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), [...]
STOP PRESS: Looking for a yoga teacher training course to deepen your practice and/or learn to teach? Rather than jet off to India or Thailand or sweat it out in London, here is your chance to stay in the UK and enjoy a life-changing experience in the countryside, fuelled by authentic British comfort and inspired [...]
London-based writer, hatha yoga teacher and trusted Queen of Retreats ambassador Lucy Greeves ran The Arvon Foundation‘s first ever Writers’ Retreat with Yoga last month at Totleigh Barton, an atmospheric pre-Domesday manor house in Devon. Arvon is a charity that offers year-round courses taught by a stellar line-up of published writers on everything you can think of, from screen writing to children’s books, [...]
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: A Harley Street nutritionist and naturopath for over 16 years, the vibrant Vicki Edgson started her luxury retreats on Ibiza in 2011 to help people reclaim what she calls the ‘vital energy’ they need to live a full and healthy life. On offer in June and October each year at a private villa [...]
