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Nihi Sumba Island introduces Chocolate Wellness Experience at Chris & Charly’s Chocolate Factory
Voted by Travel + Leisure as No.1 Hotel in the World, Nihi Sumba Island introduces a new Chocolate wellness experience including Chocolate yoga and spa treatment at the Chris & Charly’s Chocolate Factory. Nihi Sumba Island invites all yoga enthusiast and chocoholics to indulge in this new chocolate wellness immersive retreat.
Set in a beautiful and enchanted forest, Chris & Charly’s Chocolate Factory provides an inspiring setting to practice yoga and meditation combined with the use of raw cacao as a natural heart opening medicine. Drawing on the ancient healing modalities, raw cacao has been used as a natural ingredient to break down inhibitions and trigger happy feelings and thoughts. The sheer happiness felt from chocolate and incorporating with wellness experience is a divine treat at Nihi Sumba Island.
The chocolate yoga wellness experience begins with a tour led by Nihi Sumba Island’s Chocolate Wizards at the Chris & Charly’s Chocolate Factory to discover the process of making chocolate. Guests are invited to join a yoga class with professional instructors in the jungle close to the chocolate factory to achieve a deep level of transformation through practicing yoga and meditation.
Enhanced by the peaceful jungle, guests can enjoy a Chocolate Spa Massage by the whimsical Chris & Charly’s Chocolate Factory to re-balance the energy of their body. Spa therapists will provide treatments using all organic products including raw cacao, cocoa butter and massage oils. The high caffeine content in Chocolate is known to rejuvenate skin and body by stimulating blood circulation to help reduce tiredness and achieve overall wellbeing.
Resort Overview
The experience of Nihi Sumba Island is one of unregulated freedom, understated luxury and unforgettable memories.
The resort, located on the island of Sumba in Eastern Indonesia, 400km east of Bali, is an outpost to world-class surfing, the best sport fishing in Indonesia, the most magnificent sunset horseback rides on the resorts 2.5km private beach, or hiking through breath-taking waterfalls and ancient villages; to a Spa Safari where a 90 minute hike through rice paddies brings you to Nihi Oka, a cluster of private Bales nestled between two pristine beaches, leaving you in the hands of assigned therapists indulging you in unlimited treatments of your choice.
Nihi Sumba Island was born of a vision to protect and preserve the unique culture of Sumba and –empower the local communities to support themselves and their families. The resort is proud to employ over 90% local Sumbanese, a team that hold a genuine spirit of hospitality.
Stories of the heart, character and soul of Nihi Sumba Island reached long-time friends, American brand-building entrepreneur Chris Burch and prolific South African-born hotelier, James McBride in 2011, who together began a transformation of the resort in 2012.
Guests are encouraged to visit the local villages and the many Sumba Foundation (www.sumbafoundation.org) clinics, schools and communal farms that have resulted through the support from the Foundation, founded by the resort in 2001.
In 2015, Nihi Sumba Island has announced that it has joined The Leading Hotels of the World, Ltd., an uncommon collection of authentic and distinct luxury hotels. The philanthropic alliance will provide the award-winning resort access to The Leading Hotels of the World global network to further The Sumba Foundation efforts.
For reservations or enquiries, please email reservations@Nihi Sumba Island.com.
www.Nihi Sumba Island.com