Menopause retreats for women going through peri-menopause, menopause and beyond, guided by women who are looking for positive ways to walk this time together encouraging sustainable changes in your life. Antoinette, Hazel and their specialist team run small personal group retreats that offer a calming, tender, collaborative space to grow, self-reflect and move forward with the development of practical skills for your present and future holistic wellbeing.

We offer an opportunity to explore these personal shifts in a peaceful and beautiful setting, in a magical region of France. Here you will be nurtured with gentle guidance, self-reflection & conversation as well as being served nutritional meals that reflect the growing awareness around food that supports our menopausal symptoms.

All our retreats are for four nights fully inclusive of all meals, drinks and arranged activities. Numbers are limited to six people to ensure everyone receives our closest attention.

Antoinette Fairhurst

Antoinette Fairhurst is the great mother of Les Marguerites and has been hosting retreats in this sacred land for the last 15 years. Antoinette ensures that all your physical needs during your retreat here are lovingly taken care of. Antoinette shares stories and her own experiences from her years of living and working in this land. She opens her heart, home and kitchen to you. Having studied Indian cuisine, and living many years in the Middle East, and the last 18 years in France, she mixes the best of each cultures’ dishes and spices to create her own unique style of cooking. She has a strong focus on women’s well-being and prepares food that supports women’s bodies and hormones, no matter their age or life phase.

Hazel Ratcliffe

Hazel has been working in Women’s Health and Wellbeing for most of her career, supporting them to live fulfilling & happy lives. She works with women across the UK developing and guiding them to connect with their ability to lead and influence.

She is committed to supporting women to share and support each other in a flexible, open and accessible way. Hazel's facilitation style is encouraging, perceptive with a good blend of joy and humour.

Laurie Beaufils

Laurie is a passionate botanist with a strong belief in the power of nature and plants to provide natural nutrients for our diet and to aid the prevention and treatment of ailments.  Nature can touch our souls and it creates environments of beauty and peace where we can connect with our deepest selves. Laurie has guided many people to share in the magic of this region from foraging to cooking edible wild plants to embracing the serenity and peace that can be found in so many places. Laurie has created an association “Herba venti” to share this knowledge and she enjoys delivering workshops that help people to recognize plants for cooking or to create balms for healing.