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24hr Reset Retreat At May Hill Gloucs

With Danny Shmulevitch

RESET RETREAT MAY HILL
THE GATEWAY TO A DEEPER CONNECTION

The Reset Retreat at May Hill provides a gateway to deeper connection – to yourself, to nature, and to your colleagues. What you’ll learn in these precious hours can be used to inform your decision-making at work as well as at home and enable you to more easily access your intuition wherever you are.

​Your team will spend 24 hours in Danny’s company as he shares the timeless wisdom gained during forty years spent living and working among indigenous tribespeople. You will experience what it feels like to reconnect with your instinctual self by dissolving the separation between you and nature and explore a deeper, more physical way of feeling and connecting with the world.

What to expect

The environment is not separate from ourselves;
we are inside it and it is inside us; we make it and it makes us.” ​​

Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami tribesman

Arrival

You’ll arrive to a beautifully restored farmhouse in Gloucestershire, at the foot of May Hill, where you’ll be made to feel at home and well-cared for in every sense. We travel from from here, on foot, to the beautiful woodland and wild and open grassland of May Hill, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, with its spectacular views and natural green cathedral.

​Schedule

Arrive at May Hill Farm at 11.30am, where you’re invited for a delicious, locally-sourced lunch. You can either arrange your own travel independently, or we can arrange this for you. Danny will provide compelling insights, based on the wisdom of the indigenous people of Sinai and Kalahari, that underpin the purpose of this retreat.

After lunch, we’ll walk for a mile and half to our basecamp. Along the way, you’ll understand the orientation of the energy field, and the impacts of the way we live today on our ability to feel and connect with it.

You’ll spend the night sleeping under the stars in comfort, held by the beauty of the ancient woodland. Ideally, we recommend an overnight fast (no eating from lunch to breakfast the following morning). Our experience has shown that this is the best way to gain clarity in both mind and body. This is optional and we will support you if you choose note to take part.

At dawn, we’ll make our way to the top of May Hill to celebrate the expansion that is possible when we dissolve our separation from nature.

​We’ll break the fast with a vegetarian breakfast by the fire back at May Hill Farm. Here, there will be the opportunity to discuss the experience and explore the everyday ways in which we can use what we’ve learned to tune in and reconnect to our environment in our every day lives.

What to bring

Comfortable backpack
Good shoes
Sleeping bag
Torch
Appropriate clothing for the weather and
overnight stay in the forest
Notebook and pen
Water bottle

We’ll provide

Lunch on arrival day and breakfast the following morning, as well as herbal teas and water throughout your time with us.

Dates

The Reset Retreat at May Hill is organised as a bespoke group event for a team of up to 8 people within an agency or organisation. Contact us to discuss your requirements and for prices.

 

Breath, Body & Beyond – A 1-Day Private Retreat For Women

With Andrea

Justine is the Queen of British Breathwork and Lucas’s restorative massages combine intuition and insight with bodywork, allowing profound shifts. Conde Nast Traveller Spa & Wellness Guide 2023

Justine and renowned body psychotherapist Andrea Lucas are teaming up in 2023 to launch an immersive one day retreat that draws upon ancient teachings integrating powerful touch, movement, Breathwork and active listening to help women in overwhelm and HFA (High Functioning Anxiety). The retreat will be for you, and you alone, with a 100% focus on you, your needs, desires and requirements.

Breath, Body & Beyond’s mission is to help educate you into facilitating your own healing. You’ll be guided through a magical, restorative, informative and healing day, helping you find the root cause of your physical and emotional discomfort and give you the tools you need to overcome the challenges you face. In this one unique day retreat, you’ll be supported in rediscovering your true nature and begin the process of healing deeply the symbolic tunes of your body. Justine and Andrea hold a sacred safe space, allowing your heart to open, enabling you to embrace new feelings of wholeness and radiance. You’ll leave feeling transformed with a deep inner peace.

What you’ll experience

1. Begin the process of alleviating pain and ill health

At their root, pain and ill health have unspoken and unexpressed thoughts and most of these remain unexamined. Breathwork and body psychotherapy will help to gently begin the process of helping remove these from the body.

2. Change the way you think

Your body is a metaphor of your mind. What shows up in your body has everything to do with your mind. Your body is designed to thrive and heal, but often the mind gets in the way and disrupts the process. Changing our thoughts is a pathway to self-healing and this one-day retreat will start you thinking in an entirely different way about yourself, and about your body.

3. Reclaim your personal power

Our potential for healing is actually limitless, we just don’t realise it. This retreat will help you reactivate the parts of yourself you’ve closed down over the course of your lifetime and reclaim control over your life, making better, more conscious, clearer decisions about yourself, your health and your life in general. Working with your breath on an ongoing basis (we’ll teach you how) is a wonderful way of keeping in tune with the inner you.4. Helping you deal better with stress and anxiety

Most people spend way too much of their day living with elevated stress and anxiety levels which can lead to us disassociating from our feelings rather than the healthier way, which is to work through them as they arise. We’ll use powerful methods of releasing stuck energy that is held deeply in the tissues of the body, as well as showing you how to allow your emotions to arise whilst using helpful steps to avoid overloading yourself with stress and anxiety.

4. Release tension, trauma and emotional baggage

To be human is to have emotional baggage and often trauma, too. Tension in your body reflects the tension in your psyche because memories and emotions reside in the body resulting in energy blocks and imbalances. Emotions are energy and Breathwork and body psychotherapy begin the process of releasing these from the body before they manifest as dis-ease and illness, helping to transform the oldest and most painful memories, release physical tensions, soothe the heart and ultimately restore the body and mind to its optimal health. freeing you to live a healthier and happier life.

How your private retreat day will run

10 am: Arrival. You’ll begin your day by enjoying a light refreshment including Welle Co Calming Tea – a blend of potent herbs traditionally used to help calm, relax and ease the mind. Each cup unites the effects of hops, valerian, lemon balm, passionflower and skullcap to create a soothing sensation, which helps you begin your day with a sense of conscious calm and wellbeing. Also available is a Welle Co Super Elixir green juice – this iconic super greens is an all-in-one, vegan solution that helps support all 11 systems of the body – from the immune and digestive systems to hair, skin and nail health. Carefully curated with over 40+ naturally derived ingredients, The Super Elixir™ provides a complete solution for your entire body including wholefoods, herbal extracts, vitamins, minerals, and probiotics.

10.30 am: Breath coach Justine will guide you through a 120-minute Conscious Connected Breath experience.

Breathing is a forgotten tool for healing and optimising your physical and mental health. Conscious Connected Breathwork is a powerful and safe way to infuse the body with oxygen and energy and recharge your system to its maximum healing capacity. It can lead you to optimum health, mental and emotional clarity and experience an ever-deepening relationship with yourself. It’s a gentle, simple, yet profound technique that will help open up the full potential of your breathing system for better physical and emotional wellbeing. The many benefits, include increased energy, better immune response, and increased ability to deal with stress in a healthy way. This 120 min session will include:

• Introduction to Conscious Connected Breathwork
• Intention setting
• 45-minute guided breath session
• 10 minute Shavasana (deep relaxation)

12.30 pm: Nutritious ayurvedic lunch, followed by some quiet time for journaling to capture your feelings, reflections and experiences at this point in your day. Included is a personalised Touching The Soul journal to make notes and take home with you.

1: 45 pm Body psychotherapist Andrea will take you through 120 mins of deeply restorative body massage work. Known as a ‘Guardian Angel’ in the massage therapy world, Andrea combines her highly developed intuition and astute psychological insight together with an in-depth understanding of the human body. Andrea’s healing hands and her light and vibrant presence define her as the holy grail of massage therapists. Leave feeling transformed with a deep inner peace.

3.45 pm Tea/Juice and also you’ll also have the opportunity to try an incredible, nutritious homemade Peace & Plenty Collagen & Cacao Protein bar packed with Ancient & Brave Cacao + Collagen blend, dates, seeds, toasted coconut flakes and oil, ginger slices, nuts and cacao (if you have a nut allergy, we’ll substitute for a nut-free alternative).

4.00 pm Therapeutic reflection and insights with Andrea and Justine.

5 pm Finish your day.

1 week later, at a time to suit you, Andrea and Justine will have an online follow-up session with you for 45 minutes.

Introductory price: £1200

Full price: £1800


NEED TO KNOW

This retreat takes place in a beautiful location in Harrow-on-the-Hill, North London on Thursdays throughout 2023. You’ll be nourished and held safely by Justine and Andrea and the day is for you and you alone.

Please check you have no contraindications for the Breathwork before booking this retreat day. If you have any dietary requirements we’ll ensure this is well catered for.

Directions will be sent to you by email before the session and please do feel free to contact me anytime to discuss any questions or concerns.

To learn more about Andrea Marie Lucas’s work, head over to her website here.

To ask any questions about this private retreat day get in touch with me here and I’ll get back to you as quickly as I can, always the same day if it’s Mon-Friday – weekends and holidays may be slightly slower.

About Justine

Justine is a former CEO turned certified Breathguru © Conscious Connected Breath coach and the founder of Wonderbreath. Her entire wellbeing roadmap of the past twenty or so years began with trying to understand herself and her place in the world, Justine began her love of Breathwork twelve years ago with a rigorous Ashtanga yoga practice and believes our breath is the most powerful tool we possess.

Justine is also a Shinrin-yoku (Forest Bathing) guide, qualified to advance level with the International Society of Nature and Forest Medicine and founder of Wonderwoods – Forest Bathing Made In Britain. She’s the co-author of a lockdown-inspired book called I Am Every Woman – A Collection Of Extraordinary Life Journeys and a forthcoming guide to nature connection, called Wonder Woods – Finding Wisdom In The Forest.

About Andrea

Andrea is a body psychotherapist with 30 years of experience. Her philosophy is that a healthy flow of life force is crucial in the body’s energy field if there is to be a sense of physical and emotional wellbeing. Her psychotherapeutic approach is comprehensive in its precision, in its methods, and results. Andrea’s compassionate presence allows you to see your truth; her psychological presence and wisdom helps you transform old and painful memories; and her caring and insightful qualities supports you to release any physical, energetic and emotional tension. Andrea’s vibrant energy and caring creativity is always present and she embraces the underlying faith of her spiritual higher self as a unique combination for transformation to occur. She is well-known and respected in the field of healing, providing meaningful, heart-filled, spirited treatments and has dedicated her life to unravelling the mysteries of the mind/body connection.

She has undertaken studies in integrative psychotherapy and personal development, and I am registered and accredited with the BACP. In addition, she has studied worldwide in the clinical application of numerous bodywork disciplines and modalities. These include anatomy and physiology, reflexology, acupressure, trigger point techniques, sports massage, yoga, stretching, breath-work, and advanced clinical and remedial massage. (JING ACMT). She works with an open heart to be available to each individual who wishes to discover the inner music of their own life.

From January 2023 to April 2023 the retreat day will take place on Thursdays in Harrow-on-the-hill, Middlesex (near London) with options in the Cotswolds beyond that. More details to follow, please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

Breathe, Connect & Create In The Woods Sat 11th May 2024

With The Life Adventure

On Saturday 11th May 2024, join artist and sculptor Ruth Wheeler, and Breathwork coach and Life Adventure founder Justine Clement, for a magical day in a private woodland, offering you the chance to unwind and retreat from your undoubtedly busy life.

On arrival to this secret corner of Surrey, the Birtley Woodland Art Space lies just outside the beautiful town of Guildford. Its a community arts, crafts and wellbeing space for people to come together and learn from professional instructors who are utterly passionate about sharing and passing on their knowledge and skills to others.  Here you’ll feel your body’s rhythms slow to the pace of the woodland environment and gradually begin relax into its beautiful surroundings. This will be a small, intimate group and so arrival we’ll have a welcome tea and get to know each other.

Justine runs her Breathwork practice under the guise of Wonderbreath and has been described by Conde Nast as “The British Queen of Breathwork”.  She begins the day by leading you through a deeply connecting 2-hour Breathwork session on the camp’s beautiful covered decking area, lying beneath a canopy of trees. Conscious Connected Breathing is a gentle, simple technique that helps you to open up the full potential of your breathing system for better physical and emotional well-being. There are so many benefits to this transformative style of Breathwork, including a deepening relationship with yourself, increased energy, greater emotional clarity, better immune response, and increased ability to deal with stress in a healthy way. Described not only as a detox for every level of our being, Wonderbreath also provides the means by which you can embark upon the ultimate journey: the one where you discover who you really are.

After your deep, often transformational experience, we’ll take time out to have a quiet, reflective break and refreshments.

You’ll then be guided into some gentle, immersive Forest Bathing, where you’ll begin to feel how easy it is to open your senses more fully to nature and feel a part, rather than separate, from your surroundings.  The idea of Forest Bathing is a simple one. The term is a direct translation of the Japanese practice known as Shinrin-yoku, meaning bathing in the forest atmosphere, or taking in the forest through our senses. It’s one of the many incredible tools now available to help us connect back to nature and ultimately, back to ourselves.  This calming, somatic experience then leads into a therapeutic creative explorative workshop after lunch.

After lunch, Ruth will guide you into foraging for natural collage materials, which you’ll combine to use for sketching, printing and textures, on wood, paper, paint, as well as pyrography (the freehand art of decorating wood or other materials with burn marks which can  then be incorporated into a piece of art).  In a more relaxed state from the morning’s Breathwork and Forest Bathing, you’ll find you can tap more easily into a state of creative flow. The emphasis for this workshop is to come with no preconceived ideas and to explore yourself, your surroundings, the artistic materials available, the guidance offered, and to be inspired by nature and see what emerges. Your artistic creations may be totally abstract, you may find symbols emerging, or you may find yourself exploring colour, texture, or a feeling.  All these are there to be explored in this beautiful setting.

Ruth will also lead you through an hour of therapeutic movement and stretching in the afternoon, along with an aromatic dressing and some Yoga Nidra, so that you leave us feeling utterly dreamy and thoroughly relaxed.

We will drink and eat together throughout the day and enjoy a seasonal homemade lunch of salads, bread and soup and cake. The food will be vegetarian, but please let us know if you are vegan or gluten, or dairy free.

This retreat day is going to be kept small at a maximum of 8 people to provide an intimate, safe space.

To take part in the Breathwork, please ensure you have none of the following contraindications. If you do, please get in touch before booking:

Medical and Psychiatric Contraindications To Participating In Breathwork

Breathwork results in certain specific physiological changes in the body and also can result in intense physical and emotional release. Therefore, for safety purposes, we do not allow persons with the following conditions to participate in a breathwork session:

​Medical Contraindications

  • Epilepsy
  • Detached Retina
  • Glaucoma
  • Prior strokes or seizures
  • Pregnancy – first trimester only – ok after that
  • Asthma (if you have asthma you can participate but you must have your inhaler available)

Psychiatric Contraindications

  • Prior diagnosis by a health professional of bipolar disorder or schizophrenia
  • Psychotic or borderline psychotic states
  • Any other medical, psychiatric or physical conditions which would impair or affect ability to engage in any activities that involve intense physical and/or emotional release.

Please email us if you are at all unsure whether one or more of the above apply to you.

Connected Breath for organisations (group activity)

With The Life Adventure

I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t”  Steve Martin, Actor

Who is this for?

Getting any team out of their heads and into their bodies to help enable powerful shifts in their physical and mental wellbeing.  It’s suitable for any team, at any level, within an organisation or agency.  The session can be adapted according to level, outlook and challenges. That said, this session can also be run as a 1-1 for one specific person looking for clarity, a mind shift and a greater understanding of how to reconnect with themselves through breathwork.

Why?

Conscious Connected Breathing is a powerful and safe way to infuse the body with oxygen and energy, recharging our own (often depleted) systems to work to their healing capacity. It facilitates openings to higher levels of consciousness, allowing us to tap into our deeper resources and live our lives more joyfully with better functioning immune systems and a greater resilience to stress.

The combination of learning to connect more deeply to ourselves is undeniably powerful. Breathwork is a tested and proven technique used by elite performers such as Navy seals, as well as organisations such as Google and BCG to enhance the emotional wellbeing and mental performance of their people.

Breath practices can change your physiology to:

  • Reduce stress on demand
  • Create energy (no coffee required!)
  • Enhance focus and improve problem solving
  • Tame anxiety in those moments of need
  • Help to tap into your intuition to make better decisions
How?

This session is usually done in a group setting, on the floor on mats (we can provide if you don’t have these). We suggest up to 30 people in a session. You’ll be given a scientific understanding of how your breathing effects you, and how incorporating it into a daily routine will bring immeasurable benefits and rewards. If you’d like to receive some of the many studies now done on the power of breathwork, please get in touch and we can send these to you.

Duration and cost

1hr 15 mins

£95pp/£2850 for 30 people

Anything else to consider?

We suggest people wear comfortable non-restrictive clothing so that they’re relaxed throughout the session. Please note, as an organisation breathwork is hugely safe for almost anybody. However, you  will need to ask participants prior to joining this session if they have any Breathwork contraindications .  If you have any questions in relation to this please get in touch to discuss.

Creative Agency Series: Good For Life

With The Life Adventure

We live in a time of great unravelling. Weavers are needed. That means you.

Creative and marketing professionals have never had a more vital role to play than now, as humanity chooses its pathway for the future. In the last month, the Bank of England and the UK’s largest investment fund, Legal & General, alongside David Attenborough, countless environmental NGOs and the B Corp movement have called for businesses to rapidly adapt pretty much everything they do, or to prepare for failure. Countries, councils and businesses are declaring climate and biodiversity emergencies.

Whether we are able to reduce carbon emissions fast enough, restore biodiversity and transform our food systems depends not on technology, but story. We already have the know-how to fix the biggest challenges of our time, but lack the will, the reason and desire for transformation. Making that shift, the greatest of our times, depends on creative teams being at their very best, physically and mentally resilient, and ready for the graft that will underpin the best work they’ve ever delivered.

Creating campaigns, projects and programmes that help clients engage effectively in a rapid journey towards a resilient future means letting go of the suffering, doubt and anguish that comes with many of the emotional and physical wellbeing struggles that shape people’s lives. Imagining the creative work that connects audiences’ heads, hearts and actions to the brands that they love, and to a future that we can be proud of building means reconnecting to ourselves, to the people around us and to nature.

Bringing new economies, cultures and technologies to life, to replace the current set that are fraying the very fabric of the world as we know it, will require a level of courage, collaboration and persistence that is new to many. We may not be equipped with the right tools, yet we need to be ready for the rapid shifts that must start within the next couple of years, at the most.

Good for Life is a powerful, life-affirming 3-day experience that helps creative industry professionals prepare mind, body & soul for a world on the edge of chaos. It’s a supercharge of inspiration and insight for leaders and owners of progressive creative agencies who know that transformational change is coming soon for them and their clients.

The programme will enrich an individual and teams’ capability to make epic contributions with sharper skills and stories to build a better life for all. In this incredible journey of personal transformation, we help participants focus what they do to what they really care about by using adventure, experiential learning, reflection and discussion to connect to self, each other, land, sea and nature.  You’ll walk away with a passport, compass and map to live more fully, actively and consciously both now and in the future, and the ability to bring that gift back into the teams and clients you work with.

Location, accommodation & what you’ll be doing

The backdrop to Good for Life is the incredible landscape, heritage and welcome of St David’s in Pembrokeshire, West Wales, the UK’s smallest city where land meets sea. We can arrange transport to get you there, or you can arrive under your own steam.

You have choice of accommodation that ranges from nearly wild camping, glamping, self-catering or country house hotel, with incredible local food and ingredients grown within a couple of miles. Wherever the stay, the stunning Pembrokeshire coast is a perfect, memorable classroom for these three days.
We’ve lined up an incredible pick-and-choose of life skill adventures. They’re a kind of super-sized scouting for 21st century grown-ups. Each team we work with can choose pretty much any combination from the options below to form the foundations of their Good for Life experience and connect their learning back into their work and life at the agency.


MIND HEALTH


1. Compass For Life – defining ‘Super North Star’ goals, plans and values
2. Mental Flexibility – using improv skills to make everything a gift
3. Still Focus – learning how to apply mindfulness in day to day life
4. Growth Mind-Set – learning to learn from everyday events


HEART & BODY HEALTH


1. Nutrition – our body & mind grows from our stomach. Eat that way
2. Recovery – planning and action to regain fitness & resilience
3. Massage – how to look after ourselves better
4. Movement – finding the exercise that’s right for us, for life
6. Endurance


THE OCEAN


1. Rhythms – learn of the tides, currents, seasons and cycles
2. Climate & The Sea – understanding the impact of sea level rise
3. Safety – staying secure whatever the weather
4. Coast Craft – canny, light-touch ways to make the most of the coast
5. Healthy Seas – actions to take on plastic and diet to restore ocean health


THE LAND


1. Wild camping – what’s possible where and when
2. Foraged feasts – leaf, seaweed and root for tasty foods
3. Stars & lines – essential map-reading and navigation
4. First Aid – basic emergency skills for safety off the path


Facilitators

Andy Middleton

Andy is a maverick thinker and social entrepreneur with a passion for disruptive change and radical innovation. He is Founder Director of the TYF Group and a non-exec board member of Natural Resources Wales, helping organisations correlate their ambition, goals and actions to the speed and scale of response that’s needed for a shift to resilience. Andy works with business, schools, parents, adults and kids, redesigning play, work and learning to fit with a changing future. The Do Lectures is the UK’s answer to Ted Talks (only better, in our opinion). A hugely inspiring not-for-profit business which offers talks from passionate, creative people that Do. Hosting an ‘ideas festival’ each year, first in Wales, then in San Francisco and now Australia, the DO experience has been known to change people’s lives, including ours here at The Life Adventure.  Watch Andy’s Do Lectures  talk here.

Justine Clement

Justine is the founder of The Life Adventure and CEO of The Happy Prize Company, an agency working with leading FMCG brands and their marketing agencies to deliver meaningful experiences which are used in promotional campaigns, as well as employee incentives for organisations. She also offers her time out to the London Healthy Workplace Award, which helps to make London workplaces healthier, happier and more productive. She’s recently founded a not-for-profit community venture in West Sussex called Selsey Sea Bathing Society The society was crowd-funded with the help of the West Sussex Community Initiative Fund, as well as the local community and seeks to provide a place where locals can share their love of the sea. They organise swim gatherings during the summer months and will be hosting talks, beach cleans and charity initiatives during the winter. Most importantly, the society offers opportunities for people to gather together as a community and provide a way for those who may feel lonely or isolated to bond, as well as improving people’s confidence in the water and re-gaining their love of the sea. Justine is also a Shinrin Yoku CPD certified practitioner.


Need To Know…

Location: St David’s, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Duration: 2 nights/ 3 days

Includes: all meals, wild camping/hotel, all activities & resources

Cost: ranges from £885 per person for camping and £1030 B&B through to £1240 for 3* / 4* hotel depending on accommodation and chosen activities based on a minimum of 6 staff, ideally 8, but can be run up to 12.

This experience is run in collaboration with TYF.


 

Further reading: https://www.thedrum.com/news/2019/05/17/extinction-rebellion-warns-ad-industry-you-didn-t-think-we-d-forget-about-you


 

Deep Core Awareness Retreats (1-14 nights)

With Danny Shmulevitch

In an age of busyness, stress and chronic overstimulation, success comes at a price. Many of the world’s most accomplished leaders and entrepreneurs find it hard to switch off or make time to connect with themselves. And yet nurturing that connection is essential for real productivity, creativity and happiness. The demands of our fast paced world draw our attention outward and away from the source of our abilities — our inner core, which is the well-spring of intuition, inspiration and the ability to think outside of the box. Our ability to successfully manage the challenges ahead depend on a renewed connection to the best within us and the cultivation of new set of ‘eyes’ that enable to see the timeless wisdom that can inform best-choice decision making.

The cultivation of a new set of ‘eyes’ begins by taking time out to retreat from a frenetic world to explore and rediscover the value and vitality of your deep self. Taking quiet time to reconnect with your authentic self clears the mind and allows a deep perception that gives new perspectives and understandings. Looking at the bigger picture through the lens of your inner picture provides insights and inspired strategies that may be otherwise inaccessible. Gaining access to that inner picture is most easily achieved in a beautiful natural setting that invokes awe and wonder.

The Deep Core Awareness retreats offered by Meaningful Travel 101 and Danny Shmulevitch provide bespoke programmes for leaders and their organisations to deeply reconnect with the best in themselves and each other in the stunning beauty of wilderness landscapes.

Danny is a masterful mentor in the fine art of rediscovering and listening to our powerful inner selves — the essential process of linking to and realising our latent potential. He has extensive experience facilitating leader’s inner work through the connection with natural settings around the world, from the Sinai Desert to the Kalahari Desert and beyond to the Arctic Circle. He is an intuitive, humorous and adaptable facilitator who is responsive to the specific needs of each individual. He is skilled in enabling participants to draw nourishment from places of exceptional beauty and match it to their own inner majesty, helping them to leave after a short period of time with a renewed sense of what matters most and how to achieve that in their personal and professional lives.

Our Deep Core Awareness retreats offer people the chance to totally reset their inner being, resulting in a balanced alignment of their head and their heart. This leads to deep perception and new levels of efficiency. Deep Core retreats offer a chance for complete renewal and re-energising of participants. The shift to deep inner coherence gives participants the clarity to make better decisions and improve their communications, in both their business and personal life. Participants report that the effort to listen to their inner core, in the quiet of natural surroundings, lets them listen more carefully and empathetically to others. They say that this helps them build better relationships and more dynamic teams.

Our Deep Core Awareness retreats are currently being offered at Finca de Ariant in the magnificent pristine wild landscape of the Tramuntana mountains of north-west Mallorca. If you’re interested in holding retreats in other locations, get in touch as we’ll create totally bespoke experiences too.

Forest Bathing & Storytelling For Organisations & Agencies

With The Life Adventure

Forest Bathing can be used in a number of ways to enhance training and leadership skills in organisations, including building resilience and alleviating stress and burnout. Storytelling has the power to influence and change both individuals and organisations and is an art form increasingly used to sell a concept, idea or set of values both internally and externally.

This session is run by Justine along with writer, management consultant and public speaker Preethi Nair, combining the best of both of these powerful tools and openers. Ideally we’d recommend you allow a full day for this to allow the mind and body to slow right down and engage with the forest environment because it’s here that the magic happens. However, it can also be delivered as a half day experience (we suggest you allow a minimum of 4hrs) and is best delivered for up to 8 people.

Half Day Morning or Afternoon

We begin with a 2 hour experience in the forest. Together we’ll take time to explore the forest environment, immersing deep into the sounds, smells and textures of a woodland ecosystem. We look at how the forest stimulates all five of our senses and moves us from engaging less with our sympathetic nervous system (fight/flight) and more with our parasympathetic system (rest and recover). We do this through a series of light and easily managed physical and mental exercises, known in Forest Bathing as ‘invitations’.

This is then followed by a 2 hour session weaving storytelling into the experiences you’ve had in the forest. Settling down in our covered woodland meeting house, we’ll now turn to explore the work of a storyteller and see how great stories are put together. You’ll learn about the tools they have at their disposable and then use these to put great stories together both in a group and individual context. You’ll come away with the skills of a storyteller along with a newfound creativity, a fresh innovative perspective and learn the power to influence through story.

The combination is a powerful one, leaving you more connected to yourself and those around you. The positive effects of spending 4 hours in the forest are scientifically proven to deliver lasting benefits to your physical and mental wellbeing and will help bring about greater clarity on the challenges you face. A full day will be an enhanced version of what you see above and the benefits to extending your time, hopefully, obvious.

Full Day

A full day allows for more time to immerse yourselves; to switch off, slow down and connect more deeply to your woodland environment. We’ll gather to have breakfast together before the morning session begins and share your experiences over lunch. In the afternoon you’ll have a longer storytelling session with Preethi with more time to explore the work of a storyteller. In our experience, having a day has a greater impact on your health and subsequent vibrancy. If you’d like us to organise a location for you so that you can stay overnight to maximise the experience, we work with several locations such as the 5* Gravetye Manor in East Sussex in the Ashdown Forest.

About Preethi Nair

Preethi has shared a platform with Sir Bob Geldof, Kevin Spacey, the head of Green & Blacks & Prêt a Manger and spoken on “talking less & doing more.” She writes for BBC Radio 4 and a number of broadsheets and takes creativity and innovation back to the workplace. She works with leadership teams globally, bringing together the worlds of business and the imagination. She is also on the faculty at Cranfield university, London Business School and at the Financial Times/IE Learning, teaching various modules on storytelling and personal leadership.

This workshop can be taught across all levels from senior leaderships teams and down the line.

Please also see our session on Forest Bathing For Organisations.

Contact Justine to discuss on +44 (0) 7714 333418 or email us to start the conversation hello@thelifeadventure.co

Forest Bathing For Organisations & Agencies

With Justine Clement

Get your team out of the office and into the forest.

What is it?

‘Forest Bathing’ means to immerse ourselves in a forest or woodland. It is unique in affecting all our senses and by breathing in the essential oils (phytoncides) that trees give off, which are absorbed by the body, the experience has a profound effect on positive feelings, stress hormone levels, sympathetic nervous (fight or flight) activity, parasympathetic nervous (rest & recover) activity, blood pressure, heart rate and brain activity.

Background

Research, primarily conducted in Japan and South Korea, has proven the health benefits of spending time amongst the trees. Every study so far has demonstrated that forest bathing positively creates calming neuro-psychological effects through changes in the nervous system, reducing the stress hormone cortisol and boosting the immune system. Every study conducted so far has shown proven reductions in stress, anger, anxiety, depression and sleeplessness amongst participants. In fact after just 15 minutes of forest bathing blood pressure drops, stress levels are reduced and concentration and mental clarity improve.

Uses

Forest Bathing can be used in a number of ways to enhance training and leadership skills. We’ll either choose a location and arrange transportation, or, if you are organising an off-site board meeting or away day at a location where there is access to a forest, we’ll come to the location and run the session form there. The experience can be used in many ways, but a few examples include:

  • To improve staff to customer relationships
  • Improves creative thinking
  • Used by CEOs seeking a breathing space
  • As stress relief and ‘avoiding burnout’ tools
  • Improves empathy
Useful quick facts & figures
  • You only need to spend two hours in a forest to see the beneficial effect of Forest Therapy/Bathing
  • Forest bathing once a month is enough to maintain a high level of natural killer cell activity.
  • Women’s moods are particularly positively affected by forest bathing
  • Forest bathing can help you sleep better. Research in Japan 2006 showed that the average sleep time of participants after a two-hour forest walk increased by 15%, or 54 minutes.
  • Forest bathing lowers your heart rate and blood pressure. It improves your cardiovascular and metabolic rate.
  • Forest bathing improves your immune system by increasing the number of natural killer (NK) cells. NK cells are a type of white blood cell that attack and kill unwanted cells. They do this with the help of anti-cancer proteins: perforin, granulysin and granzymes
  • Phytoncides are the natural oils emitted by the trees a forest. The main components of phytoncides are terpennes. These are all proven to help with anxiety and lift depression. They also increase the NK cell activity and presence of anti-cancer proteins perforin, granzyme A and gransulysin
  • There is a common and harmless bacteria which is released when we walk in the forest, called Mycrobacterium vaccae which makes us feel happy. This is because it stimulates the immune system
  • Spending time in nature can boost problem-solving ability and creativity by 50%
  • Researchers have shown that we become more helpful and caring after watching David Attenborough’s Planet Earth and looking at pictures of breathtakingly tall trees. Looking at nature increases our levels of anti-inflammatory cytokines. These are proteins that make our immune system work harder which gives a positive boost to our health.
  • There’s no medicine you can take that has such a direct influence on your health than a guided walk in a beautiful forest
  • ‘Soft fascination’ is an involuntary attention that requires no mental effort, it just comes naturally and is what we use when we are in nature. Our minds are effortlessly captivated by clouds and sunsets, the movement and sounds of the wind in the leaves, waterfalls and streams. This leads us into a meditative state which allows us to reflect and restore our capacity to think more clearly at work (and home)
  • When trees die, people die. The US Forest Service found that in places where ash trees had been affected by emerald ash border disease (100 million so far) mortality rates were higher – specifically the rates from cardiovascular and respiratory tract disease which are two of the most common causes of death in America
  • Natural silence has been called one of the most endangered resources on the planet. Silence is considered such a precious commodity that the US National Park service has put a protection order on it in the middle of the Hoh Rainforest in Olympic National Park, Washington State
What to expect

As a trained Forest Therapy Guide with IOFTM, Justine facilitates safe gentle walks, providing instructions — referred to as “invitations” — which are used as ways to open the senses. We spend so much time using our vision that our other senses often get forgotten and are underutilised. Each walk begins with establishing embodied contact with where you are. Next comes a series of connective invitations, often improvised in the moment and adapted to the needs of your group. These may be followed by wander time and/or sit spot. The walks end with a ceremony of sharing tea made from foraged local plants.

Forest therapy walks are not hikes in the traditional sense. An entire walk is typically 2 to 4 hours in duration and often covers no more than a quarter mile distance. In that relatively short distance and time most people experience contact with nature in a much deeper way than they ever have prior to the session. People have a wide range of experiences, some of which they feel are significant, even profound. As a guide, Justine is trained in the skills and perspectives needed to be a supportive witness of these experiences.

3-hours is the minimal time we recommend you should allow for this experience and it is best run for up to 8 people. It doesn’t matter if you are all from one team or spread amongst a few different departments. This is based on you coming to Surrey or Sussex in the forests we work with there. But if you’re short on time, it’s also possible to run a 2 hours taster session. If you’d like us to travel to woods/forest near your offices or for an offsite, that’s also possible.

Please also see our session on Forest Bathing & Storytelling For Organisations & Agencies.

Contact Justine to discuss on +44 (0) 7714 333418 or email us to start the conversation hello@thelifeadventure.co

Forest Bathing/Shinrin-yoku for organisations

With Justine Clement

As modern life becomes ever more mechanised, and the social, economic and political systems we once considered to be robust are becoming increasingly fragile, we are all thirsting for something more to hold onto. We’re yearning for meaning, for ways to feel at home in the world. We long to see the world as we once saw it when we were children: a world that’s full of mystery, bursting with possibility; a world that will challenge us to become all that we could ever hope to be.”  Sharon Blackie, Author

Who is this for?

Getting a team out of their present environment (home or office – either way, out from behind a screen) and into the forest.  It’s suitable for any team, at any level, within an organisation.  The session can be adapted according to level, outlook and challenges. That said, this session can also be run as a 1-1 for someone looking for clarity, a mind shift and a reset.

Why?

Research, primarily conducted in Japan and South Korea, has proven the enormous health benefits of spending time amongst the trees. Every study so far has demonstrated that forest bathing positively creates calming neuro-psychological effects through changes in the nervous system, reducing the stress hormone cortisol and boosting the immune system – all invaluable to flourish and thrive in a tough working environment. Every study conducted so far has shown proven reductions in stress, anger, anxiety, depression and sleeplessness amongst participants. In fact after just 15 minutes of forest bathing blood pressure drops, stress levels are reduced and concentration and mental clarity improve.

How?

Forest Bathing can be used in a number of ways to enhance training and leadership skills. If you are organising an off-site board meeting or away day and there is access to a forest, we can come to that location and hold the session there. These can be used in so many ways, but a few examples include boosting customer and staff engagement in retail stores, as inspiration for the creative industries and by CEOs seeking a breathing space and by individual senior staff members as a powerful personal tool.

What?

Justine, your guide, will facilitate a safe gentle walk, providing instructions — referred to as “invitations” — which are used as ways to open up the senses. We spend so much time using our vision that the other senses often get forgotten and are under utilised. Each walk begins with establishing embodied contact with where you are. Next comes a series of connective invitations, often improvised in the moment and adapted to the needs of the team. These may be followed by wander time with a specific focus and/or sit spot. The walk ends with tea made from foraged local plants.

Shinrin-yoku walks are not hikes in the traditional sense.  An entire walk is typically four hours in duration and often covers no more than a quarter mile distance. In that relatively short distance and time most people experience contact with nature in a much deeper way than they ever have prior to the session. People have a wide range of experiences, some of which they feel are significant, even profound. As a guide, Justine is a CPD-certified Shinrin-yoku practitioner, awarded by the International Society of Nature and Forest Medicine (INFOM) trained in the skills and perspectives needed to be a supportive witness of these experiences.

Four hours is the ideal time you should allow for this experience and it’s ideally run for up to 8 people. It doesn’t matter if you are all from one team or spread amongst a few different departments. The session is based on you coming to Surrey, Kent or Sussex in the forests I work in there. But if you’re short on time, it’s also possible to run a shorter two-hour session. If you’d like us to travel to woods/forest near you, that’s also possible and London sessions are also available.

Duration and cost

2-4 hours

4 hours £1200 for up to 8 people or 2 hours £950

Dates

Shinrin-yoku, or Forest Bathing, is run on a bespoke basis, so please get in touch to discuss your needs and for more details.

Anything else to consider?

We also run this session to include breathwork, which is a very powerful combination. Please see https://thelifeadventure.co/workshop/shinrin-yoku-and-connected-breath-for-organisations/?r_to=8572 for more details.

Getting The Band Back Together (2 night leadership retreat in Dorset)

With Chris Barez-Brown
What is it?

A 2 night/3 day retreat based workshop for boards and leadership teams who need to invest in how they work.  A time for reflection and bonding, whilst tuning up the behaviours and skills of how they function. The retreat will be a little bit of leadership rehab, getting away from bad habits and introducing some good ones into the mix.  It’s a human, energetic and soul filling adventure held in Lyme Regis, with River Cottage cooking, sea views and 10 acres to stomp around in.

What you’ll learn
  • We teach new, energetic and creative leadership approaches whilst applying them to issues of the team.
  • How to make every interaction count.
  • Increasing awareness so you can consciously ask the question ‘what’s needed here?’
  • How to love getting feedback and lead for it everyday.
  • How to think more creatively on any issue without doing brainstorming (yuk)
  • How to manage your energy to get more good days.
  • How to flex your leadership style depending on ‘what’s needed here?’
  • How to lead the change and make it fun and exciting.
Deliverables
  • Super-tight team
  • An agreed behavioural standard that all have signed up to.
  • New ways of being that will make the team more productive, but also change the wider business for the good.
  • A shot in the arm where everyone feels super excited to get back and make a difference.
  • A big old smile on everyone’s faces as they realise the future is theirs and they have all they need to make extraordinary.
The nitty gritty

We can take up to 12 people on this retreat but 8 to 10 is ideal.  It starts at lunchtime on day 1 and finishes at lunchtime on day 3.  It’s held in Chris’s home in Lyme Regis, Dorset.  River Cottage will come and teach you some cooking incredible tips on the final evening.  This is a proper team adventure.

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Our other workshop with Chris called Wake Up! The Experience which we can also incorporate into this leadership retreat.

Learn To Breathe Workshops

With Alan Dolan
Why do you need to learn to breathe properly?

Have you ever watched a small child at play? Completely absorbed in the moment and totally unselfconscious. Perfect authenticity. No facades. Simply being. It’s a great reminder of our inherent ability to live this way. So when did we lose that ability and how do we get back there?

From a very early age we are taught how NOT to be authentic. Parents give children signals as to what is ‘ok’ and ‘not-ok’, and children adopt strategies in order to regain approval. For children, non-authentic behaviour has a short term gain. Over time however it becomes the norm, leading us further and further away from who we really are.

Our relationships with others, both inside and outside the workplace, are a direct reflection of the one we have with ourselves. You can’t hope to connect with others if we can’t connect to ourselves. If you’re looking for authenticity you need to be authentic with yourself. If you want respect from others at work, you need to be respectful with yourself. If you’d like to see through the facades of others you must get behind your own facade first.

Breathwork is your ticket back to the remembrance of your authentic self, a journey which can open you further than you ever imagined possible. It’s the best 2hrs you will ever spend.  Learning to breathe properly allows you to lighten up, and realise that you are already ok as you are. The facade you’ve spent years constructing will simply fall away as you begin to practice what you have learned in this session. You can disengage from the drama, find your centre, find joy – and consciously create a life you are happy to be a part of.

The Power of Breath

Humans have been aware of the healing power of their breath for millennia. Through the centuries we’ve developed a vast array of breathing practices, all designed to bring about physical and emotional wellbeing and connect with ourselves.

But in today’s society, we often neglect our bodies’ built-in capabilities. Imagine owning the highest specification TV in existence, keeping it plugged in on standby and then living with it for years and years without ever actually turning it on. The fact is, most of us live in ‘standby mode’ most of the time. The most powerful mechanism is literally right beneath our noses waiting to be explored, yet we rarely give it more than a passing thought.

Learning to breathe is a powerful and safe way to infuse the body with oxygen and energy, recharging our own (often depleted) systems to work to their healing capacity. And it facilitates openings in us which allow us to tap into our deeper resources and live better, easier, more joyful lives.

This breathwork session can help you back to optimum health, mental and emotional clarity and experience a better relationship with ourselves and the people we work alongside. It can facilitate the growth we need in order for us to transform into who we’re capable of becoming.

What you’ll gain from this session and further self-practice
  • Learn a technique which, if practised, will help you become the healthiest you’ve ever been
  • Feel completely energised
  • Experience deeply nourishing peace and relaxation
  • Move beyond whatever is standing between you and happiness
  • Become aware of emotions halting your personal growth
  • Let go of emotional baggage permanently and easily
  • Release anxiety and alleviate depression
The Technique

Alan Dolan’s work is based around years of exploring the most beneficial breathing techniques available to us. You’ll be taught how to use breathing effectively and be guided and supervised as you go along – paving the way for really transformative experiences.

What’s included

A 2-hr group breathwork session with an appropriate number of facilitators who will work alongside Alan to assist you.

Please get in touch with us directly to make a booking. We can accommodate up to 60 people in one session. Please contact us here.

Alan Dolan is one of the best breathworkers I’ve had the privilege to work with. His level of care for and intuitive understanding about the needs of his clients is second to none and I highly recommend him to any and everyone looking for a way to live a happier, healthier and more peaceful life”

 Naomie Harris, Oscar, Bafta & Golden Globe nominee

 

Movement for Organisations

With The Life Adventure

This topic helps participants understand that the way we move impacts the way we think. Through movement we can find more energy, creativity, vitality and awareness. These are qualities need in an increasingly complex 24/7 world. This topic will explore what might happen if we integrate more movement into our working day.

This workshop is available as part of a corporate subscription package. Contact us for details.

Presenter Danny Shmulevitch

Danny’s search for stillness began as a young child growing up in the Sinai desert. He lived with the semi-nomadic Sawad tribe near his family home in Galilee; his formative years spent sleeping fireside under the stars - free from the physical and human confines most of us accept as our reality. ​For over two decades, Danny worked with the Bedouin tribes to lead retreats and longer journeys in the Sinai desert. They were attended by ecological and spiritual leaders and other people who came to witness how we expand when we connect deeply with ourselves in nature. He set up the The Makhad Trust in 2002 to support the preservation of the natural heritage of the Bedouin and other nomadic communities of the world. He also led the restoration of oasis gardens throughout the Sinai region and built community wells, as well as a school. In the remote Amdo region of Tibet, he worked with indigenous communities to restore the murals in the Lukhang garden, built by Dalai Lama VI in the 17th century, and the Mani Walls near the Terton Chogar Monastery.

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What’s included

Everything as described including lunch on arrival day and breakfast the following morning. If you'd rather not partake in the fast, we can arrange dinner in the woods for the group.

Price Please contact us to discuss your requirements

Presenter Andrea

A restorative intuitive bodyworker and integrative psychotherapist. The primary focus of my bodywork is on long lasting release, both physically and emotionally. I believe with loving intention, a genuine caring presence along with the fusion of strength and tenderness, the heart opens and allows you to listen to sensations, lighten the tensions allowing energy to flow, restoring the body, mind and soul to vibrant life.

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What’s included

A 1 day retreat as described above including all food and drinks as described, 1 x 90 mins Conscious Connected Breath session, 1 x 60 min Conscious Connected Breath session, 1 x 120 mins body psychotherapy session and a 60 mins therapeutic reflection session.

Price £1,200.00

Presenter The Life Adventure

For individuals and organisations who want to feel and think better, both emotionally and physically, The Life Adventure is a wellbeing consultancy and online platform that offers you practical tools and techniques in the form of talks, workshops, programmes and online video. We teach you how to live your life more fully, how to be more present and how to operate at your best, both at work and play. We give you clear, practical takeaways on unique subject matter that will change the way you, and your organisation, sees the world, forever.

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What’s included

Teas
Snacks
Vegetarian lunch
2hr Wonderbreath Conscious Connected Breathwork session
Forest Bathing
An afternoon of artistic exploration
Runs 9.30am - 5.30pm

Price £175.00Early Bird £175 /£195 full from 30th June 2023

Presenter The Life Adventure

For individuals and organisations who want to feel and think better, both emotionally and physically, The Life Adventure is a wellbeing consultancy and online platform that offers you practical tools and techniques in the form of talks, workshops, programmes and online video. We teach you how to live your life more fully, how to be more present and how to operate at your best, both at work and play. We give you clear, practical takeaways on unique subject matter that will change the way you, and your organisation, sees the world, forever.

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What’s included

1hr 15 mins Connected Breath session in your office

Price £2,850.00

Presenter The Life Adventure

For individuals and organisations who want to feel and think better, both emotionally and physically, The Life Adventure is a wellbeing consultancy and online platform that offers you practical tools and techniques in the form of talks, workshops, programmes and online video. We teach you how to live your life more fully, how to be more present and how to operate at your best, both at work and play. We give you clear, practical takeaways on unique subject matter that will change the way you, and your organisation, sees the world, forever.

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What’s included

Good For Life for Creative/Marketing Agencies is available as a bespoke group event as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us for more details at hello@thelifeadventure.co

Price £1500-£2000pp

Presenter Danny Shmulevitch

Danny’s search for stillness began as a young child growing up in the Sinai desert. He lived with the semi-nomadic Sawad tribe near his family home in Galilee; his formative years spent sleeping fireside under the stars - free from the physical and human confines most of us accept as our reality. ​For over two decades, Danny worked with the Bedouin tribes to lead retreats and longer journeys in the Sinai desert. They were attended by ecological and spiritual leaders and other people who came to witness how we expand when we connect deeply with ourselves in nature. He set up the The Makhad Trust in 2002 to support the preservation of the natural heritage of the Bedouin and other nomadic communities of the world. He also led the restoration of oasis gardens throughout the Sinai region and built community wells, as well as a school. In the remote Amdo region of Tibet, he worked with indigenous communities to restore the murals in the Lukhang garden, built by Dalai Lama VI in the 17th century, and the Mani Walls near the Terton Chogar Monastery.

MORE »

What’s included

Deep Core Awareness Retreats are available for bespoke groups or for Leaders are part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us for more details.

Price

Presenter The Life Adventure

For individuals and organisations who want to feel and think better, both emotionally and physically, The Life Adventure is a wellbeing consultancy and online platform that offers you practical tools and techniques in the form of talks, workshops, programmes and online video. We teach you how to live your life more fully, how to be more present and how to operate at your best, both at work and play. We give you clear, practical takeaways on unique subject matter that will change the way you, and your organisation, sees the world, forever.

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What’s included

This Forest Bathing & Corporate Storytelling session can be organised as a half or full day as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us at hello@thelifeadventure.co for pricing according to your requirements and any more details you may require on this session.

Price

Presenter Justine Clement

Justine Clement is Founder of The Life Adventure. Curiosity prevails, for she is a chaser of life's magic and wonders. The past 20 years have been spent understanding the path to true wellbeing, both her own, as well as how others can learn to take responsibility for their own health and wellness. She has spent much of her career sourcing and creating unique experiences for global brands, their marketing agencies, as well as for organisations. She's currently working on a community enterprise called The Selsey Sea Bathing Society, improving the confidence and outlook of women through outdoor swimming.

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What’s included

Forest Bathing sessions which can be organised as half or full days, or even 2 hour taster sessions and are available as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us at hello@thelifeadventure.co for pricing according to your requirements and any more details you may require on this session.

Price

Presenter Justine Clement

Justine Clement is Founder of The Life Adventure. Curiosity prevails, for she is a chaser of life's magic and wonders. The past 20 years have been spent understanding the path to true wellbeing, both her own, as well as how others can learn to take responsibility for their own health and wellness. She has spent much of her career sourcing and creating unique experiences for global brands, their marketing agencies, as well as for organisations. She's currently working on a community enterprise called The Selsey Sea Bathing Society, improving the confidence and outlook of women through outdoor swimming.

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What’s included

4 hours Shinrin-yoku experience with guide in a Surrey, Kent or Sussex woodland and tea.

Price £1,200.00plus VAT

Presenter Chris Barez-Brown

Chris Barez Brown is a master of transformation. His unique energetic approach challenges businesses to embed a dynamic creative culture within their company ethos. Brands such as Nike, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Unilever, Sony, Mediacom, ITV and WPP come back time and again as his results produce tangible returns on investment. The impact of his work with Unilever was recently featured in the Harvard Business Review. A talk delivered by Chris is, well, quite simply, like no other you will have experienced before. Chris’s life mission is people (with a side line in guitar playing!) This ethos, combined with a wealth of experience in innovation and leadership across 6 continents, means Chris’ talks are memorable, interactive and human. Through humour, charisma and expertise, Chris brings out the potential in everybody and people leave not just inspired and energised, but thinking a little differently about the world: Equipped with tangible skills to deliver immediate change to their lives. The Guardian recently summed up Chris’s style as ‘a long haired twinkly eyed cross between Richard Branson and a wizard’, which paints the most accurate picture: A dynamic business change-maker with a magical hippy vibe.

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What’s included

This leadership retreat in Dorset is available to organisations as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us for further details and prices at hello@thelifeadventure.co for more details.

Price

Presenter Alan Dolan

Alan Dolan, a world-renowned breath coach, has spent over a decade changing people’s lives (not least his own) with the simple power of breathing. After graduating from Aston University he worked overseas in Africa, Asia and for 10 years the Middle East, forging a career in the high-pressure world of communications. His last position in his “previous incarnation” was as a PR manager in the Aerospace industry. After taking a sabbatical in order to pursue his interest in things metaphysical Alan was introduced to the wonders of breathwork, and immediately knew that this would form the foundation of the next stage of his journey. Alan’s key message is that YOU are the guru, and your breath is the key. Eleven years on Alan has gained a wealth of experience in working with the breath both for individuals and businesses and lives on the magic isle of Lanzarote.

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What’s included

2 hr breathwork session for up to 60 people

Price

Presenter The Life Adventure

For individuals and organisations who want to feel and think better, both emotionally and physically, The Life Adventure is a wellbeing consultancy and online platform that offers you practical tools and techniques in the form of talks, workshops, programmes and online video. We teach you how to live your life more fully, how to be more present and how to operate at your best, both at work and play. We give you clear, practical takeaways on unique subject matter that will change the way you, and your organisation, sees the world, forever.

MORE »

What’s included

on-demand access to this workshop and exclusive bonus materials are available as part of a corporate subscription package. Contact us for details.

Price

Presenter Danny Shmulevitch

Danny’s search for stillness began as a young child growing up in the Sinai desert. He lived with the semi-nomadic Sawad tribe near his family home in Galilee; his formative years spent sleeping fireside under the stars - free from the physical and human confines most of us accept as our reality. ​For over two decades, Danny worked with the Bedouin tribes to lead retreats and longer journeys in the Sinai desert. They were attended by ecological and spiritual leaders and other people who came to witness how we expand when we connect deeply with ourselves in nature. He set up the The Makhad Trust in 2002 to support the preservation of the natural heritage of the Bedouin and other nomadic communities of the world. He also led the restoration of oasis gardens throughout the Sinai region and built community wells, as well as a school. In the remote Amdo region of Tibet, he worked with indigenous communities to restore the murals in the Lukhang garden, built by Dalai Lama VI in the 17th century, and the Mani Walls near the Terton Chogar Monastery.

MORE »

What’s included

Everything as described including lunch on arrival day and breakfast the following morning. If you'd rather not partake in the fast, we can arrange dinner in the woods for the group.

Price Please contact us to discuss your requirements

Presenter Andrea

A restorative intuitive bodyworker and integrative psychotherapist. The primary focus of my bodywork is on long lasting release, both physically and emotionally. I believe with loving intention, a genuine caring presence along with the fusion of strength and tenderness, the heart opens and allows you to listen to sensations, lighten the tensions allowing energy to flow, restoring the body, mind and soul to vibrant life.

MORE »

What’s included

A 1 day retreat as described above including all food and drinks as described, 1 x 90 mins Conscious Connected Breath session, 1 x 60 min Conscious Connected Breath session, 1 x 120 mins body psychotherapy session and a 60 mins therapeutic reflection session.

Price £1,200.00

Presenter The Life Adventure

For individuals and organisations who want to feel and think better, both emotionally and physically, The Life Adventure is a wellbeing consultancy and online platform that offers you practical tools and techniques in the form of talks, workshops, programmes and online video. We teach you how to live your life more fully, how to be more present and how to operate at your best, both at work and play. We give you clear, practical takeaways on unique subject matter that will change the way you, and your organisation, sees the world, forever.

MORE »

What’s included

Teas
Snacks
Vegetarian lunch
2hr Wonderbreath Conscious Connected Breathwork session
Forest Bathing
An afternoon of artistic exploration
Runs 9.30am - 5.30pm

Price £175.00Early Bird £175 /£195 full from 30th June 2023

Presenter The Life Adventure

For individuals and organisations who want to feel and think better, both emotionally and physically, The Life Adventure is a wellbeing consultancy and online platform that offers you practical tools and techniques in the form of talks, workshops, programmes and online video. We teach you how to live your life more fully, how to be more present and how to operate at your best, both at work and play. We give you clear, practical takeaways on unique subject matter that will change the way you, and your organisation, sees the world, forever.

MORE »

What’s included

1hr 15 mins Connected Breath session in your office

Price £2,850.00

Presenter The Life Adventure

For individuals and organisations who want to feel and think better, both emotionally and physically, The Life Adventure is a wellbeing consultancy and online platform that offers you practical tools and techniques in the form of talks, workshops, programmes and online video. We teach you how to live your life more fully, how to be more present and how to operate at your best, both at work and play. We give you clear, practical takeaways on unique subject matter that will change the way you, and your organisation, sees the world, forever.

MORE »

What’s included

Good For Life for Creative/Marketing Agencies is available as a bespoke group event as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us for more details at hello@thelifeadventure.co

Price £1500-£2000pp

Presenter Danny Shmulevitch

Danny’s search for stillness began as a young child growing up in the Sinai desert. He lived with the semi-nomadic Sawad tribe near his family home in Galilee; his formative years spent sleeping fireside under the stars - free from the physical and human confines most of us accept as our reality. ​For over two decades, Danny worked with the Bedouin tribes to lead retreats and longer journeys in the Sinai desert. They were attended by ecological and spiritual leaders and other people who came to witness how we expand when we connect deeply with ourselves in nature. He set up the The Makhad Trust in 2002 to support the preservation of the natural heritage of the Bedouin and other nomadic communities of the world. He also led the restoration of oasis gardens throughout the Sinai region and built community wells, as well as a school. In the remote Amdo region of Tibet, he worked with indigenous communities to restore the murals in the Lukhang garden, built by Dalai Lama VI in the 17th century, and the Mani Walls near the Terton Chogar Monastery.

MORE »

What’s included

Deep Core Awareness Retreats are available for bespoke groups or for Leaders are part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us for more details.

Price

Presenter The Life Adventure

For individuals and organisations who want to feel and think better, both emotionally and physically, The Life Adventure is a wellbeing consultancy and online platform that offers you practical tools and techniques in the form of talks, workshops, programmes and online video. We teach you how to live your life more fully, how to be more present and how to operate at your best, both at work and play. We give you clear, practical takeaways on unique subject matter that will change the way you, and your organisation, sees the world, forever.

MORE »

What’s included

This Forest Bathing & Corporate Storytelling session can be organised as a half or full day as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us at hello@thelifeadventure.co for pricing according to your requirements and any more details you may require on this session.

Price

Presenter Justine Clement

Justine Clement is Founder of The Life Adventure. Curiosity prevails, for she is a chaser of life's magic and wonders. The past 20 years have been spent understanding the path to true wellbeing, both her own, as well as how others can learn to take responsibility for their own health and wellness. She has spent much of her career sourcing and creating unique experiences for global brands, their marketing agencies, as well as for organisations. She's currently working on a community enterprise called The Selsey Sea Bathing Society, improving the confidence and outlook of women through outdoor swimming.

MORE »

What’s included

Forest Bathing sessions which can be organised as half or full days, or even 2 hour taster sessions and are available as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us at hello@thelifeadventure.co for pricing according to your requirements and any more details you may require on this session.

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Presenter Justine Clement

Justine Clement is Founder of The Life Adventure. Curiosity prevails, for she is a chaser of life's magic and wonders. The past 20 years have been spent understanding the path to true wellbeing, both her own, as well as how others can learn to take responsibility for their own health and wellness. She has spent much of her career sourcing and creating unique experiences for global brands, their marketing agencies, as well as for organisations. She's currently working on a community enterprise called The Selsey Sea Bathing Society, improving the confidence and outlook of women through outdoor swimming.

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4 hours Shinrin-yoku experience with guide in a Surrey, Kent or Sussex woodland and tea.

Price £1,200.00plus VAT

Presenter Chris Barez-Brown

Chris Barez Brown is a master of transformation. His unique energetic approach challenges businesses to embed a dynamic creative culture within their company ethos. Brands such as Nike, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Unilever, Sony, Mediacom, ITV and WPP come back time and again as his results produce tangible returns on investment. The impact of his work with Unilever was recently featured in the Harvard Business Review. A talk delivered by Chris is, well, quite simply, like no other you will have experienced before. Chris’s life mission is people (with a side line in guitar playing!) This ethos, combined with a wealth of experience in innovation and leadership across 6 continents, means Chris’ talks are memorable, interactive and human. Through humour, charisma and expertise, Chris brings out the potential in everybody and people leave not just inspired and energised, but thinking a little differently about the world: Equipped with tangible skills to deliver immediate change to their lives. The Guardian recently summed up Chris’s style as ‘a long haired twinkly eyed cross between Richard Branson and a wizard’, which paints the most accurate picture: A dynamic business change-maker with a magical hippy vibe.

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This leadership retreat in Dorset is available to organisations as part of our revolutionary business programmes. Please contact us for further details and prices at hello@thelifeadventure.co for more details.

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Presenter Alan Dolan

Alan Dolan, a world-renowned breath coach, has spent over a decade changing people’s lives (not least his own) with the simple power of breathing. After graduating from Aston University he worked overseas in Africa, Asia and for 10 years the Middle East, forging a career in the high-pressure world of communications. His last position in his “previous incarnation” was as a PR manager in the Aerospace industry. After taking a sabbatical in order to pursue his interest in things metaphysical Alan was introduced to the wonders of breathwork, and immediately knew that this would form the foundation of the next stage of his journey. Alan’s key message is that YOU are the guru, and your breath is the key. Eleven years on Alan has gained a wealth of experience in working with the breath both for individuals and businesses and lives on the magic isle of Lanzarote.

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2 hr breathwork session for up to 60 people

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Presenter The Life Adventure

For individuals and organisations who want to feel and think better, both emotionally and physically, The Life Adventure is a wellbeing consultancy and online platform that offers you practical tools and techniques in the form of talks, workshops, programmes and online video. We teach you how to live your life more fully, how to be more present and how to operate at your best, both at work and play. We give you clear, practical takeaways on unique subject matter that will change the way you, and your organisation, sees the world, forever.

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on-demand access to this workshop and exclusive bonus materials are available as part of a corporate subscription package. Contact us for details.

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