Movement to a Great Safe Space.
 

 

Hello! I’m Kathy Hampton, and I help Black women 50 years and older realize their fullest potential by retreating from what no longer serves them. Through experiential destination retreats, wellness, and healing practices, women are provided an opportunity to gain clarity and self-awareness to move toward beneficial change, transitions, rest, and rejuvenation.

Wellside Retreats is a heartfelt transformational destination service.

What is a Transformational Destination Retreat?

A transformational destination retreat is an immersive experience that combines wellness practices, personal growth activities, and a supportive environment to foster profound change in participants' lives. These retreats are often set in serene locations that inspire reflection, connection, and rejuvenation.

A Wellside Retreat is not a vacation and is meant for transformation. You’ll do inner work for awareness while feeling rejuvenation and revitalization—connection and care for your body, mind, and spirit. You’ll return home with personalized plans and a clear road map for personal development and well-being.

Kathy Hampton Founder, Wellness & Healing Practices | Wellside Retreats

What’s My Why?

I created Wellside Retreats in 2007. It was born out of a women’s spa weekend I took with my sister and a few of her friends. I came away from that extended weekend with clarity, rejuvenation, and an awareness of what I needed in my dynamic and overwhelmed life.

The benefit of that weekend was that I realized how much I had not taken time out for myself. It was vital that I RETREAT and care for myself just as I was cared for during that wonderful weekend away. Soon after, I became a wellness advocate - learning all about body, mind, spiritual health, and healing. I decided to write all about it - Wellside Retreats was created as a “virtual holistic wellness center” in the form of a blog.

Growth and Expansion

10 years later, Wellside Retreats has moved from a blog to a transformational destination retreat and event service. I provide one on one coaching as well as group coaching services. As I grow and expand, so does this service-based & heartfelt business. It is open to reach all those who want a true connection to themselves.

The MISSION is to reach women who want to realize true transformation from hardship(s), stumbling blocks, grief of some kind, or other life transitions while providing resources and a safe, inviting place for introspection, clarity, and awareness of the greatest potential within.

Exploring and retreating to beaches, sunrises and sunsets - Albufeira, Portugal

About Me

I’m a wellness advocate who encourages women to gain self-awareness and self-care through self-love practices. I am blessed and grateful for all that I have. However, I did not realize what makes me happy until a few years ago, so I decided to work toward it and create the life I desire.

In 2021, I leaped to leave my corporate job and work for myself as a Research Consultant, utilizing my education, skills, and abilities to establish a lifestyle of ease that would sustain me holistically.

As of 2022, I began the process and plan to relocate abroad to fulfill my desire to travel.

I am a certified life coach with study, licenses, and practice in massage therapy, meditation, Ashiatsu, 200-hour yoga teaching, and other somatic work.

I manifest abundance, love, travel, creativity (books to write, documentaries to produce, photographs to capture), and a healthy body to claim!

My mantra: If I’m not having fun then I shouldn’t be doing it!