Essentrics Fitness Retreat at Hotel Post Bezau, Austrian Alps

Essentrics is a full-body stretching and strengthening method, and this retreat is built around practising it twice a day with the company's most experienced instructors. The page does not publish a class-by-class timetable for Bezau, so the exact times of the two daily classes and the workshops are not stated. What it does say is that the retreat brings together the Essentrics and Classical Stretch community — fans and instructors — to stretch and strengthen together.

The setting is the village of Bezau, in a valley ringed by the Austrian Alps. Hotel Post Bezau is the venue, and the page highlights fresh alpine air, mountain scenery and walking trails directly from the hotel. Meals are farm-to-table, sourced locally, and the hotel runs a complimentary juice bar, tea station and healthy snacks between meals.

Sleep gets specific attention: the rooms use Samina detox sleep rooms, which the page describes as being for the highest possible sleep quality. The hotel's wellness area includes an indoor pool, sauna, steam bath, jacuzzi, outdoor brine pool, sun deck, rest rooms and a large sunbathing meadow, all included in the rate.

Optional extras are spa treatments at the Suzanne Kaufmann Spa Bezau — which the page notes was voted Austria's Best Wellness Retreat 2022 — and treatments at the Medical Spa. Both cost extra and are booked separately.

Getting there: Zurich (ZRH) is the easiest airport. The hotel can organise a shuttle from the airport at an additional cost. Other nearby airports are Altenrhein (42 km), Friedrichshafen (72 km), Memmingen (114 km), Munich (250 km) and Milan (316 km). By train, Zurich or Dornbirn Station are the convenient options, with taxi transfers to the hotel arrangeable at extra cost. Driving from Munich, Milan or through Switzerland is also straightforward.

What's included

- Two Essentrics classes daily - Specialised workshops - Breakfast, lunch and dinner (farm-to-table) - Complimentary juice bar, tea station and healthy snacks - Samina detox sleep rooms - Walking trails in the Austrian Alps - Indoor pool, sauna, steam bath, jacuzzi, outdoor brine pool, sun deck, rest rooms and sunbathing meadow

What's not included

- Air and travel fare - Shuttle service from the airport - Taxi transfers to the hotel - Treatments at the Suzanne Kaufmann Spa Bezau - Treatments at the Medical Spa - Travel insurance