The Mindful Gut's unqiue programme of inspirational retreats are taking place across 2025!
Partnering with stunning retreat venues from Scotland to London
We select stunning spaces to relax in natural surroundings, to create time to discover a truly holistic approach to your whole healt. Retreats are designed around all the elements, with mindful movement, breathwork, river side walks and fireside rituals, making and creating.
Cara weaves the sacred and spritual elements of gut health into the emerging science of your gut microbiome.
Discover the transformative power of self-compassion – create new habits and rituals to support more clarity and calm. Let our Retreat’s create ripples across your life, so you can bloom from within!
“I had never attended a retreat… from the moment I crossed the threshold, any apprehension
melted with the warm and wonderful welcome received.
What to expect
Beautifully curated Retreats:
Delicious, nutritious gut-loing food to heal your mood and effortlessly inspire new eating habits.
Precious Space and Time for reflecting, journaling and coaching tools to support your health and wellbeing!
Breathwork and mindful movement to calm your nervous system and support deeper state of Rest & Digest.
Care for your Whole Health through hands on workshops baking, making, creating and fermenting.
Are you longing for a sense of Time, Space and a little bit of Magic? Retreats designed with you in mind!
- Do you struggle with sleep and long to feel greater ease, feel energised and more vital?
- Do you long for silence for reflection and space for deeper sense of connection?
- Would you like to discover creative tools for breath work to calm your nervous system, support sleep and energise?
- Are you curious about creative manifestation. And ready to explore rituals & healing: to embed new neural pathways into deep joyous change?
- Are you ready for inspiring ceremonies and sacred rituals to ignite personal transformation?
- Are you seeking to deepen your understanding of holsitic gut health, to support your physical and mental wellbeing?
- Do find it hard to set clear boundaries around your work and homelife?
- Are you feeling stuck in the messy-mid-life? And feeling called to create time for your needs, health and wellbeing?
- Are you seeking clarity and confidence, ready to be witnessed by a caring community of women journeying on the path?
- Are you curious about wildly healthy gut-loving food? And ready for a feeling of rejuvenation and vitality through beautiful fresh & foraged seasonal ingredients, flowing detox juices
- Do you feel ready to Bloom from Within?
Your Take Aways!
- Beautiful reflection journal
- Wildy Delicious Gut Loving Recipes
- Personalised magical manifestation vision board
- Blissful bread-making
- Guided meditation recording
- Food Diary template
- Discover the secrets to a fab ferment!
- 1 hour complimentary follow-up individual coaching session
- Learn simple foraging tips!
The retreat team
Meet your guides
Cara Wheatley-McGrain
Gut Health Expert and Somatic Coach
I founded The Mindful Gut to share my passion for gut health. As a Hay House author of ‘Calm Your Gut’ and an accredited coach my work integrates a wide range of creative coaching tools. My work supports true balance in your personal and professional life. I love sharing my approach in retreat settings to enable you to start to make simple changes in real time, supporting your to transform stress and overwhelm into feelings of physical and mental wellbeing that will stay with you far beyond your retreat experience. .
Julie Mather
Business Growth Coach
As a coach I work with businesses, but my work focuses on the whole person supporting people to be truly effective and enabling them to achieve their goals and intentions at work and personally. The absolute joy of my collaboration with Cara is that we take this a step further and include gut health and self-care, which are so important to how we all feel and our energy levels. Together we create a compelling partnership that balances creative practices for both and welcome all individuals.
What our clients have to say
The Price
| Deposit (to be paid ASAP) | 2nd payment (07/05/24) | 3rd payment (07/06/24) |
|---|---|---|
| £150 | £225 | £224 |
Sharing a room with someone you know?
If you have a friend or partner you wish to share a room with, we offer a discounted booking fee of £99 per person. Thats a combined saving of £198 for 2 sharing. The payment instalments for this option would be:
| Deposit (to be paid ASAP) | 2nd payment (07/05/24) | 3rd payment (07/06/24) |
|---|---|---|
| £150 | £175 | £175 |
Booking form
The Price
Pay in full as soon as possible please and we’ll send you an invoice for £599 straight away. However, if you wish to pay by instalments, you’ll need to indicate on the booking form. The pricing for his option would be:
| Deposit (to be paid ASAP) | 2nd payment (07/07/24) | 3rd payment (07/08/24) |
|---|---|---|
| £150 | £225 | £224 |
Sharing a room with someone you know?
If you have a friend or partner you wish to share a room with, we offer a discounted booking fee of £99 per person. Thats a combined saving of £198 for 2 sharing. The payment instalments for this option would be:
| Deposit (to be paid ASAP) | 2nd payment (07/07/24) | 3rd payment (07/08/24) |
|---|---|---|
| £150 | £175 | £175 |
Booking form
Additional Information
Following the retreat, we will send you a series of Gut Healthy and Inspiring resources including:
Favourite retreat tracks
Gut healthy recipes
Book/podcast recommendations
Sound file of guided breathwork practice
3 months post retreat we will arrange a group follow up Zoom meeting with all our retreat guests to find out how you are all getting on and to see what additional support is needed.
Julie Mather Associates and The Mindful Gut have developed a unique retreat experience and as small businesses we need to set out our expectations of our retreat guests and of course outline how we will contractually meet your expectations of us. Before you commit to joining us, we ask you to read the following conditions carefully before completing the booking form or booking your space on our website/s. If you have any queries regarding any of the following points please do not hesitate to contact us at; julie@juliematherassociates.co.uk or cara@themindfulgut.co.uk
1. Definitions
“Client” “you” is the person who receives the services. “Event” is our retreat. “Fees” are the price for the delivery of the services and the client’s attendance at the Event. “Services” are the services to be delivered before, at the Event and post event as set out in our promotional emails and outlined through our websites or other social media channels. “Host Providers” “we” are Julie Mather Associates and The Mindful Gut. Our registered addresses are. Julie Mather 2 St Brides Farm, Stanton by Bridge, Derbyshire DE73 7NF https://www.juliematherassociates.co.uk/ Cara Wheatley-McGrain 149-153 Alcester Rd, Birmingham B13 8JP https://www.themindfulgut.co.uk/
2. Price and payment
2.1 The price for the Services is set out in our promotional emails and on our websites. There is no VAT.
2.2 The price and any agreed expenses shall be the Fees of the Host Providers and payment of 100% of the Fees is due in line with the terms stated on our websites and booking form which allow for instalment payments along with a full payment option, following payment of a non-returnable deposit.
2.3 Where split payment options are available, each instalment must be paid on time, and failure to pay any instalment of the Fees on time may result in the Host Providers cancelling or amending the Services, in their sole discretion.
3. Refund and Cancellation of agreement
3.1 The fees are non-refundable except for:
3.1.1 Where we cancel a Retreat, you are entitled to a refund for any payments you have made in advance.
3.1.2 In the unlikely event of the Host Provider having to reschedule the Services, alternative dates will be offered.
3.1.3 In the eventuality of you cancelling your attendance, other than in the statutory cooling off period outlined below, we must uphold our commitments to our ownsuppliers, so unfortunately, we are not able to make any exceptions to the no-refund policy, not even for personal emergencies. We therefore advise our guests to take out travel insurance to protect yourself against illness, emergencies, and changes in your circumstances.
3.2 In the event you are unable to attend the Retreat:You may transfer your Retreat place to a friend, subject to our prior approval of your replacement.
3.3 There is no refund for leaving the Retreat early or arriving after the scheduled start time. There is no partial reimbursement if you choose to opt out of any part of the programme.
