Farmacy Retreat
13th September - 18th September 2023
Explore the highlights of our September 2023 Retreat
Over a period of five-days during September, a select few joined us in an expertly designed retreat. Set in a restorative location, we helped to reset and support their gut health whilst nourishing and nurturing their physical and mental wellbeing.
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SUBSCRIBEFarmacy Detox and Gut Health Retreat
Welcome to the first ever Farmacy Detox and Gut Health Retreat created to provide you with the ultimate platform to nourish and detox your body and mind. Taking place in September 2023, our retreat was carefully created by a team of trusted specialists to help our guests re-set and support their gut health whilst empowering them to commit to their personal health journey. At Farmacy, we recognise that the gut is at the centre of the body-mind system, digestion is the foundation of health, and every bite is an opportunity to improve as a whole.
The Farmacy Retreat protocol has been designed by a select team of medical professionals and industry experts, who are at the cutting edge of health biohacking, to ensure optimal health, well-being and longevity. Combined, our team has decades worth of experience and we are taking everything we have collectively learnt to provide the most educational and transformative 5-night experience. Our protocol aims to empower our guests to implement this knowledge into their everyday lives whilst also providing them with a resource that they can return to.
Our team of professionals were on hand 24/7 throughout the retreat.
At Farmacy we believe the most empowering choices we can make are what we choose to eat and what we choose to feed our minds. By upgrading our nutrition and removing the intestinal parasites and toxins that accumulate in modern urban life, we can establish good gut health. This healthy centre in turn creates a new quality of awareness, allowing us to connect to the spirit within in order to make the best choices in our lives. The Farmacy Retreat protocol will teach you what mainstream medicine won’t, placing the power to maintain health back in your hands with the practical science of health.
Our whole intention with this retreat is to help our guests reclaim their inner and outer health whilst providing them with the space to reconnect and heal.
Meet The Farmacy Retreat Team
Camilla
Fayed
Founder Farmacy
Camilla Fayed is a mother of three, entrepreneur and pioneer of the plant-based food movement. A self-confessed ‘farmer at heart’, Camilla has witnessed first-hand the life altering benefits - both physical and mental - of a plant-based, local, and regenerative diet, which has turned her into an activist for food system transformation.
Driven by the desire to make the shift she experienced in her own life available to others, Camilla founded Farmacy in 2016 with the mission to serve transformational food that offers a different future.
Camilla believes that the way we eat becomes the way we think, and that the vitality of the mind can’t help but mirror the vitality of the soil. Food holds the power to be the detonator of a societal renaissance, regenerating our bodies, minds, and surroundings.Aligning with the conviction that food can speak to every major crisis facing humanity, Farmacy collaborates with an array of initiatives totransform the food system, restore human health, and expand consciousness.
https://farmacylondon.com/
Anna DE PAHLEN
Yoga, Creative Dance Instructor & Movement Artist
Anna is a dancer, yoga teacher and creative dance facilitator. She has trained as a contemporarydancer at Trinity Laban and has studied dance movement psychotherapy. She holds a 450 ZTT. Anna has been practising yoga for ten years and has worked internationally in venues such as Fondation Beyeler, White Cube, Château Marmont, The Alpina Gstaad, The Serpentine Gallery and Christie’s, and festivals such as Harvest Kaplankaya as well as collaborating with brands such as Lululemon and Moncler. She teaches all over London and hosts retreats around the world throughout the year.
https://annadepahlen.com/
Olwyn
Evans
Chef/Health Advocate
Olwyn has been working as a professional health chef for the past 12 years in London and internationally. She has worked at various cutting edge restaurants in London and catered for many retreats around the world. Over the years she has also assisted in trainings, consulted for restaurants, and held workshops for other aspiring chefs. Olwyn originally trained as a raw vegan chef and has since moved into the world of cooked vegan and vegetarian cuisine. She now combines all these styles of cooking for a holistic approach to health.
Her passion for cooking is strongly fuelled by a deep curiosity of the inner workings of the body, mind and spirit.Her constant research into nutrition, detox methods and alternative health and how food affects all aspects of self is a true driving force for what she does. She loves to share her passion for organic, nutritious food with others and hopes to inspire them to a greater level of health and happiness through their daily choices.
An intimate masterclass with special guest speaker (joining via Zoom)
Dr Zach Bush Medical Doctor
Medical Doctor and founder of the non-profit Farmer's Footprint
Zach Bush MD is a physician specialising in internal medicine, endocrinology and hospice care. He is an internationally recognised educator and thought leader on the microbiome as it relates to health, disease, and food systems.
Zach Bush MD founded Seraphic Group and the nonprofit Farmer’s Footprint to develop root-cause solutions for human and ecological health. His passion for education reaches across many disciplines, including topics such as the role of soil and water ecosystems in human genomics, immunity, and gut/brain health.
His education has highlighted the need for a radical departure from chemical farming and pharmacy, and his ongoing efforts are providing a path for consumers, farmers, and mega-industries to work together for a healthy future for people and planet.
Those that came were treated to a unique, insightful look at their gut health from one of the leading pioneers in the field.
Check out more about Dr. Zach Bush and his work at:
https://zachbushmd.com/
What occured during these five-days?
- Personalised pre-retreat diagnostics. Prior to the retreat, guests were sent a kit to collect a hair sample for Bioresonance hair testing. Bioresonance hair testing diagnostic uses the root bulb of the hair to get a solid idea of any vitamin, mineral & amino acid deficiencies, along with insight into the presence of heavy metals, chemicals, viruses, parasites, yeast, and fungus. This valuable knowledge helps uncover potential threats and enables us to work at rebalancing your body and take proactive steps towards optimal health.
- Pre-retreat protocol to help optimise their retreat experience. This protocol will include recommended foods, mindful practices and recipes to prepare them for the retreat.
- 5 nights accommodation at a newly renovated stunning Victorian manor near Hampshire. Set amongst 50 acres of majestic woodland designed specifically to host wellness retreats.
- Delicious organic plant-based food designed for healing and rejuvenation. We took them on a journey of re-setting and replenishing their gut through our organic produce and carefully crafted menu. Our food protocol is designed around a fasting day where their mind and body will experience the ultimate reset.
- Fasting protocol and fasting experience.
- Daily biohacking treatments and supplements to support their experience.
- Colon hydrotherapy.
- Daily movement/yoga classes. Our movement facilitator Anna led them through a delicious movement and meditation experience each morning to prepare their mind and bodies.
- Wild bathing. Set amongst the majestic woodland is a beautiful wild bath spot where guests had the opportunity to immerse themselves.
- Sauna sessions. Set in the grounds is a beautiful sauna where we ran daily sauna immersions.
- Welcome gift pack and Farmacy Retreat Bible. Upon arrival each guest received a gorgeous welcome pack along with a very detailed Farmacy Retreat Bible. This would become a deep and practical resource throughout their retreat experience and assisted them with integration post-retreat.
Massage therapies that were available to book during the retreat:
- Manual Lymphatic Drainage
- Visceral stomach massages
- Reflexology
- Swedish
- Deep tissue
- Aromatherapy
- Facial lift
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SUBSCRIBEDaily talks and workshops:
- Nutrition Fundamentals. Setting the foundations for optimal nutrition, health and longevity.
- Gut Health. How to heal our gut and why our gut health is so important.
- The Importance of Fasting, and also how to break a fast.
- Understanding Detox Pathways. How we can effectively detox.
- Natural Skincare. The importance of skincare that nourishes and replenishes.
- How to reduce your toxic load — in your home and in your everyday life.
- Soil Science. The importance of our soil and how to grow your own food.
- Daily movement/yoga classes. Our movement facilitator Anna led guests through a delicious movement and meditation experience each morning to prepare our mind and bodies.
- Wild bathing. Set amongst the majestic woodland is a beautiful wild bath spot where guests had the opportunity to immerse themselves.
- Sauna sessions. Set in the grounds is a beautiful sauna where we ran daily sauna immersions.
- Welcome gift pack and Farmacy Retreat Bible. Upon arrival, guests received a gorgeous welcome pack along with a very detailed Farmacy Retreat Bible. This was a deep and practical resource throughout their retreat experience and assisted with integration post-retreat.
Transformative evening activities:
- Cacao ceremony with intention setting
- Journey through dance
- Spiritual Science talk
- Music activation and singing
- Sound healing journey
Sample Schedule
* please note that colonic sessions were running throughout the day
7-8am - Mindful mornings - journaling, walk, meditation
8-10am - Yoga and Movement
10-11am - Morning Juice/Check in
11-1pm - Workshop/Talk (See workshops/talks)
1-2pm - Lunch
2-4pm Workshop/Talk (See workshops/talks)
4-6.30pm - Free time/Alternative therapies/Sauna/Swim
6.30-8pm - Dinner
8pm onwards - Evening activity - Sound healing etc (See evening activities)