Immersions
Lifestyle Medicine Retreat
Lifestyle Medicine Retreat
Join us at our Lifestyle Medicine Immersion Retreat to kickstart your healthy lifestyle change. After four years in Anglesea, Victoria, our immersion is now at the Yarra Valley Living Centre in Yarra Junction, Victoria. The program runs for a full week – Sunday to Sunday – and includes material covering all the domains of lifestyle medicine.
Enjoy delicious whole food plant-based meals plus cooking demonstrations, yoga, meditation, films and benefit from the educational lectures by experts in plant-based nutrition and lifestyle medicine Dr Malcolm Mackay (General Practitioner), Jenny Cameron (Nutritionist & Wellness Coach) and Dr Peter Johnston (Dietitian).
This immersion is perfect for people who want to achieve optimal health and wellbeing through a healthy lifestyle. If you are suffering from a chronic disease you can make significant lifestyle changes with the reassurance of medical supervision at hand. If you are already living a healthy lifestyle we will help you tweak it to achieve optimal health and have the best chance of preventing heart disease, diabetes, cancer and autoimmune diseases. Wherever you are on the health spectrum this immersion is the best way to kick start your health transformation in a community of like-minded people.
Upcoming immersions:
16th to 23rd March 2025
About the immersion
This will suit people who:
- Want to improve their health and well-being – to look and feel better, have more energy and sleep better
- Want to lose weight in a way that is sustainable
- Have a chronic disease that can be improved with lifestyle changes, e.g. type 2 diabetes, heart disease or an autoimmune disease
- Want to make significant lifestyle changes with medical supervision at hand
- Want to learn how to have the best chance of preventing heart disease, diabetes, cancer and autoimmune diseases
- Love to have someone else prepare delicious whole food plant-based meals
- Enjoy spending time with like-minded people who are passionate about improving their health
What you will learn:
- How to use nutrition to achieve optimal health
- The role of lifestyle medicine in preventing and managing disease
- A calorie density approach to weight management
- Tips for shopping and label reading
- How to prepare simple and delicious plant-based meals
- How to overcome barriers to a healthy lifestyle
- The best resources to use to help you with this lifestyle
Please follow this link to register interest – you’ll be taken to our partner website.Â
This will suit people who:
- Want to improve their health and well-being – to look and feel better, have more energy and sleep better
- Want to lose weight in a way that is sustainable
- Have a chronic disease that can be improved with lifestyle changes, e.g. type 2 diabetes, heart disease or an autoimmune disease
- Want to make significant lifestyle changes with medical supervision at hand
- Want to learn how to have the best chance of preventing heart disease, diabetes, cancer and autoimmune diseases
- Love to have someone else prepare delicious whole food plant-based meals
- Enjoy spending time with like-minded people who are passionate about improving their health
What you will learn:
- How to use nutrition to achieve optimal health
- The role of lifestyle medicine in preventing and managing disease
- A calorie density approach to weight management
- Tips for shopping and label reading
- How to prepare simple and delicious plant-based meals
- How to overcome barriers to a healthy lifestyle
- The best resources to use to help you with this lifestyle
Please follow this link to register interest – you’ll be taken to our partner website.
Program content
The program content will be based around the lifestyle medicine domains and will be presented by team members with expertise in each area. Nutrition is the keystone of healthy lifestyle and will therefore be given the most time.
Nutrition
Principles of optimal nutrition centred on a whole food, plant based diet. How to lose weight without portion control. How to create tasty, simple, fast and healthy food. Strategies for eating out and food in a social context. Strategies for staying on track.
Physical activity
Principles of exercising for health. Developing a personalised exercise plan.
Sleep
The science of sleep and strategies to improve your sleep.
Stress management
Techniques and strategies to reduce your stress levels, including gentle yoga classes, mindfulness, and meditation.
Substance use
The psychology of addictive behaviours including ‘food addiction’ and strategies to stay on track.
Social connectedness
The group dynamic is a key feature of successful lifestyle programs.
Immersion dates in 2025
- 16th to 23rd March
Cost
- $2750 per person multi-share
- $2950 per person twin share
- $3600 single occupancy
More details on our partner website Whole Foods Plant Based Health
Enquire today