6-Day Longevity Retreat on a Private Estate near Lisbon, Portugal

A six-day longevity residency for the darker months: mild days, more daylight than the north and long nights for deep sleep. Atlas Cove is a guided longevity residency on a private estate beside the Serra da Arrábida, about fifty minutes from Lisbon airport. One gate, one small cohort at a time, hosted all week by the co-founders, Lisa and Tom Wuerden. Your week is built on two sets of numbers: how your body is working and how you are feeling. VO2 max, body composition, grip strength and blood pressure are measured on day one and day six. Validated wellbeing questionnaires come before you arrive and after you leave, and a contactless sensor under your mattress tracks sleep and heart rate variability every night. The days share one calm rhythm. Mornings start with a guided meditation and journaling, then yoga, then the main training block: strength with Tom or a guided hike across the estate. Breakfast follows at the long table. Late morning holds a mindset session and your 1-on-1s. Afternoons are for real rest: the heated pool, a book or a nap. As the light goes, the contrast circuit opens: wood-fired sauna, cold plunge and red light. Dinner is shared at the long table, and lights go out at 21:00 for a protected sleep window until 06:30. On the fourth morning we watch the sun rise over the Atlantic at Praia dos Galapos. On the last morning you receive your Personalised Health Toolbox: your before-and-after numbers, your three priorities and simple habits for the life you return to. Seven guests joined our founding cohort in September 2026. Four of the five who completed the follow-up improved on a validated mental wellbeing scale, and grip strength rose beyond normal measurement variation for most guests between day one and day six. A small group, and we report it that way. We provide health strategy and lifestyle coaching. We don't practise medicine, diagnose or prescribe.

Adults only, 18 and over. No alcohol is served during the week. Every guest answers a short health questionnaire when booking, and every place is confirmed after a short Alignment Call with our team. The week runs in English. Lisa and Tom also speak German. Seven of our ten rooms have air conditioning. If cool air matters to you, please tell us when you book. The Private Room for two is for two guests travelling together. Travelling alone? Please choose The Private Room or The Shared Twin. Cold exposure is always optional, and every session is scaled to you. We're not able to welcome guests' pets. Please note that dogs may be on the estate. We provide health strategy and lifestyle coaching. We don't practise medicine, diagnose or prescribe.