The Bleisure Life Retreat

# - Bleisure Life Retreat (Edited)

Tue, Jan 07, 2025 11:43AM • 22:49

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

freedom and adventure, business travel, self care, pleasure life retreat, new website, rebranding, rest and receive, Nepal retreat, cultural immersion, transformative experience, workshop sessions, hiking Changa Narayan, sound healing, welcome gifts, entrepreneur focus

SPEAKERS

Emma Lovell

Emma Lovell 00:00

Emma, do you want to live a life of freedom and adventure? Are you wanting more than the daily grind? Me too. Welcome to the Emma Lovell, show a place where we talk about living a life you love. Now I'm your host, Emma Lovell, and my number one value is freedom. I've spent the last 14 years running a business and traveling the world, and now I take my husband and toddler along for the adventure too. It's possible, and I know you can create a life doing what you truly love as well. This podcast will inspire, motivate and encourage you to go after your dreams, to create a life you love and to live it now, not wait for a time and or someday in the future, I'll be sharing episodes weekly about how I harmonize business travel and self care. I'll also bring on incredible guests to share their journeys, the wins, the challenges, and how they're creating a life they love. Let's jump in and get dreaming. This is a space for you to manifest a life you love. I would like to acknowledge and recognize Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first peoples of this place, now known as Australia. I am grateful for the continuing care of the land, waterways and skies where I work, live, listen, learn and play from here on, you can bear country and from wherever you are listening, I pay my respects to the elders past and present. Hello and welcome to today's episode. I'm so excited to share some huge news with you, and that is, I will be hosting the first ever pleasure life retreat. So as you would have heard last week, the new website is out. The bellisa Coach Emma Lovell is here to stay. So I did a big rebrand, sort of bring everything into alignment. Because over the 15 years of business, everything is sort of just evolved and grown and sort of lay it on top. And so we really wanted to start with a clean slate, and really, really aligned, I don't know, sort of vision and representation of what pleasure is all about, and what I as a coach, the pleasure coach am all about, and that is harmonizing your business, travel and self care. So of course, what I had to do was to launch a retreat that was aligned with that. What I also done on the same at the same time was I pulled the retreats out of the business, in a sense, and I've started a new company. So rest and receive is my new company. Don't do things in halves. You know, wrote a book last year, rebranded, and then I've started a new company. So rest and receive is all about retreats. That's all we do. But we actually train hosts predominantly, as well as host retreats through the company ourselves. And so this is a really fun one, because it is hosted by rest and receive with your host. Emma Lovell, so yes, I'm talking about myself in third person, but that is sort of just to clarify how we work together. The two companies work together. So I will be the host of this one. I don't I won't host all the rest and receive retreats. We'll be having hosts and speakers and facilitators who'll be coming in and joining to offer more and more different options, to come with us, but also to do the training. But this is all about the pleasure life retreat, and it is going to be in namaste Nepal. Going to be in Nepal, in Kathmandu and Nagarkot. And the dates are the 21st the 27th of November, 2025 and I've chosen that time of year because it is good weather. It is a kind of a fresh time. So it might be a bit crisp, a bit fresh, but the days are glorious. They're Sun shiny and glorious, and it's really lovely, cool weather. The Mountains will be beautiful and clear, and that is something there's such a highlight of Nepal. It's the home to the Himalayas, the tallest mountain range in the world. Of course, it's the home to Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, which is breathtaking. It is absolutely breathtaking. And you will when you fly in, and you will arrive to Kathmandu in the valley, and you just all around you, as these mountains coming in over the mountains and landing the valley is just exceptional. So it's a six night retreat. So this is the longest one I've done so far, and it's all about harmonizing business travel and self care. So you get to experience the ultimate blend of productivity and relaxation on this exclusive six night retreat for 12 people. And it's set in, in my opinion, one of the most awe inspiring. Destinations, and that is Nepal. So you have the opportunity to step into your new way of living and your pleasure life. You get to embrace the calm of Nepal, and calm is my word for 2025 you'll explore its rich cultural tapestry and reconnect with yourself in this transformative environment. And it's all about inspiring connections, unforgettable experiences, and it's a perfect balance of adventure and reflection. So what are you going to get? What do you get for coming on this retreat? What do you get? Get a life changing experience. That's what you get. Retreats are transformative. They are absolutely transformative. You can ask my past guests, and I believe that the transformation is in the transaction. So the moment you say yes, even though, right now this is coming out in January, you know you're going to then become that person who says yes to these things. You're going to be the person who's going towards these goals. I had a woman come to Sri Lanka, and she was like, well, like, everything I thought I'd work on on the retreat, I kind of did this year, like I achieved, I don't know what to work on next, and it's like, well, what would you like to do next? You know, everything set in motion from that time, and what she was sort of challenged with through the year, she was able to navigate. And I, I believe that once you you do commit to this, the transformation will already happen. And so you're going to get six nights accommodation at two incredible, five star properties in Naga cot and Kathmandu. And Naga cot is a few hours outside of Kathmandu, beautiful drive onto the mountain region. You're going to have an experienced business and travel coach with you that isn't more yours truly. And I'll be presenting six wonderful workshops. So we'll have a workshop every day. It doesn't, might not sound like a lot, so these workshops are a couple of hours a day, but we're doing big work. We're doing deep work. We're talking about your goals. We're talking about what you want to achieve in your life. We're talking about the challenges. We're talking about we're going to be sharing hacks in the workshops that I'll do. We've certainly doing a travel hacks and how you can maximize your life as it is and maximize some of these travel hacks to do more, including frequent flyers, which is always a favorite, and will you know you need the time to integrate that work. So what happens is, then, after the workshop, you then tend to go away and talk to the other people and sort of work with them, and then that's when you come to the next session you've sort of worked through in conversation, some of the things that might have been stopping you in another workshop, but I'll be the get there to guide you as a I'm a certified NLP coach, and able to help You with those things as well we've got included a hike to Changa Nara, Changa new Ryan Temple, which is three like a gentle, three to four hour trek that we'll be doing with a brilliant trekking guide who actually took me to Everest base camp. And he also took me and my dad to a place called namcha Bazaar, which is on the way to Everest base camp. Totally experienced guide and a wonderful Nepali man, so he will be helping us and we'll visit this fabulous UNESCO World Heritage Site. We're going to do a small puja ceremony at the Buddha NAT stupa. Buddha NAT is my favorite of all of the beautiful temples in in Kavin do and we're going to visit a women's empowerment NGO. We'll also have one hour of yoga on one of the days. This is always spread across the days. And we're going to have a sound healing session, which will be really beautiful. The the singing bowls and something you might want to take home. The Singing Bowls are so famous from Nepal, as well as the prayer flags, and they're so beautiful, and they just instantly take me back to Nepal. I've actually got a singing bowl in my cabinet in my office. I should get it. I can get it out, actually. Let's see if I can do it for you. Do a bit of sound healing on this. Course, it's so beautiful. You get to pick one. You pick the sound that works for you, beautiful, and they vibrate, and they're just amazing. So you get to pick one of those. So that is a singing bowl from Nepal. I got it on one of my visits. And of course, there'll be welcome gifts, and there'll be connections and relationships that last a lifetime. That's always a bonus. And always with a retreat, you're going to get plenty of time and space to rest, connect and create, because that's, to me, what retreats are about, and that's what rest and receive is about. So the company, we always make sure there's plenty of time in the program. You're going to walk away with clarity, with perspective, rejuvenation, empowerment, connections. And you're probably asking of who is it for this retreat? It's for entrepreneurs and business owners. It's also for professionals who might be experiencing burnout. So if you're ready to recalibrate, rejuvenate, kind of. Shake things up. It's also for graduates and young professionals. So, you know, potentially at that sort of real crossroads of life when you're starting your career, and I did a lot of travel when I was in my mid 20s, and I think it's such a beautiful opportunity, and I would love to have such a broad range of people on this retreat, men and women, both, we accept all people. So whatever your gender, your orientation, your culture, you are all welcome. I just My vision is to have a big, beautiful fusion of wonderful people from all over the world and all walks of life coming together at all ages and stages. Adventurous souls. Of course, Nepal is quite an adventurous, expansive I really, I just, I see that expansion here. I see that the mountains, that vision, that future, you can't help, but when you're in this dramatic and big natural landscape experience that that was something a big reason for choosing Nepal for this pleasure, life, retreat, and of course, it's for people who want to live a life they love now. But you know, you could be a business owner or someone in full time employment, seeking something outside of work. You might be running a small side business. You could be just, yeah, um, maybe, you know, coming out of being supporting the family for years, and being at home predominantly, and wanting to maybe start a career or start your career again, it could be anything. But if you think this is for you and this is speaking to you, then it's for you. So I'm going to be your host. I'm so excited for that to share it with you on the page, which I will share with you. It's Emma lovell.au forward slash Nepal, 2025 though, actually we might be changing that URL. So try rest and receive.au forward slash Nepal, 2025 it'll be in the show notes anyway, or just send me a message if you can't find it. It will be on one or both of my websites, of course, but we also have the full itinerary. So I've really broken down the debt the six days of the itinerary as well. I'm not a super big fan of having a super detailed itinerary, but I know that other people are, and it helps us. So I always say, expect the unexpected. We might jiggle things around, but all of this will be included. We'll get to all of it, and that's what we'll be doing on this retreat. So all the pricings on the page, you'll also see a fabulous video from Sri Lanka when we were there. But I just would love to share this with you, and I'm I really think we're going to get such a beautiful mix of people. We already have a lovely husband and wife coming along who actually came to Sri Lanka as well. We've got a beautiful business woman coming. We've got another gorgeous woman coming. I've got someone who also works in retreat space coming. Yeah, it's already booking help. Fabulous people talking to someone from America, someone from the UK, someone from India. So yes, fingers crossed. Everyone comes along, but there are spots available. Of course, we've only just launched it and but it is going to be first investors so and I do have some king beans. Now, you might be asking again or thinking, why Nepal? Now I partner with a travel company called Indus bound, and we serve the India Indus, Indus region, so the South Asia area. And so that is India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan. So I have run retreats in India and Sri Lanka. So of course, Nepal was next. But also I have a special connection with Nepal. I went there for the first time in 2006 but I actually had a connection with it long before that, when I was so I was 18 in 2006 when I first went. But when I was six years old, my dad went there for a conference, and he came back, and he just was so in awe of this wonderful country, and he bought me and my sister a little outfit, and I still have the photo. I'm going to have to dig it up for everyone, and these gorgeous, little traditional outfits. And I loved those outfits so much. And I just thought I want to go to this wonderful, gorgeous, interesting, like tapestry, like that was the clothing like purple. Was a purple outfit with his gorgeous, like tapestry design on it. And I wanted to go and experience that. So it was always somewhere that was in my heart. My dad took me to India in 2005 which, to my great surprise, I went for a conference with him, and I absolutely fell in love with it. And I made dear friends there with one of his colleagues, Sunda from Nepal. And he's like, You have to come and visit me. You have to come visit my home. So, of course, me, being me, I was like, Sure, I'll come. So I went to India. I decided, because I loved India so much, I was going in 2006 on my gap year to the UK. And I asked my dad, would I be able to. Fly by India. They were purchasing my flights, which was very nice. And I said, Could I fly by India and see our friends and then go to Nepal and see Sundar? And that's what I did on the way, little 18 year old went off to India and Nepal by myself and met up with these wonderful people. I ended up meeting a woman in the airport in Nepal actually flew. We caught the same flight. Um, she was an Indian lady who's working Nepal for an NGO, and she ended up inviting me to stay in her house. And, um, my friend had booked me in a hotel, which was very kind, but I'd stayed in a home in India with friends for six days, and I just got to Nepal, and I felt so lonely and homesick. My friend's house wasn't big enough for me to stay, so he put me in a hotel, or he thought I'd be more comfortable in future visits. I definitely stuck with him. But anyway, and yeah, this woman invited me in, so I went to the hotel. Felt super lonely, talked to my friend and said, Do you think I could go stay with her? He said, All right, well, we'll go check it out. Go see her house and see if she's sort of okay. She was living with this other lady, and ended up staying in their house for a week. And it was so good. It was so great. I did cooking with them and just went to the shops. And it was just so much more local. And then me being in the hotel and then being taken out to do tourist activities. So I did get to see that really beautiful side of Nepal straight away. I went back again in 2010 for a few weeks. And I did stay in my beautiful friend Sundar home and spent time with his little darling daughter, who was just a little toddler then. And he I would speak Nepali, little like little Tora, Tora um, and I would speak do washing, and I was making momos. It was like, if you're in Nepalese house, you're going to act like a Nepalese lady. So that was really fun, just to be fully immersed in the culture. We went out to pocorah. I got to see a new area. And we also went to Chitwan, and those are two places that I will be putting into an extension. So for anyone who comes on the retreat, you have the opportunity to extend. The two extension options are to extend in Nepal and to see more of Nepal while you're there, or we're going to have a one week extension to India. Because, of course, when you're in that region, a lot of people want to see the world famous Taj Mahal, one of the wonders of the world, and so we'll have a golden triangle extension as well. So we can also, being that I partner with a travel company, we can always customize your trip if that's something you want, but the extensions will be group trips, so if you don't want to travel by yourself, we'll put you together with more of the people from the retreat and offer those extensions after the retreat. So yeah, and then that was a wonderful trip. Shit. One I saw is a safari area, and I saw a baby rhino with its mum. We, at the time, rode elephants with on the holder, which is, like the seat that was pretty uncomfortable. I don't ride elephants anymore. I did at the time. We stayed in like, this really gorgeous, like Safari, like sort of Safari area. And poker is the most beautiful mountain area. It looks on Annapurna ranges, and it's got this beautiful, serene lake called Lake farewell. My third trip to Nepal. Yes, I'm still going. My third trip to Nepal was in 2015 where I got to do the bucket list activity of climbing to Everest base camps. That's a 12 day trip. But I had the even greater honor of doing it for one of my favorite charities, World Vision, Australia. And I was actually the tour manager, so I was in charge of a group of 18 people, which is a podcast for another day, but we trekked to Everest base camp, which is at 5300 meters. It took us about seven days, eight days to get up, and then we came back down. I had to have a lady evacuated by a helicopter for altitude sickness. So we're not actually was any different, but anyway, not good and quite stressful, but overall amazing. And then we spent another week in DePaul. So that was pretty amazing. I spent a whole a month there. That time so some time before and some time after, with friends, and I also had an anaphylactic reaction to medicine. The day of that, my group arrived. So that was super fun, going to a Nepalese hospital. Again, a story for another day. This is why I have many, many books to come. The travel stories are endless. And then my final trip of recent years, it was 2017 so that's my fourth trip. I went with my dad to the conference that we've been to to many countries all over the world. Dad goes to a conference in the Asia Pacific every year. I think I'm up to like 10 or 11 that I've been to with him, which is pretty remarkable. And it was really such a full circle moment to come to Nepal and. To a country that he went to when I was like six, and then I'd been to separately, and we got to go together. So I attended the conference, got to catch up with a bunch of colleagues and wonderful friends, and then dad and I, Dad trusted me enough to go on a trek with me. He hasn't done a lot of hiking or trekking, and we flew to look Lovell, which is one of the world's most precarious, dangerous airports, because you fly into the mountain, which is again, full story to come, but quite wild. And having done it twice myself, that was intense. And then we trekked to num te Bazaar, and we stayed in puppeting, and I had met the lady who ran the tea house, and she came up purposefully to stay there and host us. We just it was just such a special thing, a treasured thing, to share with my dad. And our wonderful guide, Gopal, took care of us, and he's going to be our guide for all the tourists of the sightseeing activities in Nepal, as well as for the trek. And he'll also be hosting the extension, and I trust him endlessly, like a dear, dear friend. So that was a really, really special thing to share. And so those are my four trips to Nepal. And as you can probably tell, since I've been back four times, I absolutely love it. My friends are like family. The Nepalese people are just something else, they are just so sweet and kind and humble. And the culture is truly fascinating. So I cannot wait to share it with you, to show you the Nepal that I love, and to, of course, always create new memories and new experiences. So if I have sort of tantalized you enough with this episode, then please do reach out. As I said, I think it's going to be at rest or a thief.au, forward slash Nepal, 2025 or Emma lovell.au forward slash Nepal, 2025 so I would love to have you on the first ever pleasure life retreat and to help you to harmonize your business travel and self care, and then to go out there and live a life that you love. Alright, until next time. Thanks for listening. Thank you for listening. Lovell one. 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