Katy Perry swears by this $5K-a-week hippy healing retreat, but does it really work?

nypost.com:

The Hoffman Institute in California — where participants spend thousands to give up their phones, alcohol, sex and exercise to “live more consciously” and break bad behavior patterns — tell The Post it helped them too.

Perry, 39, says taking the seven-day Hoffman Process helped her battle depression after a breakup with Orlando Bloom in 2017.

The duo reunited a year later and got engaged in 2019. “I had a really tough year, and I finally went to Hoffman towards the end of that year that we were separated, and then I got the tools and spoke the same language, and it changed my life,” she told “Call Her Daddy” podcast host Alex Cooper, revealing Bloom had also attended the retreat in Petaluma when they first began dating. “It saved my life.

I would be dead without it. I would not be on this planet without that process — and meditation,” she said in the interview, describing the process as “intensive re-wiring of your neural pathways” that helped her purge “negative habits.” The “Woman’s World” singer – and celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow, Sienna Miller, Oliver Hudson, Hoda Kotb and others – credit the method, which also involves techniques such as chopping wood as a means to move through trauma, with helping them achieve deeper connections with their authentic selves.