Who’s running this anyway?
Rebecca’s Story
It takes a lot of work to build up the skills, courage and personal resources that it takes to live and flourish in your authentic self. That’s why these retreats are happening. I love my world so much that I can’t wait to help other people develop in their own emotional, spiritual and physical space by teaching them the techniques that have got me here. When I was 18 and a high school dropout, my greatest hope was to get to work behind the bar instead of being a bussy at a popular theme bar in South Yarra. So I worked my way up through a 20 year career in hospitality to boardroom lunches, five star hospitality venues and even Government House. Then I decided to start studying health care. When I was 28 I signed up for naturopathy school and failed my first year. But something told me to keep trying so I enrolled in a bridging course to get into Chinese Medicine and never looked back. Something resonated with my authentic truth and I knew it was what I was really meant to do — fulfill my destiny. This career has not been easy and it took decades to overcome the financial and personal success blocks that stop you from living your own truth. Every person has different ones. These retreats are going to teach you ways of starting to clear them. Obviously you’re not going to be able to clear them all in 4 days but by the end you will have the tools to start doing the work on them independently, at your own pace and in your own time. Myself and all my presenters are aware that people have different life paths and not everyone lives in a conventional way. Alternative lifestyles, mixed genders and different religious paths are all welcome without judgement, in an inclusive, compassionate environment.
I’m really looking forward to meeting you. The real, Unique, Authentic YOU that our retreats will help you find, nourish and flourish within.
From Unique, Authentic ME, to Unique, Authentic YOU
The founder and presenter of Unique, Authentic YOU retreats is Dr Rebecca Tolhurst, a registered Chinese medicine practitioner who started working professionally and living her authentic truth with patients around 22 years ago. She has integrated her clinical background with her own spiritual path that began in 1991 to formulate a retreat style that not only includes health, but also deep and profound meditation, personal development, karmic clearing and soul growth techniques to help you find the real YOU again.
She has extensive experience in multimodality residential settings and private practice to assist people who are recovering from emotional trauma, addiction and serious mental health issues, along with general health complaints and injuries, and transitional life path changes like menopause, pregnancy & birth, family and career changes.
In addition to extensive experience in healthcare, Rebecca comes from a long career in 5 star hospitality in which she was employed at bistros, restaurants, bars and 5 star function venues as a front of house star performer and supervisor.
Bec works with a small team and outsources only the best practitioners and service providers from a diverse range of modalities that fit with the theme of each retreat so that guests can get the most out of their Hepburn
Shire, 5 star luxury retreat stay.
In addition to loving her career in TCM, Bec also loves solo travel overseas to exotic and interesting historical locations, the alchemy and history of food, collecting David Bowie records on vinyl, roller derby for fitness, genealogy and kitchen gardening, and her mysterious Nebelung rescue cat, Miss Pixi Fluffypants.
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