Happy new you! 10 of the best UK wellbeing retreats for 2025
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Get the year off to a positive start by booking a restorative break. We pick the best wellness retreats, with yoga, swimming, walking and more in pretty settings from the Highlands to Essex. At the foot of Skirrid Mountain near Abergavenny, Wonderful Escapes is a converted 16th-century farm that now welcomes guests for wellbeing breaks. Besides hosting longer events – from yoga weekends to men’s leadership retreats – you can tailor your own stay by booking in for dinner, bed and breakfast and using on-site facilities, from a swimming pond to a sauna. There’s an on-site masseur, and activities including private yoga classes and foraging can be arranged, plus there are wonderful walks on the doorstep.
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Dinner, bed and breakfast from £139 per person midweek, retreat prices vary, wonderfulescapes.co.uk. Wild Joy founder Emily Graves designs retreats that encourage participants to slow down and reconnect with nature. The new Women’s Spring Rewilding Retreat takes place on 1,000-acre Moorbarton Rewilding in Dartmoor national park. It’s a chance to live off-grid, with days filled with yoga and movement, meditation, journalling, creative writing and hiking – plus there’s a tour and talk on the reintroduction of beavers here. Expect full nature immersion – everyone camps (bring your own tent), with cooking over the fire, bathing in the stream and wood-fired saunas benetah the trees.
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25-29 April, £425 for five days, with all food and activities, wildjoy.life. In the heart of the South Downs national park, Westerlands is a regenerative farm with cabins, huts, barns and cottages – perfect for getting away from it all. Guests can tailor their own wellbeing experience by making use of the WildSpa and sauna (treatments range from massage to reiki), and the WildFit outdoor gym, plus private and regular classes in everything from boxercise to yoga. There’s a stable on-site too, with the option to go riding and workshops in “equestrian wellness”, a type of equine healing therapy.
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