Luxury wellbeing retreat for women
pause, breathe, BLossom
4–8 May 2026
Early-bird price until 1st March
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Embodied writing & Reflective sessions
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Early morning yoga
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Nutritious food made with local ingredients
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Foraging workshop
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Cookery demonstrations
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Sound healing session
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Padel & Squash courts
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E-bike tour
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Heated outdoor pool
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Hot tub
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Vineyard tour and tasting
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Relaxation
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Massage
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Sauna
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Luxury accommodation
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Fun & friendship
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Early-bird price until 1st March ❋ Embodied writing & Reflective sessions ❋ Early morning yoga ❋ Nutritious food made with local ingredients ❋ Foraging workshop ❋ Cookery demonstrations ❋ Sound healing session ❋ Padel & Squash courts ❋ E-bike tour ❋ Heated outdoor pool ❋ Hot tub ❋ Vineyard tour and tasting ❋ Relaxation ❋ Massage ❋ Sauna ❋ Luxury accommodation ❋ Fun & friendship ❋
our invitation
Nourish+ (an early May, 4-night, luxury retreat, nestled in the bountiful and beautiful surroundings of Herefordshire) is an invitation to women in mid-life to come for rest and rejuvenation. It is the perfect opportunity to nurture, reclaim and feel restored.
As the seasons change from spring to summer, we have created the perfect environment and programme to help you let go and root down into stillness, to reconnect with your body and discover new ‘recipes’ to help you thrive and flourish in midlife. Using the power of food, creativity and mindful movement, join us to rediscover a sense of balance and zest, and reset physically, mentally and nutritionally.
We offer luxury accommodation, wonderful amenities, yoga, reflective and restorative workshops, a foraging walk, cookery demonstrations, a vineyard tour and tasting, and nutricious meals made from local ingredients.
Your hosts will be therapeutic practitioner and writer Kate Oldfield and chef and co-author of MENOlicious, Belles Berry (daughter of Dame Mary Berry).
nourishment for
mind body & soul
Luxury accommodation with ensuite facilities
Nourishing meals all provided and prepared each day by chef Belles Berry, co-author of MENOlicious with Mariella Frostrup
Heated outdoor pool, sauna, hot tub, squash and padel court, private walled garden
Morning and evening yoga and sound-healing session
Foraging walk with Liz Knight (as seen on TV)
Reflective and therapeutic writing sessions with Kate Oldfield
Cookery demonstrations from her book MENOlicious with Belles Berry
E-bike tour of the Whittern estate and vineyard with tasting
Massage (available as an extra)
Padel lesson & court booking (available as an extra)
Fun, friendship & tranquility
Up to 14 guests
“Thank you Kate for a potentially ‘life-changing’ workshop. It was so much more than the reflective workshops I've done before.”
— Former Nourish Weekend participant“Midlife nutrition made easy!”
— Professor Tim Spector, endorsing MENOlicious“Delicious, fast, and fortifying recipes to power you through midlife.”
— Cate Blanchett, endorsing MENOliciousItinerary
Proposed programme, day-by-day. (We reserve the right to make some tweaks and improvements).
NB Massage; Padel lesson & Padel court hire are available as added extras.
Packing list: please bring a yoga mat, eye mask, swimsuit, water bottle and your favourite writing pen/pencil & notepad (notebooks will also be provided).
Please also bring outdoor clothes and walking shoes appropriate for the British weather.
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6pm Arrival
7pm Welcome mocktails, introductions & orientation to the days ahead with Kate and Belles
7.30pm Supper, cooked and introduced by Belles
Free time and relaxation
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8–8.45am Yoga with Sarah: “rooting and reaching”. 45-mins inspired by nature’s growth cycles. Ending with Intention for the Day: letting go & being open to curiosity
9am Breakfast
10am–12pm Foraging Walk, with forager Liz Knight (with special focus on women’s nutrition)
12.15–1pm Reflective visualisation and embodied writing session with Kate
1pm Lunch, prepared by Belles with additional foraged ingredients from the morning
2.30–3.15pm Belles’ introduction to the ethos behind Menolicous: Entering our 2nd spring, a season of renewal
Chat about the importance of nutrition and good food as fuel, brain food and gut health
3.30–3.50pm ‘Ingredients for the life I love.’ : reflective session with Kate
4.30–5.30pm (Optional) Padel lesson
[Massages - to be booked as extras]
5.30–7.30pm Flexible time for You (optional Padel ) | journalling time | massage (pre-booked) | relaxation
7.30pm Supper, cooked and introduced by Belles
9-9.30pm Sleep-well yoga with Sarah
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8–8.45am Yoga: “opening our hearts and throats” 45-mins. Intention for the Day: stepping in to your own power
9-9.45am Breakfast
10–10.45am Kate leads Embodied workshop: finding our voice, seeking our stories
11.15–12.30pm Kate: ‘Where I’m From’ session
1pm Lunch, prepared by Belles
2.15pm Short self-guided mindful photography ‘foraging’ walk with smartphone camera (or sketch book)
2.45–3.30pm Cookery demonstration by Belles (including foraged produce)
3.30–5.30 free time (massage if prebooked as extra)
5.30–7pm Sound Healing session with Helen
7.30pm Supper, cooked and introduced by Belles
Free time & relaxation
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8–8.45am Yoga with Sarah: “Blossoming in to Summer” 45-mins. Intention for the Day: Thriving
9-9.45am Breakfast
10–10.45am Kate leads ‘In the Clearing’ session: filling the new spaces
11.20–12.30pm Kate reflective & mindful session
1pm Lunch, prepared by Belles
2.30–3.15 Cookery demonstration by Belles: Thrive into Summer
3.15–5.30pm Flexible time for You (optional Padel ) | journalling time | massage (prebooked) | relaxation
5.30–6.30pm led E-bike tour around the farm and vineyard
leading to…
6.30–9pm Vineyard tasting event, leading into Supper in the tent, with local produce provided by White Heron.
Celebration stories and reflections
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8.15–9.30am Yoga: “Harvesting our Wisdom What will we leave with the mat? What will we take away? 1 hr, 15-mins End with Intention: New Possibilities - Seeding Change
9.45 Breakfast – take bags to the hall
10:30 Last sharing session
11.15 Goodbyes
Your hosts
Kate oldfield
Kate Oldfield runs The Writing Well, a transformational and inclusive space for creative and therapeutic writing. She finds her own voice in poetry and is finishing the first draft of a novel. After her Masters at the Courtauld, she moved into the publishing industry, in which she worked for over twenty years. After her third child, she adjusted her consultancy work to become a writing mentor, ghost-writer and ‘book fixer’.
She is now qualified in therapeutic and reflective writing practices with training in positive psychology, group work and coaching. She is also a qualified massage therapist. She has been running workshops – teaching creative writing skills, writing-for-wellbeing and collaborative poetry sessions since 2019. She loves working with people to help them ‘re-find’ their lost voice and sense of play.
Instagram: @the_writing_well_
Instagram: @the_write_place_
belles Berry
Belles is the daugher of TV chef and author Dame Mary Berry. She is cordon-bleu trained and a successful chef in her own right. She started Mary Berry & Daughter Ltd at the tender age of 21, and is the founder of The Great Taste Company with over 30 years behind her in the food industry. Belles is passionate about women in business and is an ilumni for the Kings Trust.
Most recently Belles has co-authored MENOlicious… eat your way to a better menopause, with Mariella Frostrup. MENOlicious became a Sunday Times best-seller within a week of publication. Belles is hugely passionate too about the power of food to support health and well-being with a particular focus on nutrition, energy and gut health.
Instagram: @bellesberrycooks
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Food & recipes from ‘Menolicious’
Belles will be cooking and demonstrating recipes from the book she co-authored with Mariella Frostrup, Menolicious, (the essential cookbook for anyone navigating the challenges and changes of midlife – perimenopause, menopause, and beyond).
Easy and nutritious recipes designed to help balance hormones, boost energy levels, improve weight management, and help you embrace the freedom of a new stage of life.
Please let us know at the time of booking, if you have any food allergies or intolerances.
reflective & embodied sessions
Through gentle reflective writing, embodied visualisation and mindfulness sessions, Kate will help us to claim new stories of fulfilment and self-expression, to nuture our own needs and desires, and to find a restorative centre of calm.
There is no need to have any experience of creative writing to reap the rewards of the reflective sessions (of course, experienced writers are welcome). We will meet you where you are. Writing materials will be provided but please bring a favourite pen and notebook if you have them.
(We will be able to sketch and write with some ink made locally out of foraged plants.)
foraging walk with Liz Knight
Liz Knight will be leading our foraging morning. Her expertise and enthusiasm – familiar to viewers of numerous BBC TV shows including Saturday Live and Escape to the Farm – are truly infectious. On this gentle foraging walk we will discover how the most common plants can be transformed into exciting, nutritious and sustainable foods. We’ll get a glimpse into how women have supported their hormones with plants long before HRT.
Yoga & Sound healinG sessions
Four mornings of gentle wake up yoga, a sleepy yoga session with Sarah and a sound healing session with Helen, offer mindful movement and holistic therapy to ground and centre us.
ACCOMMODATION
The Colloquy is a large, luxury self-catering property in Herefordshire. Renovated with imagination and flair, The Colloquy and neighbouring cottages situated across the Victorian stable-yard offer modern, luxury facilities and a relaxing environment, with Padel, squash and swimming pool.
The comfortable beds come with Egyptian cotton linen as standard, and rooms are equipped with large white bath sheets & hand towels, dressing gowns, hairdryers and hottub/sauna towels.
All bedrooms have a small TV.
The Colloquy has 8 bedrooms and there are 3 further room in adjacent buildings (there are 3 x Comfort Plus rooms, 6 x Super Comfort and 2 x Deluxe rooms, tariffed accordingly). You can choose which level of comfort you wish at booking (subject to availability). Each room will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.
More information can be found on The Colloquy website.
“We hired this house as well as the other houses nearby for a big family get together. We had the most amazing time, I cannot recommend this property enough, the pool is great, the hot tub and sauna were clean and heated to perfection. The house itself is just gorgeous and provides a huge space for everybody to wind down and catch up. We are already planning our return in 2026!”
- 2025 testimonial
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amenities
Luxury ensuite accommodation
Heated swimming pool
Hot tub & Sauna
Padel court
Squash court
Private walled gardens
Cinema Room
EV Charging available
Fees
Early Bird Book until 11:59pm (UK) Sunday 1st March 2026
Standard booking deadline, 6pm (UK) Thursday 30th April 2026
A 20% deposit is payable on booking.
Balances must be paid within 60 days of the start of the retreat.
For cancellation policy see T&Cs.
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Early Bird pricing (from £2,075) until 11:59pm 1st March 2026
Standard pricing (from £2,275) until booking deadline of 6pm Thursday 30th April 2026
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Deadline for booking: 6pm Thursday 30th April 2026.
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Early Bird pricing (£2,075) until 11:59pm 1st March 2026
Standard pricing (£2,275) until booking deadline of 6pm Thursday 30th April 2026
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Early Bird pricing (£2,150) until 11:59pm 1st March 2026
Standard pricing (£2,350) until booking deadline of 6pm Thursday 30th April 2026
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Early Bird pricing (£2,200) until 11:59pm 1st March 2026
Standard pricing (£2,400) until booking deadline of 6pm Thursday 30th April 2026
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There is some limited availability for sharing (as some rooms have an extra single bed and one room is a twin), subject to availablity. Please enquire through the contact form .
Price on application
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Deposit of 20% payable on booking
Comfort Plus Room (£415/£455)
Super Comfort Room (£430/£470)
Deluxe Room (£440/£480)
(see T&Cs for refund policy)
Balance due no later than 60 days before the commencement of the Retreat
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Terms & Conditions link here
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location
Frequently Asked Questions
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The closest large town is Leominster, easily accessed by A roads from Hereford, Worcester, Shrewsbury and Kidderminster. Take A44 from Leominster towards Rhayader and Kington. Continue on A44 when it turns to the right signed Pemridge and Kington. Go through the village of Pembridge, and after approx 3.5 miles, going down into a steep dip, take a steep right turn signed The Whittern. Please drive slowly from this point. Follow this lane for exactly 0.8 of a mile and The Colloquy is on the right. (the entrance is signed and is between a stone wall and a hedge). Drive round to the right for parking.
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The Colloquy, Gardeners Cottage, The Forge and/or The Lodge – ///flagged.selection.thick
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Leominster (X miles)
Hereford (X miles)
Please book a taxi
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No writing experience is necessary to gain full benefit from this retreat. All levels are welcome. We will meet you where you are. The exercises and creative sessions are for wellbeing with a therapeutic intention.
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You can reach us anytime via The Writing Well contact page or email hello@kateoldfieldwrites.com. We aim to respond quickly—usually within one business day.
In emergencies please contact Kate +44 (0)7770 755179 -
Please bring
a yoga mat
eye mask
water bottle
swimming costume
sports clothes for padel/squash
your favourite writing pen/pencil & notepad (notebooks will also be provided).
Please also bring outdoor clothes and walking shoes appropriate for the British weather.