YOGA OR PILATES BY DAY, A GUIDED WALK IN GOOD COUNTRY, AND FULL BOARD AT A COUNTRY HOUSE
A mind and body holiday gives your wellbeing a few unhurried days at one of our country houses. You'll spend part of each day on the mat with an expert teacher, working through yoga or Pilates, and part of it out walking in the countryside with an HF Leader. Beginners and seasoned practitioners are both at home here, and the pace is an easy one throughout. The rest is the HF holiday you'd expect: full-board dining, comfortable rooms, and the countryside on the doorstep.
Yoga and walking
These holidays open each morning with yoga, led by an expert teacher through the poses and the breathing at a pace that suits the whole group, whatever your experience. The work is gentle and unhurried, as much about the breath and the stillness as the movement. In the afternoon you head out on a half-day guided walk into the country around the house, hills, dales or coast depending on where you're staying, with an HF Leader setting an easy pace. Mornings on the mat and afternoons on the path make the natural shape of the day, and the evenings are yours, over a full-board dinner and the quiet of a country house.
Mind & Body Retreat
Our Mind & Body Retreat brings yoga, Pilates and walking together across seven nights. The retreat moves between both, gentle mat work building breath, balance and flexibility through the week, alongside guided walks into the countryside with an HF Leader. A week gives the time to spread out each discipline, with mornings and afternoons given over to the practice and the walking, and the hours in between left open. For anyone who wants more than a long weekend, it's the deepest version of the holiday we offer.
Pilates and walking
Pilates works through slow, controlled, precise movements that focus on posture, strength and flexibility, and these breaks put it at the centre of the morning. An expert teacher takes you through the exercises step by step, with time to get each one right rather than rush it, and the sessions are built to suit everyone from the first-timer to the regular. The afternoons take you outside on a guided walk through the surrounding countryside, a half-day at a comfortable pace with an HF Leader, before you return to the house for dinner. It's the kind of break that balances focused work indoors with fresh air and open country, bookended by good food and good company.
