Yorkshire's Broughton Sanctuary Announces Transformative Residential Retreats Schedule 2025
January 2025: Broughton Sanctuary, nestled in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales and recognised as the UK’s first ‘Healing Hotel of the World,’ has unveiled its residential retreat schedule for the first half of 2025. These retreats meet the growing demand for tailored wellbeing experiences that address specific needs - such as holistic health, stress management, intimacy and longevity.
Led by internationally acclaimed facilitators, and building on the success of the 2024 programmes, they offer participants profound personal transformation and proactive strategies to optimise their physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing.
Participants will find additional inspiration and rejuvenation in Broughton Sanctuary’s expansive 3,000-acre estate, featuring wild swimming, the new Odyssey Trail for rewilding mind, body and spirit, and Avalon Wellbeing’s state-of-the-art hydrotherapy Pool Suite.
‘KEEPING IT REAL IN A FRANTIC WORLD’
WITH RUBY WAX, GELONG THUBTEN & RAHLA XENOPOULOS
Dates: 19-24 February 2025
Following the success of their first two retreats at Avalon Wellbeing, in August 2023 and March 2024, writer and mental health advocate Ruby Wax, Buddhist monk Gelong Thubten and author Rahla Xenopoulos will lead a series of workshops that help participants manage the stressors of the modern world with simple tools and lifestyle changes.
Prices from £1,600 per person.
PATH OF LOVE
Dates: 11-20 March, 3-12 June & 4-13 November 2025
The Path of Love 7-day wellness retreat is one of the most intensive and life-changing processes in the world today. Called “5 years of transformation in one week”, this meditation and personal development retreat will challenge and enrich you and give you the meaning and fulfilment we all long for. Established 29 years ago in India, this residential personal development and meditation retreat is now conducted in 17 countries, on five continents and in six languages. It has gained an extraordinary reputation amongst people who really want to come to know the truth about themselves.
Prices from £2,395 per person.
GROUNDED PILGRIM RETREAT (WITH Vivobarefood & British Pilgrimage Trust)
Dates: 1-6 May 2025
A transformative and heartwarming retreat designed to guide participants along their personal paths, promoting the practice of pilgrimage in Britain under the ethos of “bring your own beliefs.” Led by Dr Guy Hayward, co-founder and Director of the British Pilgrimage Trust, and Dawn Champion, a historian and naturalist, this journey combines community, nature, and history, enriched by sacred and folk songs and a deep connection to the British landscape. As part of an exciting partnership with Vivobarefoot, participants will receive a pair of “The Pilgrim” shoes — fully conductive barefoot footwear designed to enhance natural movement and deliver the health benefits of grounding. To celebrate the launch, a series of pilgrimages will take place in May, beginning with this exclusive event at Broughton Sanctuary. Prices from £1,800 per person.
ZEN SAMURAI RETREAT
Dates: 26- 30 May 2025
Join Sensei Zen Takai, 16th Generation Samurai & Ninja, for an immersive 4-night retreat at the serene Broughton Sanctuary. Delve into ancient teachings blending samurai philosophy, mindfulness, and nature to cultivate a focused and purposeful life. Explore timeless arts and practical wisdom through guided sessions that harmonise mind, body, and spirit. Set against the breathtaking natural backdrop of Broughton Sanctuary, this unique experience offers profound insights and personal transformation. Reconnect with yourself, embrace simplicity, and find clarity through the way of the Zen Samurai.
Prices from £1,600 per person.
TANTRA CONSCIOUSNESS WITH HOMA & MUKTO
Dates: 24-29 June 2025
Join internationally renowned therapists Homa and Mukto for a gentle yet powerful retreat designed for individuals and couples, offering a profound journey into authentic connection, self-awareness, and presence. Through group sessions and meditation, participants will learn to shift from the mind to the heart, creating space for deeper intimacy and emotional clarity in their lives.
Prices from £1,450 per person.
For more information and details of upcoming retreats, please visit here.
Notes to Editors:
About Broughton Sanctuary and Avalon Wellbeing
Broughton Sanctuary, in the stunning Yorkshire Dales, is the only accredited Healing Hotel in the United Kingdom. This accolade celebrates Broughton Sanctuary’s dedication to the healing power of wild wellbeing through activities and retreats, innovative rewilding initiatives, and sustainability. National Geographic Traveller has also recognised this dedication, naming it one of the world’s thirty coolest places to visit in 2024. The Rest of the World Responsible Tourism Awards have also commended Broughton Sanctuary as “one to watch.”
Broughton Sanctuary offers over 130 beds for guests on retreats, ranging from the luxurious 16th Century ‘Broughton Hall itself (the location for numerous acclaimed films and TV serials) to an off-grid ‘Hermit Hut’ and cosy ‘Sanctuary Homes. Home to one of the UK’s leading nature recovery projects with over 320,000 trees planted to date, outdoor immersive activities include wild swimming, woodland saunas, forest bathing, ice bathing, sweat lodges, fire temple ceremonies, meditation labyrinths, moon baths and woodland dining in the Cosmic Garden. A walled garden bistro, ‘Utopia’ also serves plant-based delights, and in-house chefs in the historic house can create to any requirement.
Visionary owners Roger Tempest and his partner Paris Ackrill conceived the newer Avalon Wellbeing, nestled within the Sanctuary, as its beating wellbeing heart. Avalon is the central hub for residential retreats as well as a swimming pool, sauna, steam room (hydromassage pool), state-of-the-art studio spaces, personal training studios, crystal light bed, and Somadome meditation pod. Daily yoga and meditation sessions are available, as well as events, workshops, and an outstanding team of experienced therapists and healers. Experience everything from Acupuncture, Ayurvedic Treatments and Psychotherapy to Herbal Medicine, Trauma Release, Floatation Chambers, varying forms of bodywork and Sound Baths.
Together, Broughton and Avalon have forged a reputation as the most progressive and forward-thinking outposts for intelligent wellbeing in the UK.