Come Live It While Learning
22-29 MAY 2026
Renewal Retreat, Kammanassie Mountains
(Google Maps: Renewal Retreat Kammanassie)
Step away from the noise of daily life. Immerse yourself in a week of nourishment, nature, and renewal. Enjoy the breathtaking Kammanassie Mountains.
Surrounded by sweeping views of the majestic Outeniqua Mountains and the lush Langkloof Valley, this retreat is designed to help you reconnect — with nature, with wholesome food, and with yourself.
🌿 What Your Days Will Include
- Learn by doing as we prepare delicious, wholesome plant-based meals together.
- Morning & Afternoon Hands-On Plant-Based Food Preparation
- Daily Walking Meditations. Gentle Walks in the Mountains, Soaking in magnificent views, stillness, and fresh air.
- Daily Qigong Sessions. Restore balance and energy through mindful movement.
- As an added bonus, retreat guests enjoy complimentary access to a well- equipped gym — perfect for those who like to maintain their fitness routine and/or stretch out after a mountain walk.
- Time to reconnect with your inner voice. Journaling & Reflection.
- Support circulation and detoxification. Body Brushing Rituals.
- Swim in the pure refreshing and invigorating mountain water.
- Experience magnificent Sunsets
- Enjoy quiet evenings, and awe-inspiring dark night starsgazing
🥗 Hands-On Plant-Based Food Experiences
During the week, you’ll learn how to prepare:
- Signature salads
- Hummus
- Pesto
- Falafel
- Plant-based cheese
- Tofu
- Homebaked bread
- Seaweed salad
- Mock salmon
Plus, enjoy a “Round-the-World” Plant-Based Dinner Experience, featuring cuisine inspired by:
•Japanese
•Indian
•Gambian
•American South-Western
•Thai
•Chinese
•Italian
✨ Optional Extras
For those wanting to deepen their wellness journey:
- Near-infrared sauna
- Colon cleansing
- Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
- Personal pranic healing session (30 Min)
🌸 What You’ll Take Home
More than recipes…
You’ll leave with:
•An expanded vision for living consciously
•New culinary skills and confidence
•A collection of nourishing recipes
•Your own body brush
•A lighter body
•A clearer mind
•And a more positive, open heart
If you’re ready to slow down, learn something new, and experience plant-based living in one of South Africa’s most beautiful mountain settings, this retreat is for you.
Your Meals
In the interest of health and healing we encourage intermittent fasting during the retreat. This means that you can enjoy a cup of black tea or coffee or a herbal tea in the morning and the first meal of the day will be lunch at 12:30
For those of you who have never done intermittent fasting or are unsure of it we offer a light breakfast.
Lunch at 12:30: Either a buffet style salad bar with the addition of a plant-based protein or a signature salad, plus fruit
Afternoon drinks at 3:30: Teas, coffee, mint and or lemon water
Dinner at 18:00: A delicious, nutritious plant-based dinner incorporating different proteins
Evening drinks available until 20:30: Teas, coffee, mint and or lemon water
Fresh spring mountain water is available all day
Investment for the 8 day Plant-Based Culinary Retreat
Renewal Retreat offers a variety of accommodation types, and the prices are based on the type selected
Prices are all inclusive of 7 nights / 8 days, all meals and drinks, hands-on culinary experience, qigong sessions, journaling, body brushing, walks, stargazing, access to the gym. Optional healing modalities are available at an additional fee
Pincusion Klein Karoo Cottage
The 2026 Booking.com award winning Pincushion cottage with an average rating of 9.7 at reduced rates for the Retreat.
Single occupancy R22465
Shared occupancy (two bedrooms each with en suite bathroom) R17700
Finch and Robin in the Farmhouse
The 125 year old farmhouse incorporates the Retreat Centre.
The Finch Room with ensuite bathroom Single occupancy R15600 or shared occupancy R14200
The Robin Room with across the passage private bathroom Single occupancy R14900 or shared occupancy R13850
Heath House with one private room and a dormitory
Eagle, the private room with shared shower and toilets R14250
Swallow, the dorm with shared shower and toilets R12800
Poplar Cabins
Two inter-leading (lockable) cabins.
Separate outside shower and toilet.
Protea, two single beds. Single occupancy R12250
Erica, a double bed. Single occupancy R12250
For more details on the accommodation types Click on the blocks
Review from the March 2026 plant-based culinary retreat:
“If, like me, you are consciously seeking the most healthy possible connection with food then I cannot recommend this retreat highly enough. I have just spent an incredible week with Colleen and Michael and will be progressing positively and more importantly consciously in terms of my ongoing nutrition. You are what you eat has never rung more true. Thank you so much for the priceless lessons learnt.” Gavin W.
Location and transport facilities
Self Drive
The main routes to Renewal Retreat are:
R62 (N9) from George, Oudtshorn or Willowmore direction
Bus + Shuttle
A Google search will reveal all the bus companies that offer a service to George. Please ensure that you do not book a service that arrives in George later than 16:00
Flight + Shuttle
Flysafair and AirLink both fly to George from various destinations throughout South Africa. Please ensure that you do not book a flight that arrives in George later than 16:00
Renewal Retreat offers a shuttle service to the Retreat for guest arriving in George by plane or bus at R500 each way. The distance is 85km and the travelling time is 1 hour 15 min.
Want to ask Colleen questions about upcoming retreats. WhatsApp me
079 1141 938
”I have just spent an incredible week with Colleen and Michael and will be progressing positively and more importantly consciously in terms of my ongoing nutrition. You are what you eat has never rung more true. Thank you so much for the priceless lessons learnt.” Gavin W