Shanti-Som Wellbeing Retreat
Detox Retreat
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Two stunning destinations, one transformative experience
Same expert-led wellness programs, each shaped by its unique surroundings.
About this retreat
The Shanti-Som Detox Retreat is designed to support your body through a gentle reset, helping to release accumulated toxins, restore balance, and reset and nurture your gut health. Throughout your stay, you’ll be supported by our wellness team with daily consultations, ensuring you feel comfortable, informed, and confident throughout the process. With daily juices and broths, wellness practices, movement, yoga and meditation, the retreat creates the space for your body and mind to slow down and reset.
Before you leave, a post-retreat consultation helps you transition back to your usual diet and lifestyle with confidence, giving you practical guidance to integrate food gradually and sustainably, while setting you up for long-term wellbeing and success.
What Is a Detox Retreat?
A detox retreat is an opportunity to step away from your usual routine and give your body and mind time to reset. At Shanti Som, our approach focuses on supporting the body’s natural detoxification processes, giving the digestive system a rest, and helping to restore balance to gut health. Rather than focusing on restrictive dieting or extreme fasting, the retreat combines a carefully structured program of fresh juices and nourishing broths with yoga, meditation, movement and restorative wellness practices. With time away from everyday stresses and a dedicated focus on wellbeing, a detox retreat can leave you feeling lighter, refreshed and ready for a healthier routine.
Why Choose Shanti Som for Your Detox?
At Shanti Som, our Detox Retreat is designed to be a supported and mindful reset, rather than simply a juice fast. Throughout your stay, you’ll follow a program of fresh juices and nourishing broths, complemented by daily yoga, meditation and wellness activities designed to support your body during the detox process.
Our wellness team is an important part of your experience. Daily consultations give you the opportunity to check in, ask questions and ensure you are feeling good throughout your retreat. We recognise that everyone responds differently to a detox, so having this ongoing support allows the program to be approached with care and adjusted where appropriate.
Most importantly, the retreat doesn’t end when you leave. Your post retreat consultation provides guidance on how to gradually reintroduce food and transition back into your normal routine, helping you carry the benefits of your reset into everyday life and giving you practical tools for long term success.
How Long Should You Stay?
The ideal length of your Detox Retreat depends on your individual goals and how much time you have available. A shorter stay can provide an opportunity to step away from your usual habits and give your digestive system a much needed break, while a longer stay allows more time to settle into the rhythm of the program and fully embrace the retreat experience.
The program is a minimum of five nights to allow enough time to adjust, experience the full range of wellness activities and receive ongoing support during your stay, as well as guidance for your return home.
Our Approach to Detox
The Shanti Som Detox Retreat focuses on resting the digestive system, supporting the body’s natural cleansing processes and helping to reset your relationship with food and wellbeing.
Your programme centres around fresh juices and nourishing broths, combined with yoga, meditation, movement and restorative practices. Our approach gives you the time and space to slow down, allowing your body to reset while you are supported by our wellness team.
Daily consultations ensure that you feel comfortable and supported throughout the process. We encourage you to listen to your body and communicate how you are feeling, making the experience personal and reassuring from beginning to end.
Is a Detox Retreat Right for You?
The Shanti Som Detox Retreat is ideal for those who feel they need to press pause, reset their habits and give their body a break. It can be particularly appealing after periods of overindulgence, travel or busy routines, or simply when you feel ready for a fresh start.
It’s also an opportunity to learn more about your relationship with food and develop healthier habits that can continue after your retreat. Our wellness team will support you throughout your stay and, through your post retreat consultation, help you transition back to eating in a considered way and integrate what you’ve learned into your everyday life.
The goal isn’t simply to feel different while you’re at Shanti Som. It’s to leave feeling equipped and confident to continue your wellbeing journey at home.
Detox Retreat FAQ
No. We offer both juice cleanse and whole-food detox options. Our nutritionist will recommend the best approach based on your health profile and goals.
For the first day or two, sometimes. By day three most guests find the hunger has settled and something steadier has replaced it.
You're never left with nothing: juices, broths, teas and infusions run throughout the day, and your daily guidance session means someone is checking how you're actually doing.
No. This is a supported, guided program rather than a water fast, and we adjust it to the person.
During your stay we can adjust the program to suit how you are feeling. This is the purpose of the daily detox consultations with our wellness team.
Some guests do the full juice program; others do a modified version including light solid food. What you do is decided with our team, not imposed on you.
Possibly on day two, and much more likely if you drink a lot of coffee.
That's caffeine withdrawal rather than the detox itself, which is why we send a pre-detox guide before you travel with a tapering plan. Guests who follow it usually have an easy first few days.
The minimum is 5 nights; we recommend seven to ten.
Days one and two are the adjustment, day three is usually when it turns, and the real benefit lands after that. A very short detox gives you the difficult part and sends you home just as it starts working.
You'll receive our pre-detox guide about two weeks before you travel. In short: taper caffeine over the preceding week, ease off alcohol, sugar and processed food, and try not to work right up to the moment you leave.
Each programme includes lymphatic drainage massage, body wraps, infrared sauna sessions, and a personalised treatment plan. The exact therapies depend on the duration of your stay.
We recommend a minimum of five nights. Seven to ten nights allows deeper detoxification and more lasting results.
Most of our guests do. Detox in particular attracts solo travelers, and doing something mildly difficult alongside others tends to make conversation easy rather than awkward.
Our programs are designed for generally healthy adults. If you have specific medical conditions, we recommend consulting your doctor before booking. Our team will review your health questionnaire before arrival.
Both offer the same twice-daily practice, the same small groups and the same unhurried pace. The difference is the setting.
Marbella sits in the hills of the Sierra de las Nieves, forty-five minutes from Málaga - mountain quiet, pine and olive, and an outdoor pavilion looking down the valley. There are just15 rooms so it's extremely private and secluded. We are 20 minutes to trendy down town Marbella if you are seeking some trendy shops, beach club and restaurant vibes.
The Algarve Set in the peaceful countryside of the Eastern Algarve, near the village of Moncarapacho and just 20 minutes from Faro Airport, Shanti-Som Algarve offers a tranquil escape surrounded by four hectares of private farmland, orange orchards and olive trees. Housed within a beautifully restored 19th-century Portuguese farmhouse, the retreat combines authentic Algarve charm with contemporary comfort, while the nearby coastline and Ria Formosa make it easy to explore the natural beauty of the region. With 22 intimate rooms, Shanti-Som Algarve offers a deliberately personal and unhurried setting for rest, wellbeing and reconnection
Both properties are open year-round.
Winter is mild, quiet and often the loveliest time to come with daily sunshine, and an escape from the northern Europe grey winters. A fireplace at both locations keeps you cosy and warm as nights cool down.
Our Retreat is recommended for adults only (18+) to maintain guest privacy and a peaceful environment.