Forest Retreats Blog
Spring Clean – Inside & Out!
“Clutter is not just the stuff on the floor. It’s anything that stands between you and the life you want to be living” Peter Walsh Spring is in the air; the visitors have flocked to see The Sculpture Gardens famous snowdrop display (well done Gemma and team) and next is the bluebells. Aren’t we lucky…
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Why people are choosing Yin over Yang when practising Yoga
Yin yoga has been rising in popularity since the 1980’s inspired by martial arts expert Paulie Zinc, and then developed by Paul Grilley. Most yoga styles have been traditionally been of a “yang” nature, such as Ashtanga, Vinyasa and power yoga. Yang meaning more dynamic, faster paced and outwardly focused. It could be argued that…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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