Our La Manga retreat is a week-long naturopathic reset on the beach in south-eastern Spain: sunrise movement, functional strength work, daily yoga, a nutrition workshop every morning, afternoons of hands-on treatment from specialist therapists, and a three-day gut and liver cleanse at the heart of it — all built around your own results and health history before you ever board the plane. Guests call it their yearly MOT for mind and body, and many of them book it again before they've unpacked.
Imagine waking to the sound of the sea. The sun is just breaking over the water, and instead of reaching for your phone, you're pulling on your trainers for a sunrise walk, a swim, or a gentle breathwork session that quietly resets your nervous system before the day has even properly begun. That's how every morning starts here — and it's only the beginning.
A Week That Changes How You Feel in Your Own Body
Our retreats aren't a holiday where you switch off. They're a holiday where you switch on — to your body, your habits, and the small daily choices that quietly shape your long-term health. Guests leave feeling lighter, cleaner, mentally sharper, and genuinely empowered about how to look after themselves once they're home.
That's not just a nice idea. It's the reason so many of our guests come back year after year, treating the retreat as their annual reset — a true MOT for mind and body.
What Does a Day on Retreat Actually Look Like?
Every day is thoughtfully built around your body's natural rhythms — stimulating in the morning, hands-on in the afternoon, and deliberately quiet by the evening.
- Sunrise — dopamine-boosting movement: swimming, walking, breathwork or yoga on the beach.
- Morning — functional movement sessions focused on posture, the posterior chain and multidirectional strength, so you leave understanding how to move without pain and protect your joints for the activities you love.
- Yoga — to lengthen, centre and prepare the body for the day ahead.
- A nutrition workshop — covering everything from digestive health and detox pathways to brain health, longevity, and how to read your own blood markers, hair mineral tests or DUTCH hormone results.
- Afternoons — an extraordinary line-up of therapists and treatments.
- Evenings — a gentler pace, with restorative yoga, breathwork, meditation and journalling, giving you space to check in on the intentions you set at the start of the week.
The morning movement work is where most people are surprised. It isn't a bootcamp — it's coaching. Nicola watches how you actually move, then corrects it, so the strength you build in Spain is strength you can still use at home.
Which Treatments Are Included?
Our afternoons are led by some of the most skilled practitioners Nicola has found anywhere in her 25 years in wellness:
- Deep, trauma-releasing Shiatsu massage.
- Traditional Thai and Chinese stomach massage.
- An extraordinary yoga-massage fusion, blending passive stretching with oil-based hand and foot massage.
- Nicola's own bespoke bodywork sessions, combining deep tissue, myofascial release and passive stretching to target tension and restore mobility.
- Medical-grade G5 lymphatic drainage massage — a whole-body treatment that works from the feet up to release fascia, ease bloating, support body contouring and smooth the appearance of cellulite.
- Complimentary infrared sauna and infrared bed sessions, plus daily vibration massage, all designed to support your body's natural detox pathways.
There's a reason the bodywork sits alongside the cleanse rather than being a treat on the side. If the lymphatic system is sluggish, the liver simply can't do its job. Everything on this retreat works together — movement, massage, nutrition and rest — to help your body do what it already knows how to do: heal.
The Three-Day Gut and Liver Cleanse at the Heart of It
We begin the week with a three-day gut and liver cleanse, giving your digestive system a proper rest right from the start. With roughly 60% of the energy normally spent on digestion freed up, your body redirects that power to a deep clean of the liver, kidneys, lungs and blood.
Guests consistently describe the same handful of things afterwards: reduced inflammation, clearer skin, brighter eyes, less brain fog, more energy — and food tasting better than they can remember.
Throughout the week, you're supported by practitioner-strength supplements in their most bioavailable forms, and — with a doctor on hand — the option of IV glutathione therapy, the body's master antioxidant, helping to carry toxins out of the liver and out of the body for good.
Experience our Gut & Brain Retreats in the UK or Spain — nutrition, Wim Hof, breathwork, yoga and bespoke bodywork.
Find Out More →What Happens Before You Even Arrive?
Every retreat begins with a one-to-one nutrition consultation with Nicola, so she understands exactly where you are on your health journey before you land. From there, she may suggest specific functional tests to complete beforehand — and using those results, alongside your symptoms and medical history, she'll tailor your week: which supplements you'll take, and which vitamin injections or IV drips will help you get the most out of your time away.
That way, your protocol and support throughout the retreat are built specifically around you — not a one-size-fits-all programme. And because Nicola never stops researching, no two retreats are ever quite the same. There's always something new to learn about your body.
Who Is This Retreat For?
It's for you if you want the deepest reset available, with real medical and naturopathic expertise in the room — and if you'd rather come home understanding your own body than simply rested for a fortnight. Groups are deliberately small, capped at 18 guests, which is what makes the one-to-one attention possible.
The next flagship weeks in La Manga run 5–11 June 2027 and 12–18 June 2027. If you'd like a feel for what a week actually does to a person, our La Manga retreat recap walks through one week from the inside.
Ready to Feel This Good?
This is more than a week away. It's a week where you remember how to love, nurture and understand your own body — and go home with the tools to keep supporting it, long after the tan fades.
Request your brochure or book a free 15-minute discovery call to find out which retreat is right for you, and start your journey to feeling energised, clear-headed and truly at home in your body.
This article shares naturopathic and lifestyle guidance for general education and isn't a substitute for personalised medical advice. Cleanse protocols, IV therapy and supplements are only ever provided after a one-to-one consultation — always speak to your GP before changing any prescribed medication or if you have an existing health condition.
