My favourite English retreat offers a range of ayurvedic facials and facial massages to beautify and de-stress you, as well as daily yoga classes and other ayurveda treatments in a beautifully restored 17th-century mill. Next runs July 7-9, (02 .uk) For yoga and beauty 18. There are also powerful group sessions in Transformational Breath® with personable breath coach Aimee Hartley.įrom £375 per person sharing for two nights all-inclusive. Inspiration Space at 42 Acres, Somersetĭesigned to de-stress every inch of you, these retreats in a secluded valley combine daily vinyasa flow and restorative yoga with Ann Pidcock or ayurveda-inspired ISHTA and flow yoga with Jess Horn. All retreats include a health consultation and a one-hour body harmonising massage or acupuncture session too, and meals are ayurvedic vegetarian.įrom €800 (£700) per person sharing for six nights, including meals, activities, transfers, a treatment and excursion (00351 272 634 006 )Ī post shared by Vale de Moses on at 5:01am PDT 17.
Vale de Moses, PortugalĮvery week from late July until late September you can enjoy vinyasa flow yoga retreats with teachers Fleur van Hille and Katherine Smith at this rustic retreat in the foothills of the Serra de Estrela mountains. Nutrition classes and treatments support the process and the sea is just two minutes away.įrom £720 per person sharing for seven nights all-inclusive except treatments. Gently cleanse with healthy meals or do a more intense juice fast alongside twice-daily yoga taught by Brighton-based flow teacher Chetana Thornton at Yuva Retreat Centre on the southern coast of Turkey. Jiva Healing Juice Fasting, Healthy Eating & Yoga Retreat, Turkey You can also go to the beach for a spot of mindful stand-up paddle boarding.įrom £657 per person sharing for six nights all-inclusive, booked with Wellbeing Escapes (020 3735 7555 )ġ5. Arrive each Saturday from July to October for a one-week programme of vinyasa flow or hatha yoga, meditation, tai chi, therapeutic treatments and optional self-development workshops. This hilltop retreat set in 20 gentle acres has been offering mindfulness and yoga retreats for more than 35 years and has just been refurbished. Meals are tasty vegetarian and vegan (with good cake).įrom £599 per person sharing, on an all-inclusive basis. They mix restorative yoga and yoga nidra with periods of mindfulness practice.
Satvada Retreats, Norfolkįor urbanites who want to experience mindfulness without the discomfort you can sometimes have at more traditional meditation retreats, these long weekends led by Lucia Cockcroft and Vikki Stevenson are held at a luxury manor house. In addition, you can swim in the pools, go walking, have a hammam and nap.įrom €1,690 (£1,481) per person sharing for six nights all-inclusive, except treatments. Your day starts with a 90-minute hatha and yin yoga class with Gina Hardy, while early evening sessions are dedicated to meditation with mindfulness expert Brian Hilliard.
These relaxed holidays are held at a kasbah hotel on Lake Lalla Takerkoust in the foothills of the Atlas mountains. There are also onsen hot spring baths, Zen meditation with a local priest, a tea ceremony, Ikebana flower arranging and Japanese-style vegetarian meals.įrom £1,995 per person sharing, based on a seven-night stay including all meals, activities and Shinkansen train. This seven-night Japanese yoga retreat on Kyushu island and in Kyoto mixes twice-daily, body-transforming jivamukti yoga led by Emma Henry with beautiful hikes through autumnal forests peppered with ancient temples. Visitors sleep in huts in a jungle that is strewn with tropical flowers and teeming with monkeys and birds.įrom $2,940 (£2,302) per person sharing, based on a two-week stay including yoga, meals, two excursions and two massages (020 8123 3603 ) 3. Circled by the Galgiriyawa mountains, where monks still live in remote temples and caves, this admirable organic farm offers yoga holidays with a changing roster of international teachers, on-site ayurveda treatments and bathing in a silky-smooth, otherworldly lake.