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Linnéa and Katerina from Catxalot and Scandinavian Seaweed are happy to offer this seaweed retreat together, where we will delve into how seaweed can be used for both health and skincare.
During these days you will learn more about the healing properties of seaweed and how it can be used in both skincare and diet. We have workshops where you make and learn to make oils, serums, scrubs, etc. from algae and seaweed yourself. The food served will be healthy and contain many things from the sea. Please inform us of any allergies, etc. when booking.
The retreat will be held in the quiet little coastal village of Grundsund, at the end of the road on Skaftö, October 3 - 5, 2025.
We will stay in a fantastic 150 square meter apartment with sea views in the charming Didriksson's old harbor warehouse on the Östra kajen in Grundsund (above the Hannas i Hamnen store).
You will have to share a room with someone else. Some rooms have a double bed and some have two separate beds. Let us know if you are traveling with a friend you want to share a room with. Single rooms can be booked for an extra cost (2000sek).
There is:
- 3 bedrooms with 2 90-cm beds in each room
- 1 bedroom with a double bed 140 cm
- 1 rumroom with a IKEA Hemnäs 2x90 cm bed sofa
The harbor warehouse is located on a quay, so you have the sea and the docks right outside your door.
Meeting place Östra kajen, Grundsund.
The weekend start around 4 pm on the Friday and ends around noon on the Sunday.
THIS IS INCLUDED
- workshops: scrub, oils for face and body, face mask, serum.
- skin product recipes
- presentation about seaweed and health (science)
- presentation about seaweed and skin, what it does.
- equipment loan for foraging workshops
- accommodation, shared room
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- 2 breakfast
- 2 dinnner
- 2 lunch
- fika
- sauna, cold bath in Grundsund canal.
We will send a list of what to bring to those who have booked.
About Linnéa & Katerina
Seaweed brought us together almost 10 years ago. It started with Katerina becoming one of Linnéa’s “seaweed divers”. Then they became friends and as often as they can they meet and freedive, snorkel and talk about seaweed.
Katerina Bengtsson Kupcik
Katerina runs the company Scandinavian Seaweed, which harvests wild seaweed sustainably, manufactures its own seaweed products and cosmetics.
“I have worked with the ocean my entire professional life. From coral projects in Australia and Indonesia, to diving center manager and underwater photographer in the Lembeh Strait in Indonesia, to seaweed harvesting in Sweden. After seeing how the underwater world has deteriorated around the world, seaweed has given me great hope that we can enjoy what grows in the ocean without destroying it.
Seaweed combines my passion for diving, being in nature, learning new skills with my vision of a sustainable future. I see seaweed as an important but forgotten nutritious food resource that we often have easy access to. I love spreading knowledge about seaweed and showing others the wonderful life below the surface through pictures, lectures and our courses.”
Linnéa Sjögren
Linnéa started Catxalot back in 2014. She has supplied most of Sweden’s top chefs with seaweed for several years. Her goal is to spread the wonder and knowledge about seaweed and make people love it and use it. She holds courses, events and lectures about seaweed and beach plants. She is the author of the book Plocka tång och strandväxter, NoK förlag 2021 and Tångguiden.
CANCELLATION POLICY AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE
You need to have your own accident insurance and possibly travel insurance.
If you cancel 4 weeks or less before the retreat, nothing will be refunded. If you become acutely ill, everything except 600:- will be refunded upon presentation of a medical certificate until the day before the retreat.
