Luxury psychology retreats designed for real depth, not just escape
A Lumeah retreat is not simply a holiday, although it is set in beautiful surroundings with exceptional food, restorative treatments, and a slower pace. Lumeah brings you executive wellness unlike others.
A retreat with Lumeah is a carefully designed, psychology-led experience for people who want protected time and expert support to work on what has been weighing on them, shaping them, or holding them back.
Our retreats combine evidence-based psychological work with nervous system regulation, rest, holistic care, and meaningful integration, so that you leave with more than a temporary uplift. You leave with greater understanding, greater steadiness, and practical momentum.
They are designed as a reset. A turning point. A place where you are deeply held while you do the kind of work that actually shifts things.
We can also tailor our retreats to your individual needs. Do you want to come alone, or as a couple, do you have a team that aren't functioning well, or heading for burnout? Then get in touch as we would love to hear from you.
Our Next Retreat
The Reclaim Retreat
October 19-24th 2026, Nerja, Malaga, Spain
Now taking requests for information, expressions of interest and suitability calls for our new retreat now booked for Nerja, Southern Spain (near Malaga) October 19th-24th 2026.
Please read more about the retreat below and click on the links to see if this retreat is suitable for you. If you have any questions then please get in touch.
The Lumeah Reclaim Retreat
19-24th October 2026
A luxury psychology-led retreat for burnout, anxiety, overwhelm, trauma healing, and emotional wellbeing
There comes a point when carrying on as you are no longer feels sustainable.
From the outside, you may still look as though you are coping. You are functioning, achieving, showing up, meeting expectations, and holding everything together. Yet underneath, something feels different. You may feel anxious, mentally overloaded, emotionally stretched, physically depleted, or quietly disconnected from yourself. You may feel tired in a way that ordinary rest does not seem to reach. Less patient. Less clear. More on edge. More easily overwhelmed by things you would once have managed with ease.
For many women, this does not happen all at once. It builds gradually through chronic stress, past trauma, anxiety, overthinking, perfectionism, people-pleasing, over-responsibility, and the long habit of putting yourself last.
The Reclaim Retreat was created for women who know they need something deeper than rest alone. Maybe you have been on holiday, tried another generic retreat and still don't feel rested or calm. Women who may feel burnt out, overwhelmed, emotionally depleted, or aware that they have drifted too far from themselves beneath the weight of everything they carry. It is especially suited to women who are used to functioning highly, leaders, professionals, mothers, carers, and those others naturally depend on, who may appear capable on the outside whilst inwardly feeling driven by pressure, guilt, worry, self-criticism, or the constant sense that they should be coping better.
Not every woman will come because she is in crisis. Some come because life looks broadly fine on the surface, yet they know they want to feel calmer, clearer, and more connected again. Some come because they need a deeper kind of rest, not simply time away, but space that feels more meaningful, more skilfully held, and more restorative than a standard retreat. Others come because they want to understand themselves more deeply, care for themselves more intentionally, and step out of autopilot before the cost grows greater.
At its heart, this retreat is about reclaiming what stress, survival, and over-functioning may have pulled you away from, and rediscovering the parts of yourself that may have been overshadowed by pressure, responsibility, and emotional exhaustion. It is a space to pause properly, to be supported with depth and care, and to return with greater clarity, steadiness, and connection to yourself.
Why Lumeah is different
There are many retreats that offer rest. Some offer coaching. Some offer beautiful surroundings and a temporary pause from everyday life.
What makes Lumeah different is that it is psychology-led from the ground up including the potential for intensive EMDR as part of a carefully designed therapeutic retreat experience, offering the opportunity for deeper and more focused therapeutic progress than a standard retreat alone would provide.
This is not a generic wellness break. It is not surface-level self-care. It is not about pretending everything is fine.
It is a thoughtfully designed experience that brings together evidence-based psychological expertise, nervous system-informed care, restorative holistic experiences, and beautiful surroundings. Everything has been carefully considered with emotional wellbeing in mind. The therapeutic framework, the pacing, the atmosphere, the practices, the treatments, and the environment are designed to work together.
The result is an experience that feels calm and restorative, but also containing, insightful, and grounded in real psychological understanding
Why EMDR intensives matter
One of the things that makes Lumeah especially distinctive is the opportunity to access a range of psychologically informed therapies and specifically, EMDR in a more concentrated and supportive way.
EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, is an evidence-based therapy that helps the brain and body process experiences that still feel unresolved or emotionally charged. Rather than talking round the same patterns week after week, EMDR helps people work directly with the memories, emotions, body sensations, and beliefs that continue to hold distress in place.
For some guests, an intensive format can create far more momentum than standard weekly therapy. Instead of trying to do deep psychological work in the middle of everyday pressures, you have protected time, clinical support, and space to integrate. That can make the work feel more contained, more effective, and more meaningful.
At Lumeah, EMDR is never rushed or imposed. It is offered thoughtfully, with careful preparation, suitability screening, emotional safety, and integration built into the wider retreat experience.
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.
2027
Already taking expressions of interest for 2027
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Are you a team that needs to build communication skills, or manage conflict
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Are you a leader and want to understand and manage burnout for yourself or your team
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Are you an individual with trauma, burnout, perfectionism, anxiety
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Are you a couple who need to build care and closeness
Then get in touch to discuss your needs as we can tailor or events to suit you