29 October – 1 November 2026 | Kimi Ora Eco Resort, Nelson

EARLYBIRD PRICING OF $1500 VALID UNTIL 10 MARCH 2026

REGULAR PRICE $1750 FROM 11 MARCH ONWARDS 

Align is a restorative, evidence-informed lifestyle medicine retreat created exclusively for women working in medicine.

Designed to support CME learning while prioritising personal wellbeing, Align brings together clinical education and embodied self-care in a setting that allows you to truly reset.

Across four inspiring days, you’ll engage in expert-led lectures and workshops covering all the core pillars of lifestyle medicine, alongside yoga, breathwork, guided sauna, coaching, and intentional rest –  thoughtfully structured to support sustainable health, nervous system regulation, energy restoration.

Set within the beautiful natural sanctuary of Kimi Ora, Align offers a space to step out of the constant demands of work, and reconnect with your body, energy, and purpose among peers who understand the realities of being a woman in medicine.

This is not about escaping from life.
It’s about creating lasting alignment.

Meet the facilitators

Places on this retreat are strictly limited to keep it an intimate, meaningful experience – make sure you buy tickets early so you don’t miss out!

Our Vision

Our Values

• Science with soul – grounded in robust evidence, delivered with compassion
• Sustainability – health practices that work long-term, not just on retreat
• Integrity – clinical credibility, professional respect, and personal truth
• Connection – to self, body, nature, and a community of like-minded women
• Rest as medicine – recovery as a prerequisite for clarity, leadership, and care

Our Core Beliefs

• Women in medicine deserve the same level of care they provide to others
• Burnout is not a result of personal failure, but from a system and life mismatch
• Lifestyle medicine is most powerful when it is embodied and modeled, not just taught
• Health, leadership, and longevity are built on energy regulation, and supporting our own health, not constant performance
• When female doctors are well, patients, families, communities and systems benefit too – we need to keep our own cup full to be able to help and care for others to our full potential

Our Intention

Align is intentionally designed to help you:

• Translate lifestyle medicine science into sustainable practices for both personal wellbeing and patient care
• Restore the physical and emotional reserves that are so often drained from working in medicine
• Reconnect with your body’s signals and needs to be able to support true health
• Integrate lifestyle medicine principles into daily life—so it’s not just theory
• Create space for clarity, reflection, and recalibration in a supportive, collaborative environment
• Leave resourced and inspired, not depleted

Every element of the retreat – from the schedule to the setting – is designed to honour nervous system regulation, cognitive load, and the realities of medical work.

The Energy

At Align, energy is understood in a practical, physiological, and emotional sense.

We focus on:

• Physical energy: metabolic health, sleep, movement, nutrition, recovery
• Emotional energy: boundaries, stress physiology, mental load, and meaning
• Capacity, not productivity: learning how to protect and renew energy so it can be directed where it matters most—clinically and personally

The practices you experience are the same ones you can later recommend, model, and sustain.

Why We Value Authenticity

This retreat is created by women who understand medicine, for women who live it.

No performative wellness.

No unrealistic expectations.

No pressure to be anything other than where you are.

Align honours your full identity – clinician, woman, leader, human – and creates space for honest reflection, grounded growth, and genuine renewal.

What The Retreat Involves:

Over the course of 4 days, you’ll embark on a transformative journey through the science and core principles of lifestyle medicine.

Topics will include habit change, evidence-based nutrition, physical movement, sleep, stress management, social connection, and the impact of harmful substances.

In addition, you’ll also explore value setting; how to identify limiting beliefs; nervous system regulation; ways to create alignment and purpose in both your professional and personal life; and understanding what true self-care means for clinicians.

The retreat will feature small group coaching, yoga, mindful movement, guided sauna, and breathwork sessions – you can join as many or as few of the wellbeing classes as you choose.

You will discover not only to learn how to live a healthier life but also to directly experience the nourishing effects of caring for your body and mind.

Our goal is to equip you with the tools and knowledge to implement lifestyle medicine principles, both in your personal life and within your practice.

We understand the unique challenges of being women in medicine, and our aim is to ensure you leave feeling inspired, rejuvenated, and with a renewed sense of clarity, purpose, and alignment that you can carry into every aspect of your life.

Schedule:

Thursday 29 Oct:

• Check in to retreat from 3pm (if staying at Kimi Ora)
• 5pm: Arrive. Gather. Opening ceremony
• 6pm: Optional group dinner (a la carte menu, not included in ticket)

Friday 30 Oct & Saturday 31 Oct:

• 6am-7am: Mindful movement
• 730am-830am: Morning meditation, breathwork and journalling
• 830-9am: Breakfast (included with Kimi Ora accommodation, $27pp for non guests payable to retreat)
• 9-10am: Hatha yoga
• 10-1015am: Fruit. Tea/coffee. Pause
• 1015 – 1230pm: Lifestyle Medicine Workshop and Small Group Coaching
• 1230-2pm: Lunch and self care
• 2pm-4pm: Lifestyle Medicine Workshop
• 4-6pm: Yoga Nidra/Guided Sauna
• 630pm: Optional dinner at Kimi Ora Restaurant

Sunday 1 Nov:

• 730-830am: Optional morning meditation and breathwork
• 830-915am: Breakfast (included with Kimi Ora accommodation, $27pp for non guests payable to retreat), checkout
• 915-1015am: Integration session
• 1015-1030am: Fruit. Tea/coffee. Pause
• 1030-1130am: Closing ceremony. Consolidation.
• 1145am – 1230pm: Farewell lunch

What’s Included:

Your ticket price includes access to the following:

• Evening welcome session 5pm Thursday 29 Oct, with an introduction to the retreat; intention setting; hot cacao; and tasty plant based snacks
• Admission to all learning sessions and wellbeing workshops Friday 30 and Saturday 31 October
• Morning session and wrap-up Sunday 1 Nov (concluding by 1230pm)
• Access to all spa facilities at Kimi Ora from Thursday afternoon to Sunday 1 Nov at 3pm (access is available from 10am-4pm each day for those not staying at the resort)
• Morning tea and catered lunches Friday to Sunday
• A beautiful curated goody bag
• Access to the full 10 week online NZWIM Reboot Your Health course until 1 Nov 2027 (valued at $389)

What’s Not Included:

Your ticket does not include accommodation and dinners – these must be booked/organised directly with Kimi Ora Resort (or you can choose to stay elsewhere and attend as a day guest).

We have chosen this model to allow attendees flexibility in the evenings for meals, as well as the option to stay off site if you prefer.

Available rooms at Kimi Ora are as follows, and will be booked on a first come, first served basis:

• 4x spa suites (sleeps up to 2 people)
• 2x studio units (sleeps up to 2 people)
• 1x accessible studio unit (sleeps up to 3 people, wheelchair access)
• 4x 1 bedroom units (sleeps up to 4 people)
• 2x 2 bedroom units (sleeps up to 4 people)
• 1x 4 bedroom unit (sleeps up to 8 people)

All room reservations include a full daily continental breakfast, served in the dining room.

To view the rooms, rates, and resort facilities, please visit the Kimi Ora website here

Please note – the above rooms have been reserved for the Align retreat, so are not available to book online – please contact Kimi Ora directly on 03 527 8027 or by emailing info@kimiora.com to book your accommodation .

Ensure you tell them you are attending the Align retreat so they can advise on room availability accordingly.

The Location:

Kimi Ora Eco Resort is a beautiful private resort, tucked away amongst amongst 12 hectares of native bush with panoramic views of Kaiteriteri Beach.

• A heated indoor pool for year-round comfort
• A refreshing outdoor pool
• An indoor and an outdoor spa pool to unwind and rejuvenate
• Infrared sauna, dry sauna, and steam room sessions for deep relaxation
• A full day spa, offering massages, facials and beauty treatments (additional charges apply, we recommend booking these well in advance due to limited availability)
• Private nature walks, with a variety of trails through tranquil native bush – often in the company of friendly fantails who flit and flutter nearby.
• The resort is next door to the hugely popular Kaiteriteri MTB Park, with free year round public access (Mountain Bike Hire is available in Motueka from MY RIDE- 03 9298128, or email motueka@myride.co.nz to book – they offer free delivery for 4 or more bikes hired)
• Beautiful Kaiteriteri beach is a short stroll away, this is a stunning gold sand beach with clear waters and safe year round swimming; as well as water taxis to the Abel Tasman National park, and a variety of water sports available (weather dependent)

About the facilitators:

Dr Marissa Kelaher

Marissa is a highly experienced NZ trained medical doctor specialising in personalised high-end integrative and preventative medicine. She is the co-founder and director of Your Lifestyle Medics.

A Fellow of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, Marissa has additional postgraduate training in lifestyle, nutritional, and environmental medicine, and is currently completing a Fellowship with the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine.

Marissa’s expertise includes women’s health, integrative peri/menopause well-being, nutrigenomics, metabolic and heart health, mindbody medicine, and longevity/precision medicine. She enjoys combining her expertise with cutting-edge evidence based functional testing to create highly tailored holistic health plans.

Dr Morgana Woolhouse-Williams

Morgana is a rural general practitioner and FRANZGP working in Aotearoa New Zealand who knows what it’s like to hold responsibility, complexity, and constant demand – and to still want a life that feels spacious. A GP teacher; trained yoga teacher; and mother of two children, she understands “busy” from the inside: the clinic, the call, the logistics, the mental load, the love.

Yoga, breathwork, mindful movement and the principles of lifestyle medicine aren’t side hobbies for Morgana; they’re daily practices that keep her grounded, clear, and kind in the work she loves.

Morgana brings lived experience and wisdom into everything she teaches, and has additional postgraduate training in Lifestyle Medicine, professional coaching, CBT, and FACT.

At this retreat, she offers nervous-system friendly yoga, breath and meditation, and coaching that helps you make sustainable changes – not by adding more “shoulds”, but by building steadiness from the inside out and developing clarity as to what you really want.

Morgana believes in making wellbeing skills usable in busy, imperfect lives – and in the imperfect time you actually have.

Terms and Conditions:

Retreat Dates & Location
Align Retreat: 29 October 5pm– 1 November 2026 1230pm
Kimi Ora Eco Resort, Nelson, New Zealand

Bookings & Payment
All retreat places are subject to availability and are confirmed once full payment has been received. Places are limited to maintain an intimate retreat experience.

Cancellation Policy
Cancellations must be made no later than 14 days prior to the retreat start date to be eligible for a full refund, minus a non refundable processing fee of 3%
Cancellations made within 14 days of the retreat start date, or non-attendance, are non-refundable.
We strongly recommend purchasing travel insurance to cover unforeseen circumstances.

Accommodation
Accommodation is not included in the retreat ticket and must be booked directly with Kimi Ora Eco Resort (or alternative accommodation of your choice).
All accommodation bookings are subject to Kimi Ora’s own terms and conditions, including their cancellation and change policies.
Your Lifestyle Medics (YLM) takes no responsibility for accommodation arrangements, changes, cancellations, or disputes related to accommodation bookings.

Program Changes
While every effort will be made to deliver the retreat as described, YLM reserves the right to make reasonable changes to the program, facilitators, or schedule if required due to unforeseen circumstances.

Responsibility & Participation
By attending Align, participants acknowledge that all activities are undertaken at their own discretion and responsibility. Attendees are responsible for managing their own health needs and are encouraged to work within their personal limits.