About Us | Panama Wellness Retreats

H E L L O

Our Mission

Panama Wellness Retreats is a sanctuary for women who know their bodies need a reset and their spirits want a softer way to heal. In the green cradle of El Valle, we blend ketovore nutrition to calm inflammation and balance the nervous system with energy healing, spiritual practice, nature immersion, plant medicine ceremonies, and intentional group work. This isn’t just a getaway—it’s a structured space to let the body repair, release emotional weight, and remember its original blueprint for health.

Here, you’re invited to slow down, nourish deeply, and rewrite the beliefs that keep you in stress and survival. With supportive facilitators, healing foods, and the medicine of the jungle, you start feeling like yourself again—clear, grounded, and purposeful.

What We Offer

We offer two main retreat paths: healing & restoration retreats for women dealing with illness, inflammation, fatigue, or metabolic imbalance who want a supportive environment to reset their bodies, and sobriety & alcohol recovery retreats for women ready to change their relationship with alcohol in a compassionate, non-clinical setting. Both retreats blend nutrition, nature, and guided inner work—each tailored to the level of support you need.

W E L C O M E T O Y O U R L I F E

Return To Radiance

Adventure calls from the moment you rise. You start with a powerhouse ketovore breakfast—savory meats, eggs, mineral-rich broth—built to calm inflammation and fuel your cells. Then it’s out into the jungle, where the air hums with life and bright birds streak through the canopy. You chase waterfalls, laugh through river plunges, and let the volcanic valley of El Valle work its quiet medicine.

As the day softens, you gather with other women around a table piled high with sizzling, nutrient-dense local food. Stories are shared, hearts exhale, nervous systems settle. This isn’t restriction, punishment, or recovery from one thing—it’s a full-body return to aliveness. Here, you’re not escaping life, you’re embracing it.

For those who feel called, we also offer two optional ayahuasca plant medicine ceremonies with an experienced, trauma-informed shamanic team. Held with medical screening, careful preparation, and guided integration, these ceremonies open a deeper doorway into the subconscious and spiritual realms—supporting you to meet old patterns, receive insight, release emotional and energetic weight, and anchor a clearer sense of purpose, self-trust, and connection to something greater than yourself.

I’ V E W A L K E D T H A T R O A D

A Journey To Wellness and Self Love

Hello beautiful healers and seekers. I’m Kelly McLoughlin, your retreat leader and founder of Panama Wellness Retreats.

I’ve spent most of my adult life in the healing arts—supporting people to get sober, release excess weight, calm inflammation, and most importantly, change the subconscious patterns that kept them stuck. Through hypnotherapy, education, and nutrition (especially metabolic/healing foods), I’ve watched women reclaim their energy, their confidence, and their God-given design for wellness.

Yes, sobriety is part of my story too. I know what it’s like to use alcohol to cope, to feel ashamed afterward, and to wonder if freedom was for other people. That’s why I create spaces that are compassionate, not clinical—places where you can admit what hurts, rewrite the belief behind it, and actually heal.

My retreats are built for women who are ready to restore—whether that’s from alcohol, burnout, illness, or years of self-neglect. You’re not broken. You just haven’t been given the right environment to heal in.

Kelly is also the owner and founder of FlowerChild LLC, a Washington-based CBD company operating since 2014, offering high-quality, full-spectrum CBD and CBG oils, tinctures, and salves.

H E A L I N G A N D T R A N S F O R M A T I O N

Dee Lovell – Transformation Guide

Dee Lovell is the founder of Azuka Wellness, a global platform dedicated to emotional freedom, conscious living, and whole-person healing. Through her work with individuals, couples, and families, Dee bridges the gap between science and spirit—offering practical tools, intuitive guidance, and a compassionate presence that inspires lasting transformation. Whether online or in person, her sessions are known for creating a safe, grounded space where real breakthroughs happen.

Drawing on a lifetime of experience and study, Dee blends energy medicine, emotional intelligence, somatic and intuitive healing, naturopathic support, and holistic coaching into an integrative approach that meets people exactly where they are. Her work gently dissolves emotional blockages, restores balance to the nervous system, and helps her clients reconnect with their authentic essence.

Dee’s passion for community and empowerment has led her to facilitate personal and professional development workshops, masterclasses, and retreats across multiple countries. She has guided Feminine Presence groups, co-created transformational retreats for women and couples in Barbados, and founded women’s circles in the UK and Caribbean that continue to ripple healing through their communities.

At her core, Dee believes that true wellness begins with self-awareness—the courage to turn inward, listen deeply, and live in alignment with one’s highest truth. Through Azuka Wellness, she invites others to awaken to their inner wisdom, embody their power, and create lives filled with connection, vitality, and purpose.

B E E N T H E R E – H E A L I N G H E R E

What Makes Our Women’s Wellness Retreats Different

We don’t offer a getaway—we offer a container for real change. Our retreats are built by someone who’s spent decades in the healing arts, helping women sober up, reduce inflammation, release weight, and rewrite old beliefs. So everything we do is practical, embodied, and designed to actually move the needle on your health.

Led by lived experience – guided by a woman who has walked through addiction, illness, and emotional healing.
Luxury meets restoration – serene, beautiful spaces that support nervous system repair.
Ketovore-based nutrition – anti-inflammatory, metabolic-supporting meals to help the body heal from within.
Ayahuasca ceremonies – Optional plant medicine ceremonies for those that want to explore deeper emotional and spiritual healing, receive insight and guidance, and release long-held burdens in a safe, professionally guided setting.
Transformational hypnotherapy – sessions to clear subconscious blocks and install healthier patterns.
Group energy work – collective healing circles to process, release, and reconnect.
Optional 1:1 healing sessions – deeper support for emotional, spiritual, or physical concerns.
Sacred sisterhood – intimate women-only groups (8–15) for safety, honesty, and lifelong connection.