Antidotes to our world
On The Scroll you'll find new & upcoming retreats, healthy holidays & other queenly things.
Please note, whilst Queen of Retreats is a totally independent, editorially-based resource, The Queen charges a small amount for some of the news items on The Scroll in order to keep herself and The King in bread and butter (organic, naturally). Paid-for items are marked STOP PRESS & are all carefully hand-picked by The Queen herself for their quality. If you would like to run a news item, please contact The Queen from this site.
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 [...]
Satvada Retreats (formerly known as YA Retreats) will run an Art of Relaxation retreat at Potash Barns in Suffolk 28-30 September 2012. If you’re feeling anxious, tired and in need of some headspace, they will be just the ticket. ‘In our culture of 24/7 busyness, feeling calm and in control can be a lost skill – [...]
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, [...]
Bring a friend and receive £50 off your booking on Liz Lark and Jean Hall’s weekend yoga retreat from 8-10 this June at the lovely country estate of Oxon Hoath in Kent. Just an hour or so from London, the estate is surrounded by 73 acres of private, enchanting gardens and woodlands, food will be vegetarian [...]
STOP PRESS: Reclaim Your Self have teamed up with one of London’s top yoga teachers, Lisa Sanfilippo, to create a yoga holiday in Tuscany from 22-28 July. Based at a renovated 17th century baroque villa in Benabbio, a quintessentially Italian village nestled in the majestic hills of the Lima valley, you’ll have two yoga classes per day, plus [...]
For London folk who are feeling stressed but can’t get away this month, Boston-based clinical psychologist, yoga teacher and yoga therapist Bo Forbes will run a series of workshops at triyoga over three days from 24-29 May. Bo’s innovative Integrative Yoga Therapeutic System takes the most therapeutic elements of yoga and mindfulness-based techniques to address common ailments brought on [...]
STOP PRESS: Manchester-based classical yoga teacher Jane Craggs has organised a 10 day yoga adventure in India from 13-27 October 2012. The Holy Himalayas Yoga Adventure will take place at Dunagiri, a retreat in the remote state of Uttarakhand which was mentioned in the classic book Autobiography of a Yogi – to this day renunciates can be [...]
STOP PRESS: For something a little different, London-based hatha yoga teacher Laurent Roure has organised a 5 day yoga break at a refurbished traditional farmhouse in the Julienne Alps of Slovenia for the 23-28 August bank holiday break. This fun and relaxed retreat will include home cooked food with produce from the farm (including wild [...]
In need of some restoration, but haven’t had a chance to book anything yet? There are places left on these health & wellbeing retreats for May and June 2012, all personally recommended by Queen of Retreats. 12-19th May – Hatha yoga & ayurveda at Passeroses in France with Manchester-based classical yoga teacher Jane Craggs - Jane is laid [...]
