This is what the Odle Mountains massif looks like from all the windows of Forestis
The ancient Celtic Druids also practiced yoga. They took sunbaths to strengthen the immune system and used breathing techniques to get the most out of the properties of the forest air.
The Wyda, as this practice is called, is a fundamental part of the Forestis proposal, and participate in one of those sessions, the reason why you got up earlier than you wanted today.
Notes, however, that you have rested enough; they say it's because of the calming effects of the wood with which the rooms are lined. You feel capable of climbing the mountains in front of you in two strides.
Up here, at an altitude of 1,800 m, on the southern slopes of Mount Ploge, where the water flows enriched from the rocks, the pure air orders the mind and the sun cheers 300 days a year, Teresa Unterthiner and Stefan Hinteregger opened last summer a spa retreat that incorporates the value of the environment in its therapies and places nature in the place it deserves: at the center of everything.
The overwhelming landscape is practically the only decoration of minimalist interiors that flow with an architecture aimed at calming thought and the trees, their wood, their resin, their oils, star in the massages and treatments of a spa that is hidden under the meadow.
In the kitchen nothing is thrown away and a lot is collected. The same as for the cocktails, which smell of fir trees and berries and, like everything in Forestis, has healing effects. Here they know, as the Celts knew, that the forest is our true medicine.
This report was published in number 145 of Condé Nast Traveler Magazine (Spring 2021). Subscribe to the printed edition (€18.00, annual subscription, by calling 902 53 55 57 or from our website). The April issue of Condé Nast Traveler is available in its digital version to enjoy on your preferred device