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Winter is a time to pause, appreciate what’s come before, refresh ourselves, and prepare for the next turn around the sun.
It’s a time for gentle, slow, soft, warm, cozy, quiet, nourishing.
Join co-hosts Heather Bailey, Jennifer Leaf and special guest Lani Morris for a deeply restorative and inspiring wellness retreat that combines eastern and western wisdom traditions to meet your mind body and spirit needs in the depths of wintertime.
We have curated a healing rhythm of experiences for you at one of New Zealand’s most extraordinary retreats at Cape South, set in a basin of green with the sound of the ocean coming from over the hill. We will connect over nourishing meals, healing movement traditions, and creativity and reflection invitations. You will emerge with a soothed nervous system and some new self-care practices to take with you.
This is going to be an intimate gathering – so you will experience personalised support and a very special communal experience.
This is your opportunity to press reset and refill your cup so you can return to what matters most with a renewed sense of energy and purpose.
Movement Practices
Morning Yoga and Self-Compassion meditation
Wild Goose Qi Gong to cultivate warmth, balance, and vitality
Meditative spiral walk
Winter Wellness
Health coaching session with practical tips and home wellness practices
Reflection and Inspiration
Insight and reflection with Map of Meaning International co-founder Lani Morris
Journalling and creativity practice invitation
Contrast Therapy and Aquatic Bodywork
Infrared Sauna
Magnesium Pool plunge
Watsu® aquatic bodywork experience (in hot spa)
Soothing Nighttime Rituals
Fire, tea, appreciation practice, and breathwork to ease into sleep
Healing Foods
You will enjoy anti-inflammatory, warming, gut-loving whole foods with an emphasis on healthy fats and proteins.
Supported bone broth intermittent fast option is available on request.
THE INVESTMENT
Prices include GST.
2 Day, 3 Night Retreat
Luxury Ensuite Rooms
Private room $1200 (Earlybird special $900)
Twin or Double Share: $850 per person
OUR VENUE
Cape South is an award-winning luxury retreat just 8 minutes from Waimārama Beach and 20 minutes from Havelock North. Nestled on 16 acres of gardens and farmland, it features a French Colonial-style homestead with ensuite rooms, a yoga studio, a mineral pool, an infrared sauna, and medicinal herb gardens.
This sacred space with wood fires and underfloor heating offers the ultimate winter wellness escape.
THE FOOD
Our lovingly prepared meals are wheat- and refined sugar-free, made with seasonal, whole food ingredients from our gardens where possible. Our meals will include vegetarian and omnivore options. Enjoy nourishing drinks, including herbal teas, coffee, green juices, and winter tonics.
QUESTIONS?
For queries, email heather.bailey@thinkfresh.nz or ring Heather on 0273007375.
ABOUT YOUR CO-HOSTS
Heather Bailey
Heather is a nurse and a midwife who has retrained as a mindbody coach to support other women to reclaim their physical and emotional wellbeing. She founded ThinkFRESH after listening to women who feel stuck between their deep desire to serve others, and their deep need to nourish themselves. ThinkFRESH coaching and retreats are a space to figure out how to do this better – how to be both the change we need, and not lose ourselves along the way. Her practice is based in the science and art of thriving – neuroscience, behaviour support, nutrition, psychoneuroimmunology, and mindfulness and compassion practice.
“After working with Heather, you won’t just reach your goals, you’ll become the person who naturally achieves them”.
Jennifer Leaf
Jennifer has a Master of Science in Education and has worked in community, clinical, and tertiary education settings. JLeaf’s QiWorks has three prongs to well-being:
1. As a Registered Watsu® Aquatic Bodyworker she combines elements of massage, joint mobilisation, acupressure, and muscle stretching while the receiver is supported and moved fluidly through warm water;
2. As a Senior Instructor of WildGoose Qigong and Chen Taiji she teaches traditional Chinese health skills that include gentle movement and meditation; and,
3. As Registered Recreational Therapist she utilises a person’s passions and interests as tools in their personal growth and/or rehabilitation.