Are you ready to transform your future self? Want to take control of your health and experience a life of vitality, longevity, and inner joy? Do you dream of aging stronger, healthier, and happier, with abundant energy and a beautiful zest for life? Imagine being surrounded by beautiful nature, with a community of like-minded individuals who share your passion for a more conscious and balanced approach to aging.
Kickstart Your Healthiest, Most Vibrant Life
The power to unlock your healthiest, most vibrant life already exists within you—and our Longevity Biohacking Retreat in October 13 – 16, 2025 is designed to help you access it.
An Immersive Wellness Retreat
Set in the serene Citrusdal Valley in the Western Cape, South Africa, this immersive Kickstarter program offers a unique, hands-on approach to wellness and longevity. Through expert-led workshops, and rejuvenating nature experiences, you will be set up for a transformational health experience.
Whether you’re looking to optimize your sleep, nutrition, movement, or mindfulness practices, this retreat provides the tools and knowledge to take charge of your longevity journey.
The Perfect Natural Setting to Transform Your Health
Escape the daily grind and immerse yourself in nature, surrounded by stunning mountain views and the therapeutic mineral waters of Citrusdal Baths. This peaceful oasis, renowned for its rejuvenating thermal pools, creates the ideal environment to relax, restore, and reconnect with yourself.
With mineral-rich pools and breathtaking scenery, you’ll have everything needed to unwind and recharge, leaving renewed in both body and mind.
What You’ll Experience
- Expert-Led Sessions: Learn from top wellness specialists who will guide you through biohacking techniques designed to optimize your longevity. From nutrition and movement to sleep and stress management, you’ll get a kickstarter approach to help you transform your future health.
- Personalized Longevity Pathway: Understand the framework to help you establish your own unique set of goals, ensuring you live your best life for years to come.
- Community Connection: Build relationships with other wellness enthusiasts on the same journey, forming friendships and support networks that will last long after the retreat ends.
- Holistic Rejuvenation: Experience the magic of nature with daily activities and meals designed to nourish your body, mind, and spirit. Discover new ways to eat, move, sleep, and breathe in alignment with your body’s natural rhythms.
Retreat Details
Date: October 13-16, 2025
Location: The Baths, Citrusdal Western Cape, South Africa. A tranquil retreat surrounded by nature’s finest beauty, known for its healing mineral hot springs and breathtaking landscapes.
More Than a Retreat — A Transformational Experience
This exclusive opportunity will leave you feeling empowered, rejuvenated, and ready to take control of your health like never before. Space is limited—reserve your spot today and begin your journey toward a vibrant, healthier, and more fulfilling life!
The best version of yourself is waiting to be discovered
Meet Our Exceptional Specialists
We’ve assembled an extraordinary team of integrative medical practitioners, health specialists, coaches, healers, and educators to help you transform your future health by learning how to biohack. This is the first time Longevity has gathered such a distinguished group of experts in one retreat.
Dr. Ela Manga
An integrative medical doctor, author, speaker, and facilitator, Dr. Manga is a global voice for an emerging new paradigm of wellness. With a special interest in the application of conscious breathing to inspire healing-informed systems and communities, she authored “BREATHE: Strategising Energy in the Age of Burnout” and “UMOYA: The Science and Wonder of Conscious Breathing.”
As Founder and CEO of Breathwork Africa, she offers internationally recognized breathwork practitioner training. During the retreat, Dr. Manga will host breathwork sessions and share her expertise on burnout, longevity, biohacking, and using conscious breathing to realize your longevity potential.
Dr. Craige Golding

Dr. Craige Golding
A specialist physician passionate about anti-aging medicine and integrative health, Dr. Golding’s journey was transformed after losing his father to diabetes-related complications at age 55. He is considered Africa’s leading anti-aging specialist and runs extensive training programs for medical professionals wanting to develop their knowledge of functional and longevity integrative medicine.
With advanced qualifications in Integrative and Functional Medicine, chelation therapies, and nutrigenomics, Dr. Golding brings comprehensive expertise to the retreat.
Dr. Golding is a regular contributor to our Longevity platforms and is a special guest speaker. Dr. Golding will provide an in-depth view of how to create a lifelong longevity plan. He will discuss everything we all need to know about the biohacking terms being bandied about, longevity therapies. He will debunk myths and empower you to know yourself better.
Dr. Alain Sanua
Dr. Alain Sanua has had a long and rewarding career as a general practitioner with a passion for helping his patients heal using the art and science of medicine. After studying medicine in Belgium and gaining extensive experience at Baragwanath Hospital, Dr. Alan Sanua has practiced homeopathy since 1992.
A member of the Faculty of Homeopathy in the United Kingdom and the Boiron Institute in France, he has also studied Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture.
Dr. Alan Sanua has extensive knowledge and will discuss genetics, gut health connections, and other key topics, exemplifying the integration of conventional and alternative medicine to address underlying causes rather than merely suppressing symptoms.
Dr. Siobhan Dawson

Dr. Shiv Dawson
Dr. Dawson is an exceptionally talented and unique health professional and woman. Bridging conventional medicine with transformative consciousness work, Dr. Shiv Dawson specializes in psychiatry in London after training at UCT. Her clinical experience across emergency settings, forensics, and with Victims of Torture fostered deep compassion for human suffering and resilience.
Dr. Dawson has taken her work beyond the confines of traditional thinking. Today, her work embraces emerging research in brain-gut health, psychoneuroimmunology, and the therapeutic potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness.
During the retreat, she’ll help you to better understand how to transform your wellness outcomes through her knowledge of rewilding, the gut-brain connection and exploring alternative forms of psychotherapy for longevity. We’re delighted to have her luminous presence with us.
Jenni Rivett
With over four decades of experience in health and fitness, Jenni Rivett specializes in women’s health over 40. Her unique TRAIN LIKE A WOMAN program helps women achieve perfect muscular conditioning.
Jenni’s impressive credentials include training The Late Diana, Princess of Wales for seven years, along with other celebrities. Her book “Jenergy” was published by Harper Collins, and she’s contributed to over 500 health and fitness articles.
During the retreat, Jenni Rivett will host group fitness sessions featuring her research-backed QuickTone8 routine. Jenni is living proof of how to age better and look amazing, no matter your age or stage of life.
Vincent Cubitt
Vincent is a self-taught transformational guide with nearly 30 years of experience helping others overcome addiction, mental-emotional disorders, and disease. Vincent Cubitt developed the CHOICEpoint Process—a natural system guiding us out of suffering toward healthier, more empowered living.
He has a lifelong commitment to helping people transform their lives. He is also the co-founder of the Wellbeing Sanctuary, a beautiful farm and retreat center on the Garden Route in South Africa.
At the retreat, Vincent’s incredible sensitivity and gifts will be shared in sessions to help participants create positive shifts, break bad habits, and biohack into their own inner wisdom and guidance system.
Richard Lubner
After pursuing a professional international tennis career, Richard, also known as Richi Lubner discovered his teacher Master Xie Shoude in 1994, beginning an incredible journey of almost 20 years of training in Tai Chi, Qigong, and Ying Yang Baguazhan.
Richi uses his life experiences and mental and physical acuity to guide people. He will host daily movement sessions and inner circle work, sharing practices that cultivate energy and life force.
His approach incorporates Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems, Shadow work, and Attachment theory with a Non-dual approach to consciousness.
Rosalind Duckoff
Rosalind is an exceptional teacher and guide. Inner Sense Facilitator combines Yoga, meditation, and neurogenic tremors with transparent communication philosophy. Rosalind’s practice helps integrate unconscious stress, making life more fluid through softening contractions, strengthening breath awareness, and becoming conscious of daily movements.
Her daily sessions will use Inner Sense yoga to facilitate deep work with participants. These sessions are for everyone and no prior experience is needed to participate.
Rosalind will be drawing on physiological, metaphysical, physical, and energetic dimensions to cultivate deeper awareness and help you transform yourself.
Cullen Clark
Cullen is a true force of nature. As the Co-Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Aether Apothecary, a bioceutical API manufacturer in South Africa, he is a child of nature and a natural biohacker. Cullen will be leading nature walks and talks, sharing his extensive knowledge of plants, flora, and bioceuticals and their contribution to our longevity and planetary health.
His accomplishments include collaborating with leading South African universities on new compound identification and fungal species discovery, speaking on popular science podcasts, and discovering potential ancient history of fungal use in Southern Africa.
Dr. Kathleen Green

Dr. Kathleen Green
Holding a Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences, Dr. Green’s academic journey focused on deciphering the complexities of metabolic disease states in humans. She has led data science teams delivering health insights for the corporate and public health sectors.
As we live in a world where health technology is transforming lives, her role at the retreat is to help you connect some dots from her experience in the real world of healthtech.
As a Product Manager specializing in proactive and precision-based health solutions at InUwell, Dr. Kathleen Green integrates advanced diagnostics, health data, and wellness coaching. She’ll help retreat participants understand how to practically apply what they learn to craft personalized healthcare journeys.
Anika Hari
During the retreat we will all receive a gift of music from Anika.
She is a truly gifted vocalist who sings songs that help her connect with her true Self. Anika will join sessions throughout the retreat, bringing her songs, mantras, and chants to help participants connect more deeply with their wellness intentions.
Her open invitation to join in humming or singing mantras and Sanskrit chants may facilitate a transportation into the Infinite Being of One.
A Longevity Retreat
The retreat is the brainchild of Longevity. It’s uniquely South African in its approach, using nature based activities, supported by leading medical and wellness expertise across different wellness modalities. Mind, body, soul, food, fitness, fun and community.
We’ve invited this specialist team to bring their knowledge, passion and experience and help participants gain a deep understanding of what it takes to be healthier and happier.
As for us, we have a long history at Longevity of publishing quality, credible health information. We’ve also hosted many events over three decades helping our community create better wellness outcomes.
We’ve chosen The Baths to host this unique gathering. Nestled in the arms of a craggy mountain, surrounded by indigenous nature, The Baths offers the gift of quiet nature. From the natural hot water springs we bathe in, to the clear crisp night skies – we know you’ll find this haven well worth a visit.
We’re thrilled to bring you this Longevity retreat and look forward to hosting you in October.
Are You Ready to Transform?
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