Antidotes to our world
Tips & advice to help you get the best out of your retreat
Whilst most yoga retreats and an increasing number of evening classes, spas and wellbeing breaks offer secular meditation, a Buddhist retreat is still the best place to immerse yourself in the art of meditation, to learn it from scratch or develop an existing practice. Most Buddhist retreats promote a way of living rather than a religion to [...]
Kundalini Yoga was practiced for centuries by a select few and brought to a wider audience in 1968 by a yoga master called Yogi Bhajan. The dynamic blend of asanas, pranayama, mantra, music and meditation aim to teach the art of relaxation, self-healing and self-mastery – it’s also known as the Yoga of Latent Spiritual Awareness. [...]
A retreat is a place or space where you can rest and replenish away from the world – whatever that means to you at a particular time. It could be your brain in a busy room; a city park, massage bed or yoga class during a challenging working week; your precious home when you can’t or [...]
One of the best and most affordable companies I’ve detoxed with are Jiva Healing, who run juice fasts and healthy eating holidays in the UK, Europe and Goa. To help you decide if you want to book onto one, I’d like to share with you my diary of the week-long juice fast I did in [...]
When I’m not in the mood for my daily walk, I go and sweat out my stress in a steam room. My local is of the practical, uninspiring variety – just a box with plastic seats, really, none of your mosaic tiles, eucalyptus infusions or fibre optic lights in the ceiling that change colour. But [...]
Learning to be alive to every moment is to me the point of meditation, and after more than 10 years of sampling spas, retreats and healthy holidays, it remains the single most useful tool I’ve come across to calm me down and set me back on track. It’s not for everyone – The King says it [...]
Many people choose to go to hotels for a spa break, but whilst the hotels I feature on Queen of Retreats come close, the perfect hotel for a spa break doesn’t yet exist. When it does, this is how I think it should be… The property would… * Be in a quiet location with gorgeous views and [...]
