Enjoy three days time out and a total reset for body, mind & soul
We are so excited to be offering our inaugural luxury island retreat experience! Enjoy a 3-day/2 night and inspiring, nourishing and deliciously restful ‘Fast & Feast’ Wellness Retreat punctuated with a guided 36-hour juice fast on the middle day and night. This unique and life-changing 3-day weekend will be a deep-dive RESET for your health – super engaging, highly educational, deeply relaxing, filled with connection and fun with like-minded others with a transformational 36 hour juice fasting component on Day 2.
Deepen your knowledge and get super inspired with deep-dive educational talks from Jason about fasting, healthy longevity and bowel, gut and digestive health. Enjoy fun, interactive and informative cooking classes and plant-based education from Tracey and be spoilt with her delicious plant-based food and organic juices all weekend. Stretch, settle, ground and be soothed with gentle (optional) daily meditation, yoga, walks in nature, vibrant discussions and sharing, daily check-in circles plus an additional relaxing massage if desired. Do as much our as little as you like as you sink gloriously into this experience in the magical, luxury island hideaway that is Parohe Island Retreat.
WHEN: Friday 3rd November 10.00am, to Sunday 5th November 4.30pm, 2023
WHERE: Parohe Retreat Centre Kawau Island
COST: $1495.00 per person for twin share luxury room or eco hut with ensuite bathroom
$1995pp for own luxury room or eco hut with ensuite bathroom
$1595pp Special couple or twin luxury spacious cabana room for two with lounge, kitchen, deck and ensuite
$1595pp for Special Waters Edge (down near the jetty) quaint Original Cottage couple room with kitchen, lounge and bathroom and bedroom upstairs.
Includes: Stunning luxury accommodation in eco huts, luxury cabanas or 2 x special spacious abodes, all plant-based food and juices, yoga, meditation, 3 x deep dive educational seminars from Jason, plant-based cooking class from Tracey and workshop on ‘How to Transition to More Plant-Based Eating with Ease and Fun, also from Tracey. And of course the additional treats and activities that Parohe have to offer like swimming pool, paddle boarding, kayaking, spacious sauna, outdoor forest baths and beautiful island walks.
ENJOY A WORLD CLASS EXPERIENCE
Co-led by Jason Shon Bennett – three times best-selling author and NZ’s pre-eminent FastMaster – who has been regularly fasting for over 30 years, AND Tracey Bennett – Plant-Based, Wholefood Chef and Educator aka @The Reckless Foodie! Come and join us for an intimate three day/two night getaway retreat set on the luxury and simply idyllic location that is Parohe Retreat Centre on Kawau Island. Feel yourself breathing out as you drive to Leigh and await your water taxi. Enjoy time being on the water as you draw towards the Parohe pier where your island retreat experience will begin! We cannot WAIT to host you…☺
FRIDAY
We will ease into the weekend with talks, activities and delicious light, nutrition dense, food prepared with love by Tracey to ready ourselves for the fast we are about to embark on together. Learn what to eat the days leading up to a fast and how to best prepare for a fast. Be inspired with a cooking workshop with Tracey where you together create and then feast on your delicious lunch on Friday. Begin your Fasting education journey with a powerful ‘Introduction to Fasting’ seminar with Jason. Enjoy an optional gorgeous group nature walk or some island activities. Connect and enjoy a beautiful dinner together before we begin our 36 – hours of vegetable juice only at around 8pm that night.
8.00am – Arrive at Leigh and park your car.
8.30am – Leave by private water taxi to Paradise, ooops I mean Parohe Island!
9.15 – 9.45am – Arrive and settle into your room
10.30am – 11.30am – Opening Circle
11.30am – 12.45pm – Plant-Based Cooking Workshop with Tracey
1.00pm – 1.45pm – Delicious Plant-Based Lunch
1.45pm – 3.45pm – Jason Seminar: ‘Intro to Fasting’
4.00pm – 6.30pm – Nature Walk/Relax or MASSAGE
6.30pm – 7.30pm – Last dinner feast before our 36 hour fast
7.30pm – 8.45pm – Pre-fast Circle/sharing/pep-talk MAIN SPACE
8.45pm – 10.00pm – Chill Time/ or MASSAGE
SATURDAY
Start the day with a gently energising yoga practice followed by a meditation session, both by highly regarded practitioners. Then on to the transformational highlight – be lovingly and powerfully guided through the 36-hour nourishing juice fast based on the tried and true principles of seasoned FastMaster Jason. Be held, encouraged and supported through your fast with a group of like-minded others and two seasoned and skilled fasters. Be distracted by the seminars and holistic activities on offer or simple stay quiet, read, take rest, chill, play cards, enjoy nature, connect, and contemplate – whatever serves you and your fasting process the best. Enjoy the nutritionally dense organic juices served to you at morning and lunch as well as the hearty warming veggie broth in the evening. Feel the comradery and connection of the group as we do the evening check in circle – supporting and learning from each other’s process.
7.15am – 8.40am – Gentle Yoga Class
8.45am – 9.30 am – Guided Meditation
9.45am – 10.15am – FIRST JUICE!
10.15am – 12.15pm – Jason Seminar: ‘Bowel Health Dictates All Health’
12.15pm – 2.15pm – Chill/Rest Time/ or MASSAGE
2.15pm – 2.45pm – SECOND JUICE
2.45pm – 4.00pm – Gentle Nature Walk locally
3.45pm – 6.00pm – Chill/Rest Time/ or MASSAGE
6.15pm – 7.00pm – BROTH TIME! (warming veggie-based broth for evening)
7.00pm – 8.30pm – Check In Circle/Support
8.30pm onwards – Downtime/Stretching/Playing Cards/Hanging Out/or MASSAGE
SUNDAY
Wake and celebrate – you did it! We will do our best to support you through it and you may be pleasantly surprised at how easily you manage it – especially in this setting and in community. And if you don’t quite manage, don’t worry – it’s all part of it too. It will be a truly valuable process regardless with massive learnings to take away and implement into your daily life. After waking your body gently with optional yoga and meditation, enjoy and revel in the taste of food again with a delicious, light but lavish and lush varied plant-based breakfast – savour every mouthful!. Enjoy a final super inspiring ‘Eat Less; Longevity’ seminar from Jason and a plant-based lunchtime feast for the eyes and senses that Tracey prepares for you as we slowly introduce high-fibre solid food again to the body. Learn the ideal ways to ‘break a fast’. To help you transition the new learnings into your life, Tracey will take you through the practical ways to set up your kitchen and pantry with essential items for success – learn the hacks from someone who has been cooking this way for nearly three decades. Wind up the day with final sharing and leave with ‘doggie bags’ of that days delicious lunch to take home and share with the fam or have for dinner that night – the retreat that keeps on giving ☺
7.15am – 8.40am – Gentle Yoga Class
8.45am – 9.30am – Guided Meditation
9.30am – 10.30am – Break-FAST! Yum yum…
10.30am – 12.30pm – Seminar with Jason : ‘Eat Less, Live Long for Longevity’ Seminar
12.30am – 1.30pm – Last Delicious Lunch Feast
1.30pm – 3.00pm – Talk with Tracey: ‘Transitioning with Ease to Plant Based Eating’
3.00pm – 4.00pm – Closing Circle
4.00pm – 4.30pm HOME TIME ☺ Hugs, goodbyes and to the jetty we go!
5.15pm Water Taxi back to Leigh where your car awaits for your journey home
THE EXPERIENCE
A unique and transformational retreat like this is an amazing opportunity to grow and expand in different and sometimes unexpected ways and to make new connections and like-minded friends. It can be a wonderful thing to attend with your partner or good friend – so this is encouraged! Equally, coming along on your own is an awesome gift to yourself on your own terms. Even if it feels a little bit scary and out of your comfort zone, you will be SO glad you did it and will be wholeheartedly welcomed and embraced by the group… go for it!!!
TO BOOK YOUR PLACE
Spaces are naturally limited for a luxury, intimate retreat of this nature – there will only be between 10 – 20 people, depending on how many book single rooms vs twin rooms. To reserve your spot with an initial deposit of $500, click button below! Or to ask any questions about the retreat, please email our personal assistant Luke at luke@jasonshonbennett.com
JOIN US!
So, if you are a little unsure, just read these testimonials and take the plunge and book that Friday off work – you will be so glad you did and will be in expert hands. This will be an exceptional and transformational retreat with a lot of fun, heart, connection and inspiration – we cannot wait to host you!
Much Aroha,
Tracey & Jason.
