Available Retreats
4 Day Return to Natural Living Retreat
Peak District, UK 20-23 February 2026
What You'll Experience
Return to Natural Living is an invitation to come home, to simplicity, vitality, and truth. Over four days in the stillness of nature, we reconnect to what the body already knows and the heart has never forgotten. Through living plant-based nourishment, breath, movement, and self-realisation, this retreat guides you back to balance; where health is natural, clarity is effortless, and peace arises from within. It’s not about becoming something new, but remembering what you are beneath the noise... whole, alive, and beautifully human.
True nourishment goes far beyond what we eat, it’s how we feed our entire being. When we honour the body with pure, living foods, we awaken its natural intelligence and vitality. When we nourish the mind through stillness and self-realisation, we dissolve tension and remember who we truly are. Together, these two paths create harmony; the physical and the spiritual meet in balance. Through conscious eating and conscious awareness, we restore the body’s lightness, the mind’s peace, and the spirit's quiet joy.
Why You’re Here
Maybe you’ve been feeling drained, carrying a quiet exhaustion that food, rest, or routine can’t fix. Perhaps your mind has been loud, your body tense, or your spirit unsure of its place in the world. You crave space to breathe again, to feel grounded, to remember who you are beneath the noise. Return to Natural Living is that breath, a sanctuary where the chaos softens and you reconnect to your natural rhythm. Through pure food, silence, and soul-led guidance, you’ll cleanse not only the body, but the heaviness of thought. Returning home lighter, clearer, and deeply alive.
What's
Included
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Countryside Facility in the heart of Peak District.
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Accommodation (shared/private options).
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Plant Based High raw artisan plant based meals, juices, and teas.
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Food Workshops.
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Guided meditation and self realisation sessions.
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Sound bath session.
What You'll
Learn
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Food as meditation
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Simple transitional Plant Based techniques.
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Breath & Presence practices you can do at home.
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Self-enquiry practices to keep clarity and nature alive.
Who It's
For
Those who are seeking a deeper connection to the self, through reconnecting with a natural way of living. Whether you're new to raw living, on a healing path, or simply looking for stillness and clarity, Return to Natural Living offers space to slow down, reset, and remember your natural rhythm.
Conscious Living Fascilitators
Holistic Nutrition Guide's
About the retreat host's
Leigh-Joy & Annie - Joy of Nutrition
Joy of Nutrition is a living-foods practice rooted in Natural Hygiene and gentle transformation. We believe clarity grows when nourishment is simple, movement is mindful, and the mind rests in presence. Our retreats weave raw food craft with breath, nature, and honest self-inquiry—so you can remember your natural state.
Self Realisation Teacher & Meditation Guide
About the retreat host
Christopher J. Smith is a realized teacher, author and speaker with over 18 years experience of Self-realization, with the last 12 of those years spent working one to one, hosting retreats and facilitating Meditation, Self-inquiry and “Meetings In Truth” with spiritual seekers from around the world.
Christopher would love to welcome you to the world of “direct” Self-discovery in this retreat!
“It’s possible for every being to realize the Self within. It’s not something you create or cultivate, it is at the core of your very nature, waiting to be rediscovered right now! All that is required is a willingness to look, and the openness to see!” – Christopher J. Smith
Countryside Property
Fields Farm in the heart of Staffordshire
This wonderous large farmhouse, Fields Farm is surrounded by its own arable land and has magnificent views over the beautiful Staffordshire countryside.
Note:
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Bed linen and towels included.
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Sorry, no pets and no smoking
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Shop 1.4 miles
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Train station 4.5 miles
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No Electric Vehicle charging point at the property, guests will find the nearest charging point at Morrisons car park, only 5 minutes away.
Investment
Single Bed (Shared Room) + Private shower: £550
Early Bird: £495
Single Bed (in Shared Family Room) + Lounge and Private shower: £550
Early Bird: £495
Double Bed +(Ensuite): BOOKED
Kingsize Bed: BOOKED
Kingsize Bed (in Shared Family Room) + Lounge and Private shower: £550
Early Bird: £495
Superking Bed: £590
Early Bird: £531
Per Couple (ONLY SHARED ROOM: KING SIZE AVAILABLE): £920-£960
Early Bird: £830-£870
Camper Van: £390
Early Bird: £351
Important Information:
First Payment £65 Deposit (Non-refundable) Full Payment Due by 9th January 2026. (read full t&c's)
Early Bird Ends: 01/12/25
Past Retreats
5 Day Immersive Self-Realisation Retreat
Peak District, UK 23rd May 2022
This retreat is all about your-SELF! The True SELF!
This retreat was a reminder of what you really are as the Eternal-Self and an opportunity to be as clear as possible about that.
Immersive 4 night retreat on the 23rd of May to the 27th, we shared a space and deeply explored and awaken the True Self through Meditation, Self-inquiry and Meetings In Truth (Satsang).
About A Self-realization Retreat
In each session we will be meeting together to remind and investigate the true nature of ego, Self and our experience, so as to have a direct-experience of True-Self beyond the egoic-mind (small self). The words and concepts are never that which is most important on retreat, it’s the conscious-presence underneath that is. That’s the foundation which steadies all clear sightedness. However, there will be the chance in each session to share your experience (only if you wish to), and to listen to the experience of others. This can be very helpful to gain greater clarity and understanding of your own process, journey and true nature.
In addition, a Self-realization retreat with others who are sharing the same intention, creates a powerful atmospheric energy that deeply supports insight and greater awakening!
“Self-realization will take you into deep purifying waters where everything you are NOT is dissolved.
It will clear a path for you to see what you really are!
A Self-realization retreat is an invitation to see what you are beyond the unhappiness and limitations of the mind-identity.
It’s an opportunity to find the real wealth of happiness and riches within.
Therefore, the sole aim of this retreat is for you to have a glimpse of the True-Self within.
And for those who have glimpsed the True-Self, for you to be permanently established in that reality!
Everyone wishes to be happy in life, but you can never be truly happy as long as you are chasing it outside of the True-Self.
When one opens to the True-Self, the truth of innate inner happiness is revealed.
5 Day Immersive Self-Realisation & Purification Retreat
Peak District, UK, 5th September 2022
This retreat was a 5 day purification of body, mind and soul. Working with special detox foods and juices, as well as pranayama breathwork methods, releasing techniques and deep meditation. As well as subtle reminders of the deeper nature of what you really are as the Infinite-Spirit.
We shared the space with the intention to deeply purify body, mind and soul, and REBORN a New!
What did we do?
We have all inherited a body and mind that works against itself. This was done purposely to restrict and limit mankind’s experience and potential. You may have noticed how when you try to do something good, or try to expand in some way, the body and mind push back against you. It’s like you always have an inner battle taking place, and a part of you just want’s to remain stagnant. This is why the body, mind and soul must be purified and retrained to be in alignment with your Infinite spiritual nature and its expanded potential.
In this retreat we began purifying the body with certain remedies and procedures, training the mind and soul to break free from the egoic thought-patterns that keeps one addicted to foods, other habits, negative thinking, negative behaviors and actions. In other words, this was a retreat for “Self-mastery”.
For this we also worked extensively with pranayama breath-control exercises, physical movements and stretches, special meditations, affirmations, mantras and much more. As well as tapping directly into the Self-realized nature.
This was covered over 3 sessions throughout the day, with detox meals, juices and smoothies in between!
