wellness & culinary retreats

We’re going to Tuscany… and I am inviting you to come too!

I am so excited to share what my amazing team and I have planned for you at our Around My Tuscan Table – Wellness & Culinary Retreat.

My passion is helping women reclaim their health, with a focus on Whole Body Health (body, mind & spirit). Through nutrition and a holistic approach, we begin to gently jumpstart healing. I believe nature and real food are true medicine — what I call “God’s Farmacy.”

I was born on a farm in South Africa and learned from a young age how healing “earth-to-plate” food is. I also learned that the ultimate key to our health is the quality of the soil our food grows in and our animals graze on. Untouched, unsprayed and free from chemicals — just as God created it. When the soil is compromised, everything down the line is affected, creating a snowball effect that depletes our food of life-giving nutrients, minerals, vitamins and microbes.

I was too young then to fully understand it, but I knew there was something about growing your own food, walking barefoot on the soil, and being around farm animals that made me feel free. I experienced this firsthand through my father’s passion for farming, his gentleness with the animals, and his deep respect for the earth and everything it produces.

Little side note: I had my own pet cow named Ice Cream — but that’s a story for another time. Maybe around a fire pit in Tuscany?

I didn’t feel that same sense of freedom again until two years ago, when I visited Tuscany. It was deeply healing, and I found my “second wind” in life. I knew I had to bring other women to experience the same beauty, culture and restoration that Tuscany gave me.

So I took a leap of faith and combined my experience as a Nutritional Health Coach and Personal Chef to create a Wellness & Culinary Retreat designed to help women reconnect with their purpose and experience true healing on many levels.

What better place for this than Tuscany — surrounded by beauty, culture and history. Eating fresh, earth-to-plate food. Forming new friendships. Slowing down enough to truly appreciate it all.

When you get to know me, you’ll quickly realize my life revolves around feeding people and creating new recipes. So it felt only natural that my team and I would create something truly special and unique for you at this retreat.

I’m bringing together the comforting, deep flavors of my South African roots,  the rich simplicity of Tuscan cuisine and the culturally diverse flavors of my home for the past 26 years - Southern California. The result is a culinary experience and feast you don’t want to miss, all centered around the powerful idea of Food as Medicine.

This retreat is also special because it forms part of the journey of creating my first cookbook — and I am inviting you into that process. You will be among the first to taste new recipes and share your feedback.

I’ve carefully brought together a team who are just as passionate as I am about creating a truly transformative experience. These are people I trust deeply — women who have walked with me through many seasons of life. Together, we are here to create a space where you will feel genuinely loved, seen and cared for.

We’re going to Tuscany… and I am inviting you to come too.

I am so excited to share what my amazing team and I have planned for you at our Around My Tuscan Table – Wellness & Culinary Retreat.

My passion is helping women reclaim their health, with a focus on Whole Body Health (body, mind & spirit). Through nutrition and a holistic approach, we begin to gently jumpstart healing. I believe nature and real food are true medicine — what I call “God’s Farmacy.”

I was born on a farm in South Africa and learned from a young age how healing “earth-to-plate” food is. I also learned that the ultimate key to our health is the quality of the soil our food grows in and our animals graze on. Untouched, unsprayed and free from chemicals — just as God created it. When the soil is compromised, everything down the line is affected, creating a snowball effect that depletes our food of life-giving nutrients, minerals, vitamins and microbes.

I was too young then to fully understand it, but I knew there was something about growing your own food, walking barefoot on the soil, and being around farm animals that made me feel free. I experienced this firsthand through my father’s passion for farming, his gentleness with the animals, and his deep respect for the earth and everything it produces.

Little side note: I had my own pet cow named Ice Cream — but that’s a story for another time. Maybe around a fire pit in Tuscany?

I didn’t feel that same sense of freedom again until two years ago, when I visited Tuscany. It was deeply healing, and I found my “second wind” in life. I knew I had to bring other women to experience the same beauty, culture and restoration that Tuscany gave me.

So I took a leap of faith and combined my experience as a Nutritional Health Coach and Personal Chef to create a Wellness & Culinary Retreat designed to help women reconnect with their purpose and experience true healing on many levels.

What better place for this than Tuscany — surrounded by beauty, culture and history. Eating fresh, earth-to-plate food. Forming new friendships. Slowing down enough to truly appreciate it all.

When you get to know me, you’ll quickly realise my life revolves around feeding people and creating new recipes. So it felt only natural that my team and I would create something truly special and unique for you at this retreat.

I’m bringing together the comforting, deep flavors of my South African roots, the rich simplicity of Tuscan cuisine, and the culturally diverse flavors of my home for the past 26 years — Southern California. The result is a culinary experience you don’t want to miss, all centred around the powerful idea of Food as Medicine.

This retreat is also special because it forms part of the journey of creating my first cookbook — and I am inviting you into that process. You will be among the first to taste new recipes and share your feedback.

I’ve carefully brought together a team who are just as passionate as I am about creating a truly transformative experience. These are people I trust deeply — women who have walked with me through many seasons of life. Together, we are here to create a space where you will feel genuinely loved, seen and cared for.