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THE IDEA
Our Bodies Record Everything We Have — and Have Not — Done Until Now.
If you are reading this, your body is probably already sending you signals. The ways you have been living, coping, or pushing through are beginning to appear as symptoms. A belly you never used to have. Fatigue that makes you wonder if you're becoming lazy. The little aches and pains that come and go. Or finding yourself taking medication for blood pressure or cholesterol.
Everyone wants to be "healthy." But there is so much information circulating — especially on social media. It is overwhelming, sometimes contradictory, and sometimes just not true. So it becomes easier to live in denial and do nothing until a symptom appears, requiring a doctor's visit and perhaps a prescription.
But the research on health and longevity does not recommend extreme practices or taking a fistful of supplements every day. It actually points toward small, consistent changes — which become surprisingly simple once you understand what truly supports your body and your wellbeing.
So what supports every cell in our bodies, and determines how vital and healthy we feel? Energy. Children naturally have plenty of it. Over the years, we have less.
Where does this energy come from? Imagine your body as a car. How fast you can go — and how quickly you can accelerate from 0 to 100 — depends entirely on how efficient your engine is. Unfortunately, our energy-producing engines (the mitochondria in our cells) decline by roughly 8% with each decade, starting from around age 25. Do the math. By the time you reach middle age, you have lost approximately 30% of your energy-generating capacity. And you can feel it. In the way you move. In the name you can no longer retrieve. In the fact that sleeping deeply and waking up genuinely refreshed can no longer be taken for granted.
What is the solution? Can you slow down this natural energy decline? Are there ways to actually improve it?
The answer is yes — and that is exactly why we created this retreat.
50+
Years of combined clinical practice between us
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Core systems we address that govern your quality of life
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Question: How do you make the next chapter the best one?
AN IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION
Let's be precise about what this retreat is — and what it isn't.
THIS IS NOT
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Medical advice or a diagnostic program
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A place to treat specific diseases
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A diet plan you follow for two weeks and forget
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A lecture series that leaves you overwhelmed
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A spa with gentle yoga and warm towels
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Something that requires you to already be healthy
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A replacement for your relationship with your doctor
THIS IS
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Real information about how your body works at this stage of life
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Practical tools you can use every single day for the rest of your life
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Understanding how to lower your cardiovascular risk, improve memory and brain health, reignite your internal energy systems and metabolism, repair and rebuild during sleep, move well, maintain posture and a youthful appearance, reduce stress and build resilience, adopt strategies to lower chronic disease risk, and explore the biology of loneliness and human connection
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An honest conversation about what the science actually says — and what it doesn't
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Movement practice: Qigong, breathwork and stress release techniques, balance and coordination, bone and muscle strengthening, and yes — some cardio
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Five days together in one of the most beautiful places in the Mediterranean, with people who actually live here
"I didn't expect five days to change the way I think about my own body. A year later, I'm still applying what I discovered — with genuine pleasure."
THE PROGRAM
Six Days on the Shore of the Aegean
Each day follows a rhythm that is itself part of what you're learning. Mornings belong to light and movement. Afternoons belong to ideas. Evenings belong to you.
WHAT WE COVER
Nine Topics. One Deep Truth.
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Mitochondrial Health & Chronic Inflammation
The biological thread that runs through every other topic. Understanding this changes how you think about food, light, sleep, and movement — in a single afternoon.
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Cognitive Decline & Brain Health
The emerging science of neuroplasticity and metabolic brain health. Alzheimer's is not inevitable. There is much that can be done — and most of it starts in the gut and the morning routine.
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Chronic Stress & Nervous System Regulation
Your autonomic nervous system cannot tell the difference between a lion and a difficult email. Chronic activation of the stress response is one of the leading drivers of biological aging. This is one of the most learnable things you will ever encounter.
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Metabolic Health & Fasting
Autophagy, insulin sensitivity, and the scientific case for eating less frequently. Not a diet. A cellular cleaning protocol your body already knows how to run.
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Sleep & Circadian Biology
Sleep is not downtime. It is when your brain cleans itself, your hormones reset, and cellular repair runs at full power. Most people over 50 are getting this wrong — and the fix is surprisingly simple.
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Prostate Health
We'll explore natural techniques and methods to improve prostate function — and keep it that way.
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Cardiovascular Health
What the research actually says about heart disease — and how much of it is preventable through daily decisions that have nothing to do with cholesterol medication.
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Posture, Movement & Fall Prevention
The way you walk and stand is a more accurate predictor of longevity than your blood pressure. Good posture isn't vanity. It's biomechanics — and it can be learned at any age.
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Loneliness, Social Connection & the Social Body
Social isolation carries a mortality risk comparable to smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. This is not a metaphor. It is biology. We'll talk about why — and what to build instead.
"Every morning, when we walk down to the water and stand in the first light of the day, we are not performing a ritual. We are doing mitochondrial medicine, circadian calibration, nervous system regulation, and structural alignment. Simultaneously. For free. That is what this retreat teaches you to see: the hidden magic of biology in an ordinary day."
YOUR HOSTS
Fifty Years of Integrated Practice and Personal Experience
Jody and Yaron are not people who read about this and decided to teach it. They are people who have lived it — who built their knowledge through thousands of clinical encounters across Canada, Japan, Israel, and Europe, tested it on themselves, and rebuilt their own health from its foundations. Now at 65, they are ready to share everything they know with anyone who wants to live well at any age.
Their approach does not focus solely on reducing symptoms — although symptoms often improve along the way. They understand that symptoms are the body's way of signaling that something deeper is out of balance. This retreat is the distillation of over 60 combined years spent finding and addressing that root cause: through their patients, and through their own daily lives.
Dr. Jody Toyonaga-Fink
Jody has spent thirty years at the intersection of Western clinical science and Eastern medicine. Her particular focus is mitochondrial biology, the effects of light frequencies on the biological clock and overall health, holistic nutrition, and traditional Chinese medicine. She is an international speaker and academic author in the fields of nutrition and longevity, and has run successful clinics in Canada and Israel.
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Doctor of Optometry with specialization in Syntonic Phototherapy
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Certified Holistic Nutritionist
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Practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine
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Clinical focus: mitochondrial health, fasting, autophagy, longevity
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Qigong and yoga practitioner
Yaron Fink
Yaron brings a rare combination: a decorated athlete and former member of the Israeli national judo team, seven years studying Eastern medicine in Japan, a certified Qigong teacher, and formal training under Thomas Myers — one of the world's most influential researchers and teachers in connective tissue (fascia). He holds a singular and therapeutic understanding of the body as both an anatomical and energetic field.
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Practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine
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Certified Structural Integration and Fascia (Connective Tissue) therapist
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Qigong teacher for over two decades
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Student of Kabbalah and Eastern philosophical wisdom
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Practitioner of yoga, breathwork, meditation, and deep appreciation for life and the world
WHAT YOU TAKE HOME
Practical, lived knowledge of a healthy lifestyle — and a deeply enriched perspective on a vital future.
Not a set of rules. A way of understanding your body that allows you to make better decisions — forever.
WHERE & WHEN
Porto Heli, Greece. Where the Aegean meets the Argolic Gulf
Porto Heli sits at the southern tip of the Argolid Peninsula in the Peloponnese, directly across the water from the island of Spetses. It is a place the ancient Greeks chose to live near for reasons they couldn't fully articulate — but which environmental science and wellbeing research can now begin to explain.
Clean air. Clean water. Extended light. The acoustic stillness of the sea. A landscape that invites slow walking and deep breathing. The location is not incidental to the retreat. It is part of what you're learning.
DATES
September 23–28, 2026
DURATION
6 days · 5 nights
ARRIVAL
Noon, Day 1
DEPARTURE
Noon, Day 6
LOCATION
Spetses Island, Greece
ACCOMMODATION
Practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine
LANGUAGE
Hebrew and English
GROUP SIZE
Small and intimate
SINGLE SUPPLMENT
+$300
IINVESTMENT
$1,700 per person (shared room)
LNCLUDED
Two meals per day; shared dinners at local tavernas
TRANSFERS
Organized transport from airport to island and back included (self-arranged arrival: $100 discount)
"I had no idea that the first twenty minutes of my morning would become the most important twenty minutes of my entire day. I'm Orna — I now walk outside barefoot before I do anything else. Sunlight on my face, bare feet on the ground. I can't explain it, but my energy by midday is completely different. And that was just one small change I learned. Infinite gratitude."
— Orna, 67, Israel
A Few Things People Ask
RESEREV YOURPLACE
Secure your place before the list fills.
The group is intentionally small. If you're reading this and something in you recognizes this as the right moment — write to us.