Foundations Of Healthy Living Retreat

The Foundations of Healthy Living Retreat is a 4-day residential program for both bariatric surgery patients and those interested in weight loss/maintenance held in a dedicated retreat facility designed to help you learn how to change the way you think, act, react, feel and live. 

We place an emphasis on providing all of our participants with the support and structure you need to make comprehensive changes in the following three areas:

Behaviour
Our specially trained therapists help to promote personal growth through group support and learn skills to help you maintain and restore your increased self awareness and self-esteem. We also help you address the underlying emotional triggers that can prevent you from moving forward into a healthy, fulfilling lifestyle.

Nutrition 
We provide you with delicious nutritious meals, and teach you how to incorporate healthy nutrition into your daily lives.

Exercise 
Exercise is essential for physics fitness and good health. We help you recognise the benefit of improved stamina and strength, controlling weight and improving quality of life.

Each day is packed with activities designed to help you re-focus on your weight loss goals. With specialist guidance from our team of experts and four days just to focus on you, you will leave reignited with some practical skills and tools to help achieve lifelong successful weight management.

We understand that you may feel as if you know what to do, but cannot do it alone. We help you identify and change what is standing in the way of more controlled eating and a better relationship with food and activity as well as you mind and body.

Our workshops, activities, and group sessions help you to learn to incorporate structure into your daily life and apply new strategies to the world around you, encouraging you to adopt lasting lifestyle changes.

Our Foundations of Healthy Living Retreat is the ideal setting in which to dedicate serious time and energy in the pursuit of healthy lifestyle changes.

Our patients attend a retreat at any time within the 2 years of your follow-up (included in package), however from experience we know that participants receive most benefit around the 6-9 month post-operative stage. Dates of these are here, so when you have planned your retreat date, please notify us as soon as possible.

Our retreats are held at The Lifestyle Lodge – a comfortable, 15 bedroom lodge style accommodation in Ohakune.  This is a gorgeous place at the bottom of Mt Ruapehu and a beautiful spot in both summer and winter. The Lodge is specifically designed to enhance the learning objectives we have set, in a cost effective and affordable manner.

The cost for the 4-day retreat, including all meals, presentations, workshops and activities is $2100.00* per person. (*If you have had surgery with Tailor Clinics, the cost of the retreat is $1850.00). For repeat retreat participants, the cost is $1750.00.

These workshops are open to everyone who has had bariatric surgery, not just tailor clinic patients.

 Cancellation policy

Unfortunately, Tailor Clinics have been forced to update our cancellation policy and implement boundaries to ensure accountability and intention to attend the retreats.

We have recently had an increasing number of late cancellations and last-minute requests to reschedule, and to reduce these avoidable vacancies whilst remaining fair and reasonable to our participants, we have had to introduce tougher penalties.

Late cancellations and/or changes not only make it difficult for us to plan and accommodate those who wished to attend an earlier date but are subsequently unable to organise time off at such short notice, but they also increase the administrative workload markedly.

To cancel and/or reschedule your retreat booking without penalty, you will be required to give more than 30 days-notice*.

Cancellation Policy:

1. If you cancel/change the date of your retreat less than 30 days before the start date, you will lose 25% of your retreat payment, and this fee will need to be paid when you rebook.  ($500.00).

2. If you cancel/change the date of your retreat less than 14 days before the start date, you will lose 50% of your retreat payment, and this fee will need to be paid when you rebook.  ($1000.00).

3. If you cancel/change the date of your retreat less than 7 days before the start date, you will lose 100% of your retreat payment, and this fee will need to be paid when you rebook.
(up to $2100.00).

If you do not wish to rebook the retreat, your retreat booking will be forfeited, and no refunds will be given.

*When a cancellation is out of the participant’s control and/or there are unforeseen or mitigating circumstances, we may be more lenient, however this will be assessed on a case-by-case basis, and at our discretion. This may also mean that the participant may only be given the option of booking another retreat on a cancellation list, when they become available.

 We thank you for your understanding.

Contact details:

Tailor Clinics, 36 Grey Street, Hamilton 3216
Email: admin@tailorclinics.co.nz    

Phone: 07 859 0185