DELICIOUS, CLEAN FOOD:

Lightness from Within

Energizing your body with our vital, locally sourced ‘blue zone primal’ cuisine connects you to the land’s abundance, signaling safety and well-being, which supports your body in detoxifying and releasing inflammation and excess weight – returning it to its optimal metabolic state.

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DELICIOUS, CLEAN FOOD CALMS THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

While nutritious food is essential for true well-being, we believe that prioritizing breath, water, and rest – which promotes a resilient nervous system – forms the foundation for full dietary benefit.

This holistic approach gently guides your body from a state of “fight or flight” to “rest and digest,” a crucial shift that allows for intentional and non-reactive eating choices, while optimizing nutrient absorption. Many common dietary challenges stem from an imbalanced nervous system. When your nervous system is balanced, you can fully receive the benefits of every healthy change you make, ensuring they truly stick.

While we all know that eating clean is important – the truth is that depriving yourself of food, or even eating ‘healthy’ but unappetizing meals, can trigger its own stress response, signaling to your body that it needs to “hold on” to fat for protection. 

Conversely, despite consuming enough calories, our modern, nutrient-depleted diets can leave your body feeling ‘starved’, leading to persistent hunger and overconsumption. These physiological stress responses make it incredibly difficult to achieve sustainable dietary shifts and find your natural metabolic equilibrium.

That’s where Hacienda steps in. We free you from the anxiety of balancing all these factors.

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PRIMAL CUISINE ALIGNS THE MIND, BODY, & SPIRIT

Our approach focuses on enhancing your intake with delicious, enzyme-rich whole foods like fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, high-quality proteins, and healthy fats. We avoid processed foods and common inflammatory triggers to support a natural detox. 

When the body has to spend less energy detoxifying, it has more energy for living! This primal way of eating, designed by human evolution, helps retrain your taste buds to genuinely enjoy the foods that nourish you most, naturally regulating satiety and preventing overeating.

The clean food we serve, often grown right here in our very soil, is imbued with flavor and vitality, instilling a deep sense of connection that leaves you feeling refreshed, pure, and satisfied. This creates a renewed trust in your body’s intuitive eating signals, free from the addictive cycles of synthetic foods. 

You’ll leave Hacienda with a blueprint for healthy eating, empowering you to maintain this profound sense of well-being long after your stay.

DESIGN OF OUR DIETS: NOURISHING YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM

At Hacienda, every meal is a ‘Primal’ creation, focusing on whole, nutrient-dense, and enzyme-rich foods. This philosophy is further inspired by our local ‘Blue Zone’ principles for longevity and mouth-watering flavor. Naturally free of grains, sugar, and dairy, our cuisine provides a delicious and clean foundation for a calm mind, balanced body, and luminous spirit.

We offer four distinct menus, each designed to support a different intention. Unless you’ve chosen a specific curated program, all menus are interchangeable, allowing you to honor your body’s unique needs as they evolve.

Primal Menu: Gentle Nourishment

This is our most flexible menu. Because it is based on primal cuisine (nothing processed, pure whole foods), it’s naturally lower in carbs than standard diets, which helps stabilize blood sugar and reduce inflammation. The menu offers a variety of delicious keto, vegan, and protein-focused options, as well as juices and smoothies. This allows you to choose what your body desires, supporting sustained energy, deep satiation, and a lightness of being.

Farm-To-Table Specials: Seasonal Connection

This rotating "chef's choice" daily menu highlights the best local, organic, and seasonal produce, much of which is grown in our own greenhouse. Eating farm-to-table fosters a gentle connection with your food source. This simple symbiosis positively impacts your emotional well-being while directly supporting local farmers and ensuring whole-being nutrition.

Primal Keto: Deep Metabolic Shift

This pre-set menu is designed for very low carbohydrate intake, encouraging your body to use fat for fuel, which supports weight loss. This process also acts as a "controlled stressor" for your nervous system, building resilience as you break your dependence on sugar. Due to its intensity, it’s best to pair this menu with our Burn-Out Recovery or Metabolic Rewire programs for personalized support from our health coaches.

Juice Cleanse: Cellular Reset

Available as a curated program add-on, this specialized cleanse requires guidance from a facilitator. Our proprietary cleanse uses organic juices to provide concentrated nutrients while giving your digestive system a complete rest. This deep internal cleansing significantly reduces inflammatory load and oxidative stress, leading to greater mental clarity, a sense of deep peace, and renewed energy.