The Arrigo Programme - England
Somerset
Personalised deep healing retreats for mind and body in rural havens
The Arrigo Programme offers a profound system of rest, healing and recovery through private, bespoke retreats tailored to individuals, teens and families and set-date group healing retreats. Carefully curated by biodynamic psychotherapist, healer and intuitive mentor Fiona Arrigo, who has over 40 years experience and takes a highly intuitive, compassionate approach to all her work, they offer a unique bridge between clinical and holistic healing therapies. Stay in beautiful and comfortable cottages in rural Somerset, expect delicious food and extraordinary attention to detail, and a hand-picked, highly experienced team of therapists and psychologists.
our Reviewer CAROLINE SYLGE says:
‘The Arrigo Programme’s combination of psychotherapy, therapies, emotional support and deep rest is a rare find. Fiona is wise and perceptive, and I would love to spend hours with her. We chat mainly about mothering, and how to trust my creativity to create the flow in my life I need’
Queen of Retreats says:
‘Fiona’s work is increasingly focused on groups of women she feels strongly about supporting, including single mothers and teenage girls. She’s also welcoming more men, as they come forward for support and deep nurturing on her bespoke retreats’
Experiences
The Arrigo Programme’s immersive bespoke, private retreats are suitable for anyone – women yearning to slow down or reassess life, men dealing with buried emotions or struggling with their identity, couples seeking to re-engage, and individuals suffering burnout, grief, trauma, anxiety, depression or loss of purpose.
Arrigo also offers set-date group retreats for women who want to live more fully, and for teenage girls to learn how to live well offline, as well as an intimately held space for families to uncover and process familial or ancestral wounds that might be showing up. Work with Family Constellations Internal Family Systems to rewrite your narrative and resolve deeper areas of your life.
Individual retreats are bespoke to each person attending and always start with an in-depth pre-retreat consultation to ensure your state of mind and body is beautifully supported. You’ll receive a follow-up plan, and ongoing support is available. Some pivot around psychotherapy sessions with Fiona Arrigo or one of her expert team, which will involve a detailed investigation of the psyche and your personal history.
Biodynamic Medicine is core to the work. It recognises the relationship between body and mind, and works with your innate capacity for self-healing, easing the mind, releasing stress and tension in the body, and reconnecting you to your vibrant core self, now able to meet life's challenges.
Therapies tailored to meet your needs might include addiction counselling, five-element acupuncture, TRE, breathwork, Tibetan pulsing, ancestral healing, astrology and craniosacral therapy. You’re encouraged to truly rest in between sessions, with light local walking, extra sleeps, journaling, daily Epsom salt baths or just relaxing.
Spaces
Retreats take place in self-contained and private country cottages and houses in the peace and beauty of rural Somerset.
This is not about five-star hotel living. Instead, expect simple, stylish comfort, where fresh flowers, candles and wood fires create a cocooning sanctuary.
An ‘angel’ greets you on arrival and makes sure you are comfortable in your cottage. They makes breakfast, lights your fire, tidies up and generally looks after you - discreetly.
Emerge from your bedroom each morning to find the wood burner lit, tea lights burning and breakfast made.
In the spring and summer, watch lambs dance in the fields and enjoy lots of fresh air walks. In the winter, have long hot baths and cosy up in front of the fire.
Sustenance
Breakfast is prepared on site for you – expect a choice of smoothies and juices whizzed up to order, granola, local yoghurt and blueberries or eggs and smoked salmon on toast.
For other meals, freshly made and healthy soups, salads and tasty hot dishes using mainly organic and locally sourced ingredients are delivered to your door. They arrive in boxes for you to cook yourself, or have your angel cook for you.
Lunches might include Iranian vegetable stew with spanakorizo with fresh tomato salad with sumac onions and pumpkin seeds, or vegetable and cashew nut stir fry with soba noodles.
Suppers might include lemon orzo and chickpea soup followed by courgette and feta frittata with spiced tomato sauce, or Thai fragrant coconut and vegetable soup followed by Korean vegetable pancake with soy and sesame dipping sauce.
All dietary needs can be catered for - vegan, vegetarian or with meat and fish as required, and a range of hot drinks is available for you to help yourself.
Near Glastonbury, Somerset
The Arrigo Programme
Developed by psychotherapist Fiona Arrigo, The Arrigo Programme offers private, bespoke retreats for individuals and families, and group retreats for teens in Somerset, England; group retreats for women in Spain and India; and a virtual retreat programme open to everyone. Recognised worldwide for their therapeutic and clinical treatment programmes, they offer change, transformation and emotional detox and healing.