What you chase runs away.
RETURN
Lake Maggiore, Italy + Online · September – December 2026
What you chase runs away.
Lake Maggiore, Italy + Online · September – December 2026
I am looking for the nine founding women who will step into the first RETURN journey.
Places are allocated after an initial conversation — you can ask any questions you might have and we get a chance to get to know each other.
Do you end most days feeling like you didn't get enough done?
Most mornings start with low-level anxiety, already overwhelmed before the day has even begun.
When did you last truly rest — and it wasn't because you were sick?
Rest is not the reward at the end. It's where everything begins.
20–26 September
Seven days in a private villa on Lake Maggiore
Gorgeous walks, lush gardens, long Mediterranean meals together. A programme that resets you physically, mentally and emotionally — without you needing to do anything other than show up. We ask you to leave your phone behind for the week. An emergency contact number will be in place.
Getting there is easier than you think — direct flights from London Gatwick or Manchester to Milan Malpensa with EasyJet, typically under £120 return, and about an hour to Baveno. We coordinate arrivals so you share the onward journey. The community begins before you even arrive.
For one week you get to step out of the noise and back into yourself. Not to escape your life — but to find the clarity and lay the foundations for the next chapter of it. And when you return home, the scaffolding is already in place.
October, November, December — Online Integration
Before Italy, you'll have a personal 1:1 call with me so we know exactly what you're bringing in. When you return home, the scaffolding is already in place — one 90-minute group call per month over three months, plus a dedicated 60-minute weekly slot for doing the work, which we plan together in Italy. An accountability partner and small consistent integration pieces between sessions — so the shift you made in Italy actually lands in your real life.
With health, nothing is everything.
Without health, everything is nothing.
Health routines, daily rhythms, clearing your home base, maybe even your finances — the foundations that have been quietly missing, structured around your natural rhythms of rest and action.
By New Year there will be spaciousness — not for more resolutions, but for a vision that finally stands on solid ground.
9 Spaces Only
FOUNDING COHORT
£1,750
Full programme — Italy immersion + 3 months online
Or 4 monthly payments of £450 — first payment on booking to secure your place, then 1 September, 1 October, 1 November.
Your first payment of £450 secures your place and is non-refundable. If you need to cancel before 1 August, all remaining payments will be refunded in full. If you cancel after 1 August, remaining payments are non-refundable — but if your place can be filled, you will receive a refund of those payments.
Flights and transfers to Italy not included.
A note on pricing: as a founding cohort member you are joining RETURN before the world knows about it. This is the complete experience — Italy immersion plus three months of online integration — at the founding price of £1,750, nothing held back. In return I ask for your honest feedback and a testimonial at the end. That's the deal.
What women say
"I call myself a serial course bolter — I never finish them. This time I did."
— Programme participant, UK, 2022
"Sabine really holds space for you. Even though I found it painful at times, her explanation on why I was feeling that way — without judgement — made me commit to the rest of the course."
— Programme participant, UK, 2022
"I felt heard and she gently guided me — keeping me reframe my inner critic, which is quite a loud talker."
— Programme participant, UK, 2022
Your guide
I know this works because we cannot become ourselves by ourselves. When we put an intention into a shared space and do the work together — something shifts that no amount of solo effort ever quite reaches.
I've been walking barefoot for over 20 years. It's the one thing everyone knows about me, and one of the biggest factors that rebuilt me — from extremely fragile to strong. It taught me that the simplest things, done consistently and close to the earth, change everything.
Lake Maggiore has held me for years. It always felt like travelling back in time — a place that remembers something the rest of the world has forgotten. A place where poets wrote their poetry — and where you might find yourself writing your new chapter.
— Sabine
If something on this page stirred — follow that. Book a conversation, a chance for us to get to know each other. No pressure, no commitment.