Activities and Info for Retreats

Very nature oriented with hiking, swimming, relaxing and observing nature. Combines well with art workshops such as drawing outdoors workshops—all activities will be outdoors when possible. Don’t forget to add a couple of chef-prepared meals or a picnic! Consider at least one meal to be top-tiered, multi-course, prepared in our Art Studio gourmet kitchen and served to your group on our 19th-century farmhouse table!

More aerobic and includes lots of strenuous exercise combined with down time meditation or other choices. Consider combining with daily meals served or catered onsite with all healthy nutrigenetic quality ingredients for the ultimate health experience!

with all things Yoga-This is a longer retreat with focus on all types of yoga. Please designate preferences for other activities. Consider coupling with a day trip to several of the best local wineries with a catered lunch or brunch of healthy choices served before departure and coming back to an array of chef prepared appetizers and family style dinner, then a relaxing swim in the private pool with hot tub and roaring fire under the stars! Ah, the perfect day!

Stretching activities, water activities, sound meditation, spa treatments, and Presentations on self-care, health and well-being. Let us know if you’d like to combine some local (you choose the level) hiking and perhaps a nature-oriented drawing workshop on the grounds with professional artist/owner Nina Beall, and don’t forget the chef prepared meals for breakfast/brunch, light lunch or nutritious family style dinner with great conversation served on our 19th century farmhouse table in the Artist’ studio!

Excellent for older guests or those wanting less aerobic and more easy beneficial activities, paired with nutritional or mindful presentations. Consider choosing a day trip to the Harry Ransom Center or the Blanton Museum and don’t forget to include several chef prepared meals throughout your stay for a relaxing experience that will send you home feeling energized and wanting to schedule again soon!

Best for 4-6-8 night stays) All Days will have at least 3 hour workshops in afternoons from 2-5. Guests may choose drawing or painting or both (Be sure to discuss materials needed to purchase ahead and bring with!). Other activities may be chosen per your preferences for morning activity. Don’t forget to include a breakfast basket w/ extras for a quick bite before your morning activity and then consider a catered or healthy picnic lunch prior to donning your artist’ apron to begin letting your creative juices flow! NOTE: Guests are welcome to choose 2 workshops per day-with morning workshops lasting 1.5-2 hrs and focusing on basics or critique of guests’ work done during the stay or brought from home. Follow up in the evening with perhaps one of our top tier personal Chef’s multi-course meals served on the owner’s great grandparent’s 19th century farmhouse table or in the artist’ studio.

Choose your other favorite activities or preferences from advanced facials, dermaplaning, hydra dermabrasion, chemical peels, eyelash lift & tint, eyebrow lamination & tint, and all types of waxing, facial and body massages, to your choices of activities with nutritional chef prepared meals or catering to focus on your bodies health from the inside out! Your skin is the largest organ in your body, so it pays to take good care of it! Consider adding a top tier nutrigenetic meal or two with bio-chemistry chef Heidi or a picnic lunch to take down to the river or poolside pergola and enjoy nature, and don’t forget to add a sound bowls emersion experience, a presentation or two on self-care and perhaps a tea ceremony with our excellent facilitators!

Cooking & Eating Classes, soft hiking or exploring the magnificent parks and areas of nature in the Austin area & Relaxing Without Heavy Aerobics While Just Enjoying Nature, the Retreat property, and all its amenities! This retreat is just what it says! If you’re not familiar with Local Venues, just let us know your preferences for types of music, food, day trips, and we will work to focus on coordinating the personal chefs, meals out at noteworthy local restaurants (self-pay), ,and catering /coordinating meals with your groups’ choices in mind.

Just list your choices for activities and meals as outlined, and we’ll do the rest and our best to include and coordinate for you!

Centers around and about everything for best nutrition, exercise, pampering, self-care, and relaxation. With activities chosen accordingly and lots of extra information and splurgy extras introduced to make this a relaxing and fun retreat. Such activities as presentations on pre-natal nutrition, best self-care practices, pre-natal massages, spa treatments, nature immersive activities, gentle water aerobics, stretching, and personal chefs with particular expertise and degrees in this focus for meals and treatments that are sure to be helpful and refreshing!

Can be customized with activities chosen to suit all ages and levels! Please be sure to include ages of each adult or child in your group and feel free to give us notes on what specific family members enjoy most! We will be doing our best to coordinate for both group activities, and separate children’s activities, pending ages and abilities, with having more than one facilitator working on various activities perhaps at the same time! Extremely young children, such as toddlers, infants, or under age 10 might not be as well suited of course for most of the activities, but we will be happy to consult with you and discuss details that might best work. NOTE: Activities that are more advanced for adults and not suitable for children should be coupled with activities for the children that might be something like outdoor activities and skills, or a hike around the property while parents are doing another activity on the property. All family members must be on the same property for activities.