Riversdale Luxury Yoga Retreat
New Dates for 2023 soon to be released
Time for you
Do you love Yoga, luxurious surroundings and mouth watering vegetarian food? We thought you might!
Join our amazing team of wellness practitioners for three days of Vinyasa Flow Yoga, SUP Yoga, Yin Yoga, Breath-work, Meditation, Massage, Wild Swimming , and truly exquisite Vegetarian food.
Do as much or as little as you like as you take in the stunning location, relax in luxury accomodation and allow the hustle and bustle of the outside world melt away.
Our intention is to create a Weekend Sanctuary where you can reconnect to you and have some pampering too.
Dates: New Weekend Events coming soon
Dates:
Friday 29th September - Sunday 1st October 2023
Location:
We are honoured to have been invited to host our retreat at a newly renovated luxury Retreat Centre in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire.
Riversdale Lodge is a family Run riverside Oasis only 40 minutes from London.
Weekend Schedule:
Friday:
4.00pm Arrive and settle in
5.30pm Welcoming Vinyasa Flow
A perfect practice for easing movement into the body after your journey. Start to feel any tension ebb away as you leave the hustle and bustle of the outside World at the door and reconnect to yourself.
6.00 pm Meet and greet with Fizz (Elderflower or Prosecco) down by the river relaxation area.
7.00 pm Dinner by Plant based cuisine by Jackie Walls. Jackie is the founder of ‘Miss Walls Food’ - A Vegan Vegetarian Catering Company and Cookery School setting new standards for vegan and vegetarian food in a world seeking flavour, nutrition, beautiful plates, kindness to our environment, each other and animals everywhere. She is catering for the whole weekend.
9.00pm Yoga Nidra - Also known as Yoga Sleep. The perfect relaxation to set you up for a fully restorive sleep.
Saturday:
7.30 am - Breakfast
10.00 am – 12.00 pm Vinyasa Flow Workshop
A warming Vinyasa practice to welcome in the weekend. Enjoy the flow of this movement (suitable to all levels) allowing us to invigorate, energise and balance our bodies.
12.00 pm – Lunch
1:30pm - 3.30pm • Two hour SUP Yoga with Tara Crist - Paddle Board Maidenhead (additional cost applies, please see below).
OR
Cookery Workshop with Jackie Walls
“Join me in a taster vegan workshop where I will demonstrate how easily you can deliver a couple of delicious vegan dishes, full of flavour without spending all day in the kitchen!”
4.30pm Yoga Flow and Essential oils with Charlotte
6.30pm Chill and chat around the Fire Pit
7.00 pm Dinner
9.00pm Yoga Nidra - Also known as Yoga Sleep. The perfect relaxation to set you up for a fully restorative sleep.
Sunday:
8.00am - Breakfast
10.30 am – 12.30 pm Vinyasa Flow Workshop
12.30pm - Lunch
2.00pm – 3.15pm Autumnal Element Yin Yoga Workshop
3.15pm Closing
3.45pm onwards - Hugs and Departure
Day Retreat Option on Saturday 13th September starts from 10am and finishes at 7pm (workshops finish by 6pm). Lunch is included.
As shown above there are two late afternoon options:
• Cookery workshop with Jackie walls (included in the day rate)
or
•Two hour SUP Experience (Paddle Board Maidenhead) This workshop is an additional £50.
This is your home away from home for the weekend. Do as much or a little as you please.
The surrounding area is perfect for a long country walk. There will be massages on offer in the free time and comfy sofas where you can curl up with a good book.
The House
THE HOUSE - Originally built in 1890, this historic, charismatic house has recently been beautifully renovated to incorporate every luxury, including underfloor heating throughout.
Meditation Orb
At the end of the garden is our Meditation Orb, a warm, cosy space lit by twinkling lights, for individual or small set group meditation, looking out onto the river. Includes an infrared mat.
The Yoga Studio
The studio is lit from above via 3 huge rooflights and at night you can see the fairy lights of the roof terrace. All Mats, Bolsters, Straps, Yoga Blocks, Eye Pillows and Blankets are provided. The yoga studio can spaciously fit twenty mats.
The River
The river is home to 42 different species of birds, including our two swan families who will greet you as you lounge under the weeping willow. The moorlands are a peaceful background to the jolly sight of boats gliding up and down the river.
Paddle Board and Wild Swimming
Riversdale Retreat is happily situated on the water. Wild swimming is avaialble (Shoes required) as is Paddle Boarding.
On Saturday afternoon Tara Crist founder of Paddle Board Maidenhead will be offering a two hour SUP yoga experience.*
*This is an optional addition for those wanting to enjoy yoga on the water.
This is added to your accomodation invoice.
Cost for 2 hours session - between £50 pp with all equipment needed & ratio of 1 SUP instructor to 6 or 8 students depending on experience of the yoga students.
£20 discount to anyone bringing their own equipment.
Fire Pit
Gather around the fire pit to enjoy the sunset overlooking the river.
The Terrace and Roof Garden
There is a spacious terrace directly outside of the main kitchen, centred on a calming reflection pool. You can comfortably accommodate 22 in the teak outdoor furniture, including 2 daybeds and 2 armchairs, 2 large tables. There is also a fire pit and a BBQ.
Our roof garden is planted with medicinal herbs and fresh vegetables. The sun graces the roof garden from the early morning, making this an ideal spot for a quiet tea to start the day.
Meet the Team:
Sarah Alice Lee - Yoga Teacher
Sarah is a senior yoga teacher, sharing her time between, running teacher trainings, hosting retreats and teaching at studios in East sussex.
Her passion lies within the healing power of yoga. As a competitive gymnast in her youth, Sarah always understood that movement was integral to maintaining a healthy body and mind but it was her own journey with yoga whilst trying to navigate the after effects of the Christchurch Earthquakes in New Zealand, when she came to realise just how important that connection is. Yin Yoga at this time was the only thing that was able to calm her over stimulated nervous system and it lead to a fascination on how stress and trauma (such as enduring thousands of aftershocks) effected the body on a cellular level and why yoga was so effective at bringing the body back into balance. So inspired by the positive benefits she had experienced in health as a result of her yoga practice, Sarah trained to become a teacher and has never looked back. In 2016 she moved back to the U.K after a decade living abroad and now based in East Sussex.
Jackie Walls - Chef to the sport stars
Jackie is the founder of ‘Miss Walls Food’ - A Vegan Vegetarian Catering Company and Cookery School setting new standards for vegan and vegetarian food in a world seeking flavour, nutrition, beautiful plates, kindness to our environment, each other and animals everywhere.
‘Ever since my father taught me as a child how to grow and tend vegetables in our kitchen garden, I have loved everything about plant powered food. I am inspired everyday in Miss Walls Food whether I am menu planning for my pop-up Supper and Breakfast Clubs, cooking for my international sports star clients; catering for private or corporate events and weddings; running my cookery workshops and country retreats. I love the natural colours, tastes, versatility and beauty of fresh,vegetables, herbs and spices.
My vegan and vegetarian cooking is a combination of skilled cookery and beautiful presentation so people are drawn to the taste and look of my dishes, forgetting all the noise we often hear around the politics of veganism or the sad monastic presentation of vegan food as a 'worthy' endeavour rather than gastronomic experience. I love how veganism adds so much to our personal health and wellbeing, taking nothing away from us or our natural world.
The mission in all my cooking, catering, cookbooks, workshops and retreats is to inspire, delight, surprise and nourish my 'foodies' with dishes I create with ingenuity, kindness, taste and serve with love.’
Massage by Nikki Garman
We have our wonderful Massage therapist joining us to offer you a range of beautiful treatments.
Clinical holistic massage. Each treatment is individually tailored to the individual, which combining massage techniques which include no hand, deep tissue trigger points, myofascial, soft tissue release to encourage flexibility and mobility and acupressure to clear energy channels. Although during the treatment I may focus on Pacific problems as a holistic therapy, I always work with a listening and healing touch and treat the whole person. The outcome should always therefore be an increased sense of well-being and feeling of deep tissue relaxation. 1Hr £60.00
Reflexology works on pressure points on the feet, known as reflex points, which correspond to different parts, organs, and systems of the body. By working on the reflex points, reflexology aims to correct and balance the body. Reflexology enables the body to enter into a deep state of relaxation and allows the body to stimulate its own healing properties. 1Hr £60.00
No hands massage it is deep, releasing regenerating and nurturing massaging .It works because it literally does not use the hands, but instead uses the soft surface of the four arms. This means it’s deeper and more relaxing than conventional massage. This is a massage that works on every level, physical, energetic, emotional mental and spiritual. 1Hrs £60.00
Indian head massage works on the upper back, shoulders up arms neck, scalp and face. These areas are Massage gentle rhythmic movements that involve acupressure points and meridian points, 30Min £30.00
Myofascial stretching/massage working effectively with fascia including indirect myofascial release, direct structural integration approaches, cranial work and visceral manipulation. Fascia allows the body to soften the muscles to lengthen and a sense of increasing fluid flow in to the tissues throughout the treatment. Which allows the body to relax. 1Hr £60.00
Releasing the balance in the body through the Meridian point. Meridian Massage is an ancient Chinese medical technique that incorporates various Chinese acupressure treatments to enhance health and re balance the body. 1Hr £60.00
Sports massages. Which works on trigger points throughout the body for muscles release. A combination of deep and soft tissue massage, stretching, mobilisation and myofascial, to improve the range of joint movement and general joint function. 1Hrs £60.00
Tara Crist
Tara is a senior yoga teacher and SUP coach and Director of Paddleboard Maidenhead, a long established SUP school on the Thames. Tara also is a UK trainer responsible to teach yoga instructors to become SUP Yoga teachers. Her love for everything yoga and paddleboarding is evident when you her! She is a great believer that paddle boards are the perfect outdoor floating yoga mat .
www.Paddleboardmaidenhead.uk
Rates:
Includes Two night accommodation. Arriving Friday afternoon, two full days of yoga and all food. Departing Sunday afternoon.
All rooms are finished to the highest standard, with beautiful decor and the comforts of underfloor heating and modern fittings.
Quad £500 per person - 4 Single Beds
Triple £550 per person - 3 Single Beds
Twin Room £650 per person - 2 single Beds
Private Room with Ensuite £895 per person
Rooms are either ensuite or have shower rooms shared by room guests.
A deposit of £150 is required to secure your spot with the remaining amount to be paid one month prior to the event.
Day Pass £115 pp We have 5 day passes available on Saturday 13th May. Come enjoy the Yoga, SUP, Massage and amazing food - a perfect day retreat.
Your journey here:
Riversdale Lodge
Riversdale
Bourne End
SL8 5EB
Just off junction 2 of the M40 and junction 7 of the M4 - 40-minute drive from Notting hill
Nearest train stations are Bourne End (15-minute walk) or Beaconsfield (20-minute fast train from Marylebone station and 15 minute taxi) , Taplow or Maidenhead (40 minute train from Paddington Station and 15 minute taxi).
Register your interest now:
Cancellation Policy:
Deposit is non refundable.
If you cancel 6 weeks before arrival and have paid in full, we will refund 50% of total cost. If you cancel less than 6 weeks before arrival, we will charge 100% of total cost.
Bookings can be transferred upon agreement.