Retreats - Claridge House

Fiona runs regular retreats in the UK. This year she is running retreats at Claridge House, based near Lingfield in Surrey. Claridge House is a beautiful Edwardian mansion house set in peaceful gardens in the Surrey countryside. Claridge House is a Quaker centre for healing, rest and renewal. The rooms are comfortable and warm and the food is delicious vegetarian cuisine.

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Please note that Claridge House retreats can be booked as a whole week, or as a mid-week break or, alternatively just as a weekend.

Stay Young with Yoga
This course is for people who would like to learn how yoga can really help to slow down ageing by improving quality of health in the long term.  Fiona shares the secrets and best practices from the wisdom of yoga that will teach you how you can look great and live a long and healthy life.  The course includes a tailor-made yoga practise to keep you feeling young, discussions on how we can cope with the ageing process whilst developing our spiritual practise, a talk on how yoga can work with the spine and joints as we get older, a look at how the yoga diet helps, the importance of managing stress and how to keep your brain sharp with meditation and mantra.

Beat Fatigue with Yoga
A gentle Energy Yoga course which is designed to both relax the body whilst also increasing energy.  Fiona’s teaching focuses on developing potential for full health. Energy Yoga uses awareness of breath and self-observation as a bridge to awaken subtle energies (prana), which balance and strengthen the whole body whilst yoga postures (asanas) and gentle moving sequences open, stretch and release tension. Fiona has developed Energy Yoga as a way of working with the breath to take students deeply into each posture and sequence to connect with the stillness within. Fiona seeks to include everyone, making Energy Yoga suitable for all levels regardless of age, injury or fitness, including those with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Sessions are fun and include classic postures, gentle flowing movements, pranayama (breath work), mantra and yoga nidra (deep relaxation) to promote well-being of body, mind and spirit. Fiona believes that every yoga practise should be a healing session and that students should leave the class feeling better, with more energy and with a sense of peace and calmness, than when they started, so this course will really revitalise you. This course is very popular for those with M.E., or if you have low energy or other health challenges.

Transition to Recovery
This course is for people who are recovering from chronic illness and who are ready to make the final steps towards health.  The focus of this week is on slightly stronger yoga, including opening and standing postures in increase confidence and energy.  There will be discussions around finding the way back to work and picking up the threads of life again, and the positive changes and spiritual lessons learnt.  The theme of this retreat will be recovery, health and dealing with change.

What people have said about Fiona's retreats.......

Claire Reid. "This course was fantastic; very supportive. Yoga was tailored to different levels which was very sensitive and helpful. All talks were really useful, and again, sensitive. Worth coming from Scotland for!"

Jeremy Head. "I really enjoyed the course. Good balance between yoga and mediation. 10/10."

Carol Ward; "Thank you Fiona, I have really enjoyed the week, I enjoyed your style of teaching, you have inspired me to do more at home!"

Aine Walsh: "My gratitude for creating such a friendly environment that has contributed to my healing."

Rosalind Glover: "Really excellent weekend, the second time that I have been on Fiona’s course. Once again an amazing sense of peace here. Great time with inspirational people. Lots to takeaway on my onward journey."

Lyn White: "What a wonderful course. I've learnt loads and will go away inspired by all you have shared. Thank you for all your energy and yoga wisdom."

Marie Mundt: "I so enjoyed this course and have leaned a great deal from Fiona and from others around me. I found the instructions very clear and the supportive understanding of energy levels was very confidence boosting."

Helen Lovell: "Highly recommended. Fiona is a great teacher and lots of fun too!"

Fiona would like to say a huge thank you to all her students for all their support and for being her greatest teachers, with a special mention in memory of Helen Veale who we all love and miss.