Ten days in a Blue Zone, engineered around your biology
“The people of Nicoya don't follow a protocol. They have a plan de vida — a reason to wake up. We measure everything, and then we try to teach that.”
The Longevity Protocol is SOMA's flagship: ten days on the Nicoya Peninsula — one of the world's five Blue Zones — combining full clinical diagnostics with the lived habits of the world's longest-lived people.
The first two days are clinical: bloodwork across sixty markers, DEXA, VO₂max, continuous glucose monitoring fitted for the full stay. The next seven are the intervention — training, eating, sleeping and living inside a protocol built from your own results. The last day is the plan: a twelve-month roadmap reviewed line by line with our longevity physician.
A retreat is a piece of time-architecture. Here is exactly how yours is built.
Day 01
Arrive from Liberia. Fasted bloodwork before breakfast — sixty markers from ApoB to hs-CRP — then the hacienda, the forest, and an easy first evening.
Day 02
DEXA body composition, VO₂max testing, grip and balance batteries, CGM fitting, and an afternoon consultation walking through what your numbers say — and what they don't.
Day 03
The intervention begins: zone 2 in the forest, strength in the open-air gym, the Nicoya table (beans, squash, corn, fish), and a sleep window that will hold for the week.
Day 04
The day that gives the protocol its soul: breakfast with centenarians in Hojancha, an afternoon in their gardens, and an evening lecture on what the data from this peninsula actually shows.
Day 05
Pacific swimming and surf fundamentals in the morning cove, an afternoon of complete rest, and the first one-to-one habit design session.
Day 06
The week's heaviest training day, an evening asado of grass-fed beef and garden vegetables, and a fireside session on hormones, muscle, and the second half of life.
Day 07
A four-hour trek across the peninsula's spine — the daily terrain of Nicoyan ranchers — ending at a waterfall swim and a ranch lunch.
Day 08
A full day on food: harvesting from the hacienda garden, the three sisters cooking session, batch methods for real life, and your CGM data reviewed against everything you've eaten.
Day 09
Retesting where it matters, a final training session at your new loads, and the afternoon spent building your twelve-month roadmap with Dr. Vasquez — training, nutrition, sleep, screening calendar.
Day 10
A last dawn swim, a long breakfast, and departure with the full protocol document, your data, and four quarterly remote reviews included in the year ahead.
Sixty blood markers, DEXA, VO₂max, CGM — the full diagnostic stack, interpreted by a longevity physician rather than a dashboard.
Every protocol element is practised in the place that proved it: the Blue Zone peninsula itself, alongside the people living it.
The retreat ends with a twelve-month roadmap and four quarterly remote reviews. This is a program, not a holiday.
The Canopy Residence stands on stilts at treetop height in the hacienda's dry forest, a long timber pavilion wrapped in deep verandas, with howler monkeys for an alarm clock and the Pacific visible through the crowns.
This retreat carries the Longevity & Healthspan program, led by the practitioners who wrote it.
Investment
$16,800
per guest · 10 nights, all inclusive
Pricing varies with villa selection and season. Every booking begins with a conversation — our concierge confirms fit before anything is charged.
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