Nutritional Immersion Retreat for Women – Reset Your Food Noise and Recharge Your Spirit
Frustrated with food noise? Ready to change your eating habits? Tired of spending mental energy on food choices? Overwhelmed with conflicting nutrition advice? Looking for a way to recharge your spirit? Then, this nature-inspired retreat is for you!
You will be immersed in a transformational week of stress-free, distraction-free, nutritional immersion, fully supported in a relaxed environment. You will:
- Gain new ideas on how to quiet the food noise and rethink your approach to food
- Learn simple ways to ease onto a clean eating path as a lifestyle
- Discover a diet-free, balanced approach to healthy eating for energy & vitality
- Get inspired and excited about becoming the best version of yourself
- Build habits that will transform your life & have fun doing it!
Your ALL-INCLUSIVE retreat includes a menu of options, with a workshop available each day, including:
- Holistic cooking classes
- My Farmacy Workshop: Making Medicine with Everyday Food Items
- Guided nature meditation walks: discovering the joy of slowing down
- Breathwork and relaxation
- Foraging for wild food and medicine in the garden & forest
- Forest therapy
We’ll start each morning with guided gentle body movement. Enjoy nature trails in the 70-acre forest and the private beach in your free time, and/or join in a guided daily mindfulness forest walk. You can join in a daily tea time health chat, and an evening sound bath meditation, if you wish. Plus, you receive one free reflexology treatment during your stay, and the option to add other holistic spa treatments: Indian Head Massage, Lymphatic Drainage Massage, Craniosacral Therapy, Reiki.
Date: Aug. 15-21, 2026 (Small-group retreat. Space is limited)
Introductory Special Rate: $799 per person, includes accommodations, meals, & more
Location: The Laughing Forest, Spanish, ON (www.thelaughingforest.ca)
Your host: Sari Huhtala. Sari has been organizing the Dance of Joy Women’s Holistic Retreats since 2011, with 25 women attending each July, Aug. and Sept., and she hosts over 20 private holistic retreats annually at her healing farm & forest. She has over 20 years experience as a personal trainer & fitness and wellness coach, and is a holistic chef & wildcrafter. She created Alive and Fit Magazine 19 years ago. Since then, she has edited & published over 1000 articles on holistic wellness and written over 500 holistic health and nutrition articles. She is an organic produce farmer who lives deeply connected to the land with her therapy sheep, chickens and ducks. (full bio)