Retreats
The Yoga for Life Project Founder & Director Claire Whalley, offers a series of nourishing, reviving and therapeutic yoga retreats in some of the most idyllic retreat locations across the UK, Europe and India.
The Retreats
Across a long weekend, or week, Claire will bring you true respite from your daily routine and the stresses that can come with life while empowering you to feel revived and nourished and return back home with a new spring in your step and smile in your heart. All retreats include morning meditation or a silent walk bringing you back into the present and heightening your senses to the natural world, morning yoga, evening restorative yoga and yoga nidra – the practice of conscious sleep. When the weather is good we practice outside. Yoga philosophy is woven into the classes enabling you to come to a better understanding of self and a more meaningful life. As an all year round outdoor swimmer, Claire likes to share the mental and physical benefits of swimming and will take you to some wonderful & inspiring sea and river locations. There will also be opportunities for relaxing, walking and massage. Some of the retreats also offer art. foraging and cooking. Food is sourced locally and all home cooked. See below for retreat dates and details for 2025.
Bespoke Retreats for special groups/birthday or anniversary parties/alternative hen party/bond building work weekends get aways…
Claire offers bespoke yoga retreats for special events including birthdays, friend getaways and work away weekends. She can discuss with you what you would like and tailor the weekend or week to your needs working to dates that work for you. Contact claire@theyogaforlifeproject.co.uk to arrange your private retreat
Retreats for Cancer/Long Covid & burn out.
As a specialist yoga instructor working with people living with Cancer and Long Covid/autoimmune conditions and burn out, Claire also offers specialist retreats tailored to the people present to help calm the nervous system and nourish body and mind. Contact Claire for more info: claire@theyogaforlifeproject.co.uk
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Idyllic Devon Retreats with Yoga & Swimming 2025
Situated in the heart of rural Devon, in the most stunning rolling landscape between Exmoor & Dartmoor, warmed by open fires and calmed by beautiful gardens, in this beautiful cob & thatch, 16th century home, this nurturing & reviving retreat, will take you off the beaten track and back in time. You will find yourself in one of the most beautiful & peaceful places you have ever experienced. Feel the layers of tension release.
With Dartmoor on the doorstep, you can enjoy some of the most inspiring, fresh water swims in the crystal clear rivers and magical pools. The views around are breathtaking.
In winter, join therapeutic yoga teacher, Claire Whalley and enjoy winding down, cocooning in, nourishing and restoring. In spring, enjoy restoring, revitalizing and embracing new beginnings. In summer, take the time to reassess and recharge, embracing the positivity and vitality of summer. In autumn, like the trees losing their leaves, release & let go so you can embrace a new quality of openness and acceptance. Through breathwork, meditation, vinyasa and hatha yoga, yoga nidra (the practice of conscious sleep) and immersion with nature, allow your nervous system to destress and take the opportunity to release any tension you’re holding in the body while feeling revived and restored. The retreat aims to give you a positive reset to return home with a new spring in your step.
Revitalise your body with nourishing, freshly cooked and locally sourced vegetarian cuisine. (All food requests can be catered for). Enjoy the healing balm of the local countryside and the refreshing waters. Expect to return home feeling re-energised, with a sense of purpose, ready to embrace new beginnings.
Devon Retreats 2025
4-6 April
25-27 April
16-18 May
6-8 June
11-13 July
8-10 August
5-7 September
Nearest Station Crediton (2hr 15’ journey from London Paddington)
Early booking advisable
£495pp (2-night) in a double room. Single or shared occupancy.
£450 ( 2-night) mezzanine single upstairs
£450 ( 2-night) mezzanine single garden room downstairs
£435 (2 night) barn house in neighbouring garden
£300 (2-night) bring tent and camp in garden
Bring a Friend and receive 10% off for yourself and your friend
Returning yogis receive 10% off their booking
contact claire@theyogaforlifeproject.co.uk for bookings
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Yoga, Swim & Art Retreats at Tiptoe Tree Lodge, The New Forest, Seaside Retreat
Join yoga teacher Claire Whalley and swim coach Angus McChesney on these uplifting summer retreat.
Angus will be guiding us on some exciting sea swims. Coastal swims with views of the Isle of Wight or if weather permits, wild swimming off a boat, exploring the sandy beaches, coves and caves around the Needles of the Isle of Wight.
Claire will be offering uplifting outdoor practice outside in the gardens of Tiptoe Lodge, in the New Forest and on the beach, tapping into our summer energy and embracing the mid-summer sunshine. Before breakfast she will be offering guided breath work and meditation to tap into our inner stillness and at sundown, a gentle restorative yoga practice and yoga nidra, the practice of conscious sleep, to ease physical and emotional
tension from the body and welcome in a night of good sleep.
Delicious vegetarian or vegan food, locally sourced from Tiptoe Lodge’s garden will bring you sustenance. Expect to return home feeling revitalised and with an inner sense of deep peace & harmony. Opportunities also to have an art class with artist Annabel Eyres.
13-15 June
25-27 July
26-28 September
£350pp (2-night) or £500pp (3-night) for the glamping yurt for 2
£485pp (2-night) or £695pp (3-night) for a shared room
£535 (2-night) or £750 (3-night) for a single room
£60 boat supplement for swim trip to Isle of Wight
Bring a Friend and receive 10% off for yourself and your friend
contact claire@theyogaforlifeproject.co.uk for bookings
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Healing Retreats and Cancer Retreats in Little Blakenham
A therapeutic yoga retreat to give your body & mind a chance to really nourish and restore
Join therapeutic yoga teacher Claire Whalley & specialist chef/nutritionist Daphne Lambert for a few days of tranquility and nourishment of the body, mind & soul. Claire will guide you through meditation, breath work, reviving and restorative yoga practices, all tailored to your specific individual needs. There will be optional discussion designed to welcome openness and acceptance and opportunities for gentle, beautiful walks in the gardens and woods of Cottage Farm, which has a heated pool. This along with delicious, healing, plant based dishes, created from from fresh seasonal produce will invite your natural system of self-repair to switch on, enabling you to return home with a revived sense of energy and inner harmony. Daphne will also offer a kitchen demonstration.
2025 dates TBA
Single room: £500
Shared room: £450pp
contact claire@theyogaforlifeproject.co.uk for bookings
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