Nexus Vitality
A Holistic Mind-Body Retreat
Nexus Vitality
Longevity Unleashed: How Harnessing Your Brain Can Transform Your Health and Extend Your Life Thursday February 6th -Sunday February 9th , 2025
WITH Harvard-trained psychiatrists Dr. Srini Pillay and Dr. Uma Naidoo
Amrit Ocean Resort
Join Dr. Srini Pillay, Harvard-trained psychiatrist and renowned brain scientist, and Dr. Uma Naidoo, Harvard-trained nutritional psychiatrist and bestselling author of This Is Your Brain on Food, for a transformative two-and-a-half-day experience at the luxurious Amrit Ocean Resort.
In this highly immersive and experiential program, you’ll uncover simple yet powerful strategies to harness your brain’s full potential and make mindful food choices to enhance your health and longevity. Through engaging workshops, practical exercises, and expert insights, you’ll learn how to:
- Boost brain function with easy, science-backed techniques.
- Build healthier eating habits that support your mind and body.
- Reclaim your energy and vitality through mindful living.
Book by Jan 15 and receive a 20% discount
Single Occupancy: $10,000 / Double Occupancy: $15,300
What’s Included
- Room accommodations for single or double occupancy for 3 nights
- All meals-breakfast, lunch, dinner in retreat programming
- 2 spa or wellness treatments as part of retreat programming per person.
- All sessions and activities.
- Welcome/Amenity Bag.
- One year subscription to PWSS.
Nexus Vitality itinerary
Thursday/Day 1
Afternoon
- Arrival at leisure
Evening
- Harmony Hour with cocktails, mocktails and hors d’oeuvres
Friday/Day 2
Morning
- Coffee and Mood Food Shots
- Choice of movement track
- Mood Food Breakfast
- Introduction and Intention Setting
- Sessions on Grounding, Mindset, and Longevity
Afternoon
- Mood Food Lunch
- Breakouts on Mindset, Your Brain on Food, Healthy Longevity and Commitments
- Emotional and Physical Immersion Tracks
- Journaling
- Mood Food Dinner
Saturday/Day 3
Morning
- Coffee and Mood Food Shots
- Choice of movement track
- Mood Food Breakfast
- Recap and Review
- Sessions on Grounding, Mindset, and Longevity Part 2
- Mindset Immersion
Afternoon
- Mood Food Lunch
- Breakouts on Mindset
- Calm Your Brain with Food for Healthy Longevity
- Commitments and Journaling
- Soundbath Experience
- Fireside Mood Food Dinner
Sunday/Day 4
Morning
- Coffee and Mood Food Shots
- Choice of movement track
- Mood Food Breakfast
- Recap and Review
- Sessions on Grounding, Mindset, and Longevity
Afternoon
- At leisure: spa or wellness service included, unlimited Aayush
what’s included
Mind-Body Nutrition
The retreat will serve brain-boosting, nutrient-rich meals and snacks to support gut health, brain function and overall wellbeing.
Multi-Sensory Immersion
Engaging all senses, the retreat includes sound therapy, visualization, and olfactory experiences to deepen self-awareness and resilience.
Positive Disintegration for Growth
Inspired by the theory of positive disintegration, this program emphasizes embracing and working through inner conflicts and sensitivities as pathways to personal development.
Movement and Creativity
Activities like free-form walking, yoga, and music immersion stimulate creativity and provide mental clarity, emphasizing the connection between physical movement and cognitive flexibility.
Sessions on Mindset AND Sound Therapy
Explore how mindset influences well-being and experience therapeutic sound baths, including a 528 Hz frequency session to reduce stress and promote inner peace.
Interactive Workshops and Self-Reflection
Participants engage in group discussions, journaling, and individual reflections to reinforce insights and establish actionable commitments to their ideal self.
about the experts
Dr. Srini Pillay
Dr. Srini Pillay was at the top of his class at medical school and the most awarded resident at Harvard Medical School. He works with executives globally and is a certified master coach who was voted “Top 20 mover and shaker in leadership development in the world” by Training Industry. His clients include numerous international multilaterals and Fortune 500 companies including Coca Cola, Lockheed Martin, Blue Shield of California, Ernst and Young, Prudential, The United Nations, The World Bank and many others. He is an invited instructor at LinkedIn on 5 video compilations: Depression in the Workplace, Anxiety in the Workplace, Addiction in the workplace, Leveraging Neuroscience in the Workplace and Managing the Post-Pandemic, Anxiety-Triggered Brain. He has a course with ExecOnline with Duke CE on “Leveraging Neuroscience for Team Performance.”
He has authored several books on brain-based methods to reduce stress and anxiety and enhance vitality and creativity. His books include “Your Brian and Business: The Neuroscience of Great leaders”, “Life Unlocked: 7 Revolutionary Lessons to Overcome Fear”, and “Tinker Dabble Doodle Try: Unlock the Power of the Unfocused Mind.” He is is also on a United Nations task force for mental health. His books have been translated into eight languages. Dr. Pillay has lectured throughout the world including the US, Canada, UK, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Romania, Greece, India, Singapore, and Brazil.
Dr. Pillay has been a regular contributor to Fox News, CNN, and Harvard Health. He has also been featured in The New York Times, Elle Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, Forbes, NPR, US News, Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, and Oprah Radio.
Dr. UMA NAIDOO
Dr Uma Naidoo is a Harvard-trained nutritional psychiatrist, professional chef, and nutritional biologist & author of the national & international bestseller: “This is Your Brain on Food.” Her most recent best-selling book is “Calm Your Mind with Food.”
The late Michelin-starred chef David Bouley described Dr. Uma Naidoo as the world’s first “triple threat” in the food and medicine space as the nexus of her interests have found their niche in Nutritional Psychiatry. Her first book has already been published in 23 countries and 19 languages. Dr. Naidoo founded and directs the first and only hospital-based Nutritional Psychiatry Service in the USA. She is the Director of Nutritional, Lifestyle and Metabolic Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital & Director of Nutritional Psychiatry at the MGH Academy while serving on the faculty at Harvard Medical School.
She designed and released the first and only CME based educational program at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard to educate other clinicians globally about nutrition for brain health.