- 📍 Where · Amanjena, Route de Ouarzazate km 12, Marrakech, a twenty-minute drive from Menara airport
- 🗓️ When · 18 to 20 December 2026, three days
- 🎾 The programme · « Stillness and Strength », tennis masterclasses, meditation and breathwork, hosted on site by Novak Djokovic
- 💆 Included · a 60-minute beldi hammam and a 60-minute therapeutic argan oil massage, plus access to the wellness facilities
- 🏨 The house · pavilions and villas across eight categories, two clay tennis courts, a spa with four treatment rooms and a 33-metre heated pool
- 🔢 Places · limited, by prior request to the resort, no rate is published
Amanjena, the Aman resort set in an olive grove south of Marrakech, has put a new kind of stay on sale. From 18 to 20 December 2026 the resort will host « Stillness and Strength », a three-day wellness retreat led on site by Novak Djokovic, the group’s global ambassador and wellness advisor. The player is not the subject of the stay: he is its host, and the hotel is making it the most exclusive product of its winter season.
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Three days of retreat in December
The resort has opened registrations for a three-day programme, from 18 to 20 December 2026, presented as « Stillness and Strength: A Novak Djokovic Retreat ». This is the second retreat of its kind designed by the player for Aman, after a first edition at Amanyara, in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The resort announces a limited number of places and publishes neither a rate nor a headcount: booking goes through a request made to the house, as it does for its private stays.
The timing is no accident. In mid-December Marrakech leaves the autumn high season and enters the holiday weeks, when the palm grove palaces fill at top rates. Placing a signed programme just before Christmas creates a reason to travel during a window that resorts usually sell on climate alone.
Tennis, breathwork and meditation
The programme comes in four announced parts. Tennis masterclasses led by the player with twenty-four Grand Slam titles, then daily mindfulness, meditation and breathwork sessions, guided by him and by Amanjena’s wellness specialists. The stated thread is mental discipline applied off the court, in other words how to hold steady under pressure.
The playing field is already there. Amanjena has two clay tennis courts, where the house offers lessons and clinics all year with the coaches of the LUX Tennis Academy, every one of whom has played the ATP or WTA circuits. The December retreat therefore leans on standing facilities, not on a temporary set-up.
Beldi hammam and argan oil massage
The stay includes two named treatments: a 60-minute beldi hammam and a 60-minute therapeutic argan oil massage, alongside access to the resort’s wellness facilities. Amanjena’s spa holds four private treatment rooms and two Moroccan hammams, where rituals unfold with black beldi soap, kessa mitts and rhassoul clay from the Atlas.
Around them, the house has renovated its fitness centre, fitted with TechnoGym equipment, and set a movement studio on the upper floor, with a pale hardwood floor arranged around a fireplace. A 33-metre heated outdoor pool and a separate heated children’s pool complete the set. That equipment, more than the host’s fame, is what makes the programme workable.
Daily menus curated by the player
The fourth part of the programme is the table. The daily menus of the retreat are curated by Novak Djokovic himself and cooked by the resort kitchens, along a line the house presents as support for the body over the three days rather than as a cure. No specific diet is detailed at this stage.
Amanjena counts four addresses: the Moroccan Restaurant, set in a courtyard at the heart of the building, the pool terrace and its olive grove, an outpost of Arva, the seasonal Italian table shared across Aman houses, and the bar with its dusky pink walls. The resort also stages private dinners under a caidal tent, in the gardens.
A resort from 2000 by Ed Tuttle
Opened in 2000 as the first Aman on the African continent, Amanjena was designed by the American architect Ed Tuttle, author of several houses in the group. The plan turns around a monumental irrigation basin and a run of pink arches, between olive and palm trees, with the line of the High Atlas on the horizon. Accommodation is spread across eight categories of pavilions and villas, several with a private heated pool, the largest two-bedroom villa announcing 360 square metres over two levels.
The address fits on one line: Route de Ouarzazate, km 12, on the way out of Marrakech. The resort announces a twenty-minute drive from Menara airport and a few minutes from the medina and Jemaa el-Fna square. Every stay includes round-trip airport transfers, breakfast and afternoon tea.
| Opening | 2000, the first Aman in Africa |
| Architect | Ed Tuttle |
| Accommodation | eight categories of pavilions and villas |
| Largest two-bedroom villa | 360 square metres over two levels |
| Tennis courts | 2, clay |
| Spa | 4 private treatment rooms and 2 Moroccan hammams |
| Heated outdoor pool | 33 metres |
| Restaurants and bars | 4 |
| Menara airport | a 20-minute drive |
The signed retreat as hotel product
The December programme says a lot about where wellness is heading in luxury hotels. Palaces no longer sell only a spa and a treatment menu: they sell dates, a name and a method. The retreat becomes a calendar product, with a start, an end, a written content and a headcount, which brings it closer to a seminar than to a stay.
Aman has already run the format another way. At Amangiri, in Utah, a three-day detoxification programme carries the same player’s signature, but the house states on its page that he is not present. Amanjena sells the opposite: the physical presence of the host, which explains the small headcount and the sale on request.
Our view on this stay
On paper the promise holds because the house already owns everything the programme calls for: two clay courts, a spa with four rooms, a new movement studio and a team used to bespoke requests. The risk of a signature stay is that the guest eclipses the house; here the setting is strong enough to hold its own, and the central basin of Amanjena will remain the image participants take home.
What is left unknown is the price, which the resort does not publish, and the number of places, which it does not announce either. We have not stayed at Amanjena yet. We will go and see what this resort is worth in December, when the Atlas turns white and the palm grove empties, and we will report on it.
Practical information
- Amanjena, Route de Ouarzazate, km 12, 40000 Marrakech, Morocco
- « Stillness and Strength » retreat from 18 to 20 December 2026, limited places, prior registration with the resort
- Included in the programme: tennis masterclasses, meditation and breathwork sessions, a 60-minute beldi hammam, a 60-minute therapeutic argan oil massage, daily menus curated by Novak Djokovic
- Spa open all year: 4 private treatment rooms, 2 hammams, a 33-metre heated outdoor pool, a TechnoGym fitness centre and a movement studio
- A twenty-minute drive from Marrakech Menara airport, a few minutes from the medina and Jemaa el-Fna square
- Also read: the hotels with the best pools in Marrakech and the Caribbean’s first longevity village
Photo credit Amanjena
