Food as ceremony

Nourish & Bloom unfolds in the depths of winter, embraced by snow-cloaked mountains and crisp alpine air. Each meal is a ceremony within itself, designed to nourish, ground and restore.

Every meal served at Nourish & Bloom is prepared with reverence by Flockhill’s award-winning head chef, Taylor Cullen of the acclaimed Sugarloaf restaurant. Each dish has been carefully curated in collaboration between the chef and Chelsea Winter, and selected with purpose - not only for its flavour, but for how it will support your body, your energy, and your unfolding throughout the retreat.

Think slow-cooked meats, foods cooked over fire, healing broths, seasonal vegetables, warming spices, luscious preserved fruits, and rich seasonal flavours designed to replenish you from within. (And plenty of dessert, naturally). The food served carries sacred intention, masterfully elevated by refined culinary artistry.

You’ll also be enchanted by ceremonial cacao, restorative herbal teas, matcha rituals, elixirs, and other indulgent offerings designed to awaken, delight and surprise.

This is ancestral nourishment. Each meal reconnects you to your body’s ancient intelligence - food not just as sustenance, but as medicine for vitality, clarity, and soul restoration.

World-class cuisine to truly nourish

Every meal served at Nourish & Bloom is prepared with reverence by Flockhill’s award-winning head chef, Taylor Cullen, of the acclaimed Sugarloaf restaurant. Each dish has been carefully curated in collaboration between the chef and Chelsea Winter, and selected with purpose - not only for its flavour, but for how it will support your body, your energy, and your unfolding throughout the retreat.

Rooted in the rhythms of the land, the food at Sugarloaf (which received a coveted ‘hat' in 2025) is unlike anything else. Much of the produce is grown on the property in gardens lovingly tended by hand. Over 30 varieties of fruit, heirloom vegetables, edible flowers, and wild herbs are cultivated onsite, with chefs and gardeners working side-by-side to bring the land’s abundance to life.

This is ancestral nourishment. Each meal reconnects you to your body’s ancient intelligence - food not just as sustenance, but as medicine for vitality, clarity, and soul restoration.

The extraordinary Nourish & Bloom experience…

  • Luxury accommodation at Flockhill

    One of New Zealand’s most prestigious luxury lodges, cradled by the wild expanse of the Southern Alps. Your newly-built suite is a sanctuary, designed with exquisite care to hold you in warmth, beauty and stillness.

  • Potent healing sessions

    Somatic movement, sound immersions, sacred breathwork and womb alchemy - each offering a powerful opportunity to regulate your nervous system and clear stored emotions and stagnant energy held in the body.

  • The Feminine Essence

    A return to the rhythms of your feminine nature. These sessions honour your cyclical body and support the reclamation of sovereignty, softness, and feminine truth. Through guided teachings and embodiment practices, we unravel patriarchal constructs and plant the seeds of a new internal equilibrium.

  • Sound frequency healing

    Sound becomes a bridge between worlds. These sessions activate memory, release stagnant patterns, and re-attune the body’s frequency to harmony and vitality.

  • Earth-body recalibrations

    Forest bathing with guided meditation and live sound healing - a deeply immersive journey into the heart of nature. Guided gently inward, then held in resonance by a live soundscape, you’ll drop into spacious communion with the natural world, recalibrating your entire system.

  • World-class cuisine

    Meals are crafted by the award-winning chef at Flockhill’s acclaimed Sugarloaf restaurant in collaboration with Chelsea Winter - a sumptuous culinary experience to deeply nourish on every level.

  • Exquisite spa facilities

    Be among the first to enjoy Flockhill’s new, state-of-the-art spa facilities, including a panoramic hot spa, cold plunge and alpine sauna. A daily offering to honour integration, replenishment and renewal - nourishing your mind, body and spirit.

  • Daily soul practices and ceremonies

    Daily sacred rituals, feminine embodiment, shared wisdom circles, and a guided sunrise meditation - nourishing practices to clear, anchor, and awaken. Each one invites deeper reverence, alignment, and intentional co-creation - empowering you to carry ritual into everyday life.

  • Deep connection & sisterhood

    The courage, laughter, truth and vulnerability of the women alongside you becomes part of your journey, just as yours becomes part of theirs. Expect to form deep, lasting bonds - the kind that nourish you long after the retreat ends.

  • Bespoke luxury gift bag

    A beautiful take-home curation including your own handmade Nourish & Bloom ceramic mug, cookbook, personalised essential oil blend, natural skincare, and other nourishing treasures — thoughtfully chosen to support your integration after the retreat.