Dr Verena delivers transformative, science-backed experiences that go far beyond traditional health advice, guiding women through both the outer and inner journey of healing, recalibration, and profound personal change. Her work integrates the gut–brain connection, nervous system regulation, metabolic health, somatic healing, and the deeper physical, mental, emotional, and subconscious drivers of wellbeing, addressing the true root causes behind symptoms rather than simply managing them.
Her approach is not about adding more to your plate, it is about changing how your body functions, how your nervous system responds, and how you relate to yourself from within.
At the core of her work is the understanding that lasting transformation occurs when the body feels safe enough to shift out of survival patterns and into healing. Through somatic practices, nervous system recalibration, and deep inner work, she facilitates the release of stored stress, emotional imprints, and outdated protective patterns that may be keeping women stuck physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Her work invites a deeper transformation:
from pushing to supporting,
from overriding to listening,
from disconnecting to embodying,
and from surviving to truly thriving.
The Healing Co Integrated Cancer Retreat
Reawaken Your Healing Potential
Saturday, 14 November 2026
9:00 am–6:00 pm
Join us for a restorative full-day retreat created for people navigating life with, through and beyond cancer as well as other challenging illnesses.
Set among the peaceful natural surrounds of Havenwood Farm in Jamberoo, this nurturing day offers space to step away from the demands of treatment and everyday life to pause, reconnect and support your physical, emotional and mental wellbeing.
Together with an experienced team of eight practitioners, we will guide participants through an integrated program combining integrative medicine, naturopathy, Neuro-Training Kinesiology, breathwork, somatic healing, meditation, connection to nature and laughter therapy.
This retreat is not about focusing solely on illness. It is about supporting the whole person, creating space for meaningful connection, nervous-system regulation, renewed strength and the rediscovery of the wholeness that remains throughout the healing journey.
Morning tea, a nourishing buffet lunch, supper and a guided nature walk are included.
Investment $295.00 / person, including lunch & dinner
Havenwood Farm, 261 Jamberoo Mountain Road, Jamberoo NSW
The Shift: A Peri/POST-Menopause Transformational Immersion
A 3-day immersive experience to reconnect with your body, recalibrate your biology, and step into your next chapter with clarity and power.
This retreat is a deliberate pause designed to change the trajectory of how you experience midlife.
Set in a 5-star beachfront sanctuary ‘The Bunker’ in Gerringong on the South Coast, this intimate 3-day, 3-night experience is a curated journey inward for women who feel the shift… and know they are being called into something more. Inspired by a transformational retreat model of deep inner work, somatic practice, and intentional recalibration, this experience goes beyond surface-level wellness to create lasting change at the level of the nervous system, identity, and physiology.
Perimenopause is often the greatest wake-up call for women, a phase where the body no longer supports old patterns of overgiving, pushing, and self-neglect. It is an invitation to identify and release limiting beliefs, outdated behaviours, and ways of operating that no longer serve you, and to step into your most authentic self-expression on every level.
Across the retreat, you will move through a carefully designed arc:
→ Connect with the patterns and beliefs that once supported you but are now holding you back
→ Release through breathwork, somatic practices, sound healing, and movement
→ Recalibrate your nervous system, energy, and metabolism
→ Reclaim a new way of living that is aligned, sustainable, and truly supportive of your next chapter
Through transformative workshops and circle work with Dr Verena, alongside breathwork, somatic release, strength training, yoga, meditation, sound healing and beach walks you won’t just switch off, you will retrain how your body, mind, and nervous system function.
It is about understanding what your body is asking of you, and rising to meet it.
Integration: Living the Principles That Support Your Next Chapter
This retreat is not just an experience, it is a blueprint for how to live differently.
You won’t just learn, you will apply, embody, and integrate practical, actionable strategies that you can carry home and implement immediately in your daily life.
Grounded in the critical role of muscle as a metabolic organ, alongside protein intake for hormonal and cognitive health, nervous system regulation, recovery, and metabolic flexibility, you will be guided to integrate the key lifestyle principles required to truly thrive in this phase.
This includes the 30:30 foundation, aiming for ~30g of protein with each meal and ~30g of fibre per day, alongside increasing pre- and probiotics to support your gut–brain axis and metabolic health.
You will also be guided on how to:
build and maintain muscle through resistance training
regulate your nervous system as the master regulator of your health
stabilise blood sugar and support metabolic flexibility
create stronger boundaries around your time and energy
prioritise recovery and sleep as non-negotiables
Throughout the retreat, you will enjoy nourishing, organic wholefoods inspired by Doctor Verena’s Kitchen, bringing these principles to life in a practical and delicious way, so you not only understand them, but experience how to live them.
Surrounded by nature, beach, ocean air, and a powerful community of like-minded women, you will be held in a space designed for depth, clarity, and expansion.
This is more than a retreat, it’s a catalyst for becoming the woman who can carry you into your next chapter.
To support your integration beyond the retreat, you will receive a cookbook copy of Doctor Verena’s Kitchen: Eating for Ultimate Health Made Easy, along with a curated gift bag featuring some of Dr Verena’s top-tier, practitioner-grade supplements, designed to help you continue implementing these principles in your daily life.
WHAT’S INCLUDED IN YOUR SHIFT EXPERIENCE
3 nights of luxury accommodation at The Bunker, Gerringong — an intimate coastal setting exclusively shared with a small group of women.
A private 30-minute pre-retreat session with Dr Verena — an opportunity to connect before you arrive, clarify your intentions and personalise what you want to receive from the retreat.
An intimate experience limited to just 12 women — intentionally small to create genuine connection, individual attention and space to go deeper.
Perimenopause & menopause nutrition with Dr Verena — practical, science-led guidance to better understand and support your changing metabolism, hormones, gut health, blood-sugar regulation, energy and body composition.
Dr Verena’s High-Protein Breakfast Workshop — learn how to build a deeply nourishing breakfast for midlife, with a focus on protein, muscle, metabolic health, fibre, satiety, cravings and cortisol.
Strength & longevity training with Prof. Bobby Cheema — an embodied session exploring why muscle is one of your greatest assets as you move through midlife and beyond, and how to build strength without depletion.
A 3-hour immersive Somatic Release & Conscious Connected (Circular) Breathwork experience with psychotherapist Joshua Wrest from Transition Breath — a powerful experiential session using breath and body-based work to support emotional release, embodied awareness and deeper connection with the nervous system.
Nervous-system regulation, cacao ceremony & transformational circle work with Dr Verena — woven throughout the retreat, from the opening cacao and fire circle through somatic and embodiment work to the signature “Becoming Her” circle. These intimate experiences create space to slow down, reconnect with your body, explore patterns you may be ready to leave behind, and consider who you are becoming in this next chapter of life.
Yoga & embodied movement with Katherine Watson — supporting integration, mobility, body awareness, reconnection and restoration.
Deeply restorative Yoga Nidra with Dr Verena — a guided practice to help the body settle into deep rest and create a gentle transition into the retreat experience.
Immersive sound healing with Barbara Jackson from Sublime Sound Healing — a two-hour experience creating space for deep rest, stillness, restoration and integration.
Beautiful, nourishing organic wholefood throughout your stay — including meals inspired by Dr Verena’s Kitchen and a special celebration degustation dinner created by private chef Jo.
Time that is deliberately left unscheduled — because transformation doesn’t happen by filling every minute. Enjoy the ocean, pool, hot tub, steam room, beach walks, journaling, solitude or simply doing absolutely nothing.
A private 30-minute post-retreat integration session with Dr Verena — helping you translate what you experienced and learned into meaningful, sustainable changes when you return home.
AND PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART…
Three days and three nights where you don’t have to look after everyone else.
Time to step away from the noise, understand what your body is asking for, reconnect with yourself and create space for the woman you are becoming.
This isn’t about trying to become your younger self again. It’s about discovering what this next version of you can look and feel like.
This experience is for you if:
you feel like your body is no longer on your side — and what used to work simply doesn’t anymore
you’re doing all the “right” things, yet still struggling with fatigue, brain fog, weight changes, poor sleep, hormonal shifts or overwhelm
you no longer recognise yourself in the way you feel, think or respond — physically, mentally or emotionally
you’re tired of pushing harder, restricting more or trying another quick fix, and want to understand what your body is actually asking for
you want to understand the biology of perimenopause, menopause and beyond and learn how to work with your changing body rather than against it
you recognise that some of the patterns shaping how you cope, react, overgive, achieve or hold stress may have been with you for years or even decades
you’re ready to explore and repattern long-standing emotional and nervous-system patterns from the past that may still be influencing how you feel today
you want to reconnect with yourself, feel more grounded and confident in your body, and move into this next chapter feeling empowered rather than overwhelmed
You will leave this retreat:
understanding your body instead of fighting it
with a clear, science-backed framework to support your energy and metabolism
feeling calmer, more regulated, and more resilient
connected to a way of living that supports your next chapter
stepping into a more aligned, confident, and powerful version of yourself
