Retreats

For years, a break from everyday life often meant letting go completely – late nights, too much food and drink, and returning home feeling more exhausted than when you left.  

Today, the conversation around health looks very different. Scroll through social media and you’ll find advice on fasting longer, tracking more, taking more supplements, optimising everything, and transforming your body as quickly as possible.  

At first glance, these worlds couldn’t be more different. But both are often built around the same idea: pushing the body from one extreme or another.  

You shouldn’t need a 72-hour fast, a suitcase full of supplements, or a military-style wellness schedule to feel good in your body.  

We believe there is another way. Rather than asking more from the body, we focus on creating the conditions that allow it to function as it was designed to. Our retreats are built around a simple but powerful principle: when the body feels safe, it behaves differently. Breathing becomes easier. Sleep becomes deeper. Digestion becomes more efficient. Energy becomes more sustainable. The nervous system shifts out of protection mode and into a state where repair, recovery, and restoration can take place. And, because the gut and nervous system are deeply connected, supporting one often supports the other.  

Set among the rolling hills, olive groves, and timeless beauty of rural Italy, Moving With Guts retreats offer the opportunity to step away from the demands of modern life and reconnect with your natural rhythm in an environment that supports wellbeing on every level.  

At the heart of every retreat is the SASSY Method – our unique movement framework that teaches the body to move and function as nature intended. More than an exercise system, SASSY is a reminder that health doesn’t have to be rigid, punishing, or joyless.  

Sometimes the most powerful changes happen when we stop fighting our bodies and start listening to them. Through intelligent, functional movement, postural alignment, breath, seasonal practices, nature immersion, and restorative experiences, you’ll learn to create the conditions that help your body funciton at its best.  

Whether you join us for a long weekend getaway or a longer immersive retreat, you’ll leave with practical tools and embodied experiences that can continue supporting your gut health, sleep, energy, movement, and resilience long after you return home.  

While the Moving With Guts method is new, the experience behind it is not. For more than 30 years, we have been creating and leading retreats that help people reconnect with themselves, their health, and their potential.  

Our retreats also evolve with the seasons, recognising that both nature and the body move in cycles – and that what supports us in summer may not be what’s needed in winter.  

The body doesn’t need another extreme. It needs the right conditions to thrive.