We all know getting a good night’s sleep can have a major impact on how we perform the next day. Enjoying a restful evening of shut eye is just as important for good health as diet and exercise with a healthy sleep pattern helping to improve your brain performance, mood and promote better detoxification processes throughout the body. But for today’s jet-setters, the famed, quality eight-hours slumber can sometimes be unable to be obtained.
Looking resplendent on the cusp of the glistening waters of Lake Lucerne and surrounded by the snow-dusted tops of the Alps, Chenot Palace Weggis has established itself as Switzerland’s quintessential wellness escape. Guests are guided on a journey to holistic wellness through a combination of fully personalised treatment and detoxification programmes throughout a 5,000 square-metre, state-of-the-art medical spa. And this November, Chenot is inviting well-heeled travellers to bed down in luxury with the newly launched Sleep Cycles module.
Sleep Cycles is an advancement on one of Chenot’s much vaunted core offerings, the Recover & Energise detox programme. Building on the profound stress relief and physical and mental rejuvenation achieved with Recover & Energise, the new module takes the health benefits a step further by ensuring the body works as hard on recovery during the night as it does during the day. By focusing on aligning circadian rhythm and chronotype, guests experience much improved sleep architecture, spending sufficient time in each of the distinct stages or cycles of sleep.
Simply put, sleep is the journey your brain travels, moving through several cycles. While your mind and eyes take some much needed rest every night, the body and nervous system continues to perform essential functions, framed by unique neuronal activity. The liver and lungs kick into another gear by metabolising toxins, filtering and expelling airborne pollutants; the brain is flooded by cerebral spinal fluid, clearing out beta amyloid and waste products, potentially reducing the risk of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s; and neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine are replenished and regulated, leaving you ready for the next day.
The quest to a better sleep begins prior to your arrival with a series of questionnaires that garner important insights into your current sleep habits and chronotype. Analysing the responses, Chenot Doctors can determine your bespoke programme that will include specific timing of treatments, based on your chronotype and natural circadian rhythm. Guests will then proceed to immerse themselves through the Recover & Energise Sleep Cycles programme which includes continued medical consultations, the Chenot Diet®, bioenergetic treatments, hydrotherapy and advanced diagnostic tests.
The Sleep Cycles module aims to rebuild sleep architecture and align the guest’s circadian rhythm and chronotype. This is achieved through a blend of targeted daytime treatments and activities, with proper sleep hygiene practices. The benefits bear fruition through enhanced sleep architecture, ensuring that the body gets sufficient time to perform necessary restorative processes. Each high-tech treatment triggers an adaptive response within the body. There’s whole-body photobiomodulation, neuroacoustic deep relaxation, cryotherapy and intermittent low and high oxygen exposure to optimise energy through the day, while allowing adenosine levels and sleep pressure to build, resulting in a peaceful sleep.
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The act of shutting down for the day takes place in Chenot’s specially designed Sleep Rooms. Here, guests will step forward into an environment where every aspect has been elevated to achieve the best outcomes when it comes to sleep. The sound of nature mimics a natural acoustic environment, self-programmable light sequences ensure guests fall asleep soundly and wake up with reduced stress and anxiety and special ceiling panels resemble trees and leafy canopies, conveying a warm and soft tone that blocks the vibrations which may disrupt the sleep pattern. Combined with Nanobionic Bedlinen and sleepwear that regulates body temperature, guests can drift off to a restful and healthy sleep.
