Our 4-night women’s wellness and mindfulness retreats are designed to help foster connection with yourself, others and nature. Located in Morzine in the mountains of the French Alps, you can expect stunning scenery; delicious, locally sourced, gourmet food; and movement that grounds and challenges in equal measure, from yoga and meditation to exhilarating mountain hikes and wild swimming.
Step away from daily life and give yourself a chance to focus on what’s important; allow yourself to spend a few precious days in nature practising mindfulness and set clear intentions for how to improve your wellness in the long term.
But these are no ordinary retreats…..
Breathtaking Scenery
Hiking
Nourishing Gourmet Food
Yoga
Immersive Coaching
Elevated Outlook Retreats
A new type of retreat for women.
Here’s where our experiences differ from your run-of-the-mill wellness retreat — you’ll be guided through the entire process by a professional life and leadership coach. This facilitator will work with you to ensure you return to your daily life with a clear path forward and a framework to achieve it.
This isn’t just a holiday.
It’s a carefully crafted and guided experience to help you align with both your inner purpose and the outer world — enabling you to move forward with intention.
Why go on our wellness & mindfulness retreat for women?
Whether it’s time to leave your job, pursue an entrepreneurial endeavour, or you need to redefine yourself after a life or relationship change; our retreats are designed to help you uncover new layers of wellbeing and inner purpose, whilst being surrounded by a circle of like-minded women.
Our women’s retreats involve solitary practices like journaling and meditation, as well as group experiences and coaching that deepen connection, understanding and shared support. You’ll experience beautiful scenery, nourishing food and a breadth of physical experiences: from exhilarating mountain hikes and wild swimming to the slow, grounding movements of yoga and Qi Gong.
Your coaching work with our professional life and leadership coach, Caitlin Cockerton, begins before the retreat; is deepened with one-to-one and group coaching throughout the experience; and is integrated with a post-retreat session, supporting you in the return to daily life. You will leave equipped with inner resources and resilience, a clear path forward and a framework to venture onwards.
Your Retreat Leader – Caitlin
With an academic background spanning biomedical sciences, philosophy and sociology; over a decade of business innovation consulting for some of the world’s most influential companies; and having founded her own coaching company, Caitlin’s ‘Why?’ is to understand what makes people tick and help them flourish in work and life.
Caitlin is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach whose approach weaves together personal development work, building our capacities as leaders and people in relationships, and our yearning to be in nature in order to discover our part in the world. She loves bringing together groups of people, in stunning natural environments for thought-provoking adventures that help them to reconnect with themselves, one another and the world around us. Her retreats leave people feeling clear, connected and committed to a meaningful and impactful way forward.
If a shift in work or life is urging you to sow fresh seeds, let nature remind you of the promise and potential of a new growing season.
Spring in the Alps is a powerful force. All of a sudden, what was once barren and covered with snow brings forward the most vibrant of life forces. Rushing rivers and glorious waterfalls; new shoots poking out of warming soil; about a million shades of green delighting the eyes and filling our hearts; baby animals finding their feet; and the sound of cowbells echoing through the valleys as herds head into the mountains for their grazing season… It is truly the best time to awaken the senses!
Before you arrive
We start the experience with self-reflection exercises and a 2-hour pre-retreat coaching session with Caitlin where you’ll delve into the values and experiences that make you feel fully alive. You’ll set clear, personal intentions for your Spring Awakening and prepare to bring your full self to the retreat.
What's Included:
Luxury ensuite room
Pre- and Post-Retreat, 2hr, 1-1 Coaching session
3 locally sourced, seasonal vegetarian meals each day carefully designed to support your nutritional needs
Cooked and buffet breakfast every day
Fresh picnic lunch and snacks
Afternoon tea with cakes & savouries
4 course meal carefully prepared to impress even the most discerning gourmand
Canape & cocktail : Chicory filled with pea and broad bean mousse, topped with carrot chutney and dukkah – served with a virgin nettle and ginger G&T.
Starter : Confit tomato tartar, served with caramelized fennel, tempura chive flowers and wild garlic confetti.
Main : Fresh ravioli stuffed with homemade ricotta and foraged nettles; sage butter sauce made with homemade butter; charred tenderstem broccoli and nettle pesto.
Dessert : Roasted peaches, honey ice cream made with Haute Savoie honey; cold-pressed orange olive oil and toasted pistachios.
All of our meals are served with homemade butter inspired by seasonal flavors; home-infused salts and a selection of cordials and kombuchas made from locally-foraged plants and berries.
An inspired and supported way forwards
All too often, the holiday-glow fades moments after we return to life as usual. Our Back to Nature retreats don’t end when you pack your bags and leave the chalet.
With integration homework, useful tools to deepen your outdoor reflection practice, an in-depth post-retreat coaching session and discounted ongoing offers, we continue to support you as you take your path forwards.
Logistics
All guests must arrive in the chalet on the first day by 4pm, when the programme begins. We will be organising a transfer leaving Geneva airport at around 1pm so your flight should land no later than 12pm in Geneva. Costs will depend on the number of people on the transfer.
On the return, we will be organising a transfer that leaves at 12pm so your flight should depart at 4pm at the earliest
Concierge Booking Service to help you plan.
5 Days / 4 Nights 22-26 May 2024 €1995 / person
‘Bring a friend’ discounts available on shared room basis.
For those ready to walk into nature’s alpine garden and bloom large among the wildflowers
Temperatures rise, the days stretch out and all living things open up to be energised by the sun. If you’re ready to take your bold and beautiful place in the vast, interconnected network of living things, let this summer experience call you into the wilderness.
Summer in the Alps is when the mountains gift us greater access, inviting us deeper to marvel and participant in their glory. At this time of year, we will climb higher, dare to try new things, cool off in lakes and rivers and bask in the present moment.
Before you arrive
We start the experience with self-reflection exercises and a 2-hour pre-retreat coaching session with Caitlin where you’ll delve into the values and experiences that make you feel fully alive. You’ll set clear, personal intentions for your Summer Flourishing and prepare to bring your full self to the retreat.
What's Included:
Luxury ensuite room
Pre- and Post-Retreat, 2hr, 1-1 Coaching session
3 locally sourced, seasonal vegetarian meals each day carefully designed to support your nutritional needs
Cooked and buffet breakfast every day
Fresh picnic lunch and snacks
Afternoon tea with cakes & savouries
4 course meal carefully prepared to impress even the most discerning gourmand
Main : Crispy nettle gnocchi, served with garden grown pea puree, rocket oil, grilled baby asparagus and wild, foraged greens.
Dessert : A celebration of wild strawberries : confit wild strawberries, wild strawberry dust and strawberry flowers, served with a whipped vanilla cheese and elderflower syrup.
An inspired and supported way forwards
All too often, the holiday-glow fades moments after we return to life as usual. Our Back to Nature retreats don’t end when you pack your bags and leave the chalet.
With integration homework, useful tools to deepen your outdoor reflection practice, an in-depth post-retreat coaching session and discounted ongoing offers, we continue to support you as you take your path forwards.
Logistics
All guests must arrive in the chalet on the first day by 4pm, when the programme begins. We will be organising a transfer leaving Geneva airport at around 1pm so your flight should land no later than 12pm in Geneva. Costs will depend on the number of people on the transfer.
On the return, we will be organising a transfer that leaves at 12pm so your flight should depart at 4pm at the earliest
Concierge Booking Service to help you plan.
5 Days / 4 Nights TBC June - July 2024 €1995 / person
‘Bring a friend’ discounts available on shared room basis.
At this time of year, nature reflects to us a bit of everything – abundant resources, colourful celebration, loss, decay and transformation, daylight retreating, temperatures dropping. It is surely the time when we get to feel it all – gratitude, nostalgia, quiet contemplation and joyful steps into the unknown.
Autumn in the Alps does not disappoint. The cows descend the mountains, ringing in this time to ready ourselves for winter; the food gets richer and comforts us deeply after a day out in fresh air; and the colours are breathtaking
Before you arrive
We start the experience with self-reflection exercises and a 2-hour pre-retreat coaching session with Caitlin where you’ll delve into the values and experiences that make you feel fully alive. You’ll set clear, personal intentions for your Autumn retreat and prepare to bring your full self to the experience.
What's Included:
Luxury ensuite room
Pre- and Post-Retreat, 2hr, 1-1 Coaching session
3 locally sourced, seasonal vegetarian meals each day carefully designed to support your nutritional needs
Cooked and buffet breakfast every day
Fresh picnic lunch and snacks
Afternoon tea with cakes & savouries
4 course meal carefully prepared to impress even the most discerning gourmand
Canape & cocktail : Foraged raspberry jelly ear mushrooms; miso aubergine croquettes served with homegrown plums – served with a bay and wild blackberry virgin bramble.
Starter : Baby carrot and local goat’s cheese salad, served with foraged elderberry balsamic, crispy quinoa and foraged wild flowers.
Main : Wild mushroom arancini scotch egg, served with pan-fried wild mushrooms, wild foraged greens, wild garlic pesto and a butternut squash and truffle puree.
Dessert : Baked homegrown- apples served with a wild blackberry coulis, burnt apple puree, spent grain crumb, homemade malt ice cream, homegrown marigolds and foraged wild flowers.
An inspired and supported way forwards
All too often, the holiday-glow fades moments after we return to life as usual. Our Back to Nature retreats don’t end when you pack your bags and leave the chalet.
With integration homework, useful tools to deepen your outdoor reflection practice, an in-depth post-retreat coaching session and discounted ongoing offers, we continue to support you as you take your path forwards.
Logistics
All guests must arrive in the chalet on the first day by 4pm, when the programme begins. We will be organising a transfer leaving Geneva airport at around 1pm so your flight should land no later than 12pm in Geneva. Costs will depend on the number of people on the transfer.
On the return, we will be organising a transfer that leaves at 12pm so your flight should depart at 4pm at the earliest
5 days / 4 nights 9-13 Oct 24 €1995 per person
‘Bring a friend’ discounts available on shared room basis.
All too often, the holiday-glow fades moments after we return to life as usual. Our Back to Nature retreats don’t end when you pack your bags and leave the chalet.
With integration homework, useful tools to deepen your outdoor reflection practice, an in-depth post-retreat coaching session and discounted ongoing offers, we continue to support you as you take your path forwards.
Logistics
All guests must arrive in the chalet on the first day by 4pm, when the programme begins. We will be organising a transfer leaving Geneva airport at around 1pm so your flight should land no later than 12pm in Geneva. Costs will depend on the number of people on the transfer.
On the return, we will be organising a transfer that leaves at 12pm so your flight should depart at 4pm at the earliest
5 Days / 4 Nights - January 2024 (Exact dates TBC) €1995 / person
‘Bring a friend’ discounts available on shared room basis.
Going on the spring awakening retreat was one of the best experiences of my life. I will never look at nature in the same way, thanks to Caitlin and the wonderful team at Alikats. I can't wait to return next year!!
It is always our intention that the food we serve should be delicious, beautiful, nourishing, appropriately indulgent and always made from scratch using the best available ingredients. Local and seasonal produce is at the heart of every dish, for reasons of sustainability but also because it is pure joy to eat food when it is perfectly ripe and ready to eat!
We love to share the wild treasures that we gather on our walks through the woods and the fields along with produce growing in the AliKats’ kitchen garden and from our local farms and then create dishes which showcase their delicate individual flavours and also how harmoniously they can be work together. Foraged ingredients inspire many of our dishes and also go into our own home made tisanes, botanical syrups, kombucha and kefir. By eating what is growing on our doorstep we are following natures cues as to what our bodies need most in that moment.
Our retreats show how beautiful food can move with the rhythms of nature.
Eating in harmony with the seasons also ensures we put vegetables at the centre of our menus and this is one of the most important things we can do for our own health and for the health of the planet. Every meal is full of fresh fruits, herbs and vegetables, whole grains, nuts and seeds and carefully chosen minimally processed dairy products from local farms.
We are mindful to provide you with the food that will best fuel you for the day ahead. Breakfasts, lunches and snacks are designed to be cleansing, energising and sustaining in equal measure whereas the gourmet 3 course dinners are created to celebrate and honour the days discoveries, to spark delight and trigger conversation to help enhance the connection between the group.
The Perfect Location
If you’re looking for the wow factor, there is nothing more breathtaking than waking up to the sunrise over sweeping views of the valleys and mountains of the Alps.
Ferme à Jules is a beautifully converted farmhouse set in a peaceful Alpine valley near the resort of Morzine, in the Portes du Soleil mountain range, just 1.5 hours from Geneva airport
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Ensuite room
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