Integrative Medical Retreats · Byron bay
Time to understand what is actually happening in your body & mind.
Five or ten days of continuous assessment and care from a multidisciplinary clinical team, in one place.
ARE OUR RETREATS FOR YOU?
Our retreats are built for people who are seeking to understand their full health picture.
You may have been unwell for years. You may have seen many practitioners, had many blood tests, and been told repeatedly that your results are normal. You may have a diagnosis that explains part of what you're experiencing but not all of it. Or you may have several diagnoses that nobody has connected.
Two weeks with us gives us something a series of appointments cannot: continuous observation. We can see how you sleep, how you respond to food, how you breathe, how you recover, and how those things relate to one another.
We work with people living with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and mast cell activation syndrome, with burnout and long-term stress, with post-viral illness including long COVID, with postnatal depletion, and those seeking a comprehensive baseline assessment for preventative reasons.
Not sure if this is you? Talk it through with Reine.
How the program works
The first week is about understanding your pattern. The second is about responding to it.
The Diagnostic and Integration Program runs across two clinical weeks.
THE SETTING
Where you will be
We sit at the edge of Arakwal National Park. An eight-minute walk through the park brings you out at Tallow Beach, on a quiet stretch that most visitors to Byron never find.
THE ACCOMMODATION
- Blue-light-filtered lighting
- Purified filtered water
- Mould-free, low-toxin rooms
- Organic meals from the onsite Wellness Kitchen
THE BYRON BATHHOUSE
- Three infrared saunas
- Cold plunge
- Mineral pool, double filtered with no chlorine
- Red-light therapy
Click through the steps
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| MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8am | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast |
Morning | Breathing and airway assessment, bathhouse orientation, dental photography | Pathology collection | Somatic breathwork | Osteopathy | Craniosacral therapy |
Late morning | Psychology | Naturopathy | Combined session: Naturopath and Dentist | Twelfth session to be confirmed | Integrative Doctor review |
1pm | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
Afternoon | Combined session: Integrative Doctor and Naturopath | Osteopathy | Breathwork and HRV review | Naturopathy | Findings report and protocol walkthrough with your coordinator |
Late afternoon | | Intravenous therapy where clinically indicated ADDITIONAL COST | Walk to Tallow Beach | Cooking session with the Naturopathic Chef | |
6pm | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner |
Evening | | | Restorative yoga | Sound bowls in the bathhouse | |
Overnight | Sleep study | | Sleep study | | |
MONDAY
Morning
Breathing and airway assessment, bathhouse orientation, dental photography
Late morning
Psychology
Afternoon
Combined session: Integrative Doctor and Naturopath
Overnight
Sleep study
TUESDAY
Morning
Pathology collection
Late morning
Naturopathy
Afternoon
Osteopathy
Late afternoon
Intravenous therapy where clinically indicated ADDITIONAL COST
WEDNESDAY
Morning
Somatic breathwork
Late morning
Combined session: Naturopath and Dentist
Afternoon
Breathwork and HRV review
Late afternoon
Walk to Tallow Beach
Evening
Restorative yoga
Overnight
Sleep study
THURSDAY
Morning
Osteopathy
Late morning
Twelfth session to be confirmed
Afternoon
Naturopathy
Late afternoon
Cooking session with the Naturopathic Chef
Evening
Sound bowls in the bathhouse
FRIDAY
Morning
Craniosacral therapy
Late morning
Integrative Doctor review
Afternoon
Findings report and protocol walkthrough with your coordinator
Breakfast 8am, lunch 1pm and dinner 6pm daily.
| MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8am | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast |
Morning | Restorative yoga | Hypnotherapy | Somatic breathwork | Repeat pathology collection | Craniosacral therapy |
Late morning | Psychology | Naturopathy | Combined session: Naturopath and Dentist | Psychology | Integrative Doctor review |
1pm | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
Afternoon | Combined session: Integrative Doctor and Naturopath | Osteopathy | Breathwork and HRV review | Naturopathy | Findings report and protocol walkthrough with your coordinator |
Late afternoon | | Restorative yoga | Walk to Tallow Beach | Cooking session with the Naturopathic Chef | |
6pm | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner |
Evening | | | Restorative yoga | Sound bowls in the bathhouse | |
Overnight | Sleep study | | Sleep study | | |
MONDAY
Morning
Restorative yoga
Late morning
Psychology
Afternoon
Combined session: Integrative Doctor and Naturopath
Overnight
Sleep study
TUESDAY
Morning
Hypnotherapy
Late morning
Naturopathy
Afternoon
Osteopathy
Late afternoon
Restorative yoga
WEDNESDAY
Morning
Somatic breathwork
Late morning
Combined session: Naturopath and Dentist
Afternoon
Breathwork and HRV review
Late afternoon
Walk to Tallow Beach
Evening
Restorative yoga
Overnight
Sleep study
THURSDAY
Morning
Repeat pathology collection
Late morning
Psychology
Afternoon
Naturopathy
Late afternoon
Cooking session with the Naturopathic Chef
Evening
Sound bowls in the bathhouse
FRIDAY
Morning
Craniosacral therapy
Late morning
Integrative Doctor review
Afternoon
Findings report and protocol walkthrough with your coordinator
Breakfast 8am, lunch 1pm and dinner 6pm daily.
PHASE ONE · MONDAY TO FRIDAY
Diagnostic
The first week is heavily diagnostic.
You are assessed by our doctors, naturopaths, biological dentist, osteopaths and psychologists, alongside breathwork, nutritional and hydrotherapy assessment.
DURING THIS WEEK WE UNDERTAKE
- Comprehensive pathology, collected on site
- Overnight sleep studies across consecutive nights
- Continuous glucose monitoring, observed against your actual meals
- Breathing pattern and heart rate variability assessment
- Airway, dental and myofunctional assessment
- A full review of your current medications and supplements
- A personalised protocol for using the bathhouse
Reading pathology differently
Much of what we run is standard pathology. What differs is the question we ask of it.
Conventional interpretation asks whether a result sits inside or outside a reference range, and looks for patterns that indicate disease. We ask a second question alongside it: what these results say about how your systems are functioning. How your immune system is behaving. How well you are digesting, absorbing and using nutrients. How your hormones sit in relation to one another rather than each read in isolation. A full picture of thyroid function rather than a single marker. Markers of immune and autoimmune activity.
This is functional medicine. It is also why we ask for your previous results before you arrive. Read this way, tests that were reported as unremarkable can still be informative.
PHASE TWO · MONDAY TO FRIDAY
Therapeutic Integration
Once the pattern is clear, the second week is about responding to it.
Your protocol is refined based on what the first week revealed and how you have responded since.
The schedule deliberately opens up. There are fewer appointments in the second week, and that is by design. Findings need space to be understood, and changes to how you eat, sleep, breathe and move need room to be intergrated rather than simply prescribed.
Assessments and investigations are ordered as clinically indicated rather than as a fixed package, so no two programs are identical.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Most guests on the ten-day program arrive on the Sunday before their first clinical week and depart on the Saturday after the second. Clinical sessions run Monday to Friday. Extra nights can be added at an additional cost.
There are no set dates for the retreat, as they operate year round, based on the availability of our practitioners and accommodation at the retreat. Generally speaking, we require at least 2 weeks’ notice before your desired retreat date.
Our kitchen works from your assessment rather than from a fixed menu. Our chefs are culinary-qualified with training in nutrition, and complex intolerances, elimination protocols and food-triggered conditions are ordinary work here rather than an exception we accommodate reluctantly.
Yes. Your discovery call is the place to raise anything that affects whether a program is right for you, and your full history is taken during the intake assessment.
No. The intake is charged as a standalone assessment and is separate from program fees.
Yes. Carers, partners and support people are welcome for the length of your stay. They have their own room at a reduced nightly rate. Meals and bathhouse access can be added for them at additional cost.
Whether a baby can come with you depends on your program and your circumstances. Raise it on your discovery call and we will work through it with you.
This program suits people who are medically stable. It is not designed for acute presentations, and we are not a hospital. If your situation needs emergency care or close medical monitoring, that has to come first. We are also not set up to provide withdrawal management or acute psychiatric support. If addiction or a mental health crisis is the most pressing thing you are facing, a service built for that will serve you far better than we can, and we are glad to help you find one. This is not a quick fix, either. The program asks something of you: attention, participation, and a willingness to keep going once you are home. The people who get the most from it are those who want to understand what is happening in their body, not only to be told what to do about it.
Everything is itemised on your invoice before you arrive. Nothing additional is ordered without being discussed with you first, and costs are confirmed at the time anything is recommended.