LOCATED ON THE ADRIATIC coastline at the entrance to Boka Bay in Herceg Novi, Montenegro, near the medieval towns of Perast and Kotor sits One&Only Portonovi Resort, one of the region’s most luxurious hotels. Famed for its stunning setting, sandy beach, and ultra-luxurious accommodation, it is also home to one of the world’s leading and most exclusive wellness retreats: Chenot Espace.
The retreat is named after Henri Chenot, a man who is considered the godfather of wellbeing. Throughout his life he was deeply involved in the study and practice of alternative and holistic therapies and obsessed with detoxification, disease prevention and longevity. He developed his own wellness approach, combining principles from traditional Chinese medicine with Western medical practices, and created the Chenot Method, which is used in every Chenot centre in the world. I was eager to see what I could achieve in just a few days…
They don’t normally take on people with serious health conditions such as my type-1 diabetes but after a thorough medical consultation with the brilliant Dr. Gordana Rajovic, a highly accomplished cardiologist, she deemed my disease well-controlled enough to embark on their three-day detox programme. She made two significant adjustments for me: increasing
