About
How ‘Nourish Ourselves’ came to be......
How ‘Nourish Ourselves’ came to be......
‘Nourish Ourselves’ is the brain child of Joanna Urwin - a woman who gave the first part of her working life to the corporate world whilst yearning for something more spiritually rewarding and closer to nature and to her heart.
She now runs retreats - in a rural part of the Dordogne in south-west France - for people who just need a break from their day-to-day lives so they can perhaps create the next chapter of their lives from a place of rest and rejuvenation whilst being nourished, listened to and supported. She also runs residential, day and online courses
for people who wish to learn some new skills - from cookery
to photography and video.
A message from Joanna....
As you see from these photos of me, as well as running retreats, I do like to have a bit of fun with photography (and you can too, if you wish? click here for more information
:-) ) - it’s one of my ways of turning off a busy brain and having a laugh - which I often do. . . even on my own ;-). Sometimes we do just have to ‘stand back and laugh’ at our lives - otherwise we would all go mad in this crazy world! Sometimes we need to actually travel a few hundred miles to be able to really stand back and not just smile and laugh, but give ourselves time and space to look at our lives differently.
I was fortunate to be able to buy my lovely farmhouse surrounded by vineyards near Bergerac in 2002 and travelled to and from it for several years while I ran my UK business which provided video production services to international blue-chip corporate clients. My French home enabled me to regularly ‘get away from it all’. I found that I needed the contrast between my busy city life and my more relaxed French life in order to balance myself out.
Why ‘Nourish Ourselves’
Why ‘Nourish Ourselves’
Every person who comes and stays at one of my French retreats is unique and is treated as such. However, they have all come for the same reason - to be able to take a break from their lives in order to reflect, rest, rejuvenate and reset their lives - whilst being nourished in peaceful, beautiful surroundings with delicious food - organic and locally produced where possible.
My dream of running these retreats and courses
has finally come true and I look forward to welcoming you and to helping you realise your dreams by retreating from a busy life where you can rejuvenate and reset your life amongst like-minded, supportive people.
“I have stayed at Joanna's farmhouse on several occasions and each time I go back home with a lighter feeling in my brain - and more ready to tackle what life throws me.”
Alison Broady, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
“Being a mother of four beautiful girls, I come here to switch off and be looked after myself - the location is superb and I just love the house - simple, rural and authentic - with a beautiful energy.”
Catriona Foxworthy-Bowers, Edinburgh, UK
Please get in touch
with any questions you may have about the courses, retreats or energy healing sessions.