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Fayre the Retreat
Holistic Wellness Day Retreats
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and Team Away Days
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Along River Lee
Fayre the RETREAT: Welcome
Fayre the RETREAT: Services
"Nowhere Can Man Find a Quieter or More Untroubled RETREAT Than in His Own Soul"
Marcus Aurelius
Fayre the RETREAT: Quote
What's a Day Retreat like?
Fayre the RETREAT
HOLISTIC WELLNESS
DAY RETREATS
A Day of Peacefulness & Self-Connection in
Natural settings of radiant beauty.
Featuring:
YOGA + SOUND BATH + SELF-DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP + LUNCH + WALK IN STUNNING NATURE
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Our day retreats take place between Springfield Park and Markfield Park in a peaceful residential area thirty yards from River Lea. This has immediate access to both Hackney & Walthamstow Marshes allowing for the most peaceful walks.
Fayre the RETREAT: About
We would also take
a Silent Walk
along the river & through the marshes
in order to be in tune with the surrounding nature & ourselves.
We’ll feel immersed in Nature throughout the day
whatever the weather is like out there, as our spacious venue features a very wide balcony literally overlooking the river
offering a spectacular view of Springfield park & the Marshes.
One can appreciate 180 degrees of such view
from our venue's glass windows.
The Sound-Bath will be a session featuring at least 4 or 5 instruments (gong or crystal bowls being the main instrument depending on dates). On a fundamental level, music is just organised sound. Sound therapy however deconstructs music into pure sound, harnessing the knowledge that sound can have a powerful effect on our emotions. We believe that we are all made up of different energy frequencies. Sound frequencies are then used to interact with these, thus attempting to rebalance the body's energy. The sound practitioner feels the body movements of participants, and uses a combination of relaxing as well as stimulating sounds to try to rebalance the body. Gongs, drums, bells, bowls, tuning forks and the human voice may be used. According to one of our practitioners: "Clients are wrapped up in [these sounds] like a cocoon, and allowed to go on a journey."
Fayre the RETREAT: About
Yoga sessions are indeed geared towards the level of all participants & generally combining elements of Yin, Slow Vinjasa, Hatha & Restorative Yoga.
It could not be otherwise as we run one-off events, not courses, therefore the majority of participants tend to be new clients, and their yoga level varies immensely depending on the events.
We always considered this to be an advantage, as our yoga sessions are about being in tune with the atmosphere of the day retreat and with the yoga approach of calm presence.Â
Indeed we like Yoga practice to work for beginners as well as regular practitioners at our day retreats, and our understanding of Yoga is certainly more about one’s state of mind than about abilities to perform postures. We do strive for Yoga practice to help one release layers of the ego to find a more authentic place internally, while cultivating strength in the body to calm the mind. Yoga helps you connecting to your body & breath and so, to this moment. Yoga holds you in all of your complex & colourful emotions & can connect us back to a more primary way of being, which allows for a deep reorganisation.Â
It allows us to let go & to see ourselves & our lives with clarity, finding that old habits & conditioning begin to subside & die out. Through work with the breath, the movement of the body & letting go of incessant thoughts, one can find healing & inner strength.
Fayre the RETREAT: About
The Self-Development Workshop
features a presentation on modern lifestyle stresses aimed at empowering you with the self-learning skills/tools to deal with such stresses. So the day retreat is indeed an opportunity to switch off from one’s own routine and connect with oneself; acknowledging it & letting go of it.
It would also enable each participant to identify life areas that they care about the most & the actual role that they're currently playing. That in order to empower one to use the retreat experience as a framework to then attune oneself to daily actions & thoughts that feel meaningful and fulfilling.
Our Holistic Wellness Day Retreats
combine workshops & classes delivered by very experienced and fully qualified sound therapists, counsellors and yoga teachers in order to provide a contained, safe & healing environment.
Such safe psycho-physical climate is instrumental to enhance participants' awareness of their holistic selves in an environment that's immersed in nature and the 5 Elements i.e.:
The Water of the River, the Fire/warmth of the Yoga & Facilitators’ Empathy, the fresh Air of the marshes,
the Wood of the Trees & Earth felt through the Grounding exercises and therapeutic workshop's Safe Climate.
Fayre the RETREAT: About
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