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), [...]
Six Senses Zighy Bay in Oman offers 3, 5 and 7 night wellbeing breaks dedicated to adventure, fitness, detoxing or slow living. You can book one or ask Six Senses a direct question using the form at the end of this post. To help you decide if you want to attend, The Queen of Retreats is [...]
Six Senses Zighy Bay in Oman offers 3, 5 and 7 night wellbeing breaks dedicated to adventure, fitness, detoxing or slow living. You can book one or ask Six Senses a direct question using the form at the end of this post. To help you decide if you want to attend, The Queen of Retreats is [...]
Six Senses Zighy Bay in Oman offers 3, 5 and 7 night wellbeing breaks dedicated to adventure, fitness, detoxing or slow living. You can book one or ask Six Senses a direct question using the form at the end of this post. To help you decide if you want to attend, The Queen of Retreats [...]
‘I awake about 10 am Zighy Bay time (5am UK time) to a slant of sun coming onto my huge bed and the delicious feeling that I don’t have to get up for work, my baby or anything else. The resort sets its clocks an hour ahead of everyone else in the United Arab Emirates [...]
Are luxury spas worth saving for? To help you decide the Queen of Retreats shares her diary of her stay at Six Senses Zighy Bay. ‘We touch down at 8 am UAE time, six hours ahead of UK time. My 5 night Sense of Adventure deal includes a private transfer, so after enduring a six-hour [...]
I’ve always been rather partial to the Six Senses spa resorts – their trademark ‘barefoot luxury’ is very appealing. They choose rather remote locations and build little eco villages from scratch on them, all so that you can walk around barefoot without the risk of stepping on anything you wouldn’t want to. I got engaged [...]
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: Reclaim Your Self was set up by down to earth and dynamic massage therapist Julia Sampson, more affectionately known as Jools, and offers affordable healthy holidays that combine yoga, healthy eating and holistic therapies in cleverly-picked locations around the world. Run by a small team of expert therapists, teachers and chefs, the holidays often include coaching and activities such [...]
