Let me start with a truth that might sting a little: you’ve probably spent more time this week thinking about everyone else’s needs than your own. The school run. The packed lunches. The bedtime negotiations. The mental load of remembering who needs what, when, and where. The invisible labour of keeping an entire household running…
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Indulgence Refined: Date and Orange Chocolate Torte (GF & VG)
There’s something almost sacred about the marriage of chocolate and orange. It’s a flavour combination that feels both decadent and bright, rich enough to satisfy your deepest cravings, yet lifted by citrus notes that remind you to breathe. This Date and Orange Chocolate Torte is precisely that kind of magic. It’s gluten-free. It’s vegan. And…
How to Digitally Detox on a UK Mindfulness Retreat (Without Going Extreme)
There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from being always available. The ping of notifications. The scroll that starts as “just a quick check” and somehow swallows twenty minutes. The way your hand reaches for your phone before your eyes have fully opened in the morning. You know this feeling. We all do. And…
Now and Again.
We have to keep coming back to where we are. I recently ran a retreat, where I had started from an extremely low place and which is the worst place to try to be inspiring from. So the theme for the retreat was rest and restore, when I knew it needed to be “Hope” as…
From Darkness Comes Beauty
Perhaps the butterfly is proof that you can go through a great deal of darkness and still become something beautiful. Unknown My hope is that you remember that whatever circumstances you are currently facing in your life, things are always evolving. Unlike the butterfly, we can begin again with a deep breath whenever we need…
Mega Mango and Turmeric Cheesecake
So I made this on the last retreat and it was possibly the most awesome desert EVER! I thought I had invited it but a quick search of the interweb reveals many others have had a similar moment of genesis. So here the recipe with measurements that are real. (Some of you will know what…
Death Stares and Care Bears
Once upon a train track, I was waiting for a train and two very full ones went by. “Tis the Job of a Yogi to be Love and Light” so eventually I got on a stupidly overcrowded train and smiled at the shared insanity of it all, in attempt to lighten the London Death Stares….
Go-an Adventure
Gorgeous Goa Yoga with Nova and Florence 18th- 28th January 2017, Lotus Retreat Centre, Patnam Beach, Goa India- £685 in Twin-shared beach front huts or £895 for single huts. What’s included * Shared Accommodation * Organic brunches and Lovely Dinners * All light refreshments * Special Workshops, * Meditation and Yoga * Private Vegetarian…
Some past reviews of our retreats
Our retreats are amazing even if we do say so ourselves, but so have the people who come with us…..here’s what others have said (previously “Affinity Yoga”) “Thank you seems such a SMALL way of acknowledging how wonderful the weekend was! I loved it from the very start-as soon as I pulled into the drive with…
Nova Milesko 