IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE STRENGTH RECOVERY CLINIC
The Strength Recovery Clinic
From
€6,950
6 nights, one guest
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Best for
Chronic pain · Osteopathy · Functional medicine
Stay
3, 4 or 6 nights, dates you choose
Minimum 3 nights
The Strength Recovery Clinic programs and prices
Here are the latest prices, for the programs and the rooms. Click on a program to see the details, and download the program brochure. You can request to book any program: we confirm availability and prices shortly after. We are also at your disposal if you have any question, for example to find the best retreat for you.
The shortest of the three stays. Three nights at the château, which is enough to be assessed properly, treated every day and sent home with a written plan.
You are assessed on the day you arrive, for 60 to 90 minutes, across an osteopathic examination and a functional medicine history taken together. Jean reads your history, your imaging and your existing results before you get there.
Each day gives you a one to one treatment, an hour of teaching, group movement and rehabilitation set to what you can do, and breathing and nervous system work. All meals are cooked to an anti-inflammatory brief and eaten at one table.
Laboratory testing is an optional extra at this length. If you want it, allow about six weeks before arrival, because the kits go out by post and the results take two to three weeks to come back.
From EUR 3,950 per person, everything included except flights, travel insurance and the optional laboratory testing. Two people sharing one room pay EUR 3,750 each. The retreat runs for a minimum of two guests and a maximum of four, and a screening call with Jean comes before any booking is taken.
You go home with a written recovery strategy and three online follow up calls spread across the following six months.
| Room | Alone | Sharing |
|---|---|---|
| Guest Bedroom 3 | €3,950 | €3,750 |
| Guest Bedroom 2 | €3,950 | €3,750 |
| Guest Bedroom 1 | €3,950 | €3,750 |
The stay most people choose. Four nights buys a further treatment day and a second movement assessment on top of the four day.
You are assessed on the day you arrive, for 60 to 90 minutes, across an osteopathic examination and a functional medicine history taken together. Jean reads your history, your imaging and your existing results before you get there.
Each day gives you a one to one treatment, an hour of teaching, group movement and rehabilitation set to what you can do, and breathing and nervous system work. All meals are cooked to an anti-inflammatory brief and eaten at one table.
Stool analysis and a full blood panel are included at this length. The kits are posted to you and completed before you travel, so the results are on the table when you arrive. Results take two to three weeks, so allow about six weeks between booking and arrival.
From EUR 5,450 per person, everything included except flights, travel insurance. Two people sharing one room pay EUR 5,175 each. The retreat runs for a minimum of two guests and a maximum of four, and a screening call with Jean comes before any booking is taken.
You go home with a written recovery strategy and three online follow up calls spread across the following six months.
| Room | Alone | Sharing |
|---|---|---|
| Guest Bedroom 3 | €5,450 | €5,175 |
| Guest Bedroom 2 | €5,450 | €5,175 |
| Guest Bedroom 1 | €5,450 | €5,175 |
Six nights, the longest stay, built for pain that has been there for years. It adds a full second assessment in the middle of the week, so the plan is tested and changed while you are still at the château.
You are assessed on the day you arrive, for 60 to 90 minutes, across an osteopathic examination and a functional medicine history taken together. Jean reads your history, your imaging and your existing results before you get there.
Each day gives you a one to one treatment, an hour of teaching, group movement and rehabilitation set to what you can do, and breathing and nervous system work. All meals are cooked to an anti-inflammatory brief and eaten at one table.
Stool analysis and a full blood panel are included at this length. The kits are posted to you and completed before you travel, so the results are on the table when you arrive. Results take two to three weeks, so allow about six weeks between booking and arrival.
From EUR 6,950 per person, everything included except flights, travel insurance. Two people sharing one room pay EUR 6,600 each. The retreat runs for a minimum of two guests and a maximum of four, and a screening call with Jean comes before any booking is taken.
You go home with a written recovery strategy and three online follow up calls spread across the following six months.
| Room | Alone | Sharing |
|---|---|---|
| Guest Bedroom 3 | €6,950 | €6,600 |
| Guest Bedroom 2 | €6,950 | €6,600 |
| Guest Bedroom 1 | €6,950 | €6,600 |
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The Strength Recovery Clinic, in detail
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The property
The Strength Recovery Clinic runs a clinical retreat at a private château near Poitiers, in the Deux-Sèvres countryside of western France. Two to four guests at a time, staying three, four or six nights. Jean, the osteopath who runs the clinic in London, delivers every part of the clinical work himself.
The château has stone towers, a moat, a heated pool and a jacuzzi, and every guest gets a private bedroom with an en suite bathroom. Meals are cooked to an anti-inflammatory brief from the markets of western France and everyone eats at the same table. Prices start at EUR 3,950 per person for the four day stay, which covers the treatment, the food and the transfers from Poitiers. There is no fixed calendar, so the dates are agreed with Jean after a screening call.
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How the retreat works
The assessment comes first, on the day you arrive. It runs 60 to 90 minutes and does two things at once: an osteopathic examination of how you move, and a functional medicine history covering sleep, stress, digestion and what you eat. Jean works from the position that persistent pain sits where physical dysfunction, unresolved inflammation, a nervous system stuck on alert and life history meet. The assessment is where he works out which of those is doing the most in your case.
From there the days have a shape. Breakfast at eight, one to one treatment at nine, functional medicine teaching at eleven. Lunch and a rest, then group movement and rehabilitation at three, programmed for each person even though the four of you do it together. Breathing and nervous system work at five, a break, and dinner at half past seven. Evenings are yours, by the fire, in the pool or walking the grounds.
More on how the retreat works
The hands on work is osteopathy and sports massage. The movement work is rehabilitation and strength and conditioning, set at what your body can do that day, so you do not need to arrive fit. What travels home with you is the teaching: what inflammation is doing, how to read your own symptoms, what to change and in what order.
Jean Cock is registered with the General Osteopathic Council in the UK, number 10993, which anyone can look up on the public register. He holds an Integrated Master of Osteopathy, a BSc in Sports Science and the A-CFMP functional medicine qualification from the Kresser Institute in California, plus level 3 qualifications in personal training and sports massage. His London practice is at 204 Fulham Road in Chelsea, with home visits across the city, and this retreat is the residential version of that work.
You leave with a written recovery strategy and three online follow up calls, spread across the six months after the retreat. The calls exist so the plan gets adjusted as your symptoms change.
03
The food
All meals are cooked to a clinical anti-inflammatory brief, using seasonal produce from the markets of western France. Protein at every meal, Atlantic oily fish, local vegetables, olive and walnut oils, and nothing refined.
Everyone eats at the same table at the same three times. Dinner is at half past seven and breakfast at eight, which leaves a twelve hour overnight fast. That gap is part of the protocol.
More on the food
No alcohol is served. Allergies and intolerances are worked around (please inform us so we can arrange that with the retreat leader Jean).
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The château
The retreat takes place at a private château estate at La Ferrière-en-Parthenay, in the Deux-Sèvres. Stone towers, a moat, wisteria across the gardens, and a beamed great room where the group sessions happen. There is a heated swimming pool, a jacuzzi and parkland to walk in.
There are four guest bedrooms and never more than four guests, so everyone has their own with an en suite bathroom. Two guests is the minimum and four is the cap, and that small a group is the point of the format. The treatments are genuinely one to one, and the movement sessions are written for each person even though the group does them together.
More on the château
Poitiers is 40 minutes away by road, Nantes an hour and a half and Bordeaux two hours. Return transfers from Poitiers, the airport or the TGV station, are included and timed to your actual arrival. Collection from Nantes or Bordeaux can be arranged (not guaranteed), so tell us where you are flying into.
Rooms & suites
One of the four guest bedrooms, under high ceilings with the château’s original period detail. It has an en suite bathroom of its own and takes one guest, or two sharing.
| Single | Double | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 day Intensive · 3 nights | €3,950 | €7,500 |
| 5 day Complete · 4 nights | €5,450 | €10,350 |
| 7 day Deep Recovery · 6 nights | €6,950 | €13,200 |
Per stay, everything included.
One of the four guest bedrooms, with tall windows looking onto the garden. The en suite bathroom is its own, and it takes one guest, or two sharing.
| Single | Double | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 day Intensive · 3 nights | €3,950 | €7,500 |
| 5 day Complete · 4 nights | €5,450 | €10,350 |
| 7 day Deep Recovery · 6 nights | €6,950 | €13,200 |
Per stay, everything included.
One of the four guest bedrooms, with a fireplace and wide wooden floorboards. It has its own en suite bathroom and takes one guest, or two sharing.
| Single | Double | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 day Intensive · 3 nights | €3,950 | €7,500 |
| 5 day Complete · 4 nights | €5,450 | €10,350 |
| 7 day Deep Recovery · 6 nights | €6,950 | €13,200 |
Per stay, everything included.
Practical details
Getting there
Airport and transfers
Getting there
Airport and transfers
Nearest airport
Poitiers (PIS) · 40 min by road
| Route | Vehicle | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Poitiers Airport (PIS) or Poitiers TGV stationTimed to your actual arrival, and the only pick-up he guarantees. Nantes, Bordeaux, La Rochelle and Tours can be arranged on request, charged on top and not guaranteed. | — | Included |
Arranged with your stay. Ask us and we will book the transfer alongside the booking.
Know before you arrive
Policies, languages, stay rules
Know before you arrive
Policies, languages, stay rules
Languages spoken
Languages spoken
English
Minimum stay
Minimum stay
3 nights
Booking policy
Booking policy
Every booking starts with a screening call with Jean, so he can check the retreat suits the problem you are bringing. You then get a written proposal setting out the dates, the length and the price. A deposit holds the place once you have agreed that proposal and the balance falls due before arrival. Jean no longer publishes the deposit figure, so it comes with the proposal. Travel insurance is a condition of booking, and every retreat needs a minimum of two guests to run.
Cancellation policy
Cancellation policy
Everything paid is refunded in full more than 60 days before arrival. Half is refunded between 60 and 30 days. Nothing is refunded inside 30 days. Once laboratory test kits have been dispatched, the cost of the testing is not recoverable and is charged on top of any amount above. If a flare up or a change in your condition stops you travelling, your place moves to a future retreat at no charge and there is no time limit on that. Testing already dispatched carries over to the new dates.
Kids policy
Kids policy
Provided upon request
Pets policy
Pets policy
Provided upon request
Frequently Asked Questions
Atmosphere, prices, alternatives
Frequently Asked Questions
Atmosphere, prices, alternatives
Atmosphere and retreat participants
Two to four guests in a château in the French countryside, eating at one table and doing the same sessions. It draws adults who have carried pain for months or years and have already been through physiotherapy or a chiropractor. Days are quiet and structured until half past seven in the evening. After that nothing is planned and people sit by the fire, swim, or walk the parkland.
What makes it different
The whole health program is delivered by one person and you see him every day. Jean is a GOsC registered osteopath who also holds a functional medicine qualification, so the hands on treatment and the inflammation and nutrition work come from the same head. Four guests is the cap and two is the minimum. The three follow up calls over six months mean the plan gets adjusted once you are home and back at work.
What it costs
From EUR 3,950 per person for the four day stay of three nights, EUR 5,450 for the five day and EUR 6,950 for the seven day. Everything is included except flights, travel insurance and, on the four day only, the optional laboratory testing. Two people sharing a room pay 5% less each, so EUR 3,750, EUR 5,175 and EUR 6,600. These are starting prices and the final figure is confirmed in a written proposal. A deposit holds the place once you agree that proposal and the balance is due before arrival. Travel insurance is required.
What else to consider
If you want doctors, diagnostics and blood work alongside the hands on treatment, a medical clinic such as Park Igls or Buff Medical Resort answers that question and runs a week at a time. If the four day feels short for something you have carried for years, the five and seven day stays go deeper and include the laboratory testing.
Where exactly is the retreat?
At a private château at La Ferrière-en-Parthenay, in the Deux-Sèvres in western France. Poitiers is 40 minutes away by road.
How many guests are there?
Two at least and four at most. The retreat does not run for a single guest. The treatments are one to one and the movement sessions are programmed for each person.
What does the price include?
Your nights in a private en suite room, all meals, the assessment, daily treatment, the group sessions, return transfers from Poitiers, a written recovery strategy and three follow up calls. The five and seven day stays also include a stool analysis and a full blood panel.
Do I need to be fit to come?
No. The physical work is set at what your body can do on the day.
Can I come with my partner?
Yes, and two people sharing one room each get 5% off. That is EUR 3,750 each on the four day, EUR 5,175 each on the five day and EUR 6,600 each on the seven day.
What happens if I have a flare up before I travel?
Your place moves to a future date at no charge.
When does it run?
There is no fixed calendar. You agree the dates with Jean after the screening call, and you choose your own arrival and departure days. Two guests travelling together can even arrive on different days.
Is this right for an injury I picked up last month?
No. An injury under three weeks old, or anything needing urgent assessment, should be seen at home first.
Is it a spa break?
No. The days are clinical work, teaching and rehabilitation. The pool and the jacuzzi are there for the evenings.
How do we book?
A screening call with Jean comes first, then a written proposal. A deposit holds the place once you have agreed the proposal and the balance is due before arrival.
How long should I stay?
Three nights is the four day Intensive at EUR 3,950, four nights the five day Complete at EUR 5,450, and six nights the seven day Deep Recovery at EUR 6,950. Most people choose the five day. The two longer stays include the laboratory testing, and the seven day adds a second full assessment mid stay.
Can I pay for my stay at The Strength Recovery Clinic in stablecoin?
Yes. Ask for your quote in USDT (TRC20) or USDC, the same way you would ask for it in euros or dollars. We settle your stay with The Strength Recovery Clinic, and your booking at The Strength Recovery Clinic is in your name.
Official website
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