Our dedicated and experienced team of Western qualified professionals guarantee our guests are supported every step of the way throughout the retreat experience; to ensure guests achieve their retreat objectives and head home feeling revitalised, energised, and ready to start their ‘new’ life!
Supporting our Western staff are an equally important team of local Indonesian staff who make certain our guests enjoy their stay in comfort and allow guests to focus on themselves and the healing process; knowing their every demand will be met with the ever present, and contagious, Balinese smile!
Please note that our amazing team at Natural Instinct Healing are also on their own professional, personal, health and healing journeys – so we cannot guarantee which of our team members will be onsite at any one time to guide you through your specific retreat experience; only that you will have qualified and constant support throughout your stay with us.
If you have a preference and/or connection to one of our team members please let us know within your enquiry form as we all love catching up with returning guests, friends, and members of the NIH Tribe!
For each Western team member’s individual bios, professional qualifications, and service offerings please click on their name.
Kate Reardon
Bachelor of Health Science – Naturopathy | Bachelor of Health Science – Nutritional Medicine
Kate Reardon is a Naturopath, Nutritionist and Intuitive Metaphysical Healer. After many years of tertiary study in alternative and mind body medicine, Kate set out in search of finding the most dynamic way of helping people achieve radical healing and transformation throughout their lives on a mind, body and soul level.
This journey, which started in her own clinical practice in Australia, has lead Kate to managing health retreats in Thailand; working one on one with clients in UK, USA, Europe, New Zealand, Canada, Australia and Indonesia; presenting health workshops and seminars in Thailand and Australia; and to eventually founding Natural Instinct Healing Health Retreats in Bali.
Kate has contributed to various magazines as a health and wellness writer and has her own blog ~ where you can find out more about her personal work here and connect with Kate on facebook here. Please note from March 2015 Kate will be on maternity leave, welcoming her beautiful daughter into the world.
Becky Nodding
Natural Nutritionist (RHN) | Certified Raw Food Chef | Reiki Master | PSYCH-K® | Holoenergetics® | Matrix Energetics® Facilitator
Becky was born in the beautiful heritage town of Lunenburg NS Canada on a cold winter Monday morning a few short decades ago and grew up with an insatiable hunger for anything ‘outside the box’. This quest lead her to the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition which stirred a sleeping passion for healthy food and creative fun wholesome living.
Since living in Asia for the past 7 years Becky continues to explore, learn and share new (to her anyway) beliefs, ideas and skills within permaculture, raw food preparation, meditation and mindful living.
Supporting and guideing mothers/fathers, dancers, teachers, wives/husbands, dog walkers, writers, entrepreneurs, taxi drivers … from all corners of the earth and all age groups, in finding and maintaining their unique truthful balance in a safe, supportive family-like environment is a dream career for her. On her days off you can find her trying a new yoga pose, experimenting in the kitchen or knee high in a veggie patch.
Lola Taylor
Bachelor of Health Science – Naturopathy
Lola grew up in Tasmania-Australia. Raised by parents who lived off the land and practised the art of natural living, Lola pursued her passion for food as medicine by completing her Bachelor Degree in Naturopathy.
Her empathic nature led her to pursuing a career that offered holistic practices to people needing physical, emotional and spiritual guidance. Working in Naturopathic clinics throughout Australia, Lola always felt there had to be more she could offer to help empower others to make healthy lifestyle choices and experience their own inherent ability to heal themselves. This sparked Lola’s desire to work in retreat centres focused on detoxifying the whole body – physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
Travelling around South East Asia opened her eyes to the healing practices of Eastern traditions and the more relaxed and simplified way of living. This gave her the desire to work overseas, in a country that embraced healing, which led her to the spiritual and cultural heart of Bali – Ubud.
You will find Lola around the retreat centre giving one on one sessions, workshops and joining in on the morning exercise classes of yoga or rice paddy walks. She is passionate and dedicated to offer advice and support whenever guests require it on their healing journey.
Pat Reardon
Bachelor of International Business
Combining his love for lifestyle, business and entrepreneurism, Pat completed a degree in International Business after returning from overseas travels throughout Europe, the Caribbean and Central & South America.
A professional career in sales and management for the following five years ensured an acquisition of valuable skills and experiences within the corporate environment from which so many of Natural Instinct Healing’s clients work within. He enjoys managing people and businesses to achieve their goals, and is a driving force behind NIH’s business objectives for the future.
Pat’s eclectic traversing between different countries, cultures, languages and industries has shaped his life ~ some of which he hopes to capture in his lifestyle brand Drifting Sol. Managing the back end of the business and coordinating programs, Pat is always intrigued by the group dynamics – and committed to understanding our guest’s work-lifestyle aspirations and empowering guests to utilise effective tools to keep on track.
Dewi Sarha
Guest Relations Manager
Dewi is a Balinese lover of nature and all things natural who joined the Natural Instinct Healing team in 2014 after a few years of exploring how culture, art and nature can help to feed our hearts, minds and bodies.
Since joining the NIH team she is finding that her natural curiosity is expanding and being fulfilled by working side by side with the NIH team to welcome and support the wonderful diverse clients and helping them to connect with the joyful beauty of Bali.
Natural Instinct Healing have an amazing team of local employees, who each bring their special piece of Indonesian culture into the retreat centre. Below is a number of local staff who make up our committed team ~ including our masseuses, drivers, room staff, cooks, raw food chef, and our cheeky little resident ‘daughter’ Alena.
