Because it works

…wait, maybe that it’s fun and feels great too?

If better health or a better life is what you are seeking, seek deep self-love and self-care, not surface packaging. We promise you health and vitality and a very enjoyable shared time wherever you choose to meet, online or in person.

Starting with your “nature” and best friend - your body - and your culture - your mind - and your energy - your spirit, we’ll explore the teachings of humankind and those of Nature. It will help you stay healthy for life (and after). We also promise that you’ll appreciate and most likely love your body in a completely new way. You’ll feel life in you and around you, and all it takes is to demystify healing and reclaim your birthright to live fully. And as a bonus, your getting to know yourself will allow your family, friends and your team to benefit with you.

The basic stuff, and then we went further

Yoga · exercise · breathing · Healing food · sleep · meditation · senses

The best definition of Olive is that we don’t have one.

How could we, when we have grown to see every living being as different and unique? This means we don’t presume one story works for everyone, though we do believe that the human capability to learn and adapt comes with both feeling and a good teacher. Just because science hasn’t proven something, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, or something else in its stead does, and a good scientist appreciates uncertainty as a way to awaken curiosity.

Like many others in this business, we also started out with yoga, meditation, vegan food, exercise and the like, as they have been over and over proven to be healthy. And we healed ourselves, perfected all of the basic, as so many others before us.

Great, but after a few years we had to acknowledge that each of us are as different as we are similar, at any moment, and from day to day, and when you work with 5 trillion human cells (about which experts don’t know as much as we want to think they do) and 50 trillion microbial cells (about which we know even less, some 30% barely) in context, it can amount to a lot more different.

Add to this that we have drastically changed our lifestyle over the last 100 years and outsourced our health and life to the authorities, and in the name of progress, we have created 120,000+ non organic chemical substances, some of which we ingest and breathe, or put on or stick through our sensitive skin. Add to that the amount of input our brain has to compute, that at the age 10 now excedes that of a whole lifetime of what our grandparents did, and the truth is that we really have no freaking idea what’s going on or how it all affects us, though our bodies will always speak out. Do you know a better way than in-sourcing to get healthy, instead of out-sourcing? Please let us know if you do.

Other questions came up

when did the self-destruction and self harm start?

As we felt better and better, we realized that modern healthcare is really disease care, and that our bodies and our health is up to each of us to care for. The further away from the industry the better for “chronic” disease. We healed but we never really stopped the exploration of life, as in life force, and that’s why we work and live as we do and walk the talk 24/7 (very few do in our business). However complex it might seem (and what makes sense in the post-COVID era) we still start by asking: “what do you want”.

There is no going back, there’s only a constant flow of change and if you acknowledge that you and me are part of evolution, and human history, the rest is pretty easy to figure out.

Even a little research into nature and Mother Earth will convince anyone that nothing is separate or independent. All depends on all, and when we feel this we benefit greatly in the form of health. This, let us say, “expansivity” into the subtlety of our bodies derives from our ever-increasing curiosity of what heals life and how to enhance it. Here is where our O·8 Mind Detox Dialogue comes in, followed by our creative meditations. How was it … ”The true Tao cannot be spoken about”, no?

Demystify health and make it easy

We stopped asking “out” and started asking “in”, as what we need is obvious when we ask that which wants to heal - body, mind or soul. Which begged us to ask the question why hadn’t we been taught this in school?

meditation answers the rest

You’ll dig into your subconscious and charge your superconscious with our Creative meditations (Cm) which aren’t based upon ideological restrictions, what is right or wrong or permitted, what you were taught to think, do or wear and what not to. The best setting is nature, and the right teacher helps too. The only directive we give is - Come as you are!

O

A program can only be advisory if it's about a real individual's needs. Cristina and Ray, the co-founders, have spread their ideas to an ever expanding O·live group around the world. It has become much more than a health program and fount of great literature. Read about some of us in the bios, see us on social media or come. Among us we speak 18 languages and live in four continents. One thing we all have in common is the profound realization that huge opportunities are hidden in all types of suffering.

What does the O· stand for?

This is a good question, thanks.

O· stands for whatever makes sense. One? Optimum? Origin? Open (source) for interpretation. It will make sense to you when you realize it’s just a play of words, and words are interpretations based on someone’s perceived truth, but it’s not the actual truth at all or for all. This is an important part of our mind detox supported in our O·8 dialogues.

Sometimes it’s O·bservation, and the awareness that often, but not always follows. We work to create healthy and sustainable, free thinkers and teach how to O·bserve - spiritually, physically and mentally and to figure out what the o·bserver - you - really wants and how you and others observe, while acknowledging the observers impact on the process and the outcome (placebo or nocebo). We can make a strong case for this view of life with quantum physics or bio-chemistry, religions, philosophy, if you wish, or you learn to feel it without any need for bla…bla… words.

In this process we more often than not figure out what we really mean and want, (detox it from what we are inclined to want) described by some as the “ultimate vision”, “true health”, “a huge liberation”, “immense love”, “a freedom” and many more nice things.

What can I achieve by coming?

Health, more health or a nice stay.

And tangible acts of hope from where you now stand, and trust in yourself and beyond yourself, that whatever bumps lays ahead of you (there will be) in the future, that the future you, will get over it smoothly. We have a saying, “you may not be the single cause of your suffering, but you are the cure”. The first step to any solution, to any problem is you, no matter where it originated and trust in oneself is awesome. You are your own innovator, others can only help and support, but only you can live your life.

What do you give your guests?

We give our time, the lessons you need, as much as you want, or don't want, but it's there and we love to be generous with our time and knowledge. In fact, we love to be generous with our listening, our answering, our learning, our methods, our thinking and our trials & errors, to the point of them not being ours. In that we humbly acknowledge that it was all given to us in the first place, just as our lives were, and our place in evolution. All meetings are unique and special, the Karmentum that whirls us into new dimensions and forms, such as your conception.

You will also get our literature and our support after the retreat for as long as you need, discounts on upcoming retreats, and finally you help out and stay to cost. Some opt for a training to open their own O·live in their own form.

What is your program?

A fixed program would destroy any opportunity to meet for real, which is where the true healing lays.

Don’t worry you will be offered the normal healthy stuff but maybe in new forms all depending on what your body·mind·soul wants, as in singular. O·ne. Your body (biochemistry) is the best doctor and pharmacy you’ll ever need, but you have to give it what it wants and that’s what we’ll explore together. We cooperate with your body, and teach you its “language” and how to care for it. That’s what being healthy is - opening a direct communication with your body, feeling your life energy, (Prana or Chi or Tonalli or cells or microbiota or creation or…) is key for all healing methods. Medical drugs never cure.

What is your method?

Through our unique O·method you’ll Feel f’ Real, (what the f’ stands for depends on your linguistic skills) we use our senses to learn the “internal language” and listen to our body’s needs, but you, and only you will clarify to yourself if it’s worth giving it what it wants. Your health is yours to define. We will use our Cm to give you the creative process to exhaust the options. You’ll do all the over-proven stuff (vegan whole food, yoga, exercise, meditate, fresh air, etc) to gain your life back, then we go much further.

How long does it take to get healthy?

It usually takes some 3 months to change habits, but it can take 1 millisecond too.

It’s fundamental to a deeper, lasting health to understand life - the inquiry into the “meaning” of life - otherwise known as your piece of the Karmic puzzle. For us there is no way to get healthy and stay in the flow if you don’t respect this inquiry as part of yourself. You can eat and exercise well and heal physically but not mentally, or vice versa, for a while, but the lack of an energetic or “spiritual” healing" will sooner or later come with a cost. More often than not a mechanical and theoretical self-care without a purpose leads to falling back into harmful habits. The grand question is why we don’t do what we know is good for us, or rather, when did we stop? And why? To figure out this fundamental part of healing is our Mind Detox, supported with our O·8 Mind Detox Dialogues.

You can stay as long as you want, but 7 days is recommended as a good start to the physical detox, if you have severe health issues take medication 21 days is better. Some stay longer. You do as much as you want of our program, and that choice is also explained by what we call your Karmentum (karma + momentum).

How do your guests use this knowledge after?

In all areas of life. You don’t leave your body or self at home when you go to work, meet friends or family. You are or you ar not healthy. After a retreat you will feel more you, in all areas of life. You do your practice, the practice comes natural, and you become your practice. Then the rest falls in place. Some notice a difference immediately, some notice it because others back home tell them. Very few walk away untouched, and only one person over all these years has left the retreat (he come with another agenda, not to get healthy but to check us out after we had been rewarded 10 best retreats :).

*Survey: *96% answered that they have changed one or more things to enhance their health 6 months after their retreat. 82% answered yes after a year Read what they say about us.

To teach someone who since an early age was suffocated under the early educational and socialization process of not feeling - i.e., sit still, don’t do that, be this, buy that, like those, and love that one, not this one - we needed a method that in only 7 days can change a person’s life. An easy and reasonably fast method to pick ourselves up to know, yes know, what is healthy and what is not, what is me, and what is not (and who, too). We found it in the combo of our O·8 and our Feel f’ Real method and meditation, intuitive yoga and real food, air, water and nature. Does that make sense?