JOALI Being

Just 40 minutes by seaplane from Male International airport, this fabulous wellness resort offers a path of discovery, for those looking for relaxation and a “Healthy Holiday”.  Start your journey in the private Joali lounge, where you can start to relax and unwind before heading to the resort.  While focused on wellbeing, this resort does have something for everyone and welcomes families.

This Island of wellbeing works like a retreat with a focus on offering ultra luxury for all aspects of the stay, ranging from treatments, to dining experiences to the villas themselves.

The resort focuses its core criteria around the 4 pillars of Joali Being – Mind/ Microbiome (digestion) / Skin / Energy.

This property, is considered to be less strict than some of the other well known Wellness centres such as Ananda – the main focus of Joali Being is to be tailored with the clients choices and to go at the clients pace.

All guests get a 30 minute consultation about the wellbeing program options – these can be booked in advance or simply organised locally.

In addition to wellness, the property has a focus on conservation and sustainability. With a woman founder, the team like to empower locals and you will find that a lot of the staff are local female Maldivians. Coral conservation is another key project that the resort pride themselves on.

All 68 “well living” spaces have a very soft, calm décor, with private pools and open rustic airy interiors, all customised to best suit the guests and to help them relax and rejuvenate.  All rooms are spacious, with high ceilings and round edges are used to help promote a feeling of calm and tranquillity.  There is a range of 1-4 bedroom options.

Villa Categories are made up of:

• 10 Ocean Pool Villas
• 4 Sunset Ocean Pool Villas
• 10 Grand Ocean Pool Villas
• 8 Sunset Grand Ocean Pool Villas
• 10 Beach Pool Villas
• 13 Grand Beach Pool Villas
• 1 Two Bedroom Ocean Pool Villa
• 7 Two Bedroom Beach Pool Villas
• 1 Grand Two Bedroom Ocean Pool Villa
• 1 Two Bedroom Wellbeing Beach Pool Villa
• 1 Two Bedroom Wellbeing Beach Pool Residence
• 1 Three Bedroom Wellbeing Beach Residence
• 1 Four Bedroom Private Wellbeing Ocean Residence
• 1 Four Bedroom Beach Residence with Two Pools

The Standard room categories comfortably sleep families of 3, the Grand rooms sleep 4, the 2 bedroom options can accommodate 6 people and the 4 bedroom options can sleep up to 12 guests.

The resort offers a wide range of food and drink choices, not just what you might consider to be detox options, there is something for everyone. Similarly, you can find wine, cocktails etc. for those who want it, while there is of course a wide choice for those who would prefer non-alcoholic options. All food and drink menus are linked to the four pillars of wellbeing. (Mind / Microbiome (digestion) / Skin / Energy.)

Flow – Open plan interactive dining area, housing three signature kitchens. Su offers ocean-to-table pescatarian food, Plantae provides a fabulous plant based cuisine, while B-Well offers Joali Beings signature menu.

Yutori – Found under a bamboo thatched roof on the waters edge, here you can savour delicious Japanese cuisine

Mojo beach bar offers Mediterranean cuisine and situated next to the pool this is the perfect location for sundowners.

Enjoy destination dining experiences such as a beach barbecue or a tree house dinner.

As an Island of Wellbeing, many of the activities on offer do focus around different techniques and therapies, centred around the four pillars of wellbeing. (Mind/ Microbiome (digestion) / Skin / Energy.) The main selection of wellbeing facilities and offerings are found in Areka, the Islands Well-being central hub,  which has 39 treatment rooms with a wide range of sessions and opportunities. Some examples of wellness options available include:

• Fitness rooms
• Private training rooms
• Diagnostic rooms
• Hydrotherapy and Sound Halls
• Interactive classes and workshops such as Atkar which practices a moto of “healing through the power of herbs” using herbs and natural spices to cleanse the mind, body & soul
• Watsu pool – This small pool carefully heated to 37 degrees, allows you to have a weightless massage in the water, by a “Watsu therapist”
• Seda – sound healing massage room

In addition to wellness activities, like any typical Maldivian Island you can find a great house reef, with boat trips also offered for those who want to head out further to explore the local marine life.

The property has a fully equipped gym and a great kids club, B’Kidult which is a separate spacious children’s area with its own pool and plenty of organised activities.

Guests can travel 15 minutes by speedboat to visit the sister Island, Joali.