Catalonia, Spain has been the home of brothers Carl and Peter since 1999, and 2011 respectively. Born in Germany of English and Danish heritage, we learned to love the Mediterranean as children, when we spent happy childhood years on the island of Malta. We both have long and successful careers in many fields in IT, sales, hospitality, education, media, tourism and writing. We have written and published several wellness books in our own Stepbac series, that teach how to change and control lifestyle habits to improve natural health.

In 2020, when the Covid pandemic shook the world, we had been operating a small but successful Barcelona based tour business for seven years. We took travellers to the many wonderful sights in the Catalonian countryside. Because of the pandemic, we lost everything, both our savings and our business, and for the first time in our lives we had to go into debt. Carl was 61 and Peter was 60. Not a great time of life to lose everything, one would imagine. 

But actually, we were surprised to find that it didn’t bother us too much. We both still had our most valuable asset: our good health and good spirits, which we had built up from the age 50 by combining our own Stepbac method and philosophy with the Mediterranean diet and lifestyle. We realised that well-being was our biggest asset, and in fact, the only asset worth preserving as we grew older. Money and possessions come and go, but health is true wealth – and once gone, it rarely comes back. 

So after the pandemic, then what? Well, as long as we were healthy, we were pretty sure we could be happy. As long as we stayed healthy, we felt we could take on almost any kind of job and still live full and fun lives. We understood more fully that in a rapidly changing world, we would have to manage and protect our health and well-being ourselves. 

Out of this Club 6090 was born. Club 6090 is about restoring and protecting the natural balance of life. Our goal now is to teach people in mid-life to get back in control of well-being habits that will help restore the delicate balance that creates and maintains body health and well-being, so that they can live long and well – like we plan to do. 

Many traditional wellness retreats provide a brief break from a daily life of stress and unhealthy lifestyle habits that is slowly but surely on a course for health decline and misery. We think a Club 6090 workshop retreat is different, because we help you to change the course of your current daily life and attitude to set you on the right course to reach the age of 90 – and more – while enjoying the best health and happiness possible on the journey. Then the only question is, how do you plan to celebrate your 90th birthday?