Traditional organic wholefoods advocate and nutrition educator, Soulla Chamberlain, and International GYROTONIC® master trainer, Lisa Wood, have collaborated to create an idyllic retreat designed to nourish, relax, inspire and restore.

Nourishing Blue Mountains Retreat

The Kanimbla View Clifftop eco-lodges are set in 12 acres of native bush on the Shipley Plateau at Blackheath, in the heart of the Blue Mountains, with spectacular views of the Kanimbla Valley, just two hours by car or train from Sydney. For more information on Kanimbla visit www.kanimbla.com.Soulla is the creator and owner of Sydney-based business Star Anise Organic Wholefoods, through which she sells nutrient-dense premium quality organic products as well as providing nutrition education, wholefood dinners, cooking classes and recipe creation.

Soulla will bring her expertise and passion to the retreat by preparing all meals in accordance with traditional wholefoods principles and ancestral traditions. She will also provide educational talks on the principles and benefits of a traditional wholefoods diet.

The emphasis will be on grass-fed and slow cooked meats, wild fish, pastured eggs, lacto-fermented vegetables, quality dairy, bone broth soups, fresh fruit and vegetables, activated nuts and naturally sweetened desserts. With no grains, legumes or processed foods whatsoever, the meals will be nourishing, satisfying and delicious!

Dates: 3pm Friday 19 October to 3pm Sunday 21 October 2012Location: Kanimbla View Clifftop Retreat, Blue Mountains

This is a unique opportunity to experience Australia’s only retreat to offer traditionally prepared nutrient-dense organic wholefoods of the highest quality together with a focus on movement through Gyrokinesis (a method somewhere between yoga and Chi Gong) which focuses on joint mobility, breathing, fluidity and freedom.

Lisa is the owner of GYROTONIC® Sydney, a company dedicated to developing quality teachers of the GYROTONIC® method. Lisa will bring her expertise with over 20 years experience in teaching movement in dance, yoga, pilates, and Gyrokinesis.

Cost: $725. Limited spaces available.

Price includes: 2 nights accommodation6 main meals2 afternoon teasnutritional educationcooking classesmovement classes and all other activities (other than massage).

Nourishing Blue Mountains Retreat

To participate in this unique experience in a truly peaceful setting contact Lisa Wood on 0403 931 895 or lisamathison@yahoo.com.

Places are limited to 12 persons. Each bedroom accommodates 2 single or one double bed.

At the retreat Lisa will teach movement classes that allow the body to achieve balance with an emphasis on the para-sympathetic nervous system enabling healing and restoration to occur. Using circular movements, Lisa will guide participants to work out without struggle whilst having fun! Each Gyrokinesis session will have a specific focus including breathwork, relaxation, abdominal strengthening and hip and chest opening.

Other retreat activities include a guided bushwalk, tennis, meditation, Creative State meditation (by Brett Wood), massage (by Sarah Muir), a workshop on making goats curd, and a visit to a local apple orchard.

Sample daily routine7:30am herbal tea7:45-8:15 warm up, stretch8:15- 9:30 breakfast followed by goat curd making10:30-12pm chi gong + bush walk1-2 lunch2-2:30 cooking class3-4:30 yoga/Gyrokinesis class4:30-5:30 afternoon tea and educational talk on nutrition and hydration7 dinner8:30-9:30 guided meditation