The real detox has finally arrived in France: fasting or low-calorie vegetable cooking no screen or wifi. All comfortably installed in an intimate hotel on the shores of Lake Annecy, with its own private beach. Here is what to free yourself from toxins and find balance in a natural setting. Based on the expertise of qualified therapists and a naturopath, this new address in France allows you to relax, losing weight and boost your immunity. One of our favorites of the year! Book Villa Caroline through art b zen, and benefit from a free treatment for any stay of 7 nights.
An enchanting setting for a gentle detox
Just opened since December 2020, Villa Caroline is destined to be the new little queen of detox cures in France. Its objective is clear, to help its guests to free themselves from their toxins and to become the best version of themselves.
How ? With some food fasting stays and detox supervised by a naturopath and therapists in a magnificent villa on the shores of Lake Annecy, 30 minutes from Geneva and 1h30 from Lyon. The programs are carefully designed, the menus are essentially vegan and the magical location immediately contributes to the feeling of calm.
The couple who own this new wellness address, Caroline and Grégory, launched this project as if they were customers. Since they couldn’t find the cure they were looking for, they created it. Faithful lovers of fasting, they had, in fact, always to go to Switzerland or Germany, where fasting cures are much more common.
Villa Caroline is, in fact, the very first health and well-being hotel in France whose unique activity is to organize fasting and detox cures. A hotel that art b zen could not miss!
A confidential hotel with discreet luxury
“Less is more” is the leitmotif that applies to the hotel rooms. The spaces are carefully decorated to feel peaceful, in harmony with the place. The atmosphere is warm and cocooning.
Here, we take the time to read a few chapters by the fire, to walk among the aromatic plants and to sip a detox herbal tea on the balcony of the room. With only 18 rooms and suites, Villa Caroline is an intimate place where moments of sharing are sacred. This is particularly the case in the demonstration kitchen, where you can learn to cook healthily in order to reproduce these gestures at home.
The ideal location allows all kinds of escapes between lake and mountain. Villa Caroline benefits from its own private sandy beachvery rare on the edge of Lake Annecy, lined with large reeds.
You can also fill up on oxygen with the bowl of air Jacquier. Using pine resin essential oil, this technique promotes cell oxygenation in a natural way.
In addition, detox cure obliges, you will be asked not to use your laptop outside the rooms. Indeed, detoxifying does not only happen through food or spa treatments, it also means disconnecting from the virtual world to put our brain to rest. So there’s no screen or wifi at Villa Caroline… At art b zen, we applaud with both hands because nothing annoys us more than seeing customers staring at their phones in the restaurant. Being fully present allows you to better savor and better digest!
Move and relax at the Clarins spa
In addition to the surrounding nature allowing multiple sports practices, the hotel has a small gym facing the lake equipped with high-end equipment and a yoga room under the roofs. Know that physical activity is essential during fasting because it helps to produce energy that promotes the triggering of gluconeogenesis.
It is also for this reason that supervised physical activities are planned once a day, in particular yoga and qigong. La Villa Caroline also provides you with electric bikes, paddles and kayaks. Of course, nature alone is enough: the lake is swimmable (almost) all year round and many circuits allow you to walk in the mountains.
Moments of relaxation are also important. In addition to the treatment cabins with Clarins products, and its balneo area, the hotel has a meditation and rest room, as well as a library. You can relax there while drinking a delicious detox herbal tea.
Before treating yourself to an Ayurvedic or balancing massage at the spa, you can free yourself of all toxins with sauna and hammam sessions. Passage strongly recommended in detox cure, since it allows to dilate the pores of the epidermis and eliminate dead cells, which helps to clean the skin in depth.
Your choice: the fasting formula or the detox cure
Beginner or experienced fasting enthusiast, you can come and detoxify at Villa Caroline from two nights. Three programs are offered: comfort fasting, detoxification cure and finally the discovery day to become familiar with detox and fasting practices. The stays include a consultation with a naturopath and a iridological flash (iris analysis) to analyze the deficiencies and imbalances of your body, which amazes most customers.
For the duration of your stay, you do not eat any solid food to allow the digestive system to regenerate. The objective is to purify the body of its toxins.
The detoxification cure is less drastic by focusing on lifestyle and good habits to adopt. From the valuable advice of a naturopath, you will learn how to change the way you eat. The idea is to take a step back while reboosting, refueling.
Who says fasting, says abstention. It will indeed be necessary to forget the tea, the coffee and of course the alcohol during your stay, even if it is not forbidden to have a glass of wine at the end of the stay…
The diets differ from one treatment to another. For comfort fasting, which is preventive fasting, these are pressed fruit and vegetable juices, herbal teas and broths which are on the menu. This water-based diet allows the body to regenerate itself by taking its resources from within. For better adaptation, you are advised to start reducing your diet just before coming to Villa Caroline.
If you want to detox without fasting, the low calorie detox cure is for you. Accompanied by a naturopath, you will benefit from a tailor-made menu (around 1000-1200 calories per day).
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Prices: 370 euros per day and per person in the fasting formula, 415 euros per day and per person in the detox formula (with a supplement of 60 euros per day to be expected if you are a single person). Add 145 euros per night if you want a suite. Contact us below for more information:
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