Retreat to Simplicity

Mexico — Baja California Sur

11-16 February 2026

An elemental cooking & wellness retreat

Join us for this rare and beautiful week—a chance to reconnect with nature, gather in community, awaken your wild self, and explore elemental cooking, returning home with new skills, a renewed spark for life, and a deeper connection to conscious living

Cade McConnell is the cook behind Om Cade - a plant-based catering business operating in the Byron Bay Shire.

Cade was raised in a small coastal town on Worimi Country, Forster Tuncurry. His upbringing seeded a deep appreciation for the wild aliveness of the Australian land and sea.  

His travels to the Indian subcontinent gifted him a connection to Yoga and Vipassana meditation, which have become dedicated practices in his life. Cade's approach to cooking is an extension of his spiritual practice, a creative and devotional avenue. He uses organic and local market ingredients and cooks in clay pots using unprocessed whole foods.

Through his cookbook, catering and workshops, he hopes to inspire others to relate to food and life with reverence, as part of a collective contribution to a more peaceful and harmonious world.

We are currently working on a second print run of my cookbook, Plants, Clay & Fire — We’ll be opening pre orders very soon.

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Cade is proudly in partnership with Quiet Earth, a conscious cookware company supporting artisans around the world.

© OM CADE 2025