Vanessa Jarvis-Findlay

The NEKED Plant-Based Lifestyle Retreat is an invitation to slow down and live well. Over four days and three nights in Clarens, we gather around a long table to share beautiful plant-based food, gentle creativity, nature, rest, and meaningful connection. There are no rules, no rush, and nothing to prove just nourishment beyond the plate. This is not a detox or a bootcamp. It’s luxury for the soul.

A trillion lives a year is not a statistic — it’s a scream we’ve learned to ignore. Not survival, not necessity, but habit and convenience dressed up as normal. We cradle our dogs, mourn our cats, and stop our cars for ducks in the road, yet look away from suffering on a scale too vast to comprehend. Once you truly see it, you can’t unsee it. And choosing plants isn’t about perfection — it’s about compassion, about saying your life mattered in a world that desperately needs less harm and more h