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personal and self development
Alicante Weight Loss Centre
based: Alicante, Spain
website: www.runinthesun.com/health/weight_loss_Holidays.asp
Weight loss holidays benefiting from a fully qualified team of weight loss professionals. All guests concentrate solely on their personal weight loss goals; combining fitness training, nutrition and cookery classes, massage, life coaching, holistic therapies and yoga.
| weight loss | keep-fit/gym/fitness breaks | retreats | self development | yoga | aromatherapy | massage | Spain |
A Path to Enlightenment
based: Derbyshire, UK
website: www.apathtoenlightenment.com
Romantic weekend retreats at a stunning location in the Andalucian mountains of Spain. These weekends are designed to help you relate more deeply and honestly, they are fun, intimate, supportive and loving offering opportunities to create satisfying and supportive ways of connecting with yourself and others building the relationships you deserve.
| retreats | self development | Spain |
Away
from it all ...
based: Andalucia, Spain
website: www.retreat.es
Retreats in Spain. Join an occasional group retreat in stunning
surroundings in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, Southern Spain.
Take time out and reconnect with nature, yourself and others in
an earthly paradise. Take advantage of cheap flights to Malaga or
Granada from many UK airports.
| relaxation | retreats
| self development | Spain |
AWOL Breaks Spain
based: Alicante, Spain
website: www.awol-breaks.weight-loss-holiday.com
This all inclusive, one week healthy break is for all ladies, travelling together or alone. The accommodation offers a warm, safe and homely environment where lasting friendships will be made. This small group holiday offers daily choices between fitness activities, sight-seeing, pampering and relaxation.
| women only | keep-fit/gym/fitness breaks | pilates | walking/trekking/hiking | massage | mountain biking | self development | relaxation | sightseeing | shopping | Spain |
Catapult Club (The)
based: Devon/Dorset, UK
website: www.thecatapultclub.com
The Catapult Club offers the ultimate girls' weekends, designed to empower and indulge. They teach practical skills like how to project your voice, how to defend yourself, how to 'work' a room and how to really relax. Staying in gorgeous country mansions where the emphasis is on indulgence and fun.
| women only | self development | retreats | relaxation | weekends/short breaks | groups | stag/hen | England |
Cortijo
Romero
based: Órgiva, Granada,
Spain
website: www.cortijo-romero.co.uk
An alternative holiday centre in Spain that will exceed expectations,
unwind as you step into this beautiful, relaxing, stress-free paradise.
With spectacular grounds, private pool, holistic therapists, fabulous
vegetarian food and a diverse range of courses to suit your needs,
you'll understand why so many guests return.
| self development | meditation
| yoga | tai chi | reflexology | dancing (mixed styles) | salsa
| writing | Spanish language | vegetarian | singles holidays | Spain
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Field Learning Ltd
based: Worcestershire, UK
website: www.fieldlearning.co.uk
High quality NLP training in one of the UK's most prestigious and stunning venues – the Cotswolds Conference Centre. Whether you're looking for a new direction, better relationships, career advancement, a confidence boost or simply greater personal happiness then Field Learning can you make your journey of self-discovery the best it can be.
| NLP | self development | team building/management courses | England |
Fitness & Beauty Ltd
based: Hertfordshire, UK
website: www.fitnessandbeautyweekends.com
If you're interested in health and wellbeing, want to combine exercise with nutritional information and life coaching, as well as beauty workshops and treatments, then Fitness & Beauty weekends are for you. Three days packed schedule for ladies only at select locations across the South East of England.
| weight loss | diet/nutrition | yoga | keep-fit/gym/fitness breaks | running/athletics | power walking | beauty therapies | self development | women only | UK |
Freedom Bus (The)
based: Haute Garonne, France
website: thefreedombus.com
Mid-life retreat in south west France. Are you between the ages of 35-50 and experiencing some difficult mid-life changes? This 3-day mid-life retreat will provide you with the encouragement, strategies, tools and experiences you need to start finding your smile again. Facilitated by experienced coaches who are also fellow mid-lifers.
| retreats | self development | groups | France |
Grange by the Sea (The)
based: Isle of Wight, UK
website: www.thegrangebythesea.com
The Grange by the Sea, Isle of Wight, is an offshoot of Skyros Holistic Holidays. Specialising in short breaks with a wide range of courses including writing, life coaching, yoga and more. The Grange is listed in the AA's Best British B&B Guide and offers 4-star guest accommodation.
| self development | yoga | writing | painting/drawing | weekends/short breaks | singles holidays | Christmas and New Year | UK |
Kalikalos Holidays
based: Magnesia, Greece
website: www.kalikalos.com
Kalikalos Summer School offers a full summer programme of holistic community-based workshops, retreats and workcamps. Offerings include tai chi, yoga, monviolent communication, meditation, advaita, mediation and eco-village trainings. The centre is unique in that it is run as a community.
| holistic holidays | tai chi | yoga | self development | meditation | herbalism
| painting/drawing | ethical/ecotourism | writing | Greece |
Le Centre
based: Middlesex, UK
website: www.boostyourhappinessholiday.co.uk
A French retreat and holiday combined; the retreat offers an opportunity to offload your problems. The holiday is rest time crammed with pleasures – food, wine, leisure activities and laughter. All the things that you'd expect on a holiday, and more. Do as little or as much as you like.
| holistic holidays | relaxation | retreats | self development | tailor made | multi-activity | painting/drawing | horse/pony trekking | walking/trekking/hiking | France |
Le Retreat
based: Vienne, France
website: www.le-retreat.com
Country house retreat offering luxury gite accommodation. They focus on relaxation and explore bespoke ways to unwind; facilities promote health benefits; a salt water swimming pool, infra red sauna, and an exercise room with power plate. Also workshops including yoga and meditation, and personal health coaching and beauty treatments on request.
| relaxation | NLP | diet/nutrition | yoga | meditation | massage | beauty therapies | self development | detoxification | France |
Life Change People (The)
based: Chiang Mai, Thailand
website: www.thelifechangepeople.co.uk
Exclusive Life Change holidays in Thailand. Combine a luxurious tropical holiday with your individual Life Change programme and return home a new person! Enjoy stunning hotels, spa treatments, adventures, sightseeing and work with your personal practitioner on a plan to transform your life. The effects of this holiday will last a lifetime!
| self development | spa hotels/accommodation | holistic holidays | groups |
tailor made | Thailand |
Mairela Healing Retreat
based: Kuhmoinen, Finland
website: www.mairela.com
Holistic healing holidays at a lakeside cottage with traditional sauna set in the natural environment of the Finnish forest. Personal sessions with an experienced healer, workshops, meditation and reiki, or just peace and serenity. Guests gather tools to enhance their daily life on all levels, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
| holistic holidays | detoxification | reiki | meditation | self development | massage | relaxation | retreats | Finland |
Mumonkan Centre
based: Granada, Spain
website: www.mumonkan.org
Workshops and retreats in Las Alpujarras, Granada, Spain. The retreat centre is set in a beautiful valley in the Sierra Nevada mountains close to the historic village of Juvìles. Retreats offered include meditation, chi-kung, shiatsu, yoga, tai-chi, Zen and Buddhist workshops and retreats. Accommodation is in Mongolian Yurts. The topics of their events are wide ranging and are aimed at bringing new awareness and skills to those who visit.
| retreats | meditation | tai chi | self development | yoga | shiatsu | Spain |
Potential Energy
based: France
website: www.potential-energy.co.uk
KickStart your fitness/weight loss in sunny France – with walking, running, cycling, tennis coaching and relaxing in beautiful countryside. Advice on: getting and staying fit and active, weight loss, nutrition/healthy eating, training tips, staying motivated and having fun. A balanced approach to your health and fitness, whatever your age.
| keep-fit/gym/fitness breaks | weight loss | walking/trekking/hiking | cycling | tennis | running/athletics | relaxation | massage | team building/management courses | self development | France |
Red Dandelion
based: Dorset, UK
website: www.reddandelion.co.uk/design_your_life.php
'Design Your Life' weekends allow time-out to rediscover yourself, get past blocks and create the beginnings of a Life Plan. Weaving together life coaching, healing, meditation and filled with fun, these weekends allow you to make huge changes to your life. Weekends are held in the Cotswolds and Weymouth.
| self development | weekends/short breaks | retreats | meditation | England |
Renaissance Weight Loss Academy
based: Alicante, Spain
website: www.weight-loss-holiday.com
The Renaissance Academy provides you with a holistic approach to lifestyle change leading to improved health, increased fitness, higher energy levels, body reshaping and maintainable weight loss. Program length varies from one to six weeks. All programs are residential and are solely for females aged 25 or over. Maximum number of guests is four.
| weight loss | diet/nutrition | keep-fit/gym/fitness breaks | holistic holidays | resort spas | self development | massage | reflexology | women only | singles holidays | pilates | meditation | Spain |
Responsibletravel.com Featured Site
based: East Sussex, UK
website: Responsibletravel.com
A superb worldwide selection of holistic and wellbeing holidays and retreats to destinations from Asia to South America and from Ireland to Italy. Time to relax, do yoga or Pilates, meditate, enjoy the benefits of traditional Chinese medicine or Ayurveda treatments, take a holistic workshop, a life coaching holiday, a fitness break or just a quiet retreat.
| retreats | holistic holidays | keep-fit/gym/fitness breaks | yoga | meditation | self development | ayurveda | relaxation
| pilates | tailor made | Worldwide |
Skyros
based: Isle of Wight, UK
website: skyros.co.uk
Inspirational holistic holidays in idyllic locations. Over 150 courses with experienced facilitators in Greece, Cuba, Thailand and Cambodia. Sailing, creative writing, yoga, dance, life-coaching and much more. Like-minded people, delicious food, exuberant nightlife and an informal relaxed atmosphere. Holidays to fire the imagination, uplift the spirit and recharge the body.
| holistic holidays | self development | yoga | writing | singles holidays | singing courses | massage | salsa | Thailand | Cuba | Cambodia | Greece |
Spanish
Reflections
based: Andalucia, Spain
website: www.spanish-reflections.co.uk
Our range of holistic retreats let you combine relaxation and fun
with the chance to learn something new with like-minded people.
So, if you'd like a holiday with a difference, lovely accommodation
and great food, then join us for a week in the beautiful natural
environment of Southern Spain.
| retreats | holistic
holidays | yoga | self development | massage | reiki | relaxation
| Christmas and New Year | singles holidays | Spain |
Tai Chi Thailand
based: Chiang Mai, Thailand
website: www.taichithailand.com
Meditation in movement; learn a complete Tai Chi Chuan sequence in 8 days in Chiang Mai Thailand. This 8 day intensive training course includes instruction in: the Essential Posture Sequence, sitting and walking meditation, Chi Kung, Tai Chi theory and philosophy. Teaching at a tropical roof top garden. Course materials included, accommodation 'optional'.
| tai chi | meditation | self development
| massage | acupuncture/acupressure | Thailand |
Velvet Apple
based: North Lincolnshire, UK
website: www.velvet-apple.co.uk
Retreats, weekends and boot camps that tackle three key areas: nutrition, healthy mental attitude and good physical health. Offering five day retreats aimed at providing the essential tools to become happier, fitter and healthier; and demanding, challenging and effective weight loss retreats that are about making changes to help you have a great life.
| weight loss | power walking | yoga | pilates | relaxation | diet/nutrition | self development | retreats | keep-fit/gym/fitness breaks | England |
Well Healed
based: North Yorkshire, UK
website: wellhealed.org.uk
Solutions for both individuals and businesses who want to get the best from themselves. Well Healed provides retreats where techniques/skills that can be applied to improve people's everyday lives are taught in a warm and nurturing environment. They work all over the North of England and the Midlands.
| retreats | tai chi | reflexology | NLP | team building/management courses | meditation | stop smoking | weight loss | self development | England |
Yoga Breaks Spain
based: Alicante, Spain
website: www.runinthesun.com/Yoga-Breaks.asp
Yoga breaks in Spain offering you a new zest to life. Yoga holidays, weekends and short breaks based in Moraira, on the beautiful coast of the Costa Blanca. Moraira, is an unspoilt haven where the mountain backdrop tumbles through fruit laden valleys, giving way to the sparkling blue, clear, Mediterranean.
| yoga | retreats | meditation | reflexology | holistic holidays | aromatherapy | feng shui | beauty therapies | massage | self development | pilates | Spain |
Yoga
Travel
based: Cornwall, UK
website: www.yogatravel.co.uk
Yoga holidays with scuba diving, elephant trekking and horse riding – as well as oodles of lovely beach time. Unique yoga adventures in Marrakech, Thailand and the Red Sea.
| yoga | retreats | holistic holidays
| massage | meditation | relaxation | self-development | Egypt | Thailand | Morocco |
Flirting
Academy
based: UK
website: www.flirtzone.com
The Flirting Weekend is an intensive and in-depth two days of flirting
and personal enhancement.
| self development | singles | UK | Holland
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Inner Journeys
based: New South Wales, Australia
website: www.innerjourneys.com.au
Spiritual and Reiki retreats. Ecotours focused on spirituality and
traditional medicine.
| native peoples | retreats | self development
| botanical | reiki | ethical and ecotourism | Asia | Australasia
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Saarsha House
based: Waikanae, New Zealand
website: www.saarsha.co.nz
Retreats providing a range of natural, physical and spiritual treatments that cover the full spectrum of body, mind and soul.
| massage | reflexology
| kinesiology | reiki | shiatsu | self development
| UK |
TheMindMatter Academy
based: Essex, UK
website: www.themindmatter.com
Reach your full potential on this fully skipperd sailing trip from Gibraltar to Morroco.
| self development | sailing (large boat / sail ship) | Gibraltar | Spain |
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