The Corinthia Hotel London, housed within a Victorian building, is helping guests improve brain performance. Specially-designed food and drink offerings, guest bedroom amenities and spa treatments are offered to help guests achieve peak brain performance as part of the hotel’s brain power offers.

Available between November 2016 and December 2017, the packages align with the hotel’s Neuroscientist in Residence program when neuroscientist Dr. Tara Swart will be studying mental resilience and recovery in achieving maximum performance.

Everything we eat and drink, how we sleep and function help stimulate the brain through the senses, which play a key part in creating optimum conditions for performance.

The offer provides tailor-made experiences in guest bedrooms, ESPA Life at Corinthia and Northall Restaurant, in-room dining and Bassoon Bar. The $766 offer is based on single occupancy and includes an overnight stay in a superior king room, dinner and breakfast from the Brain Power Menu, ESPA mindful massage with yoga Nidra, unlimited access to ESPA Life facilities and unique sleep pods.

Guestrooms include heated marble floors encouraging barefoot walking, warm and fluffy towels to hug the body, a mattress from Hypnos to help regulate body temperature and aid in quality sleep due to its natural fibers, a pillow menu and quality bedding, sleep-inducing lavender pillow sprays, bedsocks to help keep extremities warm, black-out blinds, the right room temperature and an earthly color palette. A good night quality sleep is essential, as any less than seven to nine hours of sleep can drop IQ by five to eight points the next day.

A two-hour ESPA mindful massage allows one to achieve a mindfulness mental state, focusing one’s awareness on the present moment. Mindfulness can support the treatment of depression and impact underlying day-to-day anxiety, stress and irritability. Yoga, a mindfulness practice, trains busy minds to achieve conscious relaxation, driving positive life changes. The massage works on the concept of mindfulness, focusing on both brain and body to reduce stress and enhance focus through breathing and visualization techniques. Guests awake feeling rejuvenated and refocused. Those unable to stay can also purchase a spa day package for $347.

Certain foods and drinks provide essential nutrients to nourish the brain to help create, protect and repair brain cells. Research shows dehydration can impair short and long-term memory functions in the brain. A 1–3 percent change in hydration levels can result in decreases in memory, concentration and decision-making power. The hotel restaurants will offer top brain foods and drinks to optimize mental functions. From a variety of food and tea choices to mocktails and a hangover tonic and a warming bedtime drink, Corinthia Hotel London is focusing on improving brain power.