Hormonal Vitality

Through the lens of Traditional Chinese Medicine with Keri Krieger & Aiko Neligan

A 3-night immersive retreat at SOMA Lorna Jane

The Retreat

Your body has never been broken. It has been speaking through your cycles, your energy, your symptoms, your seasons and this retreat is where you learn to finally listen.

Hormonal Vitality is a 3-night immersive retreat rooted in the ancient wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine, designed for women at every stage of their hormonal life from the menstrual years through perimenopause, menopause, and beyond. Led by Dr Keri Krieger, a Doctor of TCM and Acupuncturist with two decades of clinical experience in women's hormonal health, and Aiko Neligan, a movement artist, yoga teacher, and sound healer whose personal journey through IVF, hysterectomy, and early menopause has shaped a profoundly compassionate approach to the female experience.

Together, Keri and Aiko have created something rare: a retreat that is equal parts education and embodiment. Where the science of Chinese Medicine meets the felt sense of the body in motion. Where you do not just understand your hormonal health, you begin to live differently within it.

Set within SOMA's hinterland sanctuary, each day follows a rhythm of morning movement, educational TCM workshops, Yin Yoga, acupressure, sound healing, and restorative rest woven together with nourishing TCM-informed meals, afternoon rest time, and conversational evenings around the firepit.

You will leave not just restored, but genuinely equipped. With knowledge that reframes everything you thought you knew about hormones. With practices you will use. And with a new relationship to your body.

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This Retreat is For You If

You are navigating perimenopause or menopause and want to understand what is happening in your body through a lens that is empowering, as seen through traditional medicine.

You are in your menstrual years and want to understand your cycle, your energy, and your hormonal patterns, the things you were never taught.

You are living with symptoms, irregular cycles, painful periods, PMS, low energy, mood shifts, anxiety, brain fog, poor sleep, hot flushes, weight changes, or low libido and you want to understand what your body is trying to tell you.

You are drawn to the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine and want to experience it as a lived practice, not just a concept.

You want to build a daily rhythm that genuinely supports your hormonal health, one that is sustainable, enjoyable, and yours.

You want to be in a room of women who are honest and held with warmth, depth, and no judgement.

Your Educator & Facilitator

Keri Krieger

Doctor of TCM & Acupuncturist

Keri fell into the study of Traditional Chinese Medicine at twenty and has spent the decades since immersed in it, travelling the world to study ancient healing traditions, working in retreats, destination spas and clinical settings, and navigating her own initiation through perimenopause. With two decades of clinical experience in women’s hormonal health, Keri has dedicated her practice to the belief that women’s bodies are not broken, but rather they are intelligent systems responding to the conditions of their lives. Her workshops are grounding, reframing, and unlike any health education most women have encountered.

Retreat Add on available - 1:1 session with Keri Krieger

Aiko Neligan

Movement Artist, Yoga Teacher & Sound Healer

Aiko brings a lifetime of dance training, yoga practice, sound healing, and pranic healing to the retreat, alongside a personal story of extraordinary courage and openness. Her journey through intense fibroids, IVF, hysterectomy, earlier menopausal symptoms, mood regulation, and PMDD has shaped an approach to women’s wellness that is deeply empathetic and utterly candid. Aiko creates a space where nothing about the female experience is too heavy, too private, or too complicated to be held. Her sessions move the body in ways that bypass the analytical mind and leave every guest feeling something shift.

Retreat Add on available - 1:1 session with Aiko Neligan

What You Will Take Home

A deep understanding of your hormonal health through the lens of Traditional Chinese Medicine and why your body has been responding the way it has.

Knowledge of the TCM organ systems, meridian pathways, and the cyclical patterns that shape your energy, mood, and wellbeing at every life stage.

Practical daily rituals; movement, breathwork, acupressure, food, and rest that genuinely support your hormonal health and are sustainable in real life.

An embodied understanding of Qigong, Yin Yoga, and acupressure as tools you can return to at home, not just concepts from a class.

A new relationship to the seasons of your life and the wisdom that your body has been offering you all along.

A workbook that contains your personal learnings and your seasons and cycles that you can reference many times over.

This retreat includes

All-inclusive retreat with meals, workshops, movement sessions, group experiences, and daily bathhouse access.

All meals, snacks, and beverages throughout the retreat.

Every meal is a balance of nourishing macronutrients

One of the most powerful habits you can build is the way you eat, and every meal on this retreat is a quiet demonstration of what that looks like in practice. Seasonal, whole, and genuinely nourishing, the food here is not incidental to the program. It is part of the rewiring.

Breakfasts are protein-rich and grounding, designed to stabilise blood sugar and support the cognitive clarity needed for the morning’s learning. Lunches are generous and balanced, built around whole foods that sustain energy without the afternoon crash. Dinners are lighter and unhurried, an invitation to slow down, connect, and let the day’s insights settle. Snacks, elixirs, and teas woven throughout the day continue the same intention: every offering chosen to nourish the brain and body that is doing the work of change.

All activities, workshops, movement classes, and learning sessions.

Every moment on retreat is curated with intention

Every hour on a SOMA Lorna Jane Retreat is part of the journey. The daily program includes ample leisure time alongside interesting activities and experiences that open the mind to new insights and possibilities.

Movement classes encourage strength, mobility, fitness, flexibility and conscious breathing that leave you feeling energised versus depleted. Our workshops provide practical tools that can be woven into a busy life; presented by qualified educators who have been carefully selected for their expertise, lived experience, and genuine desire to uplift and empower. While evening gatherings invite quality conversations, reflection, light celebrations or quiet meditative experiences. This is the time where the day integrates, and when connection with other women deepens.

Daily bath house access: sauna, warm soaking pools, and cold-water immersion.

Nature, bathing and spa therapies for deep restoration

Together, the day spa and bathhouse create an opportunity to deepen your connection to self and the natural surrounds. A small yet carefully curated menu of signature treatments has been intentionally created to deliver a deeply satisfying experience for your mind, body and nervous system. The bathhouse provides a sequence of hot, warm and cold hydrothermal therapies that further enhance your restorative journey.

Our therapists work with intention and care, creating space for the kind of deep rejuvenation that supports everything else you experience while on retreat. Whether you arrive carrying tension, fatigue, or simply the weight of a busy life, you will leave feeling lighter, clearer, and more present in your body than when you arrived.

Additional Day Spa therapies are available as an add on

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Invest in Yourself

Every SOMA Lorna Jane retreat is intentionally intimate. It is how we ensure every woman who joins is genuinely seen and supported. If this feels like your retreat, trust that. Places are limited and we would love to hold a place for you.

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Indulge in the luxury of silence and space; a king-sized bed and ensuite all to yourself.

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from $3712 per person

Twin Share

Enjoy the journey with a friend or loved one you are happy to share a king-sized room with.

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Local Day Guest

Join us for the full retreat immersion, including all your meals, and return to your own accommodation to sleep and shower.

from $3300 per person

Our Foundation

Every SOMA Lorna Jane Retreat is rooted in the same philosophy Lorna Jane Clarkson has lived and led for over 37 years: when a woman moves with intention, nourishes herself deeply, and truly believes in what she’s capable of, everything changes. This is not a wellness trend. It is a proven practice. And SOMA Lorna Jane is its most immersive expression.

Set within SOMA Lorna Jane's hinterland sanctuary, our retreats are designed so that the environment itself becomes part of the transformation. Surrounded by rolling hills and rainforest, with architecture intentionally shaped for stillness, connection, and restoration, SOMA Lorna Jane creates the ideal conditions for women to step out of life’s intensity and into calm and clarity.

Facilities include the beautifully appointed SOMA Residence with expansive views across the landscape, a day spa and bathhouse featuring sauna, warm soaking pools and cold-water immersions, two forest Domes, one for mindfulness experiences and one for active strength and movement, and 22 acres of peaceful nature to breathe, explore and restore in.

The daily program weaves together a supportive rhythm of movement, nourishing wholefoods, spa and bathhouse rituals, and deeply satisfying rest. Time in nature: fresh air, sunshine, forest bathing, and swimming; awakens the senses and quiets the mind. Throughout the retreat, quality conversation fosters genuine connection and friendship with like-minded women.

Our featured educators and facilitators have been carefully selected for their qualified expertise, lived experience, and a genuine desire to uplift and empower; always with warmth, depth and a touch of humour.

At SOMA Lorna Jane, we believe a pause can also be productive. Our retreats offer you the opportunity to recalibrate and rise, within an environment that is beautiful, unhurried, and deeply considered.

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