Ayurveda ~ Lifestyle Restorative Retreats on Gabriola Island

To practice Ayurveda is to tune oneself with the cosmic rhythms of Nature

A Time for You to Rest, Renew, Recharge, and just be You.

We offer three-day and five-day Ayurvedic retreat packages at our Bed and Breakfast on beautiful Gabriola Island. We invite you to take some gentle inward time for remembering and reconnecting to yourself. This is a time to turn off your devices and tune in to yourself, with an all-about-you retreat.

Learn about the 5,000-year-old Ayurvedic rituals and routines for raising your vibration and deeply nourishing your body, mind, and soul.

Enliven your senses with breathing techniques, movement, meditation, gratitude, and time in nature. Indulge in doshas, self-massage, mantras and journaling, with plenty of free time to rest and reflect. Retreats include simple nourishing Ayurveda meals.

Are you ready to say YES to self-care, responsibility, and connection?

Being healthy and vibrant is our birthright, the precious gift you can give to yourself. Taking time for our well-being is the first step.

We want you to leave feeling and saying “I am deeply nourished.”

Custom packages for your unique needs are available.

Add-ons available with two weeks’ notice: massage, reflexology, tarot reading, energy work, biomat session.

I had the absolute delight of a four-day Ayurvedic retreat with Josee at La Belle Vie.

Josee’s approach was just right for me; she has a natural intuition and had clearly given thoughtful attention to customize her offerings for me. Josee and Adam have created a beautiful space, with natural light pouring in from all angles, and the most comfortable nooks to curl up and read or journal.

I came away with a collection of new wellness tools and rituals to integrate into my daily life, not to mention recipes to make at home when I need to reset and restore.

I’m so grateful for the gift of Josee’s teachings and beautiful hospitality. Highly recommended for anyone learning to gain tools to bring more balance into life or simply wanting a beautiful place to retreat and restore — this is the spot you’ve been looking for.

ChloeGabriola Island

Josee is a gifted, intuitive guide for healing and wellbeing. I did a 5 day wellness retreat and Ayurvedic cleanse with Josee and it was a beautiful experience. I was looking for a retreat for deep rest and reconnection with myself and I received much more than I expected.

Josee is wonderful teacher; kind, thoughtful, gentle, clear, present. She had so much wisdom to share and was great at holding space for me to follow my own process, which I really appreciated. She was highly attuned and offered a ‘just-right’ amount of support. It was a joyful, peaceful (and delicious!) experience that I highly recommend.

Faye

I have used a lot of Josee’s creations, the tea’s are wonderful, I think I have tried them all and my favorites are the ” Be You” and the ” Organic Minty Rose” tea. The Elderberry Rosehip Elixer helped keep away the colds this past winter. My favorite thing though was the herb walk looking for Stinging nettle, we picked nettle, made a wonderful tea and sat in the field drinking our tea, Josee pointed out various other plants that were useful for my health, we took some oregon grape root and I know have a tincture going. Really looking forward to the next one coming up.

Margaret WinstoneGabriola Island

I am in love with Josee’s products! I use every single one of them and have noticed huge changes in my skin in just a couple of weeks. I am so grateful I have products where I can recognize every single pure ingredient and know exactly what is going onto my skin into my body. My skin glow from the Hibiscus Bliss Scrub, the smell is amazing as well as the taste!!! YEP! So pure you can eat her products!!!! The Lavendar-Yarrow Facial Mist tightens my pores and calms inflammation in my skin. I have less blemishes, more of an even skin tone and my wrinkles are way less visible. The Essential Massage Oil is awesome for sore tired muscles and joints…so soothing. The other great benefit is you can use this oil on your face at night to get maximum moisture into your skin. My skin literally drinks up her products. That is just a few of the products I writing about but to assure you I use every single thing she makes. Even her teas…………don’t let me get started!!!

Amy Hume-BetmanisGabriola Island