The benefits of cold-water immersion don’t just provide relief from the traumas of the past few years, but the long-term effects on the body have long been scientifically proven. We love it so much that we’ve been swimming here in the lake right through the year. . . swimming between ice sheets at times and feeling amazing for it!  

Enjoy an invigorating wild swim in the woodland lake and 2 hours in the afternoon at the authentic wood-fired Scandinavian sauna with panoramic views of the lake. This is a quintessentially magical sanctuary to enjoy the warmth of the sun and healing energy of the trees and water.

Hot and cold immersion provides a host of benefits for your well-being - creating feelings of positive physical, emotional and mental health, and deepening social connections.   

Why is wild swimming so good?  

Cold water health benefits:  

Reduced muscle soreness – improves recovery  

Reduces body pain and inflammation  

Boosts your immune system  

Improves circulation  

Boosts your brain power  

Potential weight loss (though not guaranteed) through improved metabolism  

“Cold adaptation” – through repeated cold swimming, it is possible to bring down blood pressure and cholesterol, reduce fat disposition, inhibit blood clotting and increase libido  

Good for the skin and hair  

Cold water mental health benefits:  

Manages anxiety, stress and depression  

Increases alertness, clarity and energy levels  

Releases endorphins (happy hormones)  

Produces feelings of euphoria and achievement and a sense of will power  

Creates a sense of community – meet others who are swimming to have a lovely time  

Reconnects you with nature 

Plants that promote resilience: an interactive herbal medicine & foraging session 

This two-hour workshop will teach you vital skills about how to understand and manage your gut health.

We will take you on a foraging walk, then teach you how to turn plants into remedies that promote resilience and help you to manage sleep patterns and stress.  

You will also learn how to create plant-based face creams using, for example, the beautiful scents of Pelargonium graveolens/spp geranium essential oil and floral water to make a nourishing astringent, and moistening face cream.  

Breath Walk is a simple but effective science that teaches you to breath properly by combining specific conscious breath patterns, conscious breathing and synchronised walking along with directed awareness. It's meditative and mindful practice brings a sense of calm and clarity, reuniting mind, body and spirit and regaining connectedness to self.  

Breath, posture and rhythm help alter the emotions to bring mental clarity, and restore inner confidence and vitality. Primal sound and mantra activate the brain, inducing different moods, changing inner dialogue and breaking patterns.  

The practice triggers positive changes in the body, increasing communication in the brain breaking patterns that give us negative experiences.  

Breath Walk gives you the tools that will directly affect your mind and flow of thought, helping to relieve fatigue, reduce stress, strengthen immunity, improving circulation, mood swings and stamina. 

The term “reiki” comes from the Japanese words “rei,” meaning universal, and “ki,” which means vital life force energy that flows through all living things. Some practitioners describe reiki as acupuncture without needles.  

Reiki is a complementary health approach in which practitioners place their hands on or just above different areas of the body. It’s based on an Eastern medicine belief that living beings have energy fields that support their health and vitality. Reiki practitioners focus on sensing energy blocks and moving the energy for the greatest good of the client. 

Reflexology is a holistic therapy that is an energy healing, foot massage in essence. The main principle of reflexology is that by massaging and applying pressure to parts of the feet, corresponding areas of the body will reap the benefits. In reflexology, the feet are miniature maps of the body’s anatomy. Every part of the anatomy system can be accessed and bought back into balance through reflexology. 

French Psychologist Paul Diel says: 'The foot represents the state of destiny."

Kundalini yoga is a form of yoga that involves chanting, singing, breathing exercises, and repetitive poses.  

Its purpose is to activate your Kundalini energy, or shakti. This is a spiritual energy that’s said to be located at the base of your spine.  

As Kundalini yoga awakens this energy, it’s supposed to enhance your awareness and help you move past your ego. Sometimes, the practice is also called the “yoga of awareness”. 

Gardening (flower and herb growing)  

While we sit beside the fire and as the day comes to an end, you will all be given the opportunity to sow a tray of organic seeds, using the right growing medium, so you have something to take home to  remind yourself of all you have learnt, and the new way forward with nature as your leading language and best friend.  

We will end the day with a sound meditation in the form of a gong bath where you will lie under blankets and relax deeply. Gong baths and anxiety are reduced ~ inner harmony regained ~ a deeper connection to yourself ~ releases old patterns ~ increases clarity of mind ~ unity of mind, body and soul ~ stimulates cell renewal and healing ~ improves creativity ~ improves sleep.  

The wisdom traditions teach that illness is a symptom of imbalance. Sound energy healing focuses on creating vibrations that improve overall health and wellness. “Gongs open up your chakras and often release a lot of blocked energy, much like acupuncture or massage can do – it really is a sound massage.”  

A gong bath is excellent therapy for depression, fatigue, feelings of separation, loneliness, anger, fear, hostility and many other conditions caused by a lack of balance and harmony in the body and mind.

In the simplest terms, the gong awakens innate wholeness and guides the body to a state of greater balance and harmony.