Antidotes to our world
Places you can learn interesting new stuff about yourself & the world
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 – [...]
The superior, empathic coaching skills of Larah Davis and the careful yoga teaching of Susie Howell are the reason to book a healthy holiday with Ibiza Retreats. We had a chilled out day of treatments, chats, yoga and NLP* coaching together at the Atzaro Hotel near Sant Joan in the Ibizan countryside – they were relaxed, down [...]
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 [...]
In short: This beautifully renovated, wooden-floored 17th century water mill is the eco-friendly family home of Melissa Kendall, an expert on nutrition and sustainability who runs healthy holiday company Jiva Healing. Come for juice fasts, healthy eating breaks, yoga weekends, fitness breaks and other breaks, or book your own private retreat for your family or friends [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In short: So well do Jiva Healing run their healthy holidays that they fill each of their breaks by word of mouth alone. Set up by nutritionist Rebecca Andrist and chef Melissa Kendall, the company organises affordable and effective Juice Fasting and Healthy Eating breaks at simple hotels in India and Europe and at Littleton Mill in the UK. To take [...]
