The Mandrake announces new spa, Damu, to open in January 2025

London boutique hotel the Mandrake will open its new spa, Damu, in January 2025. Damu’s offering will centre around a new multi-sensory, immersive Wavess Wellness Pool.

The experience will combine the healing powers of sound and light therapy with water haptics. Guests will float in zero gravity for ultimate relaxation and rejuvenation.

Damu has partnered with immersive design studio Metaspheric, alongside wellness technology company Wavess, to create the wellness experience.

The futuristic immersive wellness room will be equipped with smart sensors and lighting to guide guests through the experience.

Guests will enter a circular pool, where they will experience floating amid vibrations, providing a deep physical and mental massage. The experience will include immersive soundscapes, colours and visuals.

“The addition of the Damu spa to our hotel extends our existing creative ethos and core holistic values,” said founder and owner Rami Fustoik.

“There are spas in many hotels but the Mandrake always strives for innovation and creativity. I believe Damu will deliver just that.”

Wellness facilities at Damu

The Wavess Wellness Pool experience will use a multi-sensory immersive media system as opposed to sensory deprivation. Exclusively for the Mandrake, Wavess Wellness will use water haptics technology to make the body of water vibrate with sound at low frequencies.

Designed by Tala Fustok Studio, the 700sqm spa space will house a maximum of 12 guests, to ensure an intimate experience.

Additional facilities will include a specialist mud rasul experience with a steam room, experience shower and two rain showers.

The candlelit rasul antechamber will have micro-cement walls to mimic the feel of mud caves. Guests in the rasul will be invited to use various types of mud, algae and salt scrubs sourced from the Austrian Alps, with the addition of supplements such as ethnobotanical extracts.

The Tranquillity Room

The Damu spa will also have two treatment rooms and a relaxation space.

Changing rooms will feature matte black mosaic tile detailing, mud micro-cement showers and dark stained eucalyptus timber features.

The Tranquillity Room will be created by landscape architect, Bas Smets, who designed the Mandrake’s Jurema Terrace hanging gardens.

Following a study of the room’s microclimatic conditions, plans selected for the space include an albino variant of a Bird of Paradise plant, Beach Spider Lily and Maidenhair Fern.

Treatments will include Derma-pen micro needling, collagen stimulation therapy and LED phototherapy.

The God of healing

The spa is named after Damu, a predominant Sumerian god of healing, rebirth and medicinal plants, also widely associated with transformation and transition.

The 33-room Mandrake hotel was founded by entrepreneur and art collector Rami Fustok. It already offers a weekly Spiritual Wellbeing programme including sound baths and reiki healing sessions, bespoke shamanic ceremonies and breathwork.

There is also a Spiritual Concierge service offering private yoga and massages, sound frequency alignment, gong baths and crystalline sound healing.

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