HVN was co-founded by female power trio Muriel Zingraff, former Paco Rabanne CEO; medical director Dr Tanya Phillips; and day-spa impresario Jo Harris, who led Urban Retreat. A peach-hued cinema room with a ceramic Glow Pots installation by Martha Freud hosts seminars and master classes on nutrition, osteopathy and resetting the mind, while treatment spaces can be booked for medical aesthetics, acupuncture and functional medicine. The hardware includes hyperbaric chambers, a Hydro2facial machine, the Power Sculpt EMS machine, a Visilia machine for skin analysis, Fotona laser equipment and the UK’s first hydro bed. International travellers and local residents can drop in for botox, fillers, laser facials and NAD shots. For longer stayers, there’s a six-week “body programme” which gets you set for summer. It’s a “cocoon of vitality rooted in medical and scientific expertise,” says Zingraff.
The HVN
Even their Eastern “heritage” therapies are turbo-tech-charged. Take the £1250 AcuLaserLift, which combines the cosmetic acupuncture expertise of TCM guru Dr John Tsagaris with the Fotona laser resurfacing wizardry of their medical director Dr Tanja Phillip. Tsagaris, who moonlights at holistic medi-haven Palace Merano in Switzerland, gently wiggles and plexes needles into my face to stimulate collagen formation, deftly prods a buffer of hyaluronic acid under my skin with a tiny needle, and pops in gold ear seeds to drop down my cortisol. A few days later, I go to three parties in one weekend and various people, in accusatory tones, tell me I look “younger”. And I didn’t even have the laser.
Website: the-hvn.com
Galen Clinic
Galen
Over near Harley Street, Galen proffers “progressive wellbeing”. Greek-founded, and named after the ancient Hellenic physician Claudius Galenus (considered progressive for his healing approach), it opened in 2024 over five pristine art-encrusted floors curated by Athenian designer Sissy Feida, with a 125ft crystal chandelier plunging down the stairwell. Galen ticks off aesthetic and plastic surgery, orthopaedics, complementary and functional medicine and clinical dermatology under one Grade II-listed roof. There’s a proper operating theatre in the basement for mini neck and face lifts, and the treatment list tops 245 therapies, from Omorovicza facials to Morpheus 8 microneedling, via gluthiathone drips and PRP for joint pain. Every room boasts a piece of new-fangled wizardry: a cellulite-smoothing LPG machine, a fraxel laser machine or collagen-stimulating Sofwave machine. Their EBO2 ozone therapy doesn’t just reoxygenate blood, it uses a high-volume blood gas exchange unit to filter it.
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