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…

A Taste of the Retreat: Nourishing Vegan Recipes from Our Latest Escape

There’s something quite magical about gathering around a table after a morning of slow, mindful movement. Your body feels open, your breath feels deeper, and somehow: everything tastes better. At our latest retreat, the kitchen became just as much a sanctuary as the yoga mat. As a Leiths trained chef, I pour so much love…

Ultimate Christmas Gift Guide for Wellness Retreats

Finally some ideas to help you cross off some of your christmas list! Novamilesko Christmas Gift Guide: The Gift of Wellness Give the ultimate gift this holiday season: an experience that refreshes the body, calms the mind, and lasts long after the tinsel is packed away. Treat a loved one—or yourself—to one of our exclusive…

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….

New Free Online Yoga Classes

Lets try to expand to include, rather then contract to exclude. Hug if and when necessary (and maybe even when its not)). xx

Urgent

Unplug and Recharge. Although I only teach yoga, I have noticed over the many years of bending and navel gazing that our society as whole is moving further and further into the future, with time becoming extremely fragmented between the digital and physical world. And although they can co-exist quiet happily if we understand the…