A good detox is supposed to take place in a beautiful location first and foremost. You’re going to be going through hell for at least a few days up to a few weeks. You’re going to want to eat the carpets but you won’t because you are going to choose a detox retreat that helps you get there as painlessly as possible.
What better place to go for a fasting detox in a gorgeous setting than Bali – a.k.a., the Isle of the Gods? We don’t think there is. This little island east of Java, way out in the Sea of Java off the southwest coast of Indonesia about 1,700 miles north of Australia is made up of mostly Hindus.
We’re talking nearly 85% of the population. Fasting and spiritual purification through detox is a big part of the Hindu tradition, which is why there are dozens and dozens of fasting detox retreats in Bali to choose from, but which ones are the best?
We based our picks on several things. We already have the beauty thing covered – we’re in Bali for Pete’s sake! We then wanted to make sure that your experience was a safe one, so we chose only fasting detox retreats that are staffed with professionals who can help you if you have medical conditions or can help you with any emotional or mental distress you may go through.
Finally, we wanted to make sure to choose detox retreats that provided a lot of pampering too. You are going to feel miserable in those first two days. We think that being in a beautiful setting while starving to death is made a little easier when there is a nice spa, lots and lots of sleep in soft comfortable beds, and lovely calming massages while you detox. Here are the top 8, growing in intensity as you go down the list!
8 Best Fasting Detox Retreats in Bali
#1. Bali Vitality’s 4-Day “Kick Start to Wellness” Detox Retreat
On the southeastern end of Bali, there is a beautiful little village called Nyuh Kuning where Bali Vitality Personalized Health Retreat Programs are located, in the city of Ubud. There we found a fantastic detox retreat for newbies. Bali Vitality offers many different programs but we chose their 4-Day Kick Start to Wellness Detox program because it packs a lot in those four days.
Before you ever leave for Bali, you’ll get instructions to begin a week long “pre-detox diet” to get you ready for your weekend crash course. Once you get there, you will receive a daily intro to yoga with three beginner level yoga sessions.
While you’re fasting, you’ll be treated to special healing powders and blends in addition to pressed juice cleanses to ease your way through your detox treatment. On day four, on-site nutrition specialists help to slowly add food back into your diet before you go home with a healthy platter of fresh raw veggies.
During your stay, you’ll have access to a slew of mental and physical health professionals, including massage therapists, fertility specialists, and acupuncturists to name a few. You can take time out in one of the two detox saunas or enjoy a couple of full body and hot stone massages.
You’ll spend around a thousand dollars to enjoy this luxurious detox retreat in Bali but it is so worth the money. Each room is filled with deluxe accommodations for a power packed four day weekend that you will never forget!
Bali Vitality | Address: Unnamed Road, Pejeng Kawan, Tampaksiring, Gianyar, Bali 80552, Indonesia | Phone: +62 361 9082124 | E-mail: Bookingsbalivitality@gmail.com
#2. REVIVO Wellness Resort’s 5-Day Detox Retreat
Way at the southeastern coast of the Nusa Dua Peninsula lies one of the most luxurious fasting detox retreats in Bali from REVIVO Wellness Resort. For five days and four nights you will be spoiled by a staff of holistic therapists and nutritionists to experience the most rejuvenating 5 day detoxes around.
Situated in the middle of a lush green forest, this particular program has been crafted to help men improve their circulation and overall heart health while also alleviating cramps and muscle pains, which could help women too! The ultra healthy supplements and juices you will intake help to make detoxing easier and results in softer skin and weight loss.
It’s more about getting healthy than a spiritual renewal at this detox retreat with a big slate of physical workouts to choose from. There is Pilates, Reiki, circuit training, and a boot camp exercise program in addition to several types of yoga. You’ll train hard but that hard work is rewarded with wellness treatments that both heal and relax, including hydrotherapy, massage treatments, salt pool therapy, and more.
Despite putting their guests through an intense fasting detox, REVIVO is actually known for its delicious vegan and vegetarian-friendly, gluten-free, raw and organic meals. You’ll enjoy meals after two days of fasting on potent detox beverages and teas. This $3,000+ package includes access to extraordinary on-site amenities like a full gym, infrared saunas, steam rooms, Jacuzzis, and a 25 meter lap pool!
REVIVO Wellness Resort | Address: Jl. Desa Sawangan | Kelurahan Benoa, Kec. Kuta Selatan, Nusa Dua 80361, Indonesia | Phone: +62 361 3011011
#3. Bliss Body Retreat’s 7-Day Detox
If you aren’t sure if you can handle more than a day’s worth of fasting, and if you love staying in top shelf accommodations, then we think you are going to love the 7-Day Divine Body Detox and Yoga Retreat from Bliss Body Retreat. You only have to fast for one day and the rest of the time you are being pampered while going through a total mind, body, and spiritual cleansing.
Only five person groups are allowed on this retreat for a truly intimate experience. Everyone gets their own private luxury suite with private bath. Plus you’ll get personal and personalized attention. Your one day of fasting is one of the easiest detox fasts you’ll find. You don’t get food, but you do get to sip on yummy gourmet juice cleanses, shakes, and teas.
After you get over the hump, your guts will get a thorough scrubbing as you are treated to purifying, completely plant-based dishes of holistic foods that actually taste good. Vegetarians, vegans, and those with gluten allergies are free and clear to enjoy all that this Bali detox retreat has to offer. All of the food is organic, raw, and gluten-free.
Meanwhile, you’ll take part in your choice of dozens of yoga classes, spiritual cleansing rituals, seminars, and enjoy fantastic views of the surrounding jungle. Seven days and six nights will run you over $2,800 but you’ll come home a new person!
Bliss Body Retreat |Address: Jl. Raya Ubud, Ubud 80571, Indonesia | Phone: +62 812 46889038 | E-mail: blissbodyretreat@gmail.com
#4. The Yoga Barn’s Ultimate 7-Day Detox Retreat
If a short weekend fasting detox isn’t tough enough for you, we found several weeklong feats of your spiritual and physical strength, beginning with the Ultimate 7-Day Detox Retreat from The Yoga Barn. For a full week, you’ll escape the outside world to live isolated in a luxury resort in the middle of the Balinese jungle in the beautiful town of Ubud in southern Bali.
On the first day of your mystical journey, you will stock up on fresh foods with a pre-fast meal. For the rest of the week, you will live on juice cleanses, teas, coconut water, and detox supplements as you lean into the pain of hunger with the aid of health and wellness professionals.
Yoga classes combined with meditation and breathing exercises will help you to deeply feel your inner being’s connection with the food you take in while learning how to reach new meditative heights. During your detox, you will go through multiple hydrotherapy sessions, have access to the infrared sauna, and participate in a session of reflexology.
Limited space is available in this small group retreat. This package costs $1,375 but it does not include your airfare, insurance, transportation, spa treatments, or room accommodations.
The Yoga Barn | Address: Jl. Hanoman, Pengosekan, Kec. Ubud, Kabupaten Gianyar, Bali 80571 | Phone: +62361 971 236 OR +62361 971 407 | E-mail: info@theyogabarn.com OR accommodation@theyogabarn.com
#5. Byron Bay’s 7-Day Detox Retreat
Another weeklong fasting detox that we really dig is the top rated 7-Day Detox Retreat from Byron Bay Detox Retreats. Famed wellness professional Natalie Purcell along with a full staff of counselors and other health professionals help guide you through this intense fasting detox safely and healthily.
Using both Western and Eastern traditions, you will be introduced to a variety of healing techniques that are aimed at sparking awareness of your mind and body through a deep fasting detox. Every morning, you will awake with a Canang Sari – a Hindu prayer of thanks.
You’ll go through a pre-cleanse, pre-fast, and pre-neuropathic consultation before taking part in a traditional cleansing and purification ceremony conducted by Balinese monks. One pre-fast meal of organic veggies and then you’ll start your fast.
During the week of fasting and detox you’ll be restricted to a diet of pure organic juices, teas, and mineral broths made of nourishing vegetables and detoxifying supplements. In additional to Byron Bay’s unique herbal teas and juice cleanses, you’ll be given a cleanse to remove parasites and heavy metals from your body.
Over the course of the week, you’ll enjoy luxury resort style accommodations at the Desa Seni Eco Village Resort. While you relax you can hop on the internet or visit nearby Seminyak for a little shopping excursion.
Meanwhile, you’ll enjoy hours of massage and body work, guided meditation, hydrotherapy, and more. Before you go home, you’ll be treated to a post-detox meal along with consultations so that you can keep your new outlook on life even after you leave Bali.
Byron Bay Detox Retreats | Address: 2 Alcorn St, Suffolk Park NSW 2481, Australia | Phone: +61 458 633 869; Mobile: 0458 633 869; International enquiries: +61 458 633 869 | E-mail: info@byronbaydetoxretreats.com.au
#6. The Retreat Bali’s 9-Day Fasting Detox
This next fasting detox retreat is technically a 6 day fast but the program is 9 days long. For the Deep Fasting and Healing Program, you spend one day at the beginning getting prepared for your fast and then two recovery days at the end of your fast in a 9-Day Fasting Detox from The Retreat Bali.
From your private oceanfront villa you and one other person will luxuriate in style surrounded by Bali’s natural beauty as you immerse yourself in this powerful 7-day cleanse. Unlike some of the other 7-day detoxes where you at least get to eat one or two meals over the course of the week, you’ll actually go seven days without food on this one!
On the plus side, you get a full day to ease into your fasting detox. Then you’ll live on coconut water, broth, tea and bowel cleansing juices. All the while you’ll get help and support from the professional nutritional staff as you cleanse your liver and go through a probiotic flush.
While you’re detoxing you’ll be preoccupied with daily yoga classes, chi gung, and private meditation sessions. Some of the physical therapy treatments you’ll receive include reflexology training, ozone therapy, multiple massage therapy sessions, several spins in the biomagnetic chamber, and plenty of time in the on-site infrared sauna. You’ll also receive two coffee enema—but we won’t focus too much on that!
The Retreat Bali | Address: Aas, Bunutan, Abang, Kabupaten Karangasem, Bali 80852, Indonesia | Phone: +33 611 657 096 + 8 | Email: theretreatbali@gmail.com
#7. Bali Vitality’s “Zest for Life” 14-Day Detox
We’re taking it up a notch with this next fasting detox. If you think you can handle it, we found a 14-day detox retreat in Bali. Bali Vitality Retreat offers an all inclusive 14-Day “Zest for Life” Detox Retreat. You’ll spend two weeks in southern Bali on the edge of Ubud confined with seven other participants in your spiritual and physical reawakening.
Before you arrive, you’ll be given a menu to follow for a week prior to coming to Bali in order to prepare for the long fast. Upon arrival, you will go through “pre-detox” before beginning your juice cleanse. Although you won’t eat foods for the majority of the two weeks, the shakes, teas, broths, and juices are made of fresh vegetables, supplements, herbal blends, and minerals to make detoxing easier.
You won’t have solid foods again until the 14th day where you’ll get a meal of raw veggies. Your own personal wellness assistant will see to it that you are sticking to your cleanse and will support you when you’re weak. In addition to better digestive health after the 14 days are over, you can expect to drop a few pounds too!
Two weeks provides plenty of time for more than a dozen spa treatments and massages, several hydrotherapy and detoxification sessions as well as multiple trips to the infrared sauna, two full body scrubs, and a facial to boot! You get to participate in up to 10 yoga classes and can request one-on-one time with specialists in Reiki, acupuncture, kinesiology, hypnotherapy, and spiritual counseling.
Bali Vitality | Address: Unnamed Road, Pejeng Kawan, Tampaksiring, Gianyar, Bali 80552, Indonesia | Phone: +62 361 9082124 | E-mail: Bookingsbalivitality@gmail.com
#8. New Life Transformation’s 21-Day Detox
Lastly, we have one of the most intense fasting detoxes we could find in Bali. We’re talking about the New Life Transformation 21-Day Detox from Udara Bali. This is almost as deep as you can go healthily fasting and detoxing but this program has been designed to maximize the intensity of your detox while restoring you to optimal health at the end of it all.
Everything you put in your body over this 21-day detox is totally organic. For 20 days that will mean salads and soups, juice presses, cleanses, detox shakes and smoothies, alkaline and coconut water, and a variety of herbal teas only. Wellness instructors help coach you through the hunger but the 12 enemas you’ll be given over the course of the three weeks you’ll have to do yourself!
On top of the daily sessions of yoga included in this package, you should try some of the water treatments offered, including water yoga in a temperature controlled pool. During downtime, relax in the Jacuzzi, go for a swim, take a sauna or a steam, or drift off into LaLa Land by treating yourself to one of dozens of massage and body scrub options and a free facial.
While you are at this retreat, you’ll go off-site to some of the local hot springs and waterfalls. You’ll visit a temple where a spiritual healer from Bali will guide you through a cleansing ritual. At the end of 21 days, you’ll be reintroduced to solid food as you leave the Isle of the Gods feeling refreshed and renewed!
Udara Bali | Address: Jl. Pura Kramat, Seseh 80351 Bali, Indonesia | Phone: +62 877-6537-7313 OR +62 361-906-7555 / +62 361 907-9927 | E-mail: info@udara-bali.com