Antidotes to our world
Decent yoga holidays & places that offer well-taught yoga breaks
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, [...]
STOP PRESS: Ibiza Retreats run regular, 5-day Yoga from the Heart retreats throughout Ibiza’s season from March until October. Designed to attend to your mind, body and soul, the retreats have been crafted around the philosophy that there is ‘power in gentleness’, and will encourage you to get out of your head and into your heart [...]
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. [...]
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: 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, [...]
