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Sierra Blanca Resort Art Of Healing
Marbella, Málaga, Spain · Independent · Near Luxury
A recovery clinic that behaves like a small hotel, high in Rocio de Nagueles on the pine slopes above Marbella's Golden Mile. The house was founded by the family of Professor Evgeny Blum, a neurophysiologist with more than sixty patents to his name, and the whole stay is built around his movement-based method: biomechanical diagnostics on arrival, Pendex machines that read the body as they train it, alkaline baths, dry floating, a heated seawater pool. You come here for the programme, not for the coast.
- Neighborhood: Sierra Blanca
- Rooms from 215 sq ft (20 m²)
About Sierra Blanca Resort Art Of Healing
- Professor Evgeny Blum, the neurophysiologist whose recovery method the house is built around, holds more than sixty patents registered in international patent systems. His family founded the hotel.
- Menus follow the PRIME biochemical system of Dr Marek Bardadin and are matched to each guest's programme rather than to a printed card.
- The spa runs alkaline detox baths, imperial jade rituals and dry floating, a weightlessness therapy that suspends the body without ever putting it in water.
- Entry-level rooms start at 215 sq ft (20 m²).
History
Sierra Blanca Resort Art of Healing sits in the Rocio de Nagueles urbanisation on the hillside above Marbella's Golden Mile, in an area that only began filling with villas in the 1990s. It is not a heritage house. What gives it a reason to exist is the medical programme: the hotel was founded by the family of Professor Evgeny Blum, a doctor of medical sciences and neurophysiologist who works on rehabilitation of the motor system, and it runs his method rather than a conventional spa menu.
The stay is organised as a retreat. Guests arrive into a patented functional diagnostic assessment, train on Blum's Pendex devices, eat to a nutritional system devised by Dr Marek Bardadin, and finish in an alkaline spa aimed at acid-base balance rather than pampering. There is a heated seawater pool, a hammam, a sauna and a set of meeting rooms, all at a scale closer to a private clinic than to a Costa del Sol resort.
The setting
The hotel stands in Rocio de Nagueles, on the wooded lower slopes of the Sierra Blanca ridge that gives the district its name, just above the Golden Mile and below the pyramid of La Concha. The surrounding enclave is residential and gated, roughly 300 villas across a hillside that Marbella's prime market only pushed into from the late 1980s, so there is nothing commercial at the door: the beach clubs, the Michelin kitchens and the Puerto Banus shopfronts all sit ten to fifteen minutes downhill. What the address buys is quiet, pine air and a view over the coast.
Restaurants and bars
- The Alchemy of Taste restaurant — Restaurant · Functional nutrition built on biochemistry
Experiences
- Dry Floating — Weightlessness therapy in which, without external stimuli, body and mind reach deep calm.
- Alkaline detox baths — Mineral baths presented as a natural way to gently cleanse and reset the body.
- Hydro-rituals for the scalp — Massage, water therapy and alkaline serums for the scalp.
Amenities
- Renting venues for weddings and events
- Equipment list available on request
- Rest areas for meditation, reading, or connecting with nature
- Children's playground in the shade of the garden
- Individual restorative programs
- Functional nutrition programmes
- Medical SPA therapy
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