Queen of Retreats offers expert advice and honest, independent reviews on spas, retreats & healthy holidays around the world. The reviews are all written by published writers with a proven passion for health & travel and a critical eye. We visit places and write about them in our BLOG – when we love somewhere and would hand-on-heart recommend it, we then put it into our RETREATS WE LOVE section, so you can browse by type, location, budget, feeling or date or make a booking enquiry. Wherever you are on the site, you can ask our advice about which retreat might currently suit you and your life situation.
Current favourite, UK: July fitness & cooking break

Wildfitness run inspired fitness holidays in Kenya and Spain, and Northcourt is their UK base, a Jacobean manor houses set in 15 acres of gardens in the island’s peaceful Downs. Here, the 3 or 6 day Energiser breaks are the vision of Wildfitness duo Ro and Netta Pakenham, who grew up exploring the wilder side of the island with a father who lived life barefoot and a mother who had a vegetable patch.
Current favourite, Europe: June yoga retreat, France

This is an immersive yoga retreat organised by Reclaim Your Self at a beautifully renovated 16th century farmhouse in the Gascony countryside. Yoga is taught by Lisa Sanfilippo, an Anusara-inspired yoga teacher based in London who offers ten years of experience teaching this powerful form of hatha yoga.
Top 5 Tips for Conscious Eating

Nutritionist Rebecca Andrist will run a Creative Cooking, Conscious Eating and Yoga retreat from 19-21 April at Littleton Mill in Wiltshire. Here she tells us how conscious eating can give us more energy, better digestion and greater enthusiasm for life. Slowing down, relaxing, being present, enjoying the moment, we all know how important these things are. And it’s no
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Where in the world are we?

As you read this the Queen of Retreats team are checking out spas, health retreats, yoga holidays, buddhist retreats, boutique spa hotels and fitness breaks of all kinds and budgets all over the world. We’ve recently visited retreats in Cornwall, Yorkshire, Austria, India and the Caribbean, and are scurrying away between having a life to get
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