5 wellness retreat trends in 2025, from sexual healing and psychedelics to horse therapy

Want to restore your libido, get help conceiving, or find relief from stress and addiction? Here is what’s trending in wellness tourism

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SHA Wellness Clinic in Spain and Mexico offers a Sexual Wellbeing package - one of several wellness trends this year. Photo: Instagram/shawellness

Published: 11:15am, 9 Jan 2025

A fully immersive wellness retreat can be hugely therapeutic. It was for 43-year-old life and business coach Lynda Williams, who in 2023 returned to Britain after 14 years living in Singapore.

Following the end of a relationship in 2024, Williams decided to take her heartbreak into her own hands and checked into a five-night retreat in Greece, at Euphoria Retreat in Mystras, joining its Emotional Harmony programme.

“I’ve always believed healing starts from the head and heart and the rest follows,” she says.

She describes the “emotional knots” that were released with a Thai yogic massage, personalised energy treatments, sound healing and water therapies ranging from cold-water immersion to flotation sessions with whale and dolphin acoustics.

“I returned feeling balanced, nurtured, at peace and ready to tackle the rest of the year,” she says.

A fully immersive wellness retreat can be hugely therapeutic, as Lynda Williams discovered. Photo: Lynda Williams

The start of the year is a good time to reflect on one’s wellness and mental health, and 2025 is set to see more wellness travellers than ever. According to research from luxury travel agency network Virtuoso and market research group YouGov, 21 per cent of people travelling are doing so for health- and wellness-driven reasons.