Forest Retreats

Courage

We have been exploring in our yoga practice what courage means from a couple of different perspectives. The first being the courage to defend our country, homes, ourselves, our families and our values – and we can see courageous acts happening all across the world when fighting against oppression. Nelson Mandala describes this type of […]

Ostara

Welcome to Spring – celebrated by a Wiccan (Pagan) holiday called Ostara that celebrates spring equinox, when the day and night are of equal length and the sun crosses into the northern hemisphere making us warmer (yes please!). Spiritually the equinox is thought to represent the struggle between darkness and light and death and life. […]

Is 2022 the year to declutter and simplify your life?

Happy new year! How has it been so far? Are you already starting to feel overwhelmed by the expectations we have imprisoned ourselves with including our various new year’s resolutions (we tend to like the round number of 10!). Unsurprisingly, we usually don’t achieve these resolutions as we forget the winter season asks us to […]

Happy Spring 2021!

Spring brings so much joy after a long winter (especially this one!) and whatever is going on in the world; we can always rely on mother nature to bring new life into the world. This Rachel Carson quote sums this up beautifully “There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the […]

It’s the Start of Spring!

We had snow! What a delight that was and proper fluffy snow. The children were screaming with delight, and Arlo the dog didn’t know what this cold stuff was but soon got into the swing of things and chased our sledges down the steepest hill on the farm. Now its the start of February and […]

Reduce Your Stress Amongst The Trees: Forest Bathing Calms Your Mind And Boosts Your Immune System

Shinrin Yoku (Forest Bathing) has a host of proven health benefits and provides a wonderful antidote to the particularly stressful environment we’ve been living in for the last 9 months. As we navigate through this pandemic it’s so important to pay attention to our emotional and physical wellbeing. One way of doing that is amongst […]

5 Reasons a Retreat Should be on Your 2021 to do List

It goes without saying that 2020 has been – for the most of us – difficult. Over at Forest Retreats we’ve been busy building and improving our accommodation which is great. But of course, our industry has been hit particularly bad; we’ve been extremely stressed, all while home schooling our two youngest girls. And there […]

Spring, Yoga and Litter Picking!

13/03/2018 Spring is in the air and only one month away from our first Yoga and Wellness Retreat of the year! I am sure you would agree; it’s been a hard-core winter with freezing temperatures and lots of snow. At one point we had to evacuate the place we were staying, as it’s quite high […]

January 2018 Newsletter

16/01/2018 Happy New Year Yogi’s and hope 2018 has been good to you so far. January is full of hope, but also a particularly challenging time for some as there is some re-adjusting back to normality, and we become more inwardly focused after a sociable December. We tend to set our new year intentions too […]

2018 Yoga Retreats confirmed

15/11/2017 Forest Retreats and Indian Wellness Academy are pleased to announce dates for our 2018 Yoga and Wellness Retreats, based at Ragmans Farm, a 60-acre organic farm in the Forest of Dean. Reflecting on our great partnership formed in 2017, we have utilised the best of our skill sets which so far has resulted in […]