Fairmont Spa & Longevity at Fairmont Mumbai offers a range of spa experiences but its highlight is Blu Xone, showcased as India’s first luxury-integrated longevity hub, with therapies that usher vitality
BY BRINDA GILL
With its striking Art Deco-inspired architecture and design, elegant rooms and suites, wonderful speciality restaurants, unique wellness experiences, expansive and state-of-the-art event spaces, Fairmont Mumbai launched in January 2025, has attracted the attention of the hospitality and travel world. Complementing its ethos of being a dazzling destination, is Fairmont Spa & Longevity, a serene spa sanctuary that offers wellness treatments and experiences based on Indian, Eastern, and global healing traditions as well as advanced therapies.
“Fairmont Spa & Longevity is a forward-thinking philosophy focused on longevity. Blending ancient healing rituals with futuristic longevity science, it offers more than a momentary spa escape. It introduces a new rhythm of living – where the body’s regenerative intelligence is activated through sensory-led, science-backed care. Built around biomarker-driven personalisation and precision therapies, it empowers guests to take charge of their well-being in tangible, measurable ways,” says Dr Rashmi Ambastha, Director, Spa, Wellness & Recreation, Fairmont Mumbai.
Located on the hotel’s second level, Fairmont Spa & Longevity unfolds a restorative vibe from the soothing warmth of wood to the soft lighting, curved contours, gentle instrumental music and calming signature fragrance. Its design elements are inspired by the Mumbai monsoon, a season synonymous with rain, abundant greenery, a sense of renewal and rejuvenation.
“Each detail of the spa design from the ripple-like patterns on the ceilings to the raindrop-inspired art across consoles and corridors, and gentle water motifs, pays tribute to the rhythm of the rain that transforms life and the land,” Rashmi explains. “The spa is designed to offer a deeply rooted, timeless sensory reset.” There are seven luxurious suites including The Tranquillity Suite where guests can relax after a treatment.
At the heart of Fairmont Spa & Longevity is Blu Xone, showcased as India’s first longevity-focused wellness space in a luxury hotel, that redefines modern self-care through personalised healing, rejuvenation and purposeful living.
Blu Xone is designed around advanced, non-invasive therapies aligned with global wellness philosophies rooted in health-span (period of life spent in good health); bio-hacking (the practice of using a range of lifestyle and technological changes to optimise one’s physical and mental performance, improve health and enhance longevity); and cellular repair (the biological processes by which cells maintain and restore their own structural and functional integrity).
Fairmont Spa & Longevity also offers Body Enhancement (scrubs and wraps), Body Massages, Ayurveda therapies, Signature Wellness Rituals, Men’s Essentials, Holistic Facial Wellness and Little Luxuries (for introducing wellness, to children, at an early age).
Blu Xone, as the name suggests, is inspired by the world’s Blue Zones – regions where people live longer, healthier lives due to a unique blend of lifestyle, diet, movement, and community. While the original Blue Zones are rooted in tradition, connection, and natural rhythm, Blu Xone at Fairmont Spa & Longevity seeks to bring those values and principles to address the concerns of guests who prioritise wellness through specific therapies.
“Blu Xone offers longevity treatments and a new relationship with your own biology. Guided by medical wellness practitioners, each Blu Xone journey is meticulously tailored to one’s physiological blueprint creating not just a treatment plan, but a longevity roadmap,” Rashmi informs.
Blu Xone offers five non-invasive, science-based therapies: Cryotherapy, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT), Red-Light Therapy, Intermittent Vacuum Therapy (IVT) and Intermittent Hypoxic Therapy (IHT). Each therapy is tailored to the individual’s physiological blueprint and is for a specific time period.
Popularly known as cold therapy, Cryotherapy uses short bursts of ultra-low temperatures (-85°C) to trigger rapid recovery, inflammation control and metabolic activation. “Cryotherapy enhances blood circulation, boosts metabolism, and accelerates cell repair. It thus helps to reduce inflammation and promote overall body recovery leaving one feeling rejuvenated,” explains Rashmi. During the therapy, the guest stands in a Cryotherapy chamber making gentle movements while being exposed to intense cold air for three minutes.
HBOT involves inhaling 100 percent oxygen while seated inside a pressurised chamber. This helps the lungs absorb much more oxygen than they would at normal air pressure. “HBOT was originally developed for decompression sickness such as the complications of deep sea diving. It is now used in medical management of certain health conditions and in a wellness longevity space like ours to accelerate tissue healing and speed up recovery. This ‘super oxygenation’ can improve cognitive function, aid in post-surgery healing, rejuvenate the skin and help in muscle recovery,” says Rashmi.
On the other hand, Red-Light Therapy uses near-infrared light to penetrate the skin to stimulate cellular function. It helps reduce inflammation, stimulate collagen production, improve skin tone and aid muscle tiredness/recovery. At the spa, the guest comfortably sits or stands between two near-infrared panels during the time of the therapy; the panel produces healing light for cellular renewal.
IVT uses alternating periods of negative pressure (vacuum) and positive pressure to improve blood circulation, reduce pain, enhance circulation and functionality, and for deep oxygenation. “NASA originally developed vacuum chambers technology to prevent circulation weakening due to micro or no gravity. This evolved into earth based-vacuum therapies like IVT to promote peripheral circulation and effective lymphatic drainage, accelerate healing and support whole body rejuvenation,” explains Rashmi.
During the therapy, the guest lies on his/her back with the lower body (below waist) inside a cylindrical chamber in which negative and positive pressure are delivered alternatively (to create a rhythmic vascular dilation and compression effect) for the desired results.
Furthermore, IHT, a simulated high-altitude therapy, involves alternating between breathing air with reduced oxygen and normal air. This therapy draws from measures taken to adapt a body to high-altitude acclimatisation to improve endurance and metabolism and train cells to thrive on less oxygen thus strengthening them. The guest relaxes on a lounger in The Express Recovery Suite while wearing a specialised mask connected to a hypoxicator that provides air with reduced oxygen concentration.
There are recommendations of the frequency of each of the therapies – Cryotherapy two-three times/week; HBOT three-five times/week; Red-Light Therapy three-five times/week; IVT three-five times/week; and IHT two-three times/week.
Rashmi concludes, “The therapies have proven effective. Our guests remark that they instantly feel rejuvenated on post a session. I suggest guests focus on longevity and commit themselves to a disciplined lifestyle. Inculcating regular wellness practices and therapies into one’s routine forges a new relationship with one’s own biology.”
