This deep-dive intensive training combines expert-led instruction and practical techniques to give participants valuable insights into the principles of Ayurveda and their application to yoga, self-care, and holistic health.

Embark on an enlightening weekend of exploration and profound learning in Ayurveda, the ancient sister science of yoga, and discover how it can enrich and transform your yoga practice while enhancing your overall wellbeing.

This programme offers a structured, evidence-based approach, sourced from the original Vedic texts and delivered by experienced teachers with years of lived practice. The course content lays out the steps to personalised yoga practices, equipping you with modification techniques that can be seamlessly integrated into your daily routine and existing yoga discipline.

Whether you practise Kundalini, Vinyasa, or any other form of yoga, this training will elevate your practice and provide tools to achieve tangible, transformative results in your journey to holistic health. This weekend is ideal for those seeking to deepen their understanding of Ayurvedic principles, including diet, massage, and yoga as tools for self-care.

• Beginners will gain an accessible introduction to yoga, building a strong foundation for a successful journey.
• Advanced practitioners will uncover new layers of personalisation, enabling them to deepen and refine their practice.
• Yoga teachers and facilitators will benefit from proven techniques to elevate their classes, helping their students tap into their unique vitality and inner strength.

This intensive is designed for those seeking to align their yoga practice with their natural temperament and tendencies. Participants will leave equipped with practical strategies to strengthen their wellbeing and support their personal goals.

Customised Asana Practice:

• Explore how to adapt your yoga practice for the three Ayurvedic elemental types: Vata (air), Pitta (fire), and Kapha (earth and water).
• Practise each style to experience its distinct effects and learn to identify these types by assessing physical, mental, and emotional characteristics.

Therapeutic Ayurvedic Techniques:

• Gain hands-on experience with Ayurvedic massage techniques, learning how to apply them effectively to yourself and others.
• Go beyond asana with mantra, pranayama, and meditation practices designed to balance each elemental type and diversify your approach to yoga.

Ayurvedic Food and Nutrition:

• Enjoy nourishing Ayurvedic meals throughout the weekend while learning the principles of elemental eating.
• Gain practical knowledge on how food can act as medicine, helping you adapt your diet to achieve specific goals such as weight management, redefining your relationship with food, or simply thriving through an Ayurvedic understanding of intuitive nourishment.

Voice Activation and Personalised Learning:

• Participate in a guided voice activation workshop to connect with your authentic self.
• Engage in open Q&A sessions with Ayurvedic experts, giving you the opportunity to address your specific questions and interests.

Immersive Natural Environment:

• Begin each morning with wild swimming in the Thames and enjoy scenic walks through forested hills.
• Spend your evenings by the campfire with kirtan, music, and song, all set against the stunning backdrop of the Thames Valley.

Exclusive Learning Materials and Support:

• Access our online partner course with lifetime availability, allowing you to prepare and review at your own pace.
• Benefit from a one-to-one Ayurvedic consultation included in your training, ensuring a personalised and confident start to your wellness journey.

Riverside Sauna and Glamping Experience:

• Relax in our newly built mobile sauna, situated by the river for breathtaking views of the Thames, offering a truly rejuvenating experience.
• Rest in luxurious comfort in our cosy glamping accommodation in your off-grid, canvas home-from-home.

We will be eating fresh, organic, locally grown plant based meals lovingly prepared according to the Ayurvedic principle of food as medicine. Ayurveda views food as both nourishment and a primary tool for self healing, essential for balancing the mind, body, and spirit.

This approach blends flavourful ingredients with health benefits, creating meals that satisfy your senses while enhancing your vitality with culinary richness and balance. It is also an highly intuitive way of eating, which can be easily applied through learning a few basic premises. These fundamentals will be explained in workshops over the training weekend, giving you the tools you need to choose a diet that perfectly suits your unique body and digestive fire.

We use a palette of sattvic ingredients to ensure that your food supports your yoga, mediation and cleansing practices, leaving you feeling nourished, balanced and strong. Move beyond calories and macronutrients to embrace food as a tool for creating harmony, balance, and optimal health.

We will learn how to choose and prepare foods that align with your unique Ayurvedic type (Vata, Pitta, or Kapha) to support your overall wellbeing. Discover which foods help you thrive by addressing specific goals, such as improving digestion, managing weight, or boosting energy through personalised nutrition.

Understand how to adapt your diet according to seasonal changes and personal needs, ensuring your body receives the right nourishment at the right time through seasonal and adaptive choices.

Gain hands-on knowledge about meal preparation, ingredient selection, and intuitive eating practices to apply Ayurvedic principles in your daily life.

As much as possible of our gorgeous fruit and veg will come from Tolhurst Organic farm, based on site, who use stock free farming to produce the lowest possible carbon footprint, cruelty free food. Their work is truly inspiring and aligned with our ethos of re-connecting and re-aligning with mother nature to live in more harmony.

We have two incredible glamping accommodation options available for booking. All accommodation is in our gorgeous riverside campsite, with fresh water, outdoor hot shower cabin, riverside sauna, composting toilets and a sparkling river to swim in! Luxury indoor showers and toilets are right next to the camping field, surrounded by lush green forests and wildflower meadows.

Gold Package

⚜️✔️⚜️ Glamping Bell Tent 

A gorgeously cosy home-from-home with everything you need for a luxurious stay. 

This spacious and light canvas bell tent is pre-erected for your arrival and available for your private accommodation throughout the retreat. 

The bell tent comes equipped with framed camping bed and mattress, pillows, duvet, freshly laundered bed linen, Indian Kantha quilt, cushions, table, mirror, lamp, floor matting, rag rugs, interior and exterior fairy lights, decorative garlands and bunting. 

Pack just your clothes and a toothbrush and you're good to go!

Silver Package

🗝 ✔️🗝 Furnished Canvas Bell Tent

Pre-erected, spacious, cotton canvas bell tent for your private accommodation. Comes with all the fundamentals for a comfortable and cosy stay. 

The bell tent comes equipped with one double air mattress, table, lamp and rug to provide you with all the essentials for a comfortable stay. 

Just bring your own bedding and blankets, yourself and your essentials.

Never camped before? Drop us email on [email protected] and we'll be happy to answer all your questions and concerns.

Your Tickets include:

4 Day immersion into sacred lands and your beautiful self!

✔️ Personal Ayurvedic consultation

✔️ All 4 days of the live training course.

✔️ All activities, classes and workshops.

✔️ Exclusive access to online learning.

✔️ Glamping accommodation.

✔️ Delicious Ayurvedic food: Friday dinner, 3 meals a day on Saturday and Sunday and breakfast on Monday. A selection of hot drinks will be available throughout the day.

✔️ Certificate of Completion

The retreat begins on Friday evening 22nd August and ends on bank holiday Monday morning 25th August 2025.  

Camper vans & caravans are welcome, dogs must stay at home! 

This retreat is free from drugs, alcohol or intoxicants which cloud the mind.

For those who would like to combine the fun of the retreat and karma of the service we have few Seva Tickets. These tickets are designed for those who enjoy getting involved in the running of the retreat by giving the core crew a hand with whatever is needed to be done on the day, or those who can't afford the full price of the tickets but still want to come.  If you’re keen to be involved, please click here to complete our online application.

Surround yourself with hundreds of year old trees, wild flower meadows, stunning scenery, magical sunset views, wonderful wildlife & your community.

Our retreat takes place in a secluded and serene riverside setting on a community run rural estate in the Thames Valley. Surrounded by lush green forests with ancient oaks, rare wildflower meadows with astounding biodiversity and the glistening waters of the upstream Thames, this unique location is easy to get to, yet feels deeply held in wild nature.

All accommodation is in our secluded riverside campsite. There is fresh water available, hot shower cabin, riverside sauna, composting toilets, and a sparkling river to swim in! Luxury indoor showers and toilets are right next to the camping field.

Workshops are held in the gorgeous panelled drawing rooms of the tudor Hardwick House mansion, or in open structures out in the meadows and forests to truly experience immersive nature.

Hardwick estate is only 40 minutes by train from London (Paddington), and just 20 minutes by car from Junction 12 on the M4.  Easily accessible from the main transport hubs at Reading, yet set in the rolling countryside of the Chilterns AONB, Hardwick is ideally located for a weekend getaway of peace and tranquility.

By Air

The closest airport is London Heathrow - LHR - which is only a 1 hour car journey from the retreat venue. There are direct train and coach services from LHR to Reading, our closest city. From Reading it is a seven minute onward train journey to Pangbourne, our closest village or a 20 minute taxi or car journey to the retreat venue.

By Train/Taxi

There are direct trains to Pangbourne, our closest village, from London (40 minutes) , Reading (7 minutes) and Didcot Parkway (20 minutes). From Pangbourne it is a 40 minute walk or a 10 minute taxi or car ride to the retreat venue. We give out some local taxi numbers in our booking confirmation, and we recommend you make a reservation with them for your journey if you plan to travel this way - we are in a rural location so they do not wait by the station and there is no Uber!  

By Car

The retreat venue is just 20 minutes from Junction 12 on the M4, halfway between London and Bristol.

If you have a spare seat in your car and are happy to share a ride, or if you need a lift to the gathering, join the link to the our retreat community WhatsApp group.