Spa Profile: Richmond Nua Wellness & Spa

Imagine a nature… where forest sings and water dances eye to eye, hand in hand. Imagine a place… miles away from the bustle of modern life; yet so close to your home. Imagine a service… generously pampering you with its cherished care and superior quality. Imagine a Spa & Wellness break… tailored especially for you peaceful, rejuvenating, versatile and diverse…

Living and working in big cities like Istanbul which has assumed the role as Turkey's plaza, requires us to adapt to instantly changing conditions and throws us into a state of constant rush. If you wish to break from this chaos, but without going too far away from Istanbul, a Wellness and Spa center awaits you at Sapanca Lake, where nature meets holistic peace and comfort: Richmond Nua.

Richmond Nua, Turkey’s first destination Spa, presents you with a renewed and serene “me” with its custom-made Spa therapies and Wellness programs that offer many treatment options practiced by expert eyes and hands. Whereas at the same time, revealing perfectionism in its holistic approach by inviting you  to prepare your bodily senses in her wet areas so that you can experience your preferred Spa and care therapies in the most satisfactory manner, even before getting these programs and treatments.

Effective Preparation for Spa Treatments at the Equipped Wet Area:

Nua, which stands out with its wet area consisting of fourteen different concepts, each more comfortable, comprehensive and stylish than the other, and designed with only you in mind, offers you Spa lovers, quite a variety of and healthy opportunities. The center not only makes sure that you understand the degree, humidity and usage options of these concepts, it also advises you on the order and for how long you can or should at most, use these concepts. For example, while in the Traditional Turkish Bath which is suggested to give priority in preparing your body, a usage time of 15 minutes is advised; a rest in Waterbeds with a temperature of 32°C is recommended for 30 minutes. Apart from these concepts, many hot and cold options such as Salt Jacuzzi with sea mineral, Jet Pool with fresh water, Laconium and Herbal Steam Bath among from dry baths, Ceramic Beds (Tepidarium), Osman Steam Bath, Snail Shower and Adventure Shower (Aqua Cave), Loft Sauna and Ice Grotto are among those privileges offered in this wet area.

Nua’s Special Concepts For Those Looking For More ‘Privacy’:

Treatment programs exclusive at Nua gathers various therapies that shine out with their balancing and anti-stress features, to provide you with serenity in body, mind and soul. Added to many therapies that you can enjoy alone, are offered for couples the Spirit Couple ritual giving a double purification experience with different care rituals and massages for women and men.

Refreshing Facials:

With twelve different facial care treatments for you to choose from according to your needs, you can be refreshed and obtain a much more radiant appearance. Active Purness care, which freshens up your skin tissue by making use of natural ingredients and vitamins such as Spirulina and vitamin C, allows you to feel renewed and purified. Collagen Care and HSR Lifting Care, each of which increases skin elasticity and allows you to erase the traces of time from your face, are among the popular treatments you may opt to achieve a younger appearance. You can also experience the luxury of a regional care with Sublime Skin Eye care enriched with effective peptides for wrinkles, bags and bruises around the eyes.

Body Treatments for Physical Vitality:

Treatments specially designed for our body health allow us to try traditional practices in conjunction with modern relaxing modalities. In addition to local facilities such as Traditional Turkish Bath and Sultan Hammam Pleasure, modern applications such as Nua Signature Body Care with its unique mixture of peeling and massage and Sacred Nature Body, which strengthens your skin while protecting it with its Ecocert certified formula, are also offered by the center. In addition, among bath therapies, Cleopatra Bath that contributes to the healing of your skin, and invigorating Mineral Bath; from Dry Flotation where you can rest your body in the light of water equivalent to 6 hours of sleep the Nuvola mud, milk & honey and algae treatments; as well as Chi Yang, rejuvenating you with the luxury of gold, the relaxing Lavender Dream, and Algae Peel Off Mask, renewing the skin with the efficiency of algae and seaweed, under the concept of Body Peeling and Massage, are other treatments you can benefit from.

Massage Therapies for Holistic Tranquility:

We all tend to employ a fast lifestyle to attune to the modern life. In order to purify our body and mind that are tired in this process, we naturally turn to massage therapy, as humans have preferred for centuries to relax. You can opt for the most suitable massage for you from more than twenty Nua massage therapies, derived from numerous traditions and practices, and relieve your fatigue and stress levels. 

With Nua Signature Massage developed under the special techniques of Nua, you can experience a massage found nowhere else but here; or you can enjoy different concepts such as the spiritual Lomi Lomi Nui unique to Hawaii or the Zodiac Massage specific to your sign; you may increase your energy flow with Shiatsu Therapy that works on the body’s meridian points; or you can let your body relax with the ancient Shiroabhyanga Massage based on Ayurveda philosophy. Hot Stone Therapy, on the other hand, is another alternative which helps you to let yourself go while balancing your energy, by combining body massage and energy work.

In-Stay Spa Programs for Deep(er) Treatment:

The truth is that in the course of life, we sometimes neglect ourselves for a long time. At such times, short-term treatment feels insufficient to ‘reset’ our tiredness and give a start over. That’s when you can ‘restart’ your life with completely relaxed and renewed body, mind and soul by checking in any of the accommodation programs ranging from one night to four nights with different contents, in Richmond Nua’s spaceless and timeless dimension. Accordingly, we recommend to those who want to take a short break to check out the one-night Short Break or the Busilessperson program tailor-made for business-people or Nua Relax which we have briefly mentioned here or Traditional Turkish Care program; otherwise, if you wish to rejuvenate more extensively, we suggest you a two-day New Me or Deep Comfort program, and for those who say two days are not enough, you may want to check into a three-night Break for Life or a four-night Renaissance program for a complete rejuvenation. By the way, we recommend that you take a peek at the Honeymoon and Perfect Match programs at Nua, each having different concepts for loving couples looking also for a bit of romance.

… And Many More Nua Privileges:

For example, you can enjoy the “365 days detox” program of Richmond Nua, which offers you a detoxing liberty every single day of the year, starting with a minimum of 3 nights, and experience both physical purification and mental vitality after experiencing the unique detox program made just for you.

Likewise, by courtesy of Nua Slim, you can lose weight as a result of personalized nutrition, activity and instrumental conditioning; or you can achieve the firmness you desire with a healthy diet, local exercise and fitness thanks to the Nua Fit program. Furthermore, with complementary Nua options like yoga, pilates, diet consultancy, fat measurement and analysis, personal trainer (PT), you may give your fitness a professionally supported start and continue.

Let’s also not forget the Hypoxi Marathon, which can be availed by those who desire to get rid of permanent fat in short time and tighten during a 5-night stay with a special diet, the Vacunaut, which applies pressure and vacuum on the treadmill, the Trainer S-120, which appeals to your legs with reinforced horizontal cycling exercise, and Trainer L-250 with gravity support, and the infamous Bikini Camp, which brings you a 3-night lifestyle with some massages and therapies, pilates and nutritionists and PT together with Hypoxi technology are some opportunities not to be missed these days when the long-awaited summer holidays are on the horizon...

What’s more is that through QEPR “Quantum Emotional and Physical Therapy” developed by the award-winning British therapist Paul Emery, who has touched the souls of thousands such as supermodel Kate Moss, Sigmund Freud's grandson Sir Clement Freud, after only a one-hour session, you can say goodbye to emotional factors such as stress and physical and mental factors like migraine.

It is further possible to strengthen your immunity against the tensions of life by participating in the Immunity Boost Program, personalized and applied by Nua especially for your immune system.

Besides the foregoing, nutrition options like the Vital Bar, which includes the healthiest drinks accompanying your pleasant moments in Nua, and Beautyfood menus based on the ‘wellness approach’ and the Aqua Restaurant including those delices brought to you directly from the interpretation of Stefan Jerkfelt Richmond, the chef of celebrities such as Mel Gibson and Cindy Crawford, as well as the special Spa cuisine served at the Stone Restaurant; and shopping options at the Nua Shop with the concept of Wellness & Spa products, where you can also find Babor and Ligne St Barth products; as well as the MeetWell program that adds a touch of wellness to your meetings with forest walks, massages and healthy eating menus are such other elements that reveal how pampering and versatile Nua's Spa & Wellness holism can be.

What’s even more delighting is that you can benefit from the aforementioned and similar Richmond Nua privileges be it daily, or within the scope of programs, or with special 1, 3, 6 and 12-month membership advantages.

As a final note, we’d like to invite you to our video to bring you together with the visual richness and experience of a peaceful Destination Spa journey in Richmond Nua...

Hoping to see you on another route that extends to the depths of our minds and bodies…