The Retreat
Coming on a Retreat at l'Age Baston promises to be an uplifting and inspiring experience. It's a glorious combination of feel good gentle exercise and indulgent treatments along with the usual top marks hospitality you would expect from l'Age Baston. This week away gives you a rare chance to get away from the stresses of everyday life and the outside world, to feel truly alive and peaceful on all levels. Any one of any age or ability can enjoy the retreat and will find the time at l'Age Baston a uniquely rewarding and memorable experience.
Every morning before breakfast there will be a 1 hour yoga session to gently wake and recharge the mind and body. You will feel amazing and set up for the day ahead. After breakfast John will take you on a guided walk (2-3 hr) taking in the local sites, and breathing the pure country air while putting the world to rights. After a delicious lunch the afternoons are purely for relaxing. Enjoy a treatment (see below), read by the pool, snooze in a hammock or go sightseeing before you return late afternoon for your second yoga session. The afternoon yoga sessions take place outside and are 1.5 hour each afternoon. It's such a treat to be outside in the sunshine or in a shady spot under a tree surrounded by nature, trees and flowers. It helps us to feel really connected to the earth and at one with ourselves. The afternoon class is great for stretching muscles used in the morning walks as Yoga elongates the muscles whereas most exercise shortens them. Yoga invigorates and strengthens the body so that you will feel energised and revitalised. After supper there is a candlelit half hour relaxation and meditation session that is the perfect way to end the day. It's a chance to breathe, stretch, relax and float off to bed afterwards.
Over the course of the week you will also receive 2 x 50 minute treatments of either deep tissue massage, aromatherapy massage, reflexology, Indian head massage and healing. These holistic treatments can either be enjoyed outside or inside in the treatment room. Claire uses her intuition and skills as an experienced therapist to give each guest the best treatment that is right for them in order to help recharge and relax the mind, body and spirit.
Claire Nichols
Claire trained as an Aromatherapist in 1997 at the Tisserand Institute in London and since then has spent many years studying Complementary Therapies and travelling the world. She became a qualified Yoga Teacher from the Sivananda Yoga Centre in 2003. Sivananda yoga is classical or traditional yoga, taking its essence from the East and its ancient philosophies. Claire is insured as an alternative therapist and as a yoga teacher.
These days Claire combines a busy life as a freelance Health Practitioner and Yoga teacher and being a mother to her two boys. Claire has run and participated in many holidays and retreats abroad for the past 10 years and is delighted to be working at l'Age Baston again in 2012.
A Typical Day - The Retreat
Each morning will begin with a 'wake up' yoga session followed by breakfast. After this, guests head out on a guided walk with John to burn off breakfast, up their heartbeat and take full advantage of the clean country air. Afternoons are spent resting, having a treatment or out visiting local places of interest before your second yoga class. After being rewarded with a 4 course dinner with wine, finish the day with Claire's candlelit relaxation session before you drift off to bed. A typical day would be as follows.
- 7.45am-8.45am Yoga in the Studio with Claire
- 8.45am-9.30am Continental Breakfast
- 10.00am-12.30pm 8-12km guided country walk with John
- 1.00pm-2.30pm Lunch with wine in the courtyard
- 3.00pm-5.30pm Your chance to relax by the pool, pop into town or enjoy a treatment with Claire
- 5.30pm-6.30pm Yoga in the garden with Claire
- 7.30pm-9.30pm Four course Dinner with wine in the courtyard or dining room
- 9.30pm-10.00pm Candlelit relaxation session with Claire in the studio or garden
| August 4th | August 11th |
Prices
- These are Early Booking prices, offer ends February 29th 2012
- 7 nights: £949
- 14 nights £1850
A Retreat begins with your arrival on Saturday afternoon and ends on the following Saturday after breakfast, and can run for 7 or 14 nights.
