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Green Juice easy

Healthy green juice

Easy to make, full of nutrients.

• Green apple

• Spinach

• Cucumber

• Ginger

• Lime

Juice in a slow juicer and enjoy

🍏 BENEFITS 🍏

🍏Green juice contains nutrients.

🍏Green juice can function as a prebiotic.

🍏Green juice can help heal the body.

🍏Green juice promotes hydration.

🍏Green juice supports the immune system.

🍏Green juice alkalizes the body.

Drink juice on our Retreats.

#healthretreat #dbchealthretreat #juiceretreat #greenjuice #sandydonnelly #over50influencer #50andfit

Why Your Next Wellness Retreat Should Be In Lanzarote.

Why Your Next Wellness Retreat Should Be In Lanzarote.

The beautiful Sandy beaches and warm winter sun in November, holistic approach to rejuvenate your mind, body, and soul. Personal well-being is no longer viewed as a mere indulgence but rather as an essential aspect of a balanced lifestyle. As a result, wellness travel is now growing at a rate 50% faster than conventional tourism.

1. The Natural Beauty

There are so many great things about Lanzarote , but the first thing we had to mention was its true beauty. The island is really unlike any other with its volcano-clad landscapes and palm tree-fringed beaches that the 4th largest of the Canary Islands and pristine beaches of Papaguyo

It makes for the perfect backdrop for anyone searching for a sense of serenity and tranquility. Not to mention, there will be moments where you say “wow” while viewing its natural greatness.

It’s really something to be a part of and experience first hand, there’s a sense of relaxation and harmony you feel just being surrounded. Which, at the end of the day makes it an ideal setting for a wellness retreat.

2. The climate in Lanzarote is ideal. Well, let’s even say close to perfect with it’s 20 degrees on average all year round. It’s never too hot and never too cold. In Lanzarote. Well it’s actually one of the warmest place in Europe. You are perhaps wondering, if it’s warm enough to swim in the sea. The answer is a clear: YES!

3. César Manrique.

If a character is attached to Lanzarote, it’s him. He shaped the island, he preserved the island and made this island what it is today. A trip to Lanzarote without discovering his work is actually impossible. Most of the main sites have been designed by César Manrique in Lanzarote.

A somewhat visionary artist who took advantage of his installation on the island to let all his creativity express itself. Always concerned with respecting nature, Manrique built amazing houses but also created spaces that are very popular today, such as the #cactusgarden #jameosdelagua , the #miradordelrio and much more.

Join our Pilates and Hiking Retreat

22-26 Nov

28-2 Dec

4-8 Jan

10-14 Jan

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Fibre Provider Smoothie

Fibre Provider Smoothie

• Blend 2 handfuls seedless green grapes

• Handful of spinach 🍃

• Sliced Pear 🍐

• Pure Apple 🍏 juice

Drinking a green smoothie a day is a great way to curb sugar cravings. As you start to introduce more healthy nutrients and fiber into your body, your energy levels will start to increase. This increased amount of energy will be used to burn calories

#greensmoothie #fibresmoothie #greensmoothiecleanse #healthretreat #dbchealthretreat #sandydonnelly

Fibre Provider Smoothie

Action for Mental Health at Work

Government, employers, the organizations which represent workers and employers, and other stakeholders responsible for workers’ health and safety can help to improve mental health at work through action to:

  • prevent work-related mental health conditions by preventing the risks to mental health at work;

  • protect and promote mental health at work;

  • support workers with mental health conditions to participate and thrive in work; and

  • create an enabling environment for change.

Action to address mental health at work should be done with the meaningful involvement of workers and their representatives, and persons with lived experience of mental health conditions.

How does fitness improve mental health?

Exercise improves mental health by reducing anxiety, depression, and negative mood and by improving self-esteem and cognitive function. Exercise has also been found to alleviate symptoms such as low self-esteem and social withdrawal.

When you have depression or anxiety, exercise often seems like the last thing you want to do. But once you get motivated, exercise can make a big difference.

Exercise helps prevent and improve a number of health problems, including high blood pressure, diabetes and arthritis. Research on depression, anxiety and exercise shows that the psychological and physical benefits of exercise can also help improve mood and reduce anxiety.

Day 2 Retreat

Day 2 DBC Health Retreat

Started the day with water & lemon followed by poached egg and avocado on rye with green juice.

Set out on a 2 hour coastal walk from old town puerto del carnen to puerto calero.

Lunch mushroom noodles then relaxed in the 28 degree sun around the pool, icy smoothie spinach frozen banana & chia. Pool circuits, Ab blast.

Healthy mushroom noodles

Dinner black bean emchiladas. Sleepy heads bed 9.30pm

6 Signs you need a Retreat

I developed DBC Health Retreats 13 years ago, and it changed my life! It opened me up to new ways of living, starting from a place of wellness & empowerment.

I love retreats, mainly for the self-development aspect – you get to spend focused time on you. Helping my guests regain balance and get on track. Find out what’s working, what’s not. A retreat is the perfect environment for that.

On retreat, you experience little shifts & a whole lot of relaxation. When you’re relaxed, that’s when inspiration can most easily get through to you. You know – that lovely feeling of connection, knowing and gentle pulling towards something that will improve your overall wellbeing.

There are a  variety of retreats to choose from, depending on your needs!

  • Health Detox Cleanse

  • Pilates/Yoga

  • Healing

  • Self Love

  • Meditation

  • Self Development

So, are you wondering if a retreat can help you right now? Let’s see how many of these you say ‘yes’ to…

6 Signs you need a Retreat

  1. Constantly feel tired.

  2. Regularly experience Anxiety

  3. Bored, fed up of life/work

  4. Dream of a better life, job, lifestyle

  5. Burn out, lacking energy, motivation

  6. Feel disconnected

Is Stress Impacting Your Mental Health?

Do you feel stress is negatively impacting your physical and mental wellbeing?

Many situations can cause a stress response in the body. Changes at work, illness, accidents, problems with relationships, family, money or housing can all cause stress. Even seemingly small daily hassles like someone pushing in a queue can make us feel stressed. What links all these situations is that we’re unable to predict and control what is happening to us, and so our body goes into a state of increased alertness. And these events can happen all the time - triggering the body’s stress response over and over again.

When the stress response becomes prolonged (chronic), it has a very different effect to the short bursts that enhance the body’s abilities. In many cases, the system controlling the stress response is no longer able to return to its normal state. Attention, memory, and the way we deal with emotions are negatively impacted. This long-term stress can contribute to both physical and mental illness through effects on the heart, immune and metabolic functions, and hormones acting on the brain.

Some of the emotional and behavioural symptoms of stress overlap with those of mental health conditions like anxiety or depression. This can make it hard to distinguish where one begins and the other ends, or which came first. Someone who is stressed may feel worried, down, unable to concentrate or make decisions, irritable and angry.

DBC Health Retreats release tension and recharge with a healthy plant based diet, fresh juices, hiking, pilates and plenty of rest.

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Self Care Ladies Retreat

Self Care Retreat 26-30th April

Nourish your Body Mind & Soul woth oprional wine!

Do as much or as little as you wish, plenty of relaxation in the sun. The most affordable retreat.

£580 - Shared room

£780 - Private room

Bring a friend £1000 for 2.