THE NEW
DESTINATION
IN WELLNESS TRAVEL
If you live and love fitness, why would you want to go without it on your holiday?
hat should a holiday be? A break
from the stresses of daily life, yes,
but not from participating in the
things you love doing throughout the rest of
the year. If anything, it should be a chance to
indulge those passions. And for those of us
for whom fitness ticks that box, why wouldn’t
you want to spoil yourself with a holiday
based on what makes you feel good?
For more and more of us, the idea of
lying on a beach and ‘doing nothing’ just
doesn’t appeal anymore. Fitness and
wellness travel has been increasing hugely
in popularity in recent years. In 2014 chief
executive of the Australian Federation of
Travel Agents, Jayson Westbury, told the
Sydney Morning Herald that ‘the general
health messages are getting through to
people and what better way to address
that than by using your holiday to put some
healthy living together.’
One such example of this trend is
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Hotel Komune in Keramas, Bali. Originally
established as an exclusive surf resort, it
is now evolving into an all-round fitness
and wellness destination, drawing on the
owners’ experience with creating such
spaces in Australia, including the renowned
Gwinganna Health Retreat in Queensland.
Designed to be the most comprehensive
fitness, lifestyle and wellness offering in Bali,
the new Hotel Komune Health Hub features
three yoga decks, three areas for conventional
equipment training, a functional training
centre (for CrossFit and F45-style training),
outdoor training area, and a 25-metre lap
pool. Add to this eight wet and dry spa
treatment rooms and a health café and
organic gardens, and you have something to
suit the whole spectrum of fitness tastes.
The team behind Komune – Tony de Leede,
Tony Cannon and pro-surfer Luke Egan –
conceived the Health Hub in part to present
yoga and fitness providers with an unrivalled
venue at which to conduct their own retreats
with groups of clients or students. As such,
the facilities go way beyond the usual gym
you may find at other resorts.
One of the yoga decks, for example,
overlooks the ocean and mountains, while
the