Based on her book The De-Stress Effect, Charlotte Watts guides you to feel the effects that your own challenges have left and meet how your stresses are showing in your body. This 3 day retreat in a luxurious setting is designed to both help you come back to whole and explore how you can naturally protect yourself from the effects of stress, through an explorative yoga practice, body awareness, mindfulness and nutritional choices. In this way, you can help yourself to become calmer, more able to cope and free from stress-related symptoms such as anxiety, depression, insomnia, IBS, weight gain and skin issues.

Whether you have experience in any of these fields or are meeting them for the first time, Charlotte’s ability to put them into the context of modern life, explain the science in a palatable way and help you understand your own cravings and responses will help create new habits to help you adapt and become more resilient to life’s pressures.

All topics covered will be practiced experientially, so you can feel, rather than think your way to calm, happiness and health. You will be guided through enquiries to help you identify the best changes for you to make that fit into your life and have best effect.

On booking, you will have the opportunity to buy The De-Stress Effect at a reduced rate if you wish to read it beforehand. You will also receive an ebooks of the recipes cooked sent to you after.

Prices for two nights (Fri-Sun):
£530 shared/ £470 early bird price*
£620 single/ £570 early bird price*
*if booked before 2nd Sep 2018

Included in the price:
All yoga classes, talks and food
Use of the indoor pool and outdoor sauna
Recipes you try sent by ebook

Not included in the price:
Treatments
Travel to the venue

See the Brooklands Barn website for more details on the venue, location, travel and all other practicalities!

Retreat itinerary

Here’s a rough idea of the timetable. Times to be confirmed and subject to change:

Friday
4pm arrival
5.30-7pm somatic and restorative yoga class
Dinner
Evening welcome talk

Saturday
Morning mindfulness self-enquiry & yoga
Breakfast buffet
Long lunch with food & nutrition talk about the contents after – focus on cravings and how food can support stress-coping
Afternoon yoga for stress relief
Dinner
Restorative yoga and meditation before bed

Sunday
Morning mindfulness self-enquiry & yoga
Breakfast buffet
Long lunch with food & nutrition talk about the contents after – focus on good digestive health for whole mindbody support, including stress responses
Afternoon mindful movement and walking meditation
Retreat ends 4pm

Beautiful, delicious but simple food will be prepared buffet style for each meal, discussed as part of the talks and recipes provided afterwards, to help you make changes when you’re back at home. You will be asked to switch off your phone and any devices before the yoga session when you arrive on Friday to have a full break from screens and constant stimulus. There will be wifi on site should you need to check with home, but please consider this an opportunity to examine habits that can keep us over-stimulated and stressed. You will be given the number of the venue should anyone need to contact you.

Testimonials:

Testimonials for The De-Stress Effect Course:

“I followed this programme with a focus on managing my anxiety and wanting to feel calmer and happier in myself and my life. The combination of a good, healthy and full diet, mindfulness, self compassion, yoga and strength training have really made this change for me. I was doing a lot of this on and off already but bringing it all together with a real focus on curiosity about, and learning from, my experiences has made a massive difference to how I am feeling. Thank you so much Charlotte.” – Sarah, Brighton

“Quite simply it has changed my life. At 43 I thought I was destined for a life of no energy, low mood, anxiety and anti-depressants. Following this programme has changed all that and I feel like a new woman. I was also able to give up the couple of cigarettes I was smoking a day without the gnawing cravings experienced when I’ve stopped previously.” – Lara, Brighton

“I found Charlotte’s book, the diet, the yoga, the general living advice to be very very helpful, especially the calming effects of being around Charlotte herself. I have more energy, am less stressed and lighter on the scale and my hair is shiny, my eyes brighter. The yoga helped me to calm down A LOT and I found Charlotte herself very pleasing to listen to, her voice, the meditations, her reflections shared with us were all very calming, sometimes amusing and always useful in that you could apply it to your own life.” – Annabel, Brighton

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