The Yoga Palace Detox Retreat (with Traditional Khmer Massage)
Our detox program combines a gentle nutritional reset with our complete yoga and meditation retreat schedule to support weight management, metabolic balance, cellular renewal, vitality, and mental clarity. Available as 3- or 5-day programs
The benefits of Yoga and meditation can be greatly enhanced when your digestive system has a chance to rest. Our program is designed to maintain stable energy levels for yoga practice whilst retaining the detoxification and renewal benefits of fasting.
Kampot provides the perfect background for our detox retreat in Cambodia. We are surrounded by lush nature, which provides many of the foods and beverages used for the detox.
To support participants through any challenges that may arise, additional check-ins, extra meditation and breathwork exercises, and one on one sessions with the teachers are all available on request at no extra cost.
The Schedule
2 Yoga classes (early morning while it’s still cool, and evening as the sun sets over Bokor Mountain with the sky often turning reds, oranges, and pinks)
1 workshop
Evening meditation
Daily group check-in with your teacher (may include meditation or exercises, provides emotional support)
One-on-one support as needed
Traditional Khmer Massage (1 session for 3 day retreat, 2 for 5 day retreat)
All meals and beverages
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Daily Nutrition
Beverages
- Hibiscus tea: Supports cardiovascular health and metabolism
- Butterfly pea tea: Rich in antioxidants, promotes mental clarity and stress reduction
- Green coconuts: Natural electrolytes and minerals throughout the day
Supplements
- Black seed oil (one teaspoon morning and evening): One of the world’s most revered healing herbs, with anti-inflammatory properties that support immune function, digestive health, and cellular repair.
Learn more about black seed oil
The detox retreat includes our complete Yoga and meditation program. See our homepage to learn more about our centre.
Why Combine Detox With Yoga?
Physical restriction works best when paired with mental discipline, so detox retreat participants join all the Yoga and meditation classes with our regular retreat guests. The calorie-restricted protocol gives your digestive system a break, allowing energy to redirect toward cellular repair and detoxification. Meanwhile, yoga and meditation create the mental space to observe patterns, reset habits, and establish new intentions.
This integration matters: as your body releases what it doesn’t need, the yoga practice helps you process stored tension. The meditation teaches you to sit with discomfort rather than react to it. The program will give you a deeper understanding of your relationship with consumption, craving, and self-regulation.
The teachers and other parcipants provide a supportive community, while the herbs work at a cellular level to support the body’s natural detoxification pathways.
Traditional Khmer Massage
Each participant receives one full session of Traditional Khmer Massage, an ancient healing practice rooted in Cambodian culture and Buddhist traditions of compassionate care. Drawing on principles similar to yoga and Ayurveda, Khmer massage combines acupressure, passive stretching, and rhythmic compression along the body’s energy lines to release muscular tension and restore natural flow.
For detox participants, Traditional Khmer Massage serves two complementary purposes: it helps release the physical tension stored in muscles and joints, supporting your body’s natural detoxification process by improving lymphatic flow and circulation—and it deepens the benefits of your yoga practice by opening areas of tightness and restoring ease of movement. The deeply relaxing nature of the treatment also calms the nervous system, supporting the emotional reset that is so central to the detox experience.
Choose your detox retreat
You can start on any day. On Sunday’s the Yoga classes and meditation are optional to give long term guests a break, and we do not have workshops, but all meals and meditation are as usual.
On the day you check-in, you will have access to sunset Yoga, dinner, and meditation. On the day you check out, you can enjoy the morning Yoga and breakfast.
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Detox Pricing
Private Room
En suite room with mountain view
VIP Room
Spacious Room with AC & mountain view
Dorm Bed
3 Bed dorm with private bathroom
3 Day Detox*
$210
$250
$150
5 Day Detox*
$330
$380
$240
* 3 Day Detox includes 1 Traditional Khmer Massage, 5 Day Detox includes 2
Couples sharing a private room get a 20% discount (for example, the 3 day detox would be $144 pp)
A Digital Detox Is Strongly Recommended
In the modern world, we’re losing the ability to simply be with our own thoughts. We’re bombarded constantly with information created by other people—their opinions, their anxieties, their curated realities. It’s worth asking: does the information you consume online actually align with your core values and interests? Does it deepen your understanding or sharpen your ability to express what matters to you? Or has your attention become a resource that’s being harvested—your time spent engaging with content that serves someone else’s agenda while your own interests and values remain unexpressed, even unexamined?
The yoga practice prepares the ground for meditation and mental stillness. Each asana works to settle the body so the mind can follow. But this carefully cultivated state is easily compromised when digital devices constantly snatch our attention, fragmenting our awareness and preventing the deeper states of presence that meditation requires.
We strongly recommend including a digital detox during your stay. Leave your devices in your room, or better yet, with our front desk. Give yourself permission to be unreachable. Use this time to rediscover what it feels like to move through your day guided by your own rhythm rather than notifications and endless scrolling.
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.“, Blaise Pascal
“The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds“, Thomas Merton
An Opportunity To Refine Your Habits
Our detox retreat in Kampot provides the idea setting to plan your future life: with bad habits replaced by wholesome ones. The physical detox creates an ideal window for addressing habits you’ve been meaning to change. When you disrupt one pattern—your normal eating routine—other patterns become more visible and easier to shift.
This is an opportunity to give up smoking, drinking alcohol, coffee, or any substance you’ve developed a dependency on. The structure of the program, the daily check-ins, and the community support make it easier to move through the discomfort of withdrawal.
But the opportunity goes deeper than substances. Use this time to examine mental habits: chronic self-criticism, catastrophic thinking, rumination, people-pleasing, or whatever pattern keeps you stuck. The meditation practice teaches you to observe these thoughts without being consumed by them. The physical restriction teaches you that you can sit with discomfort without needing to fix it immediately.
As your body learns it doesn’t need food every few hours, your mind can learn it doesn’t need to react to every thought or impulse. The detox becomes a practice in distinguishing between what you actually need and what’s simply habitual.
Important Information
- Hunger pangs, especially on days 1-2
- Mild headaches (often related to reduced caffeine or sugar)
- Feeling a bit tired or low energy at times
- Light-headedness when standing up quickly
- Feeling cooler than usual
- Changes in sleep patterns
- Digestive shifts or changes in bathroom habits
- Heightened emotions or feeling more sensitive
- Moments of irritability or mood fluctuations
- Difficulty concentrating initially
Many people also report positive shifts like mental clarity, a sense of lightness, or deeper connection with themselves as they move through the program.
Who should not participate in fasting
This program is not suitable for everyone. Please do not participate in the fasting or calorie-restricted options if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, have a history of eating disorders, have diabetes or blood sugar regulation issues, are taking certain medications, have a chronic health condition, or are underweight. If you have any health concerns, please consult your healthcare provider before beginning the program.
You’re Supported
Our team is here for you throughout this journey. If anything feels too challenging or uncomfortable, you can always return to regular meals – there’s no pressure to push through. This is your retreat, and honoring what your body needs is always the right choice.
Remember to stay well-hydrated, rest when needed, and let us know if you have any concerns.