About The Retreat
This special “New Year New You” retreat will focus on the food and embracing a vegan lifestyle. Our guest Chef for this retreat, Catherine Humprys, has vast experience and passion as a plant-based vegan Chef. This retreat will include cooking lessons and a talk on the health benefits of becoming a vegan!
We will help you relax, nourish your body with healthy and delicious plant-based food, and motivate you to move your body through gentle yoga, beach strolls and scenic walks exploring the Welsh rolling hills.
Guests can enjoy a hot tub outside in the zen garden, wrap-up in a blanket by the fire pit or relax by the log burners situated in the Chapel at any time during their stay.
This retreat is for existing and non vegans alike to fully embrace a lifestyle that has many positive impacts on animals, the environment, and our health. Guests will stay in our beautiful converted Chapel with lots of extras’ to keep focused on a healthy lifestyle!
Veganuary inspires hundreds of thousands of people around the world to try a vegan diet during the month of January. Many people choose to go vegan permanently after taking part in Veganuary.
As you know we love our food at Sunsetbay Retreats and are very excited to have Honest Edibles on the team for the Veganuary retreat, in addition to the wonderful food they prepare for our guests, they will also offer a plant based cooking lessons, chefs table and a afternoon of foraging!
A complimentary holistic treatment will be offered on the day of arrival in massage reiki or reflexology, further treatments can be booked over the long weekend.
Accommodation / Venue
Guests will stay in our beautiful converted Chapel with lots of extras’ to keep focused on a healthy New Year New You lifestyle, daily yoga, pilates, massage and reflexology treatments, scenic walks, gong meditation, hot tub and lots of time to chill in one of relaxation area’s by the log fire or outside wrapped in a blanket by the fire pit!
If now is the time your thinking about making those health changes in 2024? Then don’t hesitate to book yourself in, only six rooms available!
The chapel has been designed with luxury in mind whilst maintaining some of its original charm. Four of the bedrooms include en-suite bathrooms with two further bedrooms sharing facilities. Daily classes, workshops, therapies and meals also take place in the chapel.
There are plenty of areas within The Chapel to rest and restore either in one of the lounge areas filled with original features, the snug by the log burning fire, hot tub or fire pit in the large zen garden!
Teacher
Frankie Walker Yoga Teacher
Over her 23 years of yoga practice, Frankie has found many incredible teachers to work with, traditional and non-traditional, in India and the U.K.
She continues to be influenced by the work of Vanda Scaravelli, somatic movement and embodiment practices and is currently a student of Body-Mind Centering with EmbodyMove UK. Teaching professionally for the last 13 years she is considered one of the U.K’s senior yoga teachers.
She is known for her 1:1 work in the post-natal field, with adults affected by autism and with performers rehabilitating from injury and surgery, amongst many others. She is a regular teacher on Sunsetbay Retreats and locally in Mid-Wales as well as continuing to lead classes and workshops at some of London’s top studios.
Chef Catherine Humprys
Chef Catherine Humprys will be on-site to provide nourishing and nutritious meals that complement all our activities.
Catherine has spent the past 40 years creating and enjoying plant-based food and has been working as a professional chef since 2019.
Wildings Vegan Kitchen was established to meet the growing demand for home-cooked vegan food in North Wales, where she’s lived since 2007.
What began as friends encouraging her to share her creations, quickly progressed into cooking for retreats, private dinners, events and pop-ups. Having been purely self-taught, she then trained at Demuth’s cookery school in Bath, where she learned so much more about making not only food bursting with interesting flavours and textures but nourishing food that looks beautiful on a plate.
Enjoy scrumptious seasonal food prepared with colourful and tasty local ingredients to celebrate the winter. Our creative Chef will ensure that food is plentiful and delicious, providing a perfect addition to your retreat experience. You won’t believe how scrumptious healthy food can be!
Schedule / Typical day
The day will always start with yoga and meditation session with Frankie Walker, followed by (varies daily):
Cuisine
Honest Edibles has a hunger to change the world “one bite at time” through the power of plant based nutrition, they offer an exciting twist on vegan food focusing on ethically sourced, organic, fresh, local, and seasonal produce.
They prepare food that nourishes the body whilst offering creative and imagitive recipes (all at the very heart of what they do) it’s no wonder they are front runners in the Vegan world, winning many awards and five star reviews for their delicious, inspirational food and concept!
Three meals a day are included on the retreat – Breakfast, packed lunches or a warming lunch, home made cake and dinner, along with cooking lessons, chefs table, foraging and a tasting menu to really embrace the Veganuary theme.
Retreat Price
£675.00 – SINGLE BED / SHARED ROOM
£1,251.00 – TWO PERSONS / SINGLE BEDS /SHARE A BATHROOM – (ROOM 6)
£1,440.00 – TWO PERSONS / KING OR TWIN /SHARE A BATHROOM (ROOM 5)
£1,400.00 – TWO PERSONS SHARE A ROOM KING BED ONLY ENSUITE (ROOM 4)
£1,530.00 – TWO PERSONS SHARE ROOM ENSUITE TWIN OR KING (ROOM 1-2-3)
£850.00 – SOLE OCCUPANCY ROOMS 1-2-3
£800.00 – SOLE OCCUPANCY SHARE A BATHROOM ROOM 5
£795.00 – SOLE OCCUPANCY – KING ROOM ENSUITE – ROOM 4
Included
- 3 nights accommodation
- 4 full days of activities
- Delicious vegan meals plus shots, juices, herbal teas and fresh coffee
- Daily Yoga – Hatha – Somatic – Yin – Restorative
- Yoga Nidra and meditation session
- Sound Journey
- Vegan cooking lesson
- One complimentary massage, reflexology or reiki treatment
- Guided walks led by a local expert
- Wild swimming in the Talyllyn Lake
- Welsh fables and storytelling evening entertainment
- Hot tub and cold water pod
Not Included
- Travel to and from the venue
- Extra treatments
Location and how to get there
Tywyn is situated on the Cardigan Bay Coastline close to the foothills of Snowdonia, it is known across the world for its vast beauty from the rolling hills and mountains to the tranquil golden beachfront and stunning sunsets!
Tywyn is right in the heart of the mid Wales coast line, where the mountains meet the sea!
Train or car is the most suitable way to get to Tywyn. POST CODE LL36 9HA
Booking
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