SPRING RETREAT - Monday 29 April to Sunday 4 May - 25% EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT UNTIL CHRISTMAS
Spring retreat - Arriving for dinner on Monday evening and departing after breakfast Sunday May 26th .
These 5-day retreats are designed to give you time and space to allow your body time and space to gently heal itself and provide an opportunity to deal with accumulated stress and tiredness.
The daily routine includes a range of proven natural healing techniques offered in a uniquely beautiful and peaceful environment. It will help you to maximize your self-healing potential and teach you how to apply naturopathic principles to your daily life, using methods as old as the human race adapted to a modern context.
You will leave feeling healthier, calmer, more energetic and better nourished, and will take away knowledge you can use on a daily basis to reduce stress and to prevent and relieve illness.
Spring retreat - Arriving for dinner on Monday evening and departing after breakfast Sunday May 26th .
These 5-day retreats are designed to give you time and space to allow your body time and space to gently heal itself and provide an opportunity to deal with accumulated stress and tiredness.
The daily routine includes a range of proven natural healing techniques offered in a uniquely beautiful and peaceful environment. It will help you to maximize your self-healing potential and teach you how to apply naturopathic principles to your daily life, using methods as old as the human race adapted to a modern context.
You will leave feeling healthier, calmer, more energetic and better nourished, and will take away knowledge you can use on a daily basis to reduce stress and to prevent and relieve illness.
Spring retreat - Arriving for dinner on Monday evening and departing after breakfast Sunday May 26th .
These 5-day retreats are designed to give you time and space to allow your body time and space to gently heal itself and provide an opportunity to deal with accumulated stress and tiredness.
The daily routine includes a range of proven natural healing techniques offered in a uniquely beautiful and peaceful environment. It will help you to maximize your self-healing potential and teach you how to apply naturopathic principles to your daily life, using methods as old as the human race adapted to a modern context.
You will leave feeling healthier, calmer, more energetic and better nourished, and will take away knowledge you can use on a daily basis to reduce stress and to prevent and relieve illness.
About Us
Since 1994, Kirsten and Nic have been holding retreats and courses on the art of living and healing naturally in France, Denmark and the UK.
Kirsten Hartvig ND, MNIMH, DipPhyt trained at the School of Herbal Medicine, Tunbridge Well, and the College of Naturopathy and Osteopathy in London. She is an acclaimed nutritionist, medical herbalist, and registered naturopath. She is the author of 15 books on natural health, including Food as Medicine and Eat for Immunity. Kirsten leads monthly herb walks starting from Emerson College and gives talks and workshops on natural health in practice.
She teaches materia medica and food as medicine at the Nordic College of Natural Medicine in Denmark, where she also was a government advisor on herbal medicine and natural health, and part of the Danish Health Authority’s Council for Alternative Medicine.
Kirsten has taught nutrition and dietetics at the European School of Osteopathy; she wrote the dietetics course material for the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine Masters Degree course, and developed the second year materia medica course material for the Heartwood Professional Course.
She is a member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists and past president of the General Council and Register of Naturopaths.
Dr Nic Rowley, MA, MRCS (Eng), LRCP, PGCE, LicAc read medicine at Trinity College Cambridge, and completed his clinical training at the Royal Free Hospital, London.
As well as running holistic medical practices in Kent and West Sussex, he has played a significant role in the raising of educational and regulatory standards of complementary and alternative medicine in the UK. He was academic vice principal of the European School of Osteopathy, Dean of Studies at the School of Herbal medicine, and guest lecturer and examiner at several major colleges of alternative medicine including the International College of Oriental Medicine and the College of Homeopathy.
Nic is author of several books including Basic Clinical Science (an overview of orthodox clinical science for students of alternative medicine) and Hands On (a manual of clinical skills), and has sat on external degree academic validation panels for various universities. He has a particular interest in the therapeutic use of music, in parallel with his medical work, Nic has had an extensive musical career both as a performer, choir director, composer and music producer.