Antidotes to our world
STOP PRESS: Planning a trip to South America? Here’s a rather lovely combo – a 3 night/4 day river cruise along the Peruvian Amazon with a comprehensive wellness programme. The River Rejuvenation Experience from independent tour operator HighLives features three nights aboard the recently refitted MC Delfin II with massage, yoga classes (both aboard and on a river beach), [...]
Yes please, book me onto one of these. Talented and personable style and image consultant Maggie Macmillan will run pampering makeover weekends this April and September at Grayshott Spa in Surrey. Find out what clothes are right for your body shape, learn how to detox your wardrobe, create a capsule and holiday wardrobe and adapt [...]
In short: So, a little more on Sara Campbell’s retreats as some of you have requested. Sara runs group yoga classes, private yoga retreats and freediving workshops in the laid back, beachside town of Dahab in Egypt. She’s a highly likeable, very fit and talented Kundalini yoga teacher who also happens to be a freediving champion – [...]
In short: I’m not really into dedicated fitness breaks, but I love love love the highly inventive Wildfitness holidays, created in 2001 by all-round athlete Tara Wood, who’s warm, funny and lovely to be with. Tara’s team use outdoor, natural surroundings to get you fit so you feel as far from an urban gym as you possibly can, and somehow [...]
In short: The remarkable Makhad Trust runs regular journeys to the magical Sinai desert, donating over 60% of their profits to benefit the local Bedouin. This year the journeys will be led by Anglican priest Peter Owen Jones, who made Extreme Pilgrim for the BBC, and supported by nutritional therapist and journey leader Helen Cranston. Designed to [...]
Mmm, I’ve always loved making marks with my feet in the sand and collecting shells and things. Maybe I should sign up for one of these? Environmental artist Helen Grove-White of the Creative Arts Retreat runs residential courses in Land Art, an art form for anyone who loves nature – especially city folk who are in dire [...]
In short: Writer & psychologist Rosie Walford set up this brilliant little life coaching company, which in the past year alone has helped people change career from finance to photographic art, extricate themselves from a negative relationship, accept a seat in the House of Lords and move from London to Scotland. The best, most intensive fix is the [...]
I hope you have had a good Christmas break so far. It’s such a strange time – so happy for some, so hard for others. I confess the King & I have not had the best of times, for our little one has been ill since Christmas Eve with a bug. Not eating, just crying, [...]
In short: Tilton House is a large and lovely white-painted Georgian house set at the foot of the South Downs National Park. It offers a range of creative and holistic breaks during the weekends, and relaxing B&B and self catering during the week. It’s the former home of economist John Maynard Keynes and his Russian ballerina wife, [...]
The desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world, according to writer John Le Carré, which is why Journeys for Change developed their highly original journeys in colourful, chaotic India. Designed to give you a different perspective on yourself, and on how your place of work could make a more positive impact on [...]
