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Forest Retreats Blog

We like to blog about subjects we find interesting – whether it be yoga, the environment, retreats or wellness. Please see below all of our blogs and send us a email if you would like to feedback.
  • Yoga Retreats for Beginners

    Forest Retreats offer a range of yoga and wellbeing retreats based at a spectacular eco-retreat centre overlooking The Wye Valley. Based in the UK at Hill Farm in Tintern, Forest Retreats is close to Chepstow and 40 minutes from Bristol and Cardiff. Our day and weekend retreats include both energising and restorative yoga, the Japanese…

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  • Five reasons to buy one of our yoga presents from Forest Retreats

    With Christmas around the corner, our thinking caps are coming on about what to buy for our loved ones. Men in particular struggle to know what to buy, and yoga presents are the perfect gift for the Yogini in your life. Forest Retreats provide gifts of wellness that provide the perfect range of yoga presents…

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  • 5 Reasons to try Forest Bathing

    What is forest bathing all about? Have you heard people talking about it and assumed that it simply means swimming in the forest? So, I’ll need my swimming costume? Or perhaps you know it’s based on walking in the woodlands and thought isn’t it just a walk in the woods that I do all the…

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  • 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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    snowdrops at hill farm tintern
  • 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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