During this retreat, you will stay in a cottage at West Lexham. The venue is a work of passion and is crafted out of the heritage building that are the legacy of over 1,000 years of farming and stewardship of nature.

Over the weekend, you will explore what well-being really is. This retreat involves wonderful food, yoga, guided meditations, early nights, and nutritional and lifestyle advice. During this retreat, you will learn about clean eating and living so that you know how to minimize your toxin intake, support the body’s innate ability for detoxification, and lead a more balanced life.

Spring is the perfect time for a quick liver detox for rest and rejuvenation. Each day, you will practice a morning breath work, Vinyasa and Nidra yoga, followed by silent walks and private nutrition consultations.

Nutritional cooking classes

During this retreat, you will prepare cooked and raw food and eat it together. You will also use delicious, nutrient-rich superfoods and drink organic vegetable and fruit juices. You will be given vital, new information on nutrition, mineral supplements, and superfoods.

You will learn about what is deficient in the Western diet and how you can fix this through the food you eat and the lifestyle that you choose. Also, you will learn a powerful breathing technique which alkalizes the body, supports and stimulates the liver, and balances your emotions.

Sample daily schedule

• 08:30 Superfood shake
• 09:00 Morning breath work, Vinyasa, and Nidra yoga
• 11:30 Preparing and eating raw and cooked lunch
• 13:30 Silent walk, private consultation, treatment, or free time
• 14:30 Tea and a raw snack break
• 15:00 Healing living kitchen class
• 16:00 More treatments to pamper yourself or free time
• 17:00 Restorative or Yin yoga and meditation class
• 18:30 Food preparation and a delicious vegan meal
• 20:30 Yoga Nidra, meditation, or movie

This retreat includes contemplative walks in the countryside.

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  Rina Golan-Rothwell

  (Hatha Yoga)

  Rina is a well-being advocate, coach, yoga teacher, and healthy-living enthusiast. Rina went to India to deepen her understanding of Ayurvedic medicine, yogic conscious living, and the age-old laws of the mystics. Rina initiated into the ancient art of yoga at the Sivananda Ashram in Kerala. She currently hosts detox or cleansing weekends and worldwide retreats, private vibrant lifestyle coaching, holistic rehabilitation programs, and private detox sessions. She is passionate about a balanced and holistic health.

This retreat will take place at West Lexham in Norfolk, UK. West Lexham is a unique venue for rural retreats or countryside holidays. It is set in a protected valley with the UK's cleanest chalk stream it is verdant and bursting with nature.

West Lexham has floating water meadows, ancient trees, lakes, and formal gardens for you to explore. The venue is almost run on renewables with solar panels for power and a woodchip boiler for heat. All the water is fresh from the chalk aquifer making it rich in minerals and taste delicious.

Nearby places

• Cambridge - 75 minutes
• Kings Cross - 1 hour and 25 minutes
• London - 2 hours
• Norwich - 45 minutes

During this retreat, you will enjoy a daily morning superfood shake, you will prepare and eat raw and cooked lunch. Each day, you will enjoy a tea and raw snack break, and have a food preparation and delicious vegan meal for dinner.

Be an adventurer

Bewilderwood is a huge, award winning forest of family fun and outdoor adventure. Treehouses, zip wires, jungle bridges,crocklebogs, twiggles and boggles, storytelling, boat trips, marsh walks, and really yummy food are available in this location.

Discover Castle Acre

The village of Castle Acre takes its name from the walled castle built in the 12th-century by the Normans, with its ruins of a medieval priory and castle standing proud against the local countryside, it is walkable at just two and a half miles from West Lexham.

Explore the Green Britain Center

The Green Britain Center, designed by the famous architect Sir Norman Foster, has some absolutely unique displays and information focused on the big three issues, energy, transport, and food. Just miles from West Lexham, you can climb the 300 steps of the only wind turbine in the world which is open to the public. Don't worry you can stop at platforms on the way up for a breather!

Go ape

Enjoy two to three hours in the trees taking on zip wires, Tarzan swings, rope ladders, and a variety of obstacles and crossings. Climb and conquer some of East Anglian's oldest Douglas Fir trees in the heart of Thetford Forest. The course layout leads you on a journey around the site with each section hidden from view by a mass of rhododendrons and native scrub. Test your wits on site three and experience go ape's longest stirrups crossing. It gives a whole new meaning to horseplay!

Take the Peddars Way Walk

This path runs only a mile or so from West Lexham. A 46-mile national trail from near Thetford to Holme-next-the-Sea on the North Norfolk coast. The walk follows an old Roman road that may have been built along an even older trackway. It connects with the North Norfolk Coast path and is easy walking.

During this retreat, you can book a massage or body treatment for an additional cost. Reiki and cosmetic acupuncture are available for approximately 65 GBP for a one hour session.

• 1 daily organic lunch
• 1 daily superfood shake
• 1 daily vegan dinner
• 1 healing living kitchen class
• 2 daily Vinyasa, Restorative, Yin, or Nidra yoga classes
• 3 nights accommodation
• Daily morning breath work and meditation sessions
• Daily snacks and tea
• Silent walks through the countryside

• Additional activities
• Airfare
• Airport transfer
• Spa treatments

Driving directions from London

• Take M11.
• At junction nine, take the A11 exit to Newmarket / Norwich.
• Leave A11 at Thetford, and take A134 to Mundford.
• At the roundabout, take A1065 signposted Swaffham.
• At Swaffham continue on A1065 signposted Cromer.
• Pass by turns for Castle Acre on your left and the George and Dragon pub on your right.
• Take next right after the right turn signposted West Lexham (approximately five miles out of Swaffham).
• Go to the end of the lane and turn left.
• You will see a brick archway. Continue around the corner and take the next right at the gate marked West Lexham.

Driving directions from West Country

• Take M5 then M4 towards London.
• Then M25 towards Watford and continue on M25 to M11 junction.
• Take M11 then A11exit to Newmarket / Norwich.
• Leave A11 at Thetford, and take A134 to Mundford.
• At the roundabout, take A1065 signposted Swaffham.
• At Swaffham continue on A1065 signposted Cromer.
• Pass by turns for Castle Acre on your left and the George and Dragon pub on your right.
• Take next right after the right turn signposted West Lexham (approximately five miles out of Swaffham).
• Go to the end of the lane and turn left.
• You will see a brick archway. Continue around the corner and take the next right at the gate marked West Lexham.

Driving directions from York and North East

• Head for A1(M) South.
• Continue on A1(M)/A1 to Sleaford junction.
• Take A17 towards Sleaford and continue on A17 towards Kings Lynn, then A47 east.
• Continue along A47 towards Norwich until turnoff signposted A1065 Cromer.
• Follow A1065 for approximately five miles.
• Pass by turns for Castle Acre on your left and the George and Dragon pub on your right.
• Take next right after the right turn signposted West Lexham.
• Go to the end of the lane and turn left. You will see a brick archway.
• Continue around the corner and take the next right at the gate marked West Lexham.

Driving directions from Preston

• Head for the M62 eastbound towards Leeds, hen take the A1(M) South.
• Head for A1(M) South.
• Continue on A1(M)/A1 to Sleaford junction.
• Take A17 towards Sleaford and continue on A17 towards Kings Lynn, then A47 east.
• Continue along A47 towards Norwich until turnoff signposted A1065 Cromer.
• Follow A1065 for approximately five miles.
• Pass by turns for Castle Acre on your left and the George and Dragon pub on your right.
• Take next right after the right turn signposted West Lexham.
• Go to the end of the lane and turn left. You will see a brick archway.
• Continue around the corner and take the next right at the gate marked West Lexham.

Arrival by airplane

Please book your flight to arrive at London Stansted Airport (STN). Transfer from and to this airport is available upon request.

Arrival by bus

The X1 bus goes from Norwich and Kings Lynn to Swaffham which is the nearest town.

Arrival by train

The nearest train station is Downham Market. Trains run from London Kings Cross to Downham Market every hour and every half hour at certain peak times. Journey times are approximately one hour and 25 minutes. Network Railcards give you a discount off fares. If you are taking more than one train journey in the South of England or are traveling in a group it is well worth investigating.

If you arrived at London Stansted Airport (STN), you can take a train to Ely then change for a train to Downham Market.