The Six Senses Spa in Elounda on the Greek island of Crete has partnered with a local medical therapy company called Eucrasia to provide customised wellness programmes for guests from the Elounda Mare Hotel, Porto Elounda De Luxe Resort and Elounda Peninsula All Suite Hotel.

Maria Kavousanou, assistant spa manager for the island’s 23-treatment room Six Senses Spa told Spa Business at SPATEC that a group of Eucrasia’s medical specialists will take over part of the spa three times this year. The first stint began on 1 May.

“Spas are experiencing a lot of changes and we need to replicate this throughout all Six Senses Spas, across all of our programmes and properties,” Kavousanou said.

This change manifests itself, for Six Senses, through the installation of psychologists, optometrists, nutritionists and many other kinds of doctors from Eucrasia, to offer a customised spa experience.

Eucrasia specialists work to restore balance to the status of guests’ wellbeing by performing blood tests, DNA tests and through consultation with different medical specialists. Treatments are adjusted accordingly.

Based on Hippocratic theory, Eucrasia’s aim is to create equilibrium - ‘eucrasia’ - between the body’s four humors – fluid elements including blood, phlegm and black and yellow bile. This is done by creating a customised plan for the guest’s emotional wellbeing, nutritional advice and educating the individual about how to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

The spa, which is open to locals too, will be utilised in combination with these therapeutic treatment programmes.

“You can lose weight when you know the reason why you are overweight. This programme allows guests to get the results they want by concentrating on the individual’s mental and physical health,” Kavousanou concluded.

Six Senses does not yet have plans to roll out the Eucrasia programmes globally, unlike the holistic yoga programmes launched in April this year.