Emily and Jan Holden are the co-founders of IEWIN, a supportive community of curious individuals who want to explore their relationship with food and body.
We want you to feel free to eat what you need and enjoy the body you have, now.
We know what it feels like when:
You can’t seem to stop overeating
You eat to soothe yourself, to numb out, to get “high”, but you end up feeling worse
You can’t imagine ever feeling comfortable or happy with the body you have
The principles and practices of IEWIN come from our first-hand experience of transforming our own relationship with food and body.
We know that feeling what we feel is fundamental to eating what we need.
Watch this 5 minute video to know more about who we are and what we do.
We go LIVE every Monday morning at 8.30am UK time on our Facebook page. Join us each week to talk about healing food/body issues alongside living a real and messy human life.
Visit our VIDEO LIBRARY to get a feel for who we are and how we work with our IEWIN community.
Want to work with us?
Our retreats, workshops and 121 sessions are designed to:
reconnect you with your body
nourish you on all levels:
physical, mental, emotional and spiritual
introduce you to the IEWIN Process:
the 7 guiding principles for transforming our food/body issues
NOTICING. CREATING SPACE. BECOMING CURIOUS. BEING KIND. BEING IN OUR BODIES. GETTING STUCK, STARTING AGAIN. BALANCE.
Introducing our team:
EMILY HOLDEN
Emily is the co-founder of “I Eat What I Need” (IEWIN), alongside her Mum, Jan. Emily and Jan founded IEWIN in response to the great lack of understanding around the healing of food and body image issues. Emily brings over a decade of teaching to IEWIN. Now a qualified yoga teacher, Emily trained for 3 years with Marc Acquaviva, in the Scaravelli-inspired tradition of yoga. She also completed the “Meditating with the Body” and the “Somatic Practice of Pure Awareness” programmes with Reggie Ray, Buddhist scholar and teacher of somatic (body-based) meditation. Emily knows from her own experience and that of her clients that feeling disconnected from our bodies is often the root cause of many issues that manifest in our lives, including disordered eating issues, her area of expertise and personal experience. She is especially interested in how yoga and somatic meditation can encourage us to process our buried emotions and previous traumas so we can live more freely and joyfully in the present.
Photo by Serani @serani_studio seranistudio.com
CRISTIAN MENA
Cristian is Emily’s husband and a qualified massage therapist. He offers full body massage to those attending our retreats in the UK and Spain. Cristian completed his training at Brighton City College (now known as Brighton MET) in 2015. A very safe pair of hands, Cristian enjoys bringing relaxation and inner stillness to his clients through therapeutic touch.
JAN HOLDEN
Jan, Emily’s mum is the co-founder of IEWIN and has worked in health for over 30 years. Jan’s passion for care has led her into the diverse areas of nursing, midwifery, palliative care, kinesiology and plant based eating. She is both a doula (a birth partner) and a soul midwife and has attended many hundreds of births and deaths, holding space for people at their most vulnerable times. Jan is happiest in the kitchen, where she creates nourishing and hearty plant-based dishes with love and care. As well as our retreat chef, she is also on hand to offer support and guidance to you from her many years of experience working in holistic health.
JANE GOODING
Jane has been with IEWIN since the very beginning, teaching courses and running groups alongside Jan and Emily, as well as cooking up a plant-based storm in the retreat kitchen. She is a highly experienced guide and facilitator, having worked in the health sector for over three decades. Like Jan, she started her career as a nurse and now works with individuals, groups and businesses to improve health and wellbeing. She was drawn to working with Emily and Jan as she’s especially interested in how we find peace around our bodies and our eating.
