Customer Reviews
I had a wonderful time on this retreat. A peaceful location overlooking the Blackwater estuary. Allen and Jill make everyone feel very welcome. A real home from home atmosphere with comfortable accomodation. Yoga with Gerry was relaxing and fun. Healing meditations with Jill were relaxing. Plenty of interesting activities to try out if you want to, and the home cooked food was just amazing. I can highly recommend it!
These are the 2 people, Allen and Jill who worked so very hard to give us the very best Yoga and Meditation Retreat anyone could hope for!
The food we enjoyed was healthy, wholesome and very filling and cooked beautifully by Allen. Using the Chakras as a framework, Jill tirelessly organised lots of opportunities for outside Yoga each followed by her expert guided meditations and also gave us opportunities to discuss aspects of chakras as we travelled from base to crown. Gerry, the Yoga teacher, was a joy and carefully tailored her sessions to meet the needs of everyone as well as adding her cooking expertise in the kitchen. We really appreciated Glyn the expert birder as well as the opportunity to swim in the nearby river where incidentally the ship, Radio Caroline, could be seen patrolling up and down.
Well done to Allen and Jill for their kindness and attention to detail and for making everyone relaxed and at ease. Lynne and Gary Shrubb xx
Hi Allen and Jill,
I really enjoyed the retreat, thank you for providing such rich and good quality content, in both the actual content but also the amazing food. Yes I do have a few comments but they are given without criticism and only with the intention of how to enhance what is already a great package.
The rooms
As mentioned before, my room was pleasant but (suggestions passed to owners).
Re the actual course
You fed us well, which was amazing!! You probably tried a little too hard with the amount of content provided as whilst it was all extremely interesting and beneficial, we didn't have much time to absorb it (digest it in a way).
A bit more free time/down time would have been good, but again, I appreciate all you did and that it was done with the best intentions.
I think it would be good on the first day to have a proper round of introductions, we didn't really do this and whilst I appreciate it can take time, it's quite helpful to do this as gives a sense of where people are in their journey and also literally where they have travelled from. For example, I didn't find out until we'd left that someone lived in the town where my mother lives and it would have been nice to have had a bit of a chat as we would have had that in common.
Also the closing on the last day - it did feel a bit rushed at the end. Again I know you were trying to give us good content, but feel it is quite important to round things up and give people a chance to give a bit of feedback, say their goodbyes and close down properly.
I loved all the food and the learning about it and have already put into practice a few things such as the energy balls and tried to do some juices (with my blender), but you guys must have been exhausted and on the go all the time to get it all done.
So overall I really got a lot out of this break but would emphasise the importance of beginnings and endings/rounding up and having time to absorb what we did, perhaps not possible to give quite so much in one go but appreciated everything and want to thank you so much for your generosity.
Many thanks,
Best wishes to you both
(Note from Allen; We too felt the time pressure so next year we will be extending the arrival day to accommodate ALL of your excellent suggestions. Thanks again. Allen)
Dear Allen & Jill,
Thank you for your email.
No complaints from me. I had a really wonderful time. The weather was kind to us too!
I was in Room 10 which was a really lovely room. (Some issues reported to owner).
Opportunity for improvement - can't think of anything major, it would be nice to have a massage option. Also Allen, I didn't realise you were an expert forager, so a foraging activity would have been brilliant.
I have attached some photo's. I hope they are okay. I thought I had taken more to be honest
Thank you all so much for all the hard work you all put in to make it such a special experience. I really hope to be able to come again. A really lovely group of people too, never been on a retreat before, so I wasn't sure what to expect.
My very best regards,
Caroline
Dear Allen & Jill
Thank you so much for hosting such a wonderful & extremely informative Retreat.
Apologies I had to rush off early my Husband & myself we’re booked for a surprise Anniversary weekend in Glastonbury. (Typical all good things comes like buses🚌 🤣)
I really appreciated all your efforts as I know how tiring it can be as I run Spiritual retreats myself.
The food was Sensational /fantastic Company & Gorgeous gentle Yoga by the lovely Jerry.
Enjoy your rest!
Kindest regards
Georgie 💖Xx
