Inside the £9k-a-week Italian detox retreat Victoria Beckham credits her healthy lifestyle with

Victoria Beckham has been documenting her stay at the highly-exclusive Palace Merano, a £9,000-a-week detox retreat in Northern Italy where guests are treated with bio-enegetic medicine.

She took over the Conde Nast Traveller Instagram Stories on Sunday to give her fans a glimpse of the centre’s traditional Chinese treatments, which aim to get the body’s energy flowing freely along the body’s meridians.

In typical showbiz style, guests are painted with mud before being blasted with a fireman’s hose while being fuelled with ‘magic water’ during their seven night programme.

Results are accomplished via lymphatic drainage massages and a plant-based diet heavy on hypo-allergenic food, which sees the likes of Victoria limit themselves to only 1,000 calories per day.

Purging themselves with 30 hours of fasting, residents hoping for a ‘cure’ abstain from caffeine, sugars, animal proteins as well as alcohol and, as part of the ‘comprehensive’ package, undergo six hydro-aromatherapy sessions.

Here visitors are plunged into a vast, hot bath where changing lights, a plethora of jets and essential oils encourage lymphatic circulation.

Six phyto-mud sessions see hopefuls paintbrushed with the warm sludge on a water bed before being smothered in plastic, covered with a large duvet and left for 30 minutes to sweat out toxins.

The same number of hydrojet sessions consist of clients having a fireman’s hose directed at them which is believed to tone their tissues. Although this practice begins with warm water, freezing cold water reinvigorates.

Furthermore, the former Spice Girl may have attended several doctor’s appointments as well as four ‘cellular resonance treatments with energy control’ – where high-frequency radio waves stimulate acupuncture points.

In her posts on the social media platform, Victoria recorded such activities along with the caption, ‘A sneak peek of my treatments with Patti… this was a tendon muscle massage, a highly effective drainage system for beauty.

She added in a second clip: ‘It can also help on muscle and tendon tissue by toning it and revitalising it.’

With suction cups clinging to her legs, she explained how they ‘help increase the rate of blood and lymph circulation, stimulating the metabolic system and helping get rid of toxins’.

While having her visage smothered with a thick white cream, she penned, ‘This was a “plasmozonic” facial, an anti-ageing treatment using plasma, ozone and ultrasounds, designed to improve skin elasticity.’

She captioned another, ‘I also tried a jet peel, a brightening skin rejuvenation system that combines superficial peeling with lymphatic drainage.’

The fashion designer went on to explain how ‘each day started with a cup of my new favourite Barley coffee. It has no coffee or other stimulants, it has anti-inflammatory and antiseptic properties, and it has antiseptic properties, and it has antioxidant and digestive benefits.’

Aside from the unorthodox treatments mentioned, other practices include an assessment of toxicity levels, bioenergy appointments, a bone densitometry assessment, three vitamin-vital infusions, a dietary examination and a post-treatment stage diet plan.

Also thrown in are six tendon-muscle massages and hydro-aromatherapy sessions, three sessions with a personal trainer, three group outdoor walking sessions, a three days Revital@home kit with medical instructions and access to group fitness and physical activities.

Meanwhile, her husband David Beckham appeared to be getting back into the swing of country life on Sunday as he tended to his bees in the garden of his Cotswolds home, after returning to the UK after an extended stay in Miami.

The sportsman, 46, who took up the quirky hobby in lockdown, shared a flurry of videos to his Instagram Story as he donned a flat cap and got to work.

David nailed country chic in a white shirt and black trousers with tan leather brogues as he set out to look for honey.

The former footballer proudly shared the update with his followers as he panned the camera around his colony and the bee’s flew in and out the hives.

Joined by his three dogs, Olive, Sage and Fig, David proved he is quintessentially the country gent as he penned: ‘Hi Honey. I’m home… I love spring.’

After becoming interested in beekeeping during lockdown it was reported that he was ‘set to start selling his own range of organic honey.’

David has shared updates about his hobby over the past 18 months, including snaps of himself collecting honey from a hive and even getting his children involved.

Previously, it was reported that David was ready to turn his hobby into a business by launching honey under potential names ‘D Bee, Seven Honey and Goldenbees’, according to The Sun.

A source said: ‘Beekeeping started as a fun hobby early in lockdown.

‘But now David has become a bit obsessed. He finds it a total antidote to his mad London and Miami life.’

However they claimed that there’s more than just fun behind David’s new interest, suggesting that he thinks it could help his business portfolio as well.

They said: ‘He can see the logic behind adding to his already impressive business portfolio with authentic, clean and natural brands, which is what people are after.’

MailOnline contacted a representative for David at the time.

David and Victoria purchased their countryside abode, which is estimated to be worth around £6.15 million, in December 2016.

Features of the countryside estate, located close to the private member’s club, Soho Farmhouse, include a huge football pitch, an outdoor pool, and a sauna.

It is also said to contain a wine cellar, a plunge pool, and an enormous garage, fitted with expensive cars and a motorbike.

The Beckham family are said to bounce between their Oxfordshire home, a £31 million mansion in London, and a £19 million penthouse in Miami, Florida.