Best Wellness Retreats

The Pritikin Center in Miami offers year-round, all-inclusive retreats that begin with a comprehensive medical examination. In a private 75-minute session, your doctor will perform a medical review, dietary analysis, cardiometabolic stress test, and blood panel. 

You’ll also get a fitness consultation from a certified fitness professional and a DEXA body scan to analyze your body composition. Then, you’ll get going with the other features of the program: daily fitness classes, five healthy meals and snacks per day, healthy living classes on various topics (such as stress management and smart grocery shopping), and spa services. There are also yoga and meditation classes, plus onsite golf and tennis for even more fun and relaxation. 

The fees for retreats at Pritikin vary based on your length of stay and amenities. The average 2023-2024 seasonal price for a two-week stay is $9,214 for a double.

Colibri Yoga Retreats are the antidote to the all-too-common "I need a vacation from my vacation" feeling. These wellness getaways are about giving your body the vacation it needs, learning how to be a mindful traveler, developing self-awareness, and facilitating personal growth. 

Colibri hosts yoga retreats multiple times a year in some of the world's most coveted locations in Costa Rica, Morocco, and exotic beaches in Mexico. At a Colibri retreat, you'll enjoy daily yoga, meditation, relaxation time by the pool, walks on the beach, and sightseeing in quaint towns selected for their peacefulness. Structured yet laid-back, a Colibri Yoga Retreat is right for anyone who needs to take a step back from the hustle and bustle of daily life and reconnect with themselves and their yoga practice.

Prices for Colibri Yoga Retreats vary but range from $2,000 to $3,000 per person. Registration fees include your stay at a luxury resort and at least one chef-prepared meal per day. Other fees may apply for additional goods, services, and gratuities. 

Mountain Trek is about immersing yourself in nature and connecting with the world and yourself. It focuses on what it defines as the five pillars of health: fitness, nutrition, managing stress, sleep, and detoxification.

This week-long retreat involves three to four hours daily of hiking—specifically, Nordic fitness trekking, what Mountain Trek calls the “off-road cousin” to Nordic walking. Nordic walking is a type of walking that uses poles to work your upper body and core in addition to your lower body. 

The daily programming starts with a 6 a.m. wake-up followed by sunrise yoga and breakfast in a dining room that overlooks the Purcell Mountains in British Columbia. You’ll depart for the day’s hike by 8:30 a.m. and return to the lodge by 3:30 p.m. After dinner and discussions, you’ll exercise even more with a fitness class, such as spin or high-intensity interval training, at the end of the day.

Don’t worry if your current fitness level isn’t good enough for this hike-based wellness retreat: All guests are split into fitness-based groups, so you will always be with people at a similar fitness level—plus, you’ll have a dedicated guide during the daily hikes. 

Mountain Trek accepts reservations year-round depending on availability. The all-inclusive registration fee is $6,400 per person, with a $1,000 deposit due at the time of booking. Longer stays may be booked for a slightly reduced rate.

All the retreats on this list are great opportunities to put down your phone, computer, tablet, or other devices for a few days. Still, The Ashram California retreat in Calabasas takes disconnecting to a new level. The resort—a simple two-story house you'll share with 11 other guests—is nestled in the Santa Monica Mountains that hug the Pacific Coast. The facilities are rustic and charming, so you'll be surrounded by nature and with very limited if any, cell service. No cell phones are allowed in common areas, and the resort encourages you not to bring your devices at all.

The week-long program involves daily sunrise yoga and over 70 miles of hiking, sports massages, pool exercise classes, studio fitness classes, and evening lectures on mindfulness, breathing techniques, and other wellness topics. As for food, you'll get three chef-prepared meals each day—made mostly with food grown in the property's gardens—along with various healthy snacks throughout the day. 

All in all, the remote location of this retreat, combined with the fresh air, physical activity, and nutritious food, will leave you feeling refreshed, rejuvenated, and ready to take on whatever life brings your way. A single-person registration for The Ashram California is all-inclusive and priced at $6,800, with a $2,000 deposit due at the time of reservation. The Ashram California is open year-round.