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SPEND IT<br />
SPA TIME<br />
WHATLEY MANOR’S<br />
AQUARIAS SPAorget the large, more<br />
famous but terribly formulaic spas – Whatley Manor’s<br />
FAquarias is the one those in the know favour,<br />
for its relaxed luxurious intimacy, refreshing<br />
lack of noisy American spa junkies and<br />
hen parties, and wonderful treatments by<br />
therapists who are among the very best in the<br />
whole of the UK – including Ila Therapist of the<br />
Year award–winner Sarah Hickman.<br />
Located in a courtyard of this picture postcard pretty<br />
Cotswolds manor house, it features a hydrotherapy<br />
pool, tepidarium, a wave dream sensory room and all<br />
the usual thermal cabins you could desire, plus a gym<br />
with Power Plate and there are Yoga, Pilates, personal<br />
training and Tai Chi on offer too.<br />
There’s a wide range of treatments – including<br />
uber-luxurious La Prairie facials, Ila scrubs and wraps<br />
and signature Body Rituals which are absolutely worth<br />
treating yourself to, for a couple of hours of sensory<br />
bliss, while your chakras are worked on, body taken<br />
into a trance with deeply relaxing massage strokes and,<br />
depending on the Ritual chosen, invigorated with salt<br />
scrubs or wraps and finished off with Shirodhara, which<br />
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