Our story
About Yoga Meats Retreats
Yoga Meats Retreats began with a simple intention: to create a space where women can feel truly nourished through real food, deep rest, and movement that is supportive, grounding, and restorative. A space to slow down, reconnect, and be well in a way that feels sustainable.
Each Yoga Meats retreat is curated by women, for women. We believe in nutrient-dense food, generous, beautifully prepared, and built around grass-fed meats, eggs and broths. We believe in deep rest as the foundation of strength. And we believe in movement that meets your body kindly.
We keep our gatherings small on purpose. Up to twelve women at a time, in places that feel like home rather than hotels. Emily cooks for you. Caroline and Silvie hold space for you. And the rest of the time is yours.
Whether you're new to a low-carb, keto or carnivore way of eating, or have been at it for years, you'll be welcomed exactly as you are.
The team
Meet the women behind the retreats.
Cecilia
Founder
I'm a photographer, video editor and documentary producer, and the founder of Yoga Meats Retreats. I found my father's film camera when I was eleven, and I've spent most of my life since telling stories through images. For the past decade it has been my work behind the camera. Three years ago I moved to a low-carb, ketogenic and carnivore way of eating. It changed my health, and with it my whole understanding of what it means to be properly nourished. The retreat began with a friend. She told me she would love a yoga retreat, but the food on offer would never work for her. When I looked, I couldn't find anywhere that brought yoga together with proper, animal-based nourishment. So I decided to create one, the kind of place I had been looking for myself. My hope is simple. To give women somewhere beautiful to rest deeply, eat well, sleep soundly, and simply be.
Emily
Chef
I have been cooking professionally for over 30 years. Until 2017, cooking was a side hustle for me, a welcome distraction from a career in child protection. Nine years ago, I resigned from my day job and committed myself to the kitchen. And I haven't looked back. What began as a small café in the heart of Leith, has grown and been honed into a wonderful, varied, joyful but often challenging role, travelling around the UK and France, cooking for private clients, from all over the world. The business has grown exponentially over the past few years, and since 2023, time not taken up in private households is spent cooking on retreats; for yogis, writers, therapists, those seeking calm, stillness and reset, all of whom require nourishment. There are few acts which communicate care more than cooking for someone according to their needs and preferences. Nourishment is not indulgence; it is a foundation for clarity, steadiness, and a well-lived life.
Silvie
Nutritionist & Facilitator
I've been immersed in the world of food, nutrition and natural health for as long as I can remember. Growing up in my family's independent health food shop meant conversations about food, health and how the body works were simply part of everyday life. That curiosity has never left me. Over the years I've explored ancestral health, metabolic health, ketogenic and carnivore nutrition, always wanting to understand not just what helps people feel better, but why. I'm a qualified Nutritionist, a Chapter Leader for the Weston A. Price Foundation, co-organised the UK's first Carnivore Conference in 2024, and I'm still actively involved in my family's health food business alongside supporting clients one-to-one. For me, health is about more than food. It's also about how we live, sleep, move and the environment we create around ourselves. Through nutrition, meditation, life coaching and Angelic Reiki, I hope you'll leave this retreat with a better understanding of your body and practical tools to support your health long after you return home.
Caroline
Yoga Teacher
I'm Caroline, and I've always been drawn to movement and the outdoors. Whether I'm mountain biking through the forest, swimming in a quiet loch or stepping onto my yoga mat, those are the places where I feel most grounded and most myself. Yoga began as a way to move my body, but over time it has become so much more. It has taught me that strength isn't about pushing harder or doing more, but about learning to listen, to breathe and to find stillness, even when life feels busy. That understanding shapes every class I teach. One of the greatest privileges of teaching yoga is helping people discover what they're capable of. For me, nourishment is about more than food. It's also about how we move, breathe, rest and spend time in nature. My hope is that you'll leave this retreat feeling stronger, calmer and more connected to yourself, with the confidence and simple practices to carry that feeling into everyday life.
What guides us
Our principles.
Real food
Pasture-raised, locally sourced, beautifully cooked. Never restrictive.
Rest first
Recovery is not a reward. It's the practice.
Held by women
Curated, taught and cared for by a small team of women.