The Sanctum: Wellness and Fitness with Azamara


Azamara Voyages, with a particular focus on wellness, offers a wide range of fitness options and treatments at The Sanctum spa, firmly believing that travel is the perfect opportunity to concentrate on health.

The Sanctum, Azamara’s spa, is an oasis of tranquility managed by professional estheticians and therapists offering a comprehensive menu of services including:

The Sanctum Terrace: A private area with a bubbling saltwater tub and powerful water jets. The warm pool water helps dissolve daily stress, relieving muscle tension, and the water jets create a more complete relaxation experience, all while enjoying the scenic view.

Biotec Facial Services: A cutting-edge skincare method with restorative facial treatments for both men and women.

Stone Therapy: Hot stone therapy using a curated selection of Balinese stones for an optimal experience; deep tissue massage; bamboo massage, utilizing warm bamboo shoots infused with essential oils, and other exotic massage treatments from around the world.

Rituals: A selection of half-day and full-day packages carefully crafted to include body sculpting, facial treatments, and massages for maximum relaxation, and much more.

The Sanctum, in addition to the aforementioned services, offers a much broader menu that includes ancient treatments while also focusing on new techniques that provide guests with more thorough and enhanced treatments like BIOTEC treatments. These treatments blend innovative technology with active ingredients, making the machine work to reignite the skin by boosting its natural cellular energy, resulting in visibly healthy and energized skin.

Simultaneously, The Sanctum also offers renowned ELEMIS treatments, which use touch as a powerful diagnostic tool, softening and preparing the skin to receive active ingredients. The product is applied using a combination of ancient and modern massage techniques from around the world. The most popular are the Elemis Aroma Stone Therapy, which helps dissolve tension with the warmth provided by volcanic basalt stones while the body is massaged using traditional techniques and soothing aromatherapy oils, and the Elemis Aroma Algae Massage, a heated algae and essential oil mask for tired muscles, arthritis, or detoxification.

One of the oldest treatments that continues to bring its benefits, offered by Azamara, is acupuncture, which strengthens the immune system, combats diseases, and controls pain, dissolving accumulated stress and restoring the body’s natural balance and energy. Guests can enjoy this treatment thanks to Azamara’s acupuncturists, who are licensed professionals certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.

The Sanctum, with services available from 8 AM to 10 PM, is truly an oasis of relaxation, and Azamara is certainly committed to creating personalized wellness journeys offering the best experience for guests. But the wellness program doesn’t stop at the spa; Azamara’s fleet also offers an extensive fitness program, recognizing that fitness is a lifestyle and that committing to a life of wellness is not a luxury but a necessity.

The fitness program includes free group classes such as yoga on the deck, Pilates, cycling, core workouts, and nutrition classes, as well as individual training at the fitness center, which has extensive equipment and offers workouts with an ocean view. Guests can also opt for personalized training or Body Sculpt Boot Camp at an additional cost. Personal workouts focus on individual needs, with a program specifically designed after a thorough consultation and a free body composition analysis. Additionally, for those seeking nutritional advice, a personalized nutritional plan is available to achieve wellness goals. Guests can also opt for the RBT program, a scientifically supported functional fitness program designed to achieve maximum results in the shortest time possible. According to this program, large compound movements with a continuous flow of exercises keep the blood circulating throughout the workout, leading to amazing results.

The program also offers Pilates sessions, a series of controlled movements involving the body and mind, performed on specially designed equipment and supervised by qualified instructors; body composition analysis using a body composition analysis device, where fitness professionals determine body fat percentage, metabolism rate, and water retention level, and then compare the results with the recommended percentage; and specialized free classes such as Pure-Form Yoga, excellent for increasing focus and concentration levels, Pure Form Pilates using a Pilates ring, roller, and balls for various movements as established and recommended by Joseph Pilates, and indoor Cycling Coast, which simulates road cycling, taking cyclists through a series of climbs and sprints in an engaging and stimulating atmosphere.

Lastly, the Salon is also available with a menu of professional services for men and women, including special hair and scalp renewal rituals, pedicure with massage, grooming services, and more.

Whether you want to enjoy a massage with an ocean view, a manicure before exploring cities, barber services, a healing acupuncture treatment, or a fitness session, The Sanctum is the ideal place, and Azamara is pleased to offer a complete range of services to rejuvenate body and mind. To discover all the services and treatments at The Sanctum, click here

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Giorgia Lombardo

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