The concept
Umnya
In Amazigh, the language of the Saharan nomads, Umnya means wish: the deep, instinctive desire to live longer, live better, and live truer. We built a retreat around that wish: longevity through extraordinary places, ancient wisdom, and the courage to reconnect with what is essential.
The word
A wish that became a journey.
Umnya was never meant to be a brand. It was a word whispered by desert nomads, people who have lived simply and powerfully for millennia. In their language, Umnya is the wish you carry in your body: the desire for a longer, deeper, more honest life. Not a goal. Not a plan. A pull.
We asked ourselves: what if longevity was not a supplement, a protocol, or a lab? What if it was a place? A landscape so vast it strips away the noise and returns you to the essentials: movement at sunrise, natural treatments drawn from the earth, conversations around a fire, silence under a sky with ten thousand stars. Not a wellness holiday. A journey into yourself, outside of time, that may happen once in a lifetime.
Every Umnya retreat is built around longevity as the nomads understand it: living in rhythm with nature, moving every day, eating what the land gives, sleeping under open sky, and gathering with people who sharpen you. Longevity coaches, speakers, and practitioners guide you through eight days of transformation. You arrive as a guest. You leave carrying something permanent.
The four pillars
Four forces. One wish for longevity.
Umnya is not a retreat company. It is a convergence, where longevity science meets ancient nomad wisdom, in landscapes that demand your full presence.
Studios & Clubs
Europe's leading wellness and longevity studios bring their community, their philosophy, and their expertise. They co-brand the retreat, curate the group, and shape the programme. Umnya handles the rest: the landscape, the logistics, the magic.
One studio per retreat. Category exclusivity guaranteed.
Coaches & Speakers
Longevity coaches, movement experts, breathwork facilitators, and guest speakers lead every session. From sunrise movement on the dunes to evening talks on natural treatments, sleep science, and nomad philosophy. Every day is designed to teach you something that lasts beyond the retreat.
Longevity, movement, breathwork, natural treatments, nutrition.
Brands
Carefully selected longevity and wellness brands are woven into the experience, not as logos, but as lived moments. Their products become part of your journey: natural recovery drinks by the fire, skincare tested by the desert air, nutrition designed for performance and longevity.
Category exclusivity. One brand per vertical per retreat.
Participants
8 to 14 people per retreat. Curated by the partner studio from their community: founders, practitioners, professionals. People who are done with ordinary holidays and ready for something that changes how they live, move, and age.
Small groups. Deep connections. No crowds.
The setting
The nomads knew: place is medicine.
The Saharan nomads have practised longevity for centuries without naming it. Walking at dawn. Eating from the earth. Sleeping under open sky. Gathering around fire. We place you in their landscape, not as a tourist, but as a participant in a way of life that modern science is only beginning to understand. The place is not a backdrop. It is the treatment.
Starting with the Sahara and Marrakech. Expanding to every extraordinary landscape where longevity lives naturally.
The format
8 days, 7 nights. 8–14 people. Zero compromise.
Duration
8 days, 7 nights
Group size
8–14 participants
Focus
Longevity through movement & nature
Coaching
Longevity coaches & speakers
Treatments
Natural, earth-sourced, ancestral
Locations
Sahara · Marrakech · and beyond
One wish. One journey. A longer life.
Umnya begins with a single question: what if you could live differently?
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