A new kind of retreat

What is a longevity retreat?

Where beauty meets what doctors actually know.

The entrance in white marble, the wrought-iron door and the light beyond.

The word wellness has been used so often it has almost stopped meaning anything. A longevity retreat is something more precise, and something quite new: a small number of days spent learning how the body ages, and what doctors and experts explain about it.

What usually happens during one

A longevity retreat is built around a few clear themes.

Measurement. Understanding your skin, your energy and your sleep, so you begin from facts rather than guesswork.

Nutrition. How food and micronutrients translate into energy and long-term health. No diet is involved.

Movement. Building strength, mobility and posture, the true foundations of ageing well.

Skin and hormones. The changes that begin after thirty-five, often unnoticed at first, and what doctors explain about them.

Rest. Because sleep is where longevity is built.

These are the five pillars around which every Maison Longevity edition is built.

Perimenopause, and why it belongs here

Between thirty-five and fifty-five, hormones shift. The change moves through sleep, mood, energy, muscle and skin, and most women are never offered a conversation about it that is neither dramatic nor dismissive.

On a longevity retreat, perimenopause is one of the fields covered, alongside nutrition, movement and skin, and it is explained by Dr Badiou, a doctor registered with the French Ordre des Médecins, who leads, with Dr Kestemont, the Thursday workshop on hormonal health and what changes after thirty-five. You learn what changes and why, so that you meet it informed. If that is what brought you here, read how a menopause retreat compares.

A bedroom in cream and white, the morning light across the floor.
The dining room, the long white table set for ten.
A quiet sitting room in cream, two armchairs facing the light.

Where the idea comes from

Longevity has become one of the most serious fields of modern science. Its subject is living well for longer: protecting your energy, your muscle, your skin, your sleep and your hormonal health, so that the decades ahead are lived in strength.

Most of this knowledge stays inside laboratories and research papers. A longevity retreat takes the time to put it into language you can actually use.

What you leave with

A longevity retreat is built around understanding. You sit with the doctors of the retreat who explain what is happening inside your body. You leave with a clear picture of where you actually stand. You leave knowing what is worth changing, and why.

Who they are for

Longevity retreats speak to women who have spent years looking after everyone else. Many feel the body beginning to change, and want to understand it. Nothing needs to be wrong: what you learn early is what you can still act on.

The garden of the villa, its fountain among the olive trees.
The garden, Mont Boron

A new standard

This is the idea behind Maison Longevity: a four-night retreat for up to ten women in a private villa on Mont Boron, above Nice (France), where a faculty of doctors and specialists turns the science of ageing well into recommendations you take home. The programme runs from arrivals at 2.30pm on Wednesday to transfers from 11am on Sunday.

Ageing well comes from knowledge, and knowledge can be taught.

Seven rooms. Up to ten women. 21–25 April 2027.