Walk To Heal Retreats

02/10/2025

I believe in you.
I believe in me.
I believe in our capacity to heal.
I get to witness such great recoveries and growth. I am so privileged!

You are my people—the ones who come back from the darkness - the biggest journey of all.

Here I am earlier this year on a few solo days walking the Camino Mozarabe. My taxi driver (and accommodation host) dropped me here and took this photo. He couldn’t understand why I wanted to be dropped off to walk the long path through the bush instead of the short tar road into the next town.

I am well versed now in taking the path less travelled.
I ask myself often why I leave the comfort of home and walk into the unknown.
It’s an experience of coming alive, inside and out. Delicious, magical. Empowering.

I walked into the next town a different person on a deep cellular level.

Here’s to living life in wonder. Touching the centre of why we are here.
Dancers on paths.

You are my people. 💜

29/09/2025

Trauma often hides in plain sight.


Constant fear. Constant rumination. Chronic illness. Exhaustion. Over working till burnout. Shrinking back when you have ideas. The fear of being “too much” or “not enough.”

🚶🏻‍♀️‍➡️Imagine finding the root cause or dealing with it using the most advanced, efficacious holistic mind-body techniques to date for dealing with trauma?

🚶🏻‍♀️‍➡️Imagine being completely supported for 14 days by compassionate, skilled practitioners, who work with you and advance your knowledge for self empowerment?

🚶🏻‍♀️‍➡️Imagine finally living in your zone of genius? Imagine how your life could change?

🚶🏻‍♀️‍➡️For many people, key life events or repeated invalidation from childhood leaves invisible scars. These can create trauma responses that follow you into work, relationships, and everyday life.

🚶🏻‍♀️‍➡️But here’s the truth: it’s not who you are—it’s what happened to you.

🚶🏻‍♀️‍➡️At Walk to Heal Retreats, we go to the root. Step by step, along the Camino de Santiago, with luxury rest stops and guided healing practices, you’ll begin to release the patterns that keep you stuck.

💜 Imagine walking into freedom.
💜 Imagine reclaiming your confidence.
💜 Imagine being fully yourself—unapologetically.

In May 2026, we are inviting a small, confidential group of people to take this journey with us. If you’re ready to heal, expand, and succeed—your path is waiting.

This is only for those who want to change. For those who also want to celebrate walking towards an empowered life on a luxury, revitalising, once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage experience.

👉 DM us to book your place.

www.walktohealretreats.com

28/09/2025

Meet Elise. We are honoured to have her join our team of specialists on our walk to heal pilgrimage next May.

A psychotherapist, Elise, is also a certified yoga teacher, biodynamic craniosacral therapist, and trained in clinical and somatic psychotherapy. She is also trained in other modalities such as IFS, EMDR, brainspotting and equine therapy. She has skilled experience with nutrition for mental health, domestic violence and addiction.

Her work is rooted in deep presence and reverence for the body’s wisdom, shaped by years of supporting individuals through trauma, addiction, and the tender path of healing—both in private practice and in treatment centres.

With gentle guidance, she invites people to soften into themselves—to welcome every part of their story, every sensation, every silence with love and presence. Her approach is an invitation back to the heart: to the quiet knowing of self-compassion, to the ever-present thread of inter-connection, and to the deep well of wellbeing that lies beneath the surface of our lives.

 Ritual, prayer, awe, devotion, meditation, pilgrimage, and community are companions and sacred threads in Elise’s own journey and work. She is honoured to walk alongside you as you explore the inner and outer landscapes of the Camino and of the self.

Places are limited on this unique journey or healing and working through all the obstacles to living your best life.

DM here or book your place to join our team of mind-body specialists who will support you every step of the way next May: walktohealretreats.com

Where luxury travel meets pilgrimage and profound transformation. Curated guided journeys of healing and renewal on the Camino. www.walktohealretreats.com
WALK. HEAL. TRANSFORM

26/09/2025

Gail was 80 when she joined my very first group camino. She walked 350km with us — and quickly became a legend on the track.

To this day, we share a bond stitched by the road. One morning, over an early café con leche, we both shed tears speaking about the love for our sons. it was raw, real, and unforgettable.

This is the gift of the camino - the friendships that outlast the miles, the moments that never leave your heart. 💛

25/09/2025

Latest blog post: The Camino - A Catalyst for Change.
Learn how science underscores what is happening when you walk a Camino!

I’ve met so many people on these sacred paths looking for answers and to heal something over my 7 years of walking on Camino routes. A burnout German school teacher was walking the full 800km to rewire his nervous system for calm. A Korean man who managed high rise building projects and had witnes...

17/09/2025

The Camino, reimagined for healing and rejuvenation.
A 14-Day Luxury Reset.

Step away from the noise. Walk ancient paths. Heal and reset with the support of expert practitioners. This is the Camino transformed into a sanctuary for your body, mind and spirit. Personal and confidential.

Step away from the noise of everyday life and into the healing rhythm of the Camino de Santiago.

This is not just a walk. It’s a curated 14-day journey where luxury meets deep transformation. You’ll walk breathtaking stretches of the Camino, rest in hand-picked sanctuaries and experience world-class mind-body practices designed to release stress, trauma, and old patterns that hold you back.

I’ve guided groups on the Camino since 2019, blending two passions that changed my life — walking and healing. Now I’m inviting just six people to join me and my team in May 2026 for this once-in-a-lifetime retreat.

✨ Only 6 places.�✨ Luxury, 5-star healing.�✨ A reset for your body, mind, and spirit.

Are you ready to walk into clarity, renewal, and freedom?
👉 Apply now to secure your place. DM or go to our website to set up a chat or express interest:

walktohealretreats.com

16/09/2025

A life-changing moment for me.

This was me in 2017, wild and windswept by my month on the Camino. My new American friend took this photo. I was about to have a massage in Samos (where the magnificent Monastery is) after a big day of walking, in this cute little stone building.

After the massage the lady called me back as I walked away to tell me that my “energy was clear”. I took this as a sign that I no longer had Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis and I started crying.

I had blood tests after arriving home to confirm my hunch. I was healthy!!

The Camino de Santiago is the most wondrous and healing journey in the world.

Join us for 14 exceptional days in May 2026 for bespoke holistic healing supported by experienced wellbeing practitioners and Camino guides.

Send your expression of interest with a DM or set up a free chat by clicking on “enquire” at walktohealretreats.com

We can’t wait to receive you.

Darene

15/09/2025

This is true. If the mind finds change is too big a leap, it can hold on more tightly out of fear! A good practitioner will gauge this well. Change is a process of trust 🙏

15/09/2025

Healing is not skin deep

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12/09/2025

The new wave in therapy: mind-body (somatic) therapy is creating big waves and studies show better efficacy than talk therapy.

Make sure your practitioner is using some of these body-based techniques.

Credit: Dr Peta Stapleton