Join our next Pilates and Hiking retreat in Lanzarote

Gift yourself to some Selfcare

29 April - 3 May 2025

Private room £880

Shared room £680

Bring a friend £1000

Inclusive of detoxing nutritious meals, fresh juices

Pilates around the pool beautiful coastal hikes around the island.

Deposit £250

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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

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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.

Dinner black bean emchiladas. Sleepy heads bed 9.30pm

Great start to our April Retreat

Guests arrived midday, welcomed with Green Juice, ginger ahot and fresh baked banana cake.

Lunch Sweet potato salad followed by relaxation around the pool in the 28 degree Canarian sunshine.

Pilates around the pool before dinner

Green power soup starter, main Aubergine steaks

A little mindfulness and laughs before bed.

Cant wait for tomorrow!

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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

Give the Gift of Health this Valentines.

Canary Isle Health Retreat

Pilates & Hiking coupled with a delicious plant based diet and plenty of rest in the sun.

Only £780 Single room

£580 Shared twin room

Or bring a friend £1000 for 2!

Flights excluded but cheap £60

Deposit £250 secure your place.

Suitable for all levels, do as much or as little as you wish.

Afternoons free to chill.

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The fitness and health industries were hit terribly during the pandemic. All of my Retreats cancelled. Gyms closed, fitness classes cancelled. The impact ruined many small boutique gyms and studios. I had almost 2 years of Retreats cancelled in Spain, Dubai and Cyprus and didn’t believe I could pick myself up from this.

Health Retreats

I remain optimistic and will not give up. I am training some high profile clients in Dubai as a kind of on site 1-2-1 Retreat. If you can afford it, then why not. I managed to hold a Retreat in Cyprus November, with the next one January 2022 in the Canary Isles. My Health Retreats are very personal, with 5-6 guests.

We follow COVID safety protocols to ensure the safety of all guests.

Echelon Fit

Home/Online Workouts

Home/online workouts increased from 20%-70% overnight.
People invested in home gyms Peleton/Echelon bikes and virtual classes.

For me personally as an instructor I would offer free 20 minute workouts 3 x weekly with Pilates, HIIT, HIITABILATES and core strength, although I lost all of my income, delivering live sessions gave me a reason to get up, look presentable and do a workout, helping me also to maintain a routine.

As personal trainers and fitness instructors we had to be creative, it gave us an opportunity to review our own wellness, we were all stuck at home.

You had 2 options, couch potato or change the way we look after our health, the pandemic gave us the opportunity to reflect on our fitness and wellbeing.
Looking at alternative ways to support our physical and mental wellbeing. No commuting and we were able to get into a better sleep pattern. I was involved with BITA Networking, delivering advice on mindfulness and health.

Healthy Eating

We started to experiment with healthy cooking. A number of healthy food deliveries like Hello Fresh, Mindful Chef and Love Yourself, as more people were opting for healthier alternatives. The meal kit industry boomed and continues to thrive beyond the pandemic

The Health and Wellness industry is very profitable globally and although Gyms, Studios and spas hit and incredible loss, Health and wellness has fast forward to the virtual world and a life of convenience, so health can easily be incorporated in your life.

We had to look for new ways to support our physical and mental wellbeing, lets face it, this is the new normal.
Wellness Revolution!

What Happens on a Health Retreat?

I’m often asked, “What happens on a Health Retreat”?

My response.

What do you want to achieve?

• Reset & Renew

“ Kickstart Weight loss

• Detox & Cleanse

Am I fit enough?

All levels welcome as we have small groups, a very personal service

You do as much or little as you wish.

Afternoons free to relax.

Pilates and Hiking

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8-10 Oct - Seven Sisters Cliff walk

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20th Jan - Canary Isles

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Healthy Delicious Breakfast Toasts • Apple & Nut Butter • Poached Egg & Spinach • Scrambled Egg & Asparagus • Sautéed Banana, Chia & Nut Butter • Roast Pepper & Feta • Banana & Cacao Nibs • Nut Butter & Chia • Avocado & Pepper’s • Mushroom and Avocado Jan Health Retreat

DIET - Get more antioxidants. Your body builds up free radicals over time, and these free radicals can speed up the ageing process. Antioxidants battle these free radicals, though, keeping them in check and even reversing some signs of ageing in the process.

• Good sources of antioxidants include berries and other colorful fruit, nuts, dark chocolate, fruit juice, cooked vegetables, and beans.

LIMIT SUGAR - Excess sugar in the body can cause the body to undergo a process called glycation. This process can damage the collagen in your skin. When this happens, your skin becomes less elastic and wrinkles can form more easily.

LIMIT ALCOHOL. A glass of wine every few days should not do too much damage, but consuming alcohol in excess can cause multiple health problems.

INCLUDE HEALTHIER FOODS -  In addition to those foods already mentioned, stock up on foods that can provide you with vitamins and minerals your body needs to repair aged, damaged skin.

• Eat more zinc-rich oysters. Zinc repairs damaged skin.

• Olive oil and avocados contain good fats that can prevent further wrinkling.

• Water-based produce, like watermelon and cucumbers, keep the skin hydrated.

• Guava is packed with vitamin C and can help restore collagen levels.

• Sweet potatoes contain beta-carotene, which can fight against dry skin and improve your cell-turnover rate.

• Women should also eat more legumes, soy, red clover tea, and ground flaxseeds. All of these are good sources of phytoestrogens, which can fight against drooping skin.

• Eat less white rice and white bread, substitute brown rice and whole grain bread.

FIBRE PROVIDER

Your metabolism slows around age 40, eating fewer calories can boost health. But you should also make sure you get adequate fibre and fluids.

"We want to make sure the calories that are decreasing come from things like sweets, but we keep those high-fibre foods in the diet, and we also make sure we meet our fluid needs. Ensure our daily eating plan is packed full of nutrient-dense food, like lean protein, fruits and vegetables and low-fat dairy and whole grains.