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SoulQuest Two-Week Retreat
Travel for Transformation. Lead with Impact.
SoulQuest is a 14-day leadership initiation through the wild and sacred lands of South Africa.
This is not a holiday. It is not a typical retreat. It is a rite of passage.
Designed for men and women who want more than comfort, SoulQuest weaves together:
• Cultural immersion and community service
• Nature, adventure and peak physical challenges
• Embodied movement and nervous system work
• Leadership development in action
• Deep integration and vision buildingYou will move beyond the tourist experience — travelling alongside facilitators and community leaders who live in relationship with the land and its people.
This journey is intentionally limited to preserve depth and impact.
If you feel called to something meaningful — something that stretches and refines you — this may be your next edge.
🗓️ Date: 29 May - 13 June 2026
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Heal for Love 5 part Workshop series - with Natalia Rachel
Where healing meets humanity.
Healing for Love is a five-part live workshop series designed to help you rewire yourself for healthier, more life-giving relationships.
Hosted in collaboration with author and trauma-therapist Natalia Rachel, each evening blends storytelling, reflection, and embodied practice to explore how love, safety, and the body are deeply connected.
You’re welcome to join a single session that resonates or journey through the entire series for a progressive arc of relational healing and self-discovery.
Held at Osteria Coogee, these evenings are honest, warm, and human — created to help you reconnect to yourself and the way you love.
🗓️ Mondays monthly, 7–9:30 PM
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Somatic Intuition workshop - with natalia rachel
In these dedicated two-hour sessions we will create a subtle environment to be able to come home to our bodies, befriend our nervous systems and tune into to our bodies innate wisdom and guidance.
Some of the things we will explore include:
• Nervous system baseline and recentring
• Bracing patterns that block intuitive signals
• How to detect a somatic yes, no, uncertainty, or wait/not yet signal
• Somatic boundaries – how to differentiate my experience from other’s experience (important for anyone who identifies as an empath, people pleaser or co-dependant)🗓️ Wednesday March 18 2026, 7:30-9:30PM
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Fueling the Shift: Nutrition for Peri-Menopause - with Ash davila
Peri-menopause isn’t just a hormonal shift — it’s a metabolic one.
As estrogen and progesterone fluctuate, your relationship with food, weight, energy, cravings, sleep, and digestion can change dramatically. What used to “work” suddenly doesn’t.
This session is dedicated entirely to nutrition during peri-menopause — through a functional medicine lens.
Ash will break down:
• How estrogen influences insulin sensitivity and fat storage
• Why protein becomes more critical than ever
• Blood sugar stability and mood fluctuations
• Gut health and hormone clearance
• Inflammation and its role in weight gain
• Why under-eating can backfire in this phase
• Practical ways to structure meals for steadier energyThis is not about restriction.
It’s about strategy.If you’re navigating peri-menopause — or suspect you’re entering it — this workshop will give you clarity over confusion, and tools you can actually implement.
Because this phase requires smarter fueling, not smaller portions.
🗓️ Monday April 23 2026, 6:30-8PM
📍 Cheeky’s, Darlinghurst (312 Victoria Road, Darlinghurst).
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Gut Health Workshop: Optimise your Health & Wellbeing - with ash davila
Join us for 60-minute workshop designed for those who want to understand their bodies on a deeper level.
We’ll break down what gut health actually is and how it influences your hormones, mood, cycle, digestion and energy.
You’ll learn about the microbiome, leaky gut, and the mind–gut connection, and discover simple, practical habits that truly support your body.
You’ll walk away feeling empowered with tools you can start using immediately to nurture your gut and your health from the inside out.
What we’ll cover:
• What is gut health?
• How the gut influences skin health, hormonal health, mental health, immune function, fertility and weight loss.
• How gut health affects men (testosterone, energy) versus women (perimenopause)
• Biggest stressors on the gut in our modern day lifestyle
• Daily habits to support your gut you can implement today -
Fitness but Make It Fashion - with Simone oro
Strength meets self-expression.
In collaboration with Sydney stylist Simone Oro, this signature brunch event blends movement, fashion, and feminine confidence into one unapologetic experience.
Expect a curated morning workout designed to unlock posture, poise, and presence, followed by a style session on dressing for your body, lifestyle, and energy. Over brunch, we dive into how strength translates beyond the gym — into how you carry yourself, how you express yourself, and how you’re seen.
Hosted at Substation 13 in Pyrmont, it’s part training, part styling, and all empowerment — a celebration of the modern individual who moves with both power and polish.
📍 Substation 13 - 63 Little Mount Street, Pyrmont -
Money Mastery and Movement Retreat
Redefining abundance — from muscle to mindset.
In September 2024, we gathered a group of individuals in a private Balinese retreat to explore transformation at the intersection of money and movement. Over three days, we combined financial education, body-awareness training, and nervous-system-based recovery to reconnect strength and self-worth in every sense.From conversations on investing and wealth creation to grounding mobility work, hot-and-cold immersion, and mindful strength sessions, this retreat redefined abundance — not just as financial success, but as a state of balance between the physical, mental, and emotional.
For those devoted to growth on every level, this event proved that the path to freedom is embodied — and the body remains the most powerful gateway to life’s biggest conversations.
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A Proper Self-Care Event
A monthly ritual redefining what self-care really means.
Each month, we gathered a small community to explore how physical self-care opens the door to emotional and mental awareness. Through practices like trigger point therapy, compression therapy, infrared sauna, and cold-hot immersion, participants learned to release the body first — so the mind could follow.
Once softened and grounded, we closed each session with open discussions on topics like money beliefs, self-care habits, and personal reflection — creating space for truth, connection, and change.
This ongoing series reminded us that self-care isn’t just about recovery — it’s how we access who we are beneath the armour.
Make it stand out.
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"I can highly recommend Get A Grip for anyone that is looking to make a positive lifestyle change. Cristina is an extremely knowledgable fitness professional whom understands your needs and creates fun, innovative and safe programs, allowing people of all levels of fitnses to reach their health goals. These days i'm much fitter, stronger and mentally healthier since training with Cristina. If you are looking for an environment that makes you feel comfortable and a trainer who is just as eager as you to reach your goals, then you've found the right place."
James Richard
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"Starting calisthenics has been so much fun. It's so exciting to see your body adapt and change to suit a new activity. and even more exciting knowing what you can achieve mentally and physically."
Sarah Loftus
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"I saw a photo Cristina posted on social media and thought, god I wish I was that strong...and then realised it was me!"
Michelle Sant
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"This is worth a share. I haven't been able to run Coogee to Maroubra and back in over a year without any knee pain...until this morning! I have to thank Cristina for helping me focus on getting that glute firing again!"
Adrienne Pearson
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"Cristina has taught me so much and i am forever grateful - she has truly changed my life. my fitness has never been better, my programs are tough and i just love being this fit and strong."
Nerida Chin
