De-stress & Energise Retreat

Do you feel like taking time-out to create space and reconnect, or just curious in finding out how to combat stress through making the right food and lifestyle choices? Then this day retreat is perfect for you.

Wellbeing experts and co-founders of the detox retreat company CALA Retreats, Carolyne Ji and Laurie Richards, are coming to London’s Reva Yoga Studio on the 7^th February to help tired and stressed out bodies relax, reset, and recharge. With a combined 20 years of experience in nutrition, functional medicine, yoga, meditation and bodywork, we understand and appreciate the importance of unwinding. It’s an exciting time for the wellness industry, it seems as though the world is waking up!

Our retreat day has been designed to equip you with tools to help you feel calmer, more relaxed, re-energised and more able to cope with the stresses that modern day living throws at you, which you can then incorporate into your every day life, allowing you to stay connected to your health and wellbeing. Stress is unavoidable this day in age and it’s important to ensure that we are doing all that we can do keep ourselves in tip-top shape to take it on!

We would love you to join us at our “De-stress and Energise” Urban Wellness Retreat on the 7^th February 2016. The day includes a morning Satyananda Yoga session with Nina Deely, a wellbeing talk about managing stress from your host and wellness expert Laurie Richards and a 2-hour food demonstration, nutritious raw breakfast and a 3-course Lunch provided by Anna Middleton. The retreat will close with meditation and breathing techniques for you to incorporate into your daily routine. You’ll also have a healthy goodie bag to take away with bits from Planet Organic, Pukka Teas and much more.

This retreat is suitable for all ages and levels..

2 hour Food Demonstration..

This educational food demonstration will include foods that combat stress, reduce cortisol, and calm the adrenals, and foods that boost our levels of serotonin and leave us feeling happy.

You will learn to prepare reishi mushroom tea and linseed tea, seaweed snacks, Superfood delights, maca chaga chai, fermented foods – kefir cocktails and sauerkraut, nut cheese & raw crackers and a scrumptious raw dessert of cashew cheesecake with baobab lemon and strawberries.

Yoga & Meditation

Satyananda Yoga is a complete holistic system. A way of balancing and harmonising body, mind and spirit. The uniqueness of Satyananda Yoga is that it is an evolving yoga; it explores and draws out knowledge from the ancient yogic and tantric texts, and presents this in a practical form to the modern world. Nina’s classes draw inspiration from life and all of the wonderful teachers whose guidance she is blessed to receive. This yoga and meditative practice Is suitable for all levels.

The Day

9:00 Welcome and Satyanada Yoga session with Nina Deely

10:00 Super Nutritious breakfast

10:30 Stress Talk by co-founder Laurie Richards

11:00 2-hour live food demonstration with Anna Middleton

1.30 3 course raw food Lunch

2.30 Breathing Techniques and Meditation with Nina Deely

3.30 Goodbyes, Goodie Bags

4:00 End of a wonderfully relaxing day retreat

Refreshments available throughout the day..

Menu

Stress busting and adrenal nourishing!

Breakfast

Chia bowl with pumpkin seed, ashwaganda, algarroba & cardamom milk with blueberries

Energy Booster

Medicinal Mushroom Tea with Reishi, Chaga, Schizandra, purple corn, ginger & goji berries

Lunch

Starter

Nori wraps or sea spaghetti with pesto

Main

Warm red curry with dulse & spinach served with cauliflower turmeric coconut rice

Dessert

Fermented Cashew Cheesecake with baobab lemon & strawberries

The Team

Our Yoga Teacher - Nina Deely

Nina Deely - Bindumitra is an experienced Satyananda Yoga Teacher. Nina’s classes draw inspiration from life and all of the wonderful teachers whose guidance she is blessed to receive.

Our Expert Chef – Anna Middleton

Anna Middleton, CALA’s expert chef, understands the impact that food has on the way we feel and whilst there is no generic diet suitable for everyone and there are a few principals we can follow to help us feel as vibrant as we can. Anna is passionate about making nutritious food taste good and encouraging others to do the same.

When she is not working with CALA Anna owns and runs RAWSOME where she creating raw chocolates and cakes packed with Superfoods.

Your Host & Nutritional Therapist – Laurie Richards

Laurie is one half of CALA retreats, an experienced Nutritional Therapist and a functional medicine practitioner and works hard to inspire others to make the right food and lifestyle choices helping others to become the best version of themselves. She encourages the use of whole and organic foods as medicine and addresses the root cause of illness, not just the symptoms, and accepts that given the right conditions the body has the capacity to heal itself.

Tickets

General Admission: £125

Early Bird Ticket: £105 (5 places)* Spaces are limited.

To book your place contact Laurie at info@calaretreats.com

or call +44 7736 070332

Event Details

Date: February 7th, Sunday

Time: 9:00 - 16:00

Place: Reva Yoga Studio, 2c Andrews Road, Broadway Market, Hackney,

London, E8 4QL

CALA URBAN WELLNESS RETREATS

This is the first in the series of our CALA Urban Wellness Retreats for 2016. We at CALA understand how hard it can be to set time aside in our busy schedules to just have some “me” time, so are bringing our programmes to London to make them more accessible to you all.

Each of our Urban Wellness Retreats are designed to allow you to unwind and take some time to refocus and reconnect with your body and mind.