Cate Zoltan
Co-founder Undo App • 70+ Retreats • 27 years meditating
In her late twenties she encountered Natural Meditation while working through childhood trauma. She had spent years searching for answers to deeper questions about growth, healing and the patterns shaping her life.
The turning point came during her first silent retreat with Matthew. Sitting in extended stillness, questions she had carried for years began to complete. For the first time, the relationship between pain and recovery became clear. What once felt confusing began to make sense.
With that came a realisation. The body’s capacity to heal is natural, yet rarely understood. Over the following years Cate she was able to observe what she had experienced herself repeating in others. She saw the same shift in others. People arrived with long-standing patterns that had not changed through years of effort. As they learned to feel those patterns would change. Symptoms that once seemed permanent often disappeared.
For more than three decades, Cate has attended and facilitated over seventy retreats alongside Matthew. She co-created the Undo app to extend this work beyond the retreat environment, making it accessible in daily life.
Before Quiet Retreats, Cate spent twenty-five years as a professional chef, running a cooking school and retreat venue. That experience shaped the environments she now creates, where simplicity and care support people to settle into silence.
These experiences now inform her work designing retreat environments and advising boutique hotels and spas on silence led wellbeing spaces to support deep recovery.