Awe-inspiring InRetreats
We curate exceptional journeys that inspire wonder and a deep connection to nature.
Hi, I’m Nina
I’m the founder of InRetreat. Our mission is to curate exceptional travel experiences that inspire the feeling of wonder and awe. Every retreat we offer combines the essential and delicious ingredients necessary to make a trip transformational, whilst being mindful of the deeply felt need to get sufficient rest and alone time. We only partner with destinations that are committed to sustainable and responsible tourism practices.
Handpicked, unique destinations
Close-knit, inclusive groups
Committed to ecological and sustainable tourism
Inspirational, bespoke experiences
Exceptional, experienced retreat guides
Comprehensive planning & support
InRetreat team
Nina Butler
Nina grew up in the South African wilderness roaming barefoot beneath sunny skies, in awe of earth’s wonders. She was a high-school drop-out who traded the classroom for a yacht skipper’s qualification and started working on private yachts in the Mediterranean at 16 years old. This was the ultimate ‘university of life’ that led her into various culinary, viticultural, spiritual, and artistic pursuits around the world. She eventually navigated back to formal education and defended a Doctorate in Philosophy in 2015. Soon thereafter, she launched a start-up offering bespoke, multilingual yoga training online. This flowered into an in-person yoga travel and adventure experience business -InRetreat - and various consulting opportunities in brand strategy and communication.
Kathy Miller
Kathy Miller uses botanical and watercolour inks, watercolours, acrylic, and collages to explore and communicate the substance of the immaterial, of experience, and of transformation.
Thirty years as a typographer and designer guide her hand, while significant and profound life experiences provide a deep inner compass. Much awarded for her design work, Miller is known for instinctive contextual thinking with imaginative discovery at the heart of her practice. She explores the profound nature of being and what lies unseen in the liminal spaces of time between real and imagined, dreams and memories.
Her work is dynamic and constantly evolving, using interdisciplinary materials and expressive techniques. Deliberately departing from conventional methods, she blends the conceptual with the intuitive, research and information with spontaneity, and controlled experimentation with the unexpected – a search for beauty and stillness intertwined with an appreciation of history, change, and decay.
Betty Soldi
Betty is a wordsmith, calligrapher, designer and creative thinker with a multi-faceted approach to a constellation of imaginatively inspired projects. Descending from a Florentine family that has been handmaking fireworks since 1869, her uniquely original calligraphic style merges a heritage of design references with modern intellect for emotionally compelling branding, bespoke visual arts projects, graphic design communication, lifestyle objects, stationery and packaging collaborations.
After many years of living in London, she now has a design consultancy studio in the heart of Florence, drawing in like-minded skilled collaborators for custom projects and sensorial experiences. A starry-eyed perspective has also led her to co-own and be the PR brand guardian for four boutique hotels in the stylish centre and more artistically quirky Oltrarno area of Florence.
Betty’s studio has produced distinctive branding, visual arts projects, graphic design, communication, stationery and packaging for brands including Belmond, Miu Miu, Lamy, Fortnum & Mason and Gucci. Betty is also the author and designer of the creative book, Inkspired, published in 8 languages.
