Wellness Retreats · International
The Wellbeing Playbook
You haven’t lost yourself — you’ve just spent years being the one who holds everything together.
Seven nights in Hoi An to feel like you again, with a real playbook of practices you build and keep. Not a beautiful week you forget — a way of being that lasts well past the plane home.
If this is you
You’re the one everyone leans on.
You’re somewhere between 45 and 65, and by every measure you’re capable. You’re also, quietly, a little worn from being the one who carries it. None of this is a crisis. It’s just true:
- You book everyone’s appointments — and can’t remember your own last proper check-up.
- Your calendar is full of other people’s things.
- Some mornings you catch your reflection and the tired face surprises you.
- The friendships thinned out somewhere — and you miss having women who simply get it.
- You’re not unhappy. You’re just wondering, quietly: is this it? Is there still more in me?
If you read that and went “oh” — you’re exactly who we built this for. And you’re allowed to want something that’s just yours.
In case you’re wondering
It’s not too late, and you’re not too far gone.
If a small voice has told you you’ve missed your window — that the interesting part is behind you — we’d gently disagree. You don’t need fixing. You need space to use what’s been sitting idle, and the tools to keep using it.
That’s what this week is: our Thrive & Revive work — the wellness weekend many of you already know — taken international and given the room of a full seven nights, for a small circle of just 14 women.
The point of it all
Six weeks home.
The glow fades. The playbook doesn’t. This is what lasting actually looks like:
- The first Monday back
You wake before the alarm and walk — not because you should, but because it’s yours now. The morning belongs to you again.
- A fortnight in
The conversation you’d been putting off for a year — you have it. Calmly. You’d forgotten you were allowed to take up that much room.
- Week four
A Tuesday-night call with one of the women from your group, mid-laugh about nothing. You came home with people, not just photos.
- Six weeks
Someone says you look well and can’t place why. It isn’t the tan. You feel like yourself, and this time it’s staying.
What you take home
The playbook is the point.
Seven pages you build across the week — each one taught, each one yours to keep using.
Vision
Where you want the next decade to go.
Strengths
What’s genuinely yours, through your VIA profile.
Mindset
How you meet what’s next.
Movement
Movement that fits your real life.
Intuitive eating
Nourishment for energy — no rules.
Women’s health
Perimenopause, energy, sleep, advocacy.
Money & planning
Resources for the decade ahead.
Who’s with you
Led by the woman who built it.
Tracey leads this first cohort herself, with a TSA guide beside her — and two visiting experts to deepen the week.
Applied positive psychologist, Master of Nutrition, PhD in progress. Leading this inaugural cohort.
Carries the playbook on the ground and leads daily movement.
A frank, evidence-based session on perimenopause, energy and advocacy.
A practical session on earning, building and the decade ahead.
Day by day
Hoi An, slowly.
A deliberate arc — ground, move, connect, grow. Mornings active and outdoors; afternoons the workshops. (Draft programme — touring confirms once the ground itinerary is locked.)
A gentle welcome and a shared meal — the slow easing-out of doing-mode.
Morning movement and the old town; in the afternoon, Tracey opens the playbook — where you want the next decade to go.
Movement, then your VIA strengths and the mindset reframe that follows.
A market and cooking experience in the morning — straight into the intuitive eating session.
Movement and rice-paddy country, then Dr Karina Severin on the body, honestly.
Coast and beach time, then Phoebe Bellamy on the decade ahead.
Assemble your playbook into a plan that fits your life, with six-week commitments. Closing circle and celebration dinner.
A slow morning, last goodbyes, and a plan to keep what you found.
The track record
You can’t review a trip that hasn’t run yet.
So here’s where it stands: this is the first Wellbeing Playbook, and Tracey leads it herself. What you can trust is the work it grew from — the Thrive & Revive wellness retreats women keep coming back for.
“Everybody needs to do something like this. I feel so good — like a new person again. The food, the people, the setting. I came home with energy and a way of keeping it.”
— From our Thrive & Revive wellness retreatsBe in the first group and you’re not a number — you’re in a circle of 14, in the room with the woman who built it.
The practical side, all handled
Stay & all meals
Seven nights in Hoi An, twin-share or solo, and every meal as per the program.
The full programme
All workshops, daily movement, the playbook you build, and your VIA assessment.
Founder & experts
Led by Tracey with a TSA guide, plus visiting experts in women’s health and money.
Fully supported
All in-country transfers, excursions and fees, held on the ground by our partner Footprint.
Is this you?
Who we built this for.
This is for you if…
- You’re a woman roughly 45–65, fit and able, ready to do something that’s actually for you
- You want real, practical skills — not a week that fades
- You’d love a small circle of women who genuinely get it
- You’re ready to feel like yourself again — and this time, to keep it
It’s probably not for you if…
- You want five-star spa pampering and zero effort — we’re warm and real, and we move
- You’re after a tick-box holiday with no depth
We’ll still wave you off — fondly.
If you’re hesitating
The quiet reasons we don’t go.
Let’s name them — they’re the same ones every time.
- “It won’t last.” It’s the whole reason this exists — you leave with the playbook and a check-in afterwards, not just a feeling.
- “I’ll be the unfit one.” You won’t. We meet you exactly where you are — gentle movement, your pace, no one left at the back.
- “I’d be going on my own.” So do about half the women who come. Solo is the norm here, not the exception.
- “Vietnam, by myself — is it manageable?” You’re fully held on the ground by our partner Footprint. You bring yourself and a flight; we carry the rest.
- “It’s a lot of money.” It is. A payment plan spreads it and the member rate softens it — but the real question is what another year of staying exactly as you are quietly costs you.
The real cost is staying exactly as you are. Go anyway.
Secure your place
Be one of the first 14.
Twin-share, all-inclusive on the ground · single supplement available · payment plan available
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