The Bathe Podcast – Immersive listening

With a client list that includes the Duchess of Cambridge, Sandi Toksvig and Emma Thompson, Louise Parker is firmly established as an A-list weight loss consultant – but what of her own wellbeing regime?

 

As Suzanne introduces Louise to this ancient Middle-Eastern bathing ritual, and we experience the heat and steam, chills and shrills of the finest hammam in London, Louise reveals her journey from drama student to body transformation guru. Specializing in amazing results and permanent habit change, Louise’s approach cuts through the fads in the most accessible way possible – rather like a traditional hammam!

Part steam, massage, skin cleansing and social gathering, a hammam is a glorious combination of adjective, verb and noun!

So leave the hustle and bustle, the noise and screens behind, and join wellness journalist Suzanne Duckett on a journey into relaxation and the wonderful, watery world of wellbeing. To celebrate the release of her new book Bathe, she is inviting some special guests to join her in some truly immersive experiences: discovering the invigorating power of bath and birch, the emotional harmony of sound and steam, and the soothing energy of mud and ice. 

   

And you won’t be left behind – in this podcast, listeners get up close and personal with the experience: the benefits, secrets and sounds of each treatment.

Start the year with some new experiences: close your eyes and plunge into a world of wellness. Bathing is a primal ritual, but it’s never been more relevant. The conversation starts here.

 

The podcast series will be 6 episodes long launching Jan 14th and guests include Liz Earle, Melissa Hemsley, Ward Thomas and many more.

   

 

Recorded on location in the Hammam at Four Season Trinity Square, London. www.fourseasons.com/tentrinity/spa/

 

Executive Producer and Senior Marketing Manager Clarissa Pabi

 

 

As Editor of Women’s Health, Claire Sanderson knows a thing or two about wellbeing, so finding a treatment she hasn’t tried before isn’t easy. But the watsu treatment at Akasha is a new experience and what’s more, for a self-confessed fitness fanatic with a deadline-driven job, it’s a watery revelation.

 

A combination of yoga, shiatsu, meditation and massage, watsu is a hydrotherapy treatment that uses the body’s reactions in a weightless state to influence the therapist’s bespoke care. 

 

Leave the hustle and bustle, the noise and screens behind, and join wellness journalist Suzanne Duckett on a journey into relaxation and the wonderful, watery world of wellbeing. To celebrate the release of her new book Bathe, she is inviting some special guests to join her in some truly immersive experiences: discovering the invigorating power of bath and birch, the emotional harmony of sound and steam, and the soothing energy of mud and ice. 

   

And you won’t be left behind – in this podcast, listeners get up close and personal with the experience: the benefits, secrets and sounds of each treatment.

Start the year with some new experiences: close your eyes and plunge into a world of wellness. Bathing is a primal ritual, but it’s never been more relevant. The conversation starts here.

 

The podcast series will be 6 episodes long launching Jan 14th and guests include Liz Earle, Melissa Hemsley, Ward Thomas and three more surprise guests.

   

 

Recorded on location in the Akasha at The Café Royale in London www.hotelcaferoyal.com/spaandtreatments

 

Executive Producer and Senior Marketing Manager Clarissa Pabi

 

This week Suzanne Duckett is joined by the fabulous duo Ward Thomas – modern country-pop band and twin sisters – to try a deeply healing and immersive bath that you can enjoy fully clothed! Welcome to the gong bathing! A gong bath is an ancient Eastern method of sound healing, using crystal bowls that when played, emit healing vibrations that are said to calm an overstimulated nervous system, help remove deep-held tensions and aid a blissful nights sleep. Suzanne is hoping this calming session strikes a chord with these wired, restless minded millennials and helps them open up about their other wellness secrets. 

 

Leave the hustle and bustle, the noise and screens behind, and join wellness journalist Suzanne Duckett on a journey into relaxation and the wonderful, watery world of wellbeing. To celebrate the release of her new book Bathe, she is inviting some special guests to join her in some truly immersive experiences: discovering the invigorating power of bath and birch, the emotional harmony of sound and steam, and the soothing energy of mud and ice. 

  

 And you won’t be left behind – in this podcast, listeners get up close and personal with the experience: the benefits, secrets and sounds of each treatment.

Start the year with some new experiences: close your eyes and plunge into a world of wellness. Bathing is a primal ritual, but it’s never been more relevant. The conversation starts here.

The podcast series will be 6 episodes long launching Jan 14th and guests include Liz Earle, Melissa Hemsley, Ward Thomas and three more surprise guests.

 

 

Recorded on location at Ilapothecary, 99 Kensington Church Street in London www.ilapothecary.com/london-store

Executive Producer and Senior Marketing Manager Clarissa Pabi

This week Suzanne is side-by-side with a model in a swimsuit! Rosemary Ferguson walked the runway for designers from Galliano to McQueen but ultimately give it all up for her first love – health and wellbeing. She went back to collage and qualified as a nutritionist and naturopath, and now runs a clinic in Harley Street while also writing as a journalist and author. However, while she is open to the more unusual things in life, she may be tested to her limit by the treatment Suzanne has in store for us today: a banya, one of Russia’s oldest traditions, at the South Kensington Club in London.

 

Unlike a standard sauna, where the air is hot and dry with no more than 5 to 10 % humidity, banyas have a much higher humidity – around 60 to 70%. Traditional black banyas have an open-flame stone stove in the centre to create the heat (the ultimate winter warmer), but heat is only one part of the experience. The other indispensable ingredient of a banya treatment is the venik: a bunch of thin birch or oak branches which are used to whip you to increase circulation and soften skin. After the heat and the birching, the final act of the banya is a plunge into Russian winter – the ice bath! It’s going to be quite a ride!

 

Start the year with some new experiences: close your eyes and plunge into a world of wellness. Bathing is a primal ritual, but it’s never been more relevant. The conversation starts here.

 

Bathe: The Podcast was created and produced in-house by Bonnier Books UK to celebrate the publication of Suzanne Duckett’s new book Bathe

 

Recorded on location in the Russian banya at The South Kensington Club in London www.southkensingtonclub.com

 

Executive Producer and Senior Marketing Manager Clarissa Pabi

 

 

This week Suzanne is joined by chef Melissa Hemsley for a water rasul ritual at the luxurious Mandarin Oriental spa in London. The word rasul means to wash and this traditionally Arabic thermal, cleansing mud treatment combines the health enhancing properties of heat, steam and mud for a relaxing and skin conditioning treatment. Perfect for melting away the January blues.

As one half of the Hemsley sisters, Melissa is a bestselling chef and passionate advocate of healthy eating: but what are her other wellbeing ingredients and will the rasul will become one of them...?

Leave the hustle and bustle, the noise and screens behind, and join wellness journalist Suzanne Duckett on a journey into relaxation and the wonderful, watery world of wellbeing. To celebrate the release of her new book Bathe, she is inviting some special guests to join her in some truly immersive experiences: discovering the invigorating power of bath and birch, the emotional harmony of sound and steam, and the soothing energy of mud and ice.

And you won’t be left behind – in this podcast, listeners get up close and personal with the experience: the benefits, secrets and sounds of each treatment.

Start the year with some new experiences: close your eyes and plunge into a world of wellness. Bathing is a primal ritual, but it’s never been more relevant. The conversation starts here.

The podcast series will be 6 episodes long and guests include Liz Earle, Melissa Hemsley, Ward Thomas and three more surprise guests.

Freelance producer and editor Lisa Mainwaring (LiMa Mic Media)

Executive Producer and Senior Marketing Manager Clarissa Pabi

Publicity Manager Francesca Pearce

Comms Director Lisa Hoare

Head of Audio Jon Watt

Leave the hustle and bustle, the noise and screens behind, and join wellness journalist Suzanne Duckett on a journey into relaxation and the wonderful, watery world of wellbeing. To celebrate the release of her new book Bathe, she is inviting some special guests to join her in some truly immersive experiences: discovering the invigorating power of bath and birch, the emotional harmony of sound and steam, and the soothing energy of mud and ice. 

And you won’t be left behind – in this podcast, listeners get up close and personal with the experience: the benefits, secrets and sounds of each treatment.

This week Suzanne is joined by writer, TV presenter and entrepreneur Liz Earle MBE, an authority for more than three decades in the world of beauty, natural nutrition and wellbeing. Together they are going to experience a bio-energy mud bathing ritual the beautiful the Lanesborough Club and Spa in London. It’s a take on the traditional middle eastern Rasul that uses warm, cleansing and mineral rich bio energetic muds to relax, purify and beautify. And who better to judge than a frantically busy entrepreneur who established a global beauty business?

Start the year with some new experiences: close your eyes and plunge into a world of wellness. Bathing is a primal ritual, but it’s never been more relevant. The conversation starts here.

The podcast series will be 6 episodes long launching Jan 14th and guests include Liz Earle, Melissa Hemsley, Ward Thomas and three more surprise guests.

Executive Producer and Senior Marketing Manager Clarissa Pabi

This January escape the hustle and bustle, the noise and screens, and join Telegraph wellness journalist Suzanne Duckett on a journey into relaxation. 

To celebrate the release of her new book Bathe, she is inviting some special guests to join her in some truly immersive experiences: discovering the invigorating power of bath and birch, the emotional harmony of sound and steam, and the soothing energy of mud and ice.

Start the new year with some new experiences: close your eyes and plunge into a world of wellness with Liz Earle, Ward Thomas, Melissa Hemsley and many more. 

Bathing is a primal ritual, but it’s never been more relevant.  The conversation starts here. 

The podcast series will be 6 episodes long launching Jan 14th and guests include Liz Earle, Melissa Hemsley, Ward Thomas and 3 more surprise guests.

Executive Producer and Senior Marketing Manager Clarissa Pabi