Mindful Wellness Retreat

Come and explore body-centered mindfulness and learn how to use your body as a mindfulness tool to shift habits through mood, food, language and the body.

With BodySensing Mindfulness, this retreat will help you:

• Reduce stress and Relieve pain
• Restore energy and vitality
• Reshape body and mind
• Learn to make wiser choices
• Live life with purpose

This intimate retreat will involve a cleansing wholefoods menu and a mindfulness course at Hideaway, an exclusive eco retreat in the quaint village of Swellendam, an hour and a half from Cape Town.

Retreat Package:

• Mindfulness workshops offering tools for life to practice mindfulness and embody wellbeing
• Morning and afternoon Bodysensing mindful movement sessions and daily mindfulness meditations
• Daily workshops, lessons and discussions
• Food demonstrations
• Conscious movie evenings
• Mindful walks in nature
• Delicious cleansing foods and drinks – an alkalising vegetarian detox menu
• Accommodation in the tranquil garden overlooking the wetland swimmingpool
• Individual sessions with wellness coaches and therapists (not included in the price)

All Inclusive Package for this 5 night Retreat (Early Bird rates for full payment before 1 Jan 2017):

• 5 day shared (2 or 3 per room) – ZAR 11,800 (ZAR 11,200 Early Bird)
• 5 day single (The Cottage) – ZAR 12,550 (ZAR 12,000 Early Bird)
• 5 day single Premium – ZAR 13,750 (ZAR 13,000 Early Bird)

Additional Therapies:

• Life coaching, Somatic movement therapy and mind-body coaching – R500/hr
• Nutritional consulting and wellness coaching – R400/hr
• Integrative body massage and Yoga therapy – R40/hr

Topics include:

• Practicing mindfulness the easy way
• Purpose and meaning
• Tightness and tension, and how it leads to pain
• The dynamics of food, mood and the body in shaping you as a person
• Neurochemistry and dynamics of food, mood and the body
• Exercise and why it’s often worse for you
• Why we crave certain foods, and how to overcome cravings
• The best and worst mood-enhancing, hormone-balancing anti-inflammatory foods
• Embodying wellbeing and learning to make better choices.
• Simple meals and easy ways to grow nutrient dense foods in small spaces

Duration and timing:

• 5 nights – booking in on Saturday the 18 March from 10am, first session begins at 12:00. Retreat ends on Thursday 23 March after lunch.

This wellness retreat will be co-facilitated by Nicholas McLean and Yasmin Lambat

• Yasmin is a Mindfulness Coach and Somatic movement therapist with a fascination for the body/mind connection. It led to her creating a simple movement therapy called Body Sensing. Easier than Yoga or Pilates, Body Sensing influences the nervous system through movement to reduce stress, relieve pain and restore wellbeing.
• Nicholas is a food and wellness coach who helps people to eat well, movewell and feel well. He facilitates wellness through growing superfoods, bodysensing and yoga therapy, somatic coaching and nutritional healing programs.

This longer retreat gives you enough time to reflect on lessons in solitude or for being with supportive people. Every retreat is uniquely special and each time we feel truly blessed to be doing what we do.