Meet your Retreat Leader, Michelle:
You will be guided on the retreat by Michelle McKenzie (BSc, ANutr) a registered Associate Nutritionist and author. Michelle studied Human Nutrition at the London Metropolitan University and graduated with a first class honours degree. She was also awarded the Dietetics, Food and Nutrition prize by the university in recognition of her academic achievements. In 2016 an abstract of her research on low carbohydrate diets and diabetes was published by Cambridge Journals and she was invited to present her findings at the Royal Society of Medicine as part of the Nutrition Society’s Annual Winter Conference.
Michelle loves working with a wide variety of clients to support them on their personal health journeys some of which have included an Oscar winning actor and a BAFTA winning musician.
‘I love my job, I get to spend time with people and witness their health and vitality transform. It’s a beautiful thing’.
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All of our retreats include healing treatment, set in this stunning environment. Whether you choose The Regeneration Retreat, to fast and heal your body, the Creative Writing or Actors retreat, to enhance your skills and ignite your imagination, or the Tastes and Treats retreat where you have the holiday of a lifetime taken to the best spots Tuscany and Umbria have to offer…this moment…this treatment and coming outside to this view will be part of it.
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The Regeneration Retreat has been featured in @the.independent as one of the best Health and Wellness Retreats across Europe! By @madeleinelovesthis
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The Regeneration Retreat 25th of June - 2nd of July, also 9th - 16th of September. A week of deep healing through a regenerative fasting mimicking diet, daily treatment including massage and cranial osteopathy. Time to rest, swim, explore local towns and replenish in the hot springs. @michellemckenzienutritionist
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The views, the trips, the tastes. These are the things that can be hard to describe when we explain everything included on each retreat, but are the very fabric of what makes a retreat come alive.
Here you see our writers taking breaks from creating, to get out and enjoy the best places to explore and be inspired. @aga_lesiewicz
Join us on retreat and come alive this year.
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Have you thought about joining our Writing through cancer retreat, “Beautiful, Precious ME retreat”? Are you curious about what it will be, if It is right for you? Well, so have I… Will we only take breast cancer patients? Will anybody be in active treatment? Will somebody join knowing they are terminal? How would that affect the dynamic of the group, when we are talking about process, recovery & moving on? All these questions are running through my head right now. I have my answers to these curiosities, I also know people never fail to surprise me, I am always given more than I expected in challenges and gifts.
Or are you supporting a loved one, a friend or a neighbour through their own personal cancer reality? Are you living with the loss of a loved one and want time and space to connect, share and process?
What I would like to share with you is that there is no right person for this retreat, sadly I suspect almost every person I know could join this retreat. Few of us get through life without Cancer affecting ourselves or somebody we love.
Having had first-hand experience gives you a perspective but it is just one tiny prism of reality. There is no right way to do Cancer, only your way, only somebody else’s way. All valid, it is about time we stopped believing there are right ways to live, work, parent, be ill or die.
I think it is natural to believe in the choices you make, why would you choose to do something unless you believed it was the right choice? But when it comes to major decisions, like cancer treatment, most of us are inexperienced, ill equipped to even understand the language and choices ahead, let alone the fact that you are usually in shock at this time, the overwhelm is overwhelming. So with this retreat, we create a safe space for dialogue, writing, resting and processing.
If you want to bring your questions to me @octigan
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A lot of love goes into our cooking at Siliano Alto.
Whether you are joining in on one of our health and wellness retreats with @michellemckenzienutritionist where your every mouthful has been weighed and measured or one of our writing courses with @aga_lesiewicz we believe in nourishment in all it’s forms.
We run out to our local farmers markets daily and bring home the very best seasonal produce. We know the best local places for cheese, olives, cured treats and delicious wines.
Not only will we carefully cater to any allergies, your preferences and desires are equally listened to. We understand wanting to eat Pizza when in Italy and also that you may not want carb heavy food at every meal.
Today in our test kitchen we have been experimenting with Celeriac Gnocchi, potatoes healthier big brother.
We are very happy with our results, which would you prefer?
Sage, garlic 🧄 and lemon 🍋
Broccoli 🥦 and Parmesan 🧀
Baked in a garlicky tomato 🍅 sauce with combination of smoked mozzarella and pecorino 🧀 and 🌿 basil 🌿
Check the last image for how we felt after our three courses of gnocchi
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Space to think, to rest, to create, to discover. Time to Shine in 2024.
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I am a firm believer that the world becomes as we see it. So I am careful about what I focus on, it will become my reality.
But there are times when real life is hard, terrifying even and big decisions need to be made. Cancer is this reality for so many people sadly. It is an incredible reminder to LIVE, to be brave enough to really LIVE with the full acceptance that our time will end.
Life needs to be balanced, big things, small things, busy and mundane, gentle and energised.
How do you find your balance? Mine always begins with acceptance and kindness. For @aga_lesiewicz it was putting pen to paper.
If you need help finding balance through any stage of your cancer reality, come join us for our writing through cancer retreat in May 2024
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As we bring in the New Year here at Siliano Alto, we do the normal looking back and dreaming forward.
Our gentle home held space for many creative and healing moments. We made life long friendships and explored ideas, passions and longings.
Running retreats is a huge privilege and a complete pleasure. As someone who has worked in the service industry for 39 years now, I know the power of connection. The feeling you get when others leave you feeling better than when they had arrived. I remember loving my early days of hairdressing back in 1984, I’m quite sure I didn’t fully appreciate why.
With so many difficult realities happening globally, too many to do any sort of justice to, with some sort of trivialising list. We commit to making 2024 about simple, human connections at Shine Retreats.
A promise of time, of space and of kindness, it really was all in the name, A time to Shine, for us and for all who join us here in this gentle house.
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