for our dedication to improving the lifestyle of our guests.
