How the days are designed
Six days and five nights away - Four carefully designed therapeutic days. One deeply restorative journey.
The retreat unfolds across our carefully designed days: Regulation, Patterns, Boundaries, and Direction.
Each day has a clear focus. Together, they create a thoughtful and expertly held journey that helps you step out of survival mode and move towards greater clarity, steadiness, and renewal.
Regulation - Understanding your nervous system and beginning to come out of survival mode
We begin with the foundations. This day is about slowing down, understanding what stress and overwhelm have been doing to your mind and body, and beginning to feel safer and more settled within yourself. Through psychology-led teaching and supportive restorative practices, you will start to make sense of your nervous system with greater clarity and compassion.
Patterns - Recognising the beliefs, habits, and protective strategies that keep you stuck
Once there is more steadiness in place, we begin to look at the deeper patterns underneath burnout, anxiety, overwhelm, and emotional strain. This may include perfectionism, people-pleasing, self-criticism, over-functioning, emotional suppression, or the habit of always putting yourself last. This day is about understanding those patterns with honesty and compassion, so that change can begin from insight rather than blame.
Boundaries - Strengthening self-worth, communication, and healthier limits
Boundaries are rarely just about saying no. They are often tied to self-worth, fear, responsibility, guilt, and the ways you have learned to keep the peace or stay safe. This day focuses on helping you build healthier limits, clearer communication, and a more respectful relationship with your own time, energy, and emotional wellbeing.
Direction - Building clarity, confidence, and a more intentional way forward
The final day is about looking ahead with greater clarity and purpose. Not from pressure or performance, but from a more grounded understanding of who you are, what you need, and what matters most.
With psychological insight, coaching-informed reflection, and future-focused work, we begin to support a way forward that feels calmer, healthier, and more aligned with your values.
Alongside the psychological programme, the retreat includes daily yoga, sound baths, massage, facials, creative experiences, and beautifully prepared nourishment, so care is offered not only to the mind, but to the whole of you.
This is designed as a complete journey, but each day also offers something meaningful in its own right.
You can explore more in the itinerary and information below. If you would like to know more, or would prefer an informal chat or suitability call, please get in touch.
What' is / isn't included
Here at Lumeah, we believe not only have we thought of everything to bring you a luxury and potentially transformative experience we are delivering amazing value for money.
Please look at our packages and fees for a full range of what is on offer:
The full package includes transport from and to Malaga airport or locally (limits apply).
Four full days days and five-nights staying in La Roca Rara, one of the most prestigious villas in Eastern Malaga. Choosing between staying on your own, or sharing a room, you will have access to all facilities, including the pool and tennis court in the villa’s grounds.
We have housekeeping staff so you don’t even have to worry about making your bed, or tidying up, you can just focus on you.
Three meals a day, using local products and freshly cooked for you. Please let us know of any preferences or allergies. Vegetarian options are provided.
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Breakfasts include fresh fruit and yoghurts, cereals, croissants and rolls, cold meats and cheese, or a hot plate to choose from.
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Lunch is a light bite including freshly produced salad bowls, chicken or fish, with quiches, wraps and added delights.
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Evening meals include three-courses, which are themed to bring you delights from across the globe to heighten the luxury experience for you.
The kitchen will be stocked with fresh fruits and tasty snacks so you can help yourself throughout the day.
Tea, coffee, herbal teas, other soft drinks, and water are also included.
Wine with some dinners will be available but this is limited as we are trying to create an experience free from outside pressure, influence or stimulants.
Together, we join the dots between old experiences and current reactions, so that your system does not feel “mysterious” or “broken”. Instead, we make sense of why you are the way you are, through a compassionate, trauma informed lens.
Those choosing a non-stay option, will have access to facilities, lunch and dinner and the below offer.
Psychology offer
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EMDR – group and individual, both prior to the retreat and on the retreat to focus on processing past emotional experiences, unlocking confidence and stepping into success by looking at future template work.
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Additional psychological education and development on resourcing (safe place, grounding, sensory, breathwork etc), GROW model of coaching to identify goals and what your barriers to success are. Resourcing and nervous system regulation Safe place imagery, grounding, sensory strategies and breathwork help your body experience safety and steadiness, not just understand it intellectually.
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Cognitive work (CBT) You will learn to spot unhelpful patterns of thinking, understand where they came from, and rescript more helpful and self-supportive beliefs.
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Emotion understanding and regulation (DBT) You will get clearer on what your emotions are trying to tell you, and build a toolkit for staying grounded when your feelings are intense, layered or confusing.
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Boundaries, saying no and clear communication We explore what gets in the way of you setting limits, practice new scripts and look at how to protect your energy without cutting off from connection. Avoid burnout, frustration and fatigue.
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Values and committed action (ACT)You will reconnect with what genuinely matters to you, outside of other people’s expectations, and begin to take small, steady steps towards that life.
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Art therapy and somatic therapy
This work can be tailored to you, or for corporate work we can meet your needs such as preventing burnout within teams.
Holistic and beauty offer
In addition to all that there is a daily programme to nourish the whole you, body and spirit to help you reconnect with yourself and to calm your nervous system.
Retreats offer a range of:
· Daily Yoga suitable for all levels
· Sound bathing - immersive sound vibrations to help calm your nervous system
· Breathwork - the importance of using breath to self regulate
· Journaling - to focus thoughts in reality
· One luxury LED facial using high quality products
· One full body or targeted area massage
For many guests, these experiences of gentle, non demanding touch in a safe, contained environment are quietly powerful. They begin to rewrite some of the body’s expectations about contact, care and what it means to be looked after. In doing so, they support not only physical ease, but the healing of relational and nervous system wounds.
You leave not only with memories of a luxury retreat, but with a nervous system that has tasted safety, a clearer sense of who you are, and a map for how to keep moving towards the life you actually want.
We don't believe there is anything quite like Lumeah currently out there. We can't wait for you to join us.
What isn't included
We believe we have thought of everything for you once you get here, but these are things that we don't provide.
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Flights - we pick you up from Malaga airport, which is less than an hour away - there are flights with several providers from London based and Midlands based airports. We can share the details of the flights if requested. We suggest you book your flight once you have your place confirmed.
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Private insurance. Whilst we hold liability insurance for your stay and the work we do, you will need to get your own health insurance before you fly. We will ask for confirmation that you have this.
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Private toiletries, including sunscreen