Holistic Wellness Retreat in Mallorca: Yoga, Spa & Plant-Based Cuisine

Most mornings start with a yoga class, taught by whichever teacher is leading that week. Sessions run for all levels, so you're not expected to have a practice already. After class, breakfast is served — largely plant-based, with fruit, grains and whatever the kitchen garden is producing that week. The rest of the day is yours: book a massage or a healing treatment, sit by the pool, walk into Santanyí, or head to one of the nearby beaches (Cala Santanyí and Cala Llombards are both a short drive).

Cal Reiet runs two kinds of stays. The first is a set group retreat with a published programme and a named teacher — these tend to focus on yoga, meditation, mindfulness workshops or seminars, and the schedule is fixed for everyone in the group. The second is a personalised stay, where you book a room and then choose your own combination of yoga classes, spa treatments and meals. If you want structure, pick a group week; if you want to do your own thing, book a room and build the week as you go.

The kitchen is one of the things people come back for. Ingredients are organic and locally sourced, with a good share coming from the on-site garden, so the menu shifts with the season. The team can work around most intolerances and allergies — tell them in advance. During certain retreats they also run a cleanse menu, plant-based, aimed at detoxification and weight loss. Meals are eaten communally, and it's a genuinely sociable part of the day rather than a formality.

The treatment menu is broader than you'd expect for a property this size. Sessions are grouped into relaxing, therapeutic and healing, energetic and spiritual, and beauty, and each one is designed around what you actually need rather than run from a fixed script. There are two indoor treatment rooms plus an open-air space used in good weather.

What separates this from a standard wellness hotel is the retreat programming itself. Cal Reiet was set up specifically to host retreats, so the spaces — shala, treatment rooms, gardens, restaurant — are built around that rather than retrofitted. Group retreats are led by visiting international teachers and wellness practitioners, and the themes range across physical, mental, emotional and social wellbeing. The village setting means you get rural Mallorca without being stranded; Palma airport is roughly 45 minutes by car.

What's included

- Accommodation at Cal Reiet in Santanyí, Mallorca - Daily morning yoga classes with rotating teachers - Access to the pool area and gardens - Restaurant meals prepared with locally sourced organic ingredients - Access to the kitchen garden produce - Spa and treatment rooms on site (treatments bookable) - Communal dining and shared guest spaces

What's not included

- Flights to and from Mallorca - Airport transfers (can be arranged) - Spa and massage treatments (booked separately) - Alcoholic drinks - Personal expenses - Travel insurance